Date | Event |
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Jan 9 |
John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935) |
Jan 11 |
Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (bath house) |
Jan 12 |
Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935) |
Jan 14 |
Alfred Fisher, The Jewelled Dagger of Fate |
Jan 17 |
Daniel Gilfether, Zollenstein |
Jan 18 |
Edmund Barton, 1st PM of Australia (1900-03) |
Jan 18 |
Aleksander Swietochowski, Klub szachistów |
Jan 19 |
Vladimir Davydov, The Marriage of Krechinsky |
Jan 22 |
August Strindberg, Sweden, dramatist/novelist (Apologia) |
Jan 22 |
August Strindberg, Miss Julie |
Feb 2 |
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (d. 1921) |
Feb 4 |
Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux) |
Feb 4 |
Jean Richepin, Mothers of France |
Feb 6 |
Rosalie Ida Straus, |
Feb 13 |
Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father |
Feb 13 |
Wilhelm Voigt, |
Feb 17 |
Selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter |
Feb 18 |
Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer/politician (Garman og Worse) |
Feb 18 |
Alexander Kielland, Jacobs stege |
Feb 22 |
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915) |
Feb 26 |
Daniel H. Hastings, Governor Hastings and Mounted Police |
Feb 27 |
Václav Benes-Trebízský, Bludné duse |
Mar 1 |
Comyns Carr, Called Back |
Mar 2 |
Robert Means Thompson, U.S. Naval Officer (d. 1930) |
Mar 2 |
Robert M. Thompson, Nice and Friendly |
Mar 3 |
Jacques Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer |
Mar 7 |
Luther Burbank, Lancaster, Mass, horticulturist |
Mar 7 |
Luther Burbank, Mutual Weekly, No. 44 |
Mar 16 |
James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger |
Mar 19 |
Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930) |
Mar 19 |
Alfred von Tirpitz, |
Mar 28 |
James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894) |
Apr 6 |
John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917) |
Apr 9 |
August Cederborg, Göingehövdingen |
Apr 13 |
Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist |
Apr 17 |
William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1923) |
Apr 17 |
William R. Day, |
Apr 21 |
Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization |
Apr 24 |
Joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris) |
Apr 24 |
Joseph-Simon Galliéni, |
Apr 25 |
Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium) |
Apr 26 |
Olaf Poulsen, Kgl. skuespiller Olaf Poulsen i sit paaklædningsværelse paa det kgl. teater |
May 3 |
Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun) |
May 3 |
Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929) |
May 4 |
Jyotirindranath Tagore, Charulata |
May 5 |
Hambletonian, Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse |
May 6 |
Wyatt Eaton, artist |
May 22 |
Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913) |
May 26 |
Hubert von Herkomer, The Old Wood Carver |
May 27 |
"Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer |
Jun 2 |
Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (La femme) |
Jun 8 |
Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument) |
Jun 9 |
Joseph Vezina, composer |
Jun 9 |
Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927) |
Jun 18 |
Emanuel Reicher, Heimat und Fremde |
Jun 20 |
Franz von Schoenthan, Der Raub der Sabinerinnen |
Jun 27 |
Harriet Hubbard Ayer, beauty cream maufacturer & expert/columnist |
Jun 29 |
Sergei J Witte, Neth/Russ count/premier Russia |
Jun 29 |
John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926) |
Jul 1 |
Józef Mikulski, Tredowata |
Jul 2 |
Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, queen of Bavaria (d. 1919) |
Jul 9 |
Carlotta Addison, The Blue Bird |
Jul 12 |
William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system) |
Jul 15 |
Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer |
Jul 19 |
F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian |
Jul 19 |
Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906) |
Jul 20 |
Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918) |
Jul 20 |
Robert A. Van Wyck, Admiral Dewey and Mayor Van Wyck Going Down Riverside Drive |
Jul 22 |
Emma Lazarus, New York NY, poet ("New Colossus" - on the base of Statue of Liberty) |
Jul 22 |
Emma Lazarus, New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow |
Jul 23 |
Geza Zichy, composer |
Jul 26 |
Tatzumbia Dupea, Buffalo Bill |
Jul 27 |
John Hopkinson, Manchester, U.K., British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson's Law) |
Jul 29 |
Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923) |
Aug 9 |
Mrs. O.F. Walton, A Peep Behind the Scenes |
Aug 12 |
Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist |
Aug 18 |
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer |
Aug 18 |
Elizabeth Baker Bohan, The Argonauts of California - 1849 |
Aug 23 |
William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903) |
Aug 23 |
William Ernest Henley, The Captain |
Aug 27 |
Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Nocturno) |
Aug 29 |
Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97) |
Aug 30 |
Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher |
Sep 1 |
Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers) |
Sep 3 |
Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs) |
Sep 14 |
Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904) |
Sep 17 |
Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer |
Sep 21 |
Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic (Father & Son) |
Sep 21 |
Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905) |
Sep 22 |
John Godden, English explorer (Curacao) |
Sep 23 |
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer |
Sep 28 |
Dudley Allen Sargent, US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium) |
Sep 29 |
Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer |
Oct 1 |
Anne Charlotte Leffler, Sanna kvinnor |
Oct 6 |
Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death" |
Oct 7 |
James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man) |
Oct 7 |
James Whitcomb Riley, Little Orphant Annie |
Oct 16 |
Arnold Krug, composer |
Oct 16 |
Charles Harford Lloyd, composer |
Oct 26 |
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917) |
Oct 28 |
George Hale, When a Man Loves |
Oct 30 |
Johan Willem, son of Dutch princess Marianne & coachman |
Nov 4 |
James B. Orman, Christian Endeavor Greeting |
Nov 5 |
Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties |
Nov 5 |
Rui Barbosa, Parafernália o Dia de Caça |
Nov 8 |
Edward Julius Biedermann, composer |
Nov 8 |
Digby Bell, Father and the Boys |
Nov 21 |
Thomas Russell Sullivan, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Nov 22 |
Friedrich von Bernhardi, German historian (Germany & the Next War) |
Nov 22 |
Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938) |
Nov 24 |
Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book (My Secret Garden) |
Nov 24 |
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden |
Nov 26 |
Louis R. Grisel, The Holy City |
Nov 27 |
Józef Kotarbinski, Milosc za zycie. Symfonia ludzkosci |
Nov 28 |
Pál Gozsdu, Köd |
Nov 29 |
Ambrose Fleming, inventor (diode) |
Dec 5 |
Samuel H. Ashbridge, President McKinley and Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia |
Dec 6 |
August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
Dec 6 |
August von Mackensen, Totenkopfreiter |
Dec 10 |
F.M. Paget, |
Dec 11 |
Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist (Courageous Woman) |
Dec 16 |
George Berrell, Uncle John's Money |
Dec 19 |
Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke & steel operation |
Dec 21 |
James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal) |
Dec 22 |
Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism) |
Dec 26 |
Samuel E "Sam" van Beem, actor (Fanfan la Tulipe) |
Dec 28 |
Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck |
3 |
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Queen's Twin |
21 |
Edmund Gosse, The Lady of the Camellias |
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