Notable Birthdays - 1850
1850 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 5 |
Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher |
Jan 6 |
Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era) |
Jan 6 |
Franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha) |
Jan 6 |
Ladislav Stroupeznický, Nasi furianti |
Jan 10 |
John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891) |
Jan 11 |
J C Arthur, Lowville NY, botanist (studied rusts) |
Jan 11 |
Philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary, famous philatelist |
Jan 12 |
Barney Fagan, In Old Sacramento |
Jan 13 |
Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer |
Jan 14 |
Jean de Reszke, [Jan Mieczyslaw], Polish tenor |
Jan 14 |
Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923) |
Jan 14 |
Pierre Loti, Ramuntcho |
Jan 15 |
Mihail Eminesco, [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis) |
Jan 15 |
Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician. (d. 1891) |
Jan 15 |
Hallander Helleman, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan |
Jan 17 |
Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, St Petersburg Russia, composer |
Jan 18 |
Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916) |
Jan 18 |
Seth Low, Opening of New East River Bridge, New York |
Jan 24 |
Gyula Dezséri, A Csodagyerek |
Jan 27 |
Samuel Gompers, London England, American labor union leader (American Federation of Labor) |
Jan 27 |
Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912) |
Jan 27 |
E.J. Smith, |
Jan 27 |
Samuel Gompers, Samuel Gompers the World's Greatest Labor Leader |
Jan 29 |
Ebenezer Howard, London, pioneer of garden cities |
Jan 29 |
Lawrence Hargrave, inventor (box kite) |
Feb 2 |
Carel V Gerritsen, Dutch free thinker |
Feb 8 |
Kate Chopin, Grand Isle |
Feb 9 |
Sabra de Shon, Lure of the West |
Feb 12 |
Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary (Flemish Flag) |
Feb 13 |
Isaac Henderson, The Mummy and the Humming Bird |
Feb 16 |
Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid) |
Feb 16 |
Octave Mirbeau, Diary of a Chambermaid |
Feb 17 |
Anton Urspruch, composer |
Feb 17 |
Ludwig Bonvin, composer |
Feb 18 |
George Henschel, composer |
Feb 20 |
Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931) |
Feb 22 |
Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium) |
Feb 23 |
César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918) |
Feb 24 |
Mari Jászai, The Exile |
Feb 26 |
J.H. Barnes, Hamlet |
Feb 26 |
Mason Mitchell, Battle of Mafeking |
Feb 27 |
Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec |
Feb 28 |
Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist) |
Mar 5 |
Daniel Brink Towner, composer |
Mar 6 |
Victoria Benedictsson, Fru Marianne |
Mar 7 |
Tomés G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35) |
Mar 7 |
Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921) |
Mar 7 |
James Beauchamp Clark, Hutchinson, Kansas, Semi-Centennial Celebration |
Mar 7 |
Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, |
Mar 9 |
Alexandre Luigini, composer |
Mar 10 |
Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Istanbul Woman's College |
Mar 10 |
Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906) |
Mar 12 |
Clay M. Greene, Two Smiths and a Haff |
Mar 13 |
Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer |
Mar 18 |
Richard Drasche-Wartinberg, Episode #3.7 |
Mar 24 |
Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935) |
Mar 24 |
Silas K. Hocking, Dick's Fairy |
Mar 26 |
Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward) |
Mar 27 |
André Sylvane, The Sad Sack |
Mar 28 |
H. Kyrle Bellew, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Apr 8 |
William Henry Welch, US, pathologist (founded John Hopkins) |
Apr 9 |
Herman Zumpe, composer |
Apr 13 |
Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917) |
Apr 15 |
John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president |
Apr 16 |
Herbert Baxter Adams, US, historian (American Historical Association) |
Apr 19 |
Edward John Gregory, painter/engraver |
Apr 19 |
Theo Mann-Bouwmeester, Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler) |
Apr 19 |
Theo Mann-Bouwmeester, Frauenmoral |
Apr 20 |
Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor (Minute Man) |
Apr 27 |
Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921) |
May 1 |
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (d. 1942) |
May 1 |
Prince Arthur, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Decorating the Monument of Champlain and Receiving Addresses of Welcome from the Mayor of Quebec, the Governor General of Canada and Vice President Fairbanks, Representative of the United States |
May 7 |
Helen Tracy, Blue-Eyed Mary |
May 8 |
Ross Barnes, baseball player (d. 1915) |
May 10 |
Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea) |
May 10 |
Thomas Lipton, Sir Thomas Lipton Out West |
May 10 |
Raymond Stijns, Hard Labeur |
May 12 |
Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924) |
May 13 |
Modest Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades: Bolshoi Opera |
May 16 |
Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer |
May 16 |
Auguste Van Biene, The Broken Melody |
May 17 |
Antonio Scontrino, composer |
May 18 |
Oliver Heaviside, London, physicist (predicted ionosphere) |
May 20 |
