Notable Birthdays - 1854
1854 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) |
Jan 6 |
Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle) |
Jan 7 |
Herbert Gladstone, From Durban to Zululand |
Jan 9 |
Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921) |
Jan 10 |
Peter Gast, composer |
Jan 14 |
Benjamin B. Odell Jr., Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
Jan 18 |
Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone) |
Jan 21 |
George Musgrove, Nell Gwynne |
Jan 27 |
Will Poluski, Picture Palace Piecans |
Jan 29 |
Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian |
Jan 31 |
Ella La Cour, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages |
Feb 7 |
Robert B. Mantell, Under the Red Robe |
Feb 9 |
Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician |
Feb 9 |
Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party) |
Feb 9 |
H. Keroul, A Night at a Honeymoon |
Feb 16 |
Oscar Fetras, composer |
Feb 17 |
Friedrich A Krupp, German arms manufacturer |
Feb 20 |
Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth) |
Feb 20 |
Carl Gottschalksen, Blind Justice |
Feb 24 |
Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Golden Rain) |
Feb 25 |
Edmond Duquesne, The Funny Regiment |
Feb 28 |
Juliusz Zarebski, composer |
Mar 4 |
Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945) |
Mar 8 |
Tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder) |
Mar 9 |
Francisco Matarazzo, Um Crime no Parque Paulista |
Mar 14 |
Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908) |
Mar 14 |
Thomas Riley Marshall, (D) 28th VP (1913-21) |
Mar 14 |
Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920) |
Mar 14 |
John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925) |
Mar 14 |
Thomas R. Marshall, Hearst-Pathé News, No. 20 |
Mar 15 |
Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917) |
Mar 20 |
Amalia Kasprowicz, Ofiara namietnosci |
Mar 21 |
Alick A C Bannerman, cricketer (bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893) |
Mar 23 |
Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony) |
Mar 26 |
Braulio Dueno Colon, composer |
Mar 31 |
Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine) |
Apr 1 |
Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949) |
Apr 5 |
Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer |
Apr 9 |
Seaborn M Denson, composer |
Apr 10 |
Jozef M T Orelio, baritone |
Apr 11 |
Hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's) |
Apr 13 |
Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times) |
Apr 21 |
Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons |
Apr 21 |
Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer |
Apr 21 |
William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907) |
Apr 22 |
Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913) |
Apr 29 |
Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher |
May 2 |
Antal Váradi, István király |
May 5 |
Antonio Smareglia, composer |
May 11 |
John Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper) |
May 11 |
Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype) |
May 13 |
Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra) |
May 13 |
Paul Klengel, composer |
May 13 |
Louis H. Chrispijn, De drie vrijgezellen |
May 13 |
Gabriela Montani, Entre Dois Amores |
May 13 |
LeRoy Armstrong, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River |
May 18 |
Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland) |
May 23 |
Delaunay, En détresse |
May 24 |
Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I) |
May 24 |
John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918) |
May 24 |
William Granger, 6 Day Bike Rider |
May 25 |
Clara Louise Burnham, Heart's Haven |
May 27 |
Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium) |
May 28 |
John L. Shine, The Lie |
May 31 |
Ferruccio Benini, Per la Patria! |
Jun 6 |
Ante Kovacic, Ladanjska sekta |
Jun 7 |
Max Kretzer, Meister Timpe |
Jun 8 |
Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921) |
Jun 8 |
Thomas Cobb, Mrs. Erricker's Reputation |
Jun 8 |
C. Oliver Iselin, Mr. and Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin |
Jun 9 |
Gerardus J P J Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society) |
Jun 10 |
Maggie Fisher, Sherry |
Jun 10 |
François de Curel, Le bois des amants |
Jun 13 |
Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine) |
Jun 14 |
Frederik Rung, composer |
Jun 16 |
Hugo Thimig, Carl Michael Ziehrers Märchen aus Alt-Wien |
Jun 18 |
Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist |
Jun 18 |
Anselma Heine, Eerie Tales |
Jun 19 |
Alfredo Catalani, composer |
Jun 19 |
Alfredo Catalani, Philadelphia |
Jun 21 |
Apolônia Pinto, A Viuvinha do Cinema |
Jun 26 |
Robert Borden, Grand-Pre Nova Scotia, (C) 8th Canadian PM (1911-20) |
Jun 26 |
Robert Borden, |
Jul 3 |
Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928) |
Jul 3 |
Leos Janácek, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
Jul 4 |
Heinrich Zollner, composer |
Jul 4 |
Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926) |
Jul 4 |
William Tilghman, The Bank Robbery |
Jul 6 |
Bernhard Buchbinder, Die Försterchristel |
Jul 10 |
James T. Kelley, The Rink |
Jul 12 |
George Eastman, Waterville New York, inventor (Kodak camera) |
Jul 12 |
George Eastman, Cannibals of the South Seas |
Jul 14 |
Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer |
Jul 17 |
Armand Dutertre, Un drame de l'air |
Jul 19 |
Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer |
Jul 21 |
Albert Edelfelt, Albert Edelfelt in the Luxembourg Gardens |
Jul 23 |
Birt Acres, Rough Sea at Dover |
Jul 25 |
Charles Eldridge, A Cure for Pokeritis |
Jul 29 |
Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (Theory of Education) |
Jul 31 |
Jose Canalejas contributes Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12) |
Aug 2 |
Francis Marion Crawford, British author |
Aug 2 |
Francis Marion Crawford, The White Sister |
Aug 3 |
Fernand de La Tombelle, composer |
Aug 9 |
H.M. Thurston, The Belle and the Bell Hop |
Aug 10 |
J Scott Lidgett, London, theologist |
Aug 11 |
George A. Williams, From Peril to Peril |
Aug 12 |
Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith |
Aug 12 |
Johannes P Kelly, Dutch [Kellij], actor/operetta writer |
Aug 12 |
Ignát Herrmann, Otec Kondelík a zenich Vejvara |
Aug 18 |
Adlersfeld-Ballestrem, The White Roses of Ravensberg |
Aug 18 |
Gräfin Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballentein, Der Amönenhof |
Aug 22 |
Milan I, King of Serbia |
Aug 22 |
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg, Waterloo |
Aug 23 |
Moritz Moszkowski, composer |
Aug 24 |
Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer |
Aug 26 |
Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932) |
Sep 1 |
Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal) |
Sep 2 |
Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910) |
Sep 8 |
Willem M van Rossum, Dutch cardinal/prefect of Propaganda File |
Sep 10 |
Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman) |
Sep 17 |
Hans Muller, music historian |
Sep 17 |
David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929) |
Sep 23 |
Cornelis W Lely, Dutch engineer/gov of Suriname (1902-05) |
Sep 28 |
Adam Sedgwick, Norwich England, English zoologist (Peripatus) |
Sep 29 |
Martin Pluddemann, composer |
Oct 3 |
William Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever |
Oct 6 |
Ada Gilman, Little Red Riding Hood |
Oct 7 |
Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War |
Oct 10 |
Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer |
Oct 10 |
George Morgan, The Hurricane Express |
Oct 16 |
Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist |
Oct 16 |