Eaton Faning, composer |
May 21 |
Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914) |
May 22 |
Johann Schrammel, composer |
May 24 |
Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter |
May 26 |
Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Stupid force) |
May 26 |
James Kenyon, Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front |
May 27 |
Thomas Neill Cream, Glasgow, Scotland, serial killer (Lambeth poisoner), (d. 1892) |
May 27 |
Frederik C.O. Raben-Levetzau, Kong Frederik VIII besøger Island |
May 30 |
Frederick D. Grant, 25th Infantry |
Jun 5 |
Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908) |
Jun 6 |
Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909) |
Jun 8 |
Axel Madsen, The President |
Jun 12 |
Georges Demenÿ, Serpentine Dance: Loïe Fuller |
Jun 18 |
Richard Heuberger, composer |
Jun 18 |
Richard Heuberger, Opernball |
Jun 19 |
David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932) |
Jun 21 |
Enrico Cecchetti, Coppélia, A ballet in three acts |
Jun 24 |
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, County Kerry, Ireland, commander of the British forces during Anglo-Boer War |
Jun 24 |
Lord Kitchener, Gen'l Sir Herbert Kitchener |
Jun 27 |
Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke) |
Jun 27 |
Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer |
Jun 27 |
Lafcadio Hearn, US, journalist/author (Chita) |
Jun 27 |
Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919) |
Jun 27 |
Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan |
Jun 27 |
Ivan Vazov, Pod igoto |
Jun 29 |
Joseph Paul Skelly, composer |
Jul 3 |
Alfredo Kiel, composer |
Jul 4 |
Ole Olsen, composer |
Jul 11 |
Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938) |
Jul 12 |
Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912) |
Jul 14 |
Robert Brower, Thirty Days at Hard Labor |
Jul 15 |
Francesca Xavier Cabrini, [Mother Cabrini], 1st US saint |
Jul 16 |
Julius Larsen, Direktør Ivar Knudsen til prøvesejlads om bord paa et dieselskib, omgivet af repræsentanter for handel og industri, hvoriblandt admiral A. de Richelieu, etatsraad Martin Dessau, gehejmeetatsraad Julius Larsen, baron Blixen-Finecke og flere |
Jul 18 |
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (d. 1939) |
Jul 30 |
Gyula Abonyi, Today and Tomorrow |
Aug 3 |
Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper) |
Aug 3 |
Reginald Heber Roe, 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School (d. 1926) |
Aug 4 |
Charles Coborn, Three Men in a Boat |
Aug 5 |
Anton Simon, composer |
Aug 5 |
Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif) |
Aug 5 |
Guy de Maupassant, Masculin Féminin |
Aug 14 |
Earnest YY [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Kloris & Roses) |
Aug 15 |
Gyp, The Marriage of Chiffon |
Aug 21 |
Enoch Aagaard, Arbejdet adler |
Aug 26 |
Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913) |
Sep 2 |
Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company |
Sep 2 |
Eugene Field, author/journalist (Little Boy Blue) |
Sep 2 |
Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919) |
Sep 4 |
Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal/earl (WW I-Caporetto) |
Sep 6 |
Louis F H "Louis" Apol, painter/etcher/literary |
Sep 9 |
Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi |
Sep 9 |
Leopoldo Miguez, composer |
Oct 4 |
John W McGraw, (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97) |
Oct 5 |
Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910) |
Oct 8 |
Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936) |
Oct 18 |
Francis Thome, composer |
Oct 19 |
Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat |
Oct 23 |
Sophus Bauditz, Historien om Hjortholm |
Nov 5 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919) |
Nov 5 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Belle of the Season |
Nov 5 |
Francis Worcester Doughty, A Woman's Eyes |
Nov 8 |
Karel Komzak, composer |
Nov 9 |
Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist |
Nov 12 |
Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908) |
Nov 12 |
Stanislaw Jasienski, Dla ciebie, Polsko |
Nov 13 |
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Scotland, author (Treasure Island), (d. 1894) |
Nov 13 |
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Planet |
Nov 20 |
Arthor Goring Thomas, composer |
Nov 26 |
Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929) |
Dec 1 |
Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer |
Dec 5 |
Alexander Girardi, Der Millionenonkel |
Dec 6 |
Leopold Krenn, Die Landstreicher |
Dec 9 |
Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891) |
Dec 10 |
Gustav Hinrichs, The Phantom of the Opera |
Dec 13 |
G F Grace, cricketer (brother of W G ) |
Dec 13 |
Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer |
Dec 16 |
Fred Morley, cricketer (legendary Notts & England bowler 1880-83) |
Dec 21 |
Zdenek Fibich, composer |
Dec 21 |
Zdenek Fibich, Kolya |
Dec 29 |
Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer |
Dec 29 |
Tomás Bretón, La Dolores |
Dec 30 |
John Milne, Liverpool, British Geologist, Seismologist, and Anthropologist who developed the first modern seismograph |
3 |
Eugene Field, Wynken, Blynken & Nod |
4 |
Joseph J. Dowling, The Kentucky Colonel |
8 |
Lujza Blaha, A táncz |
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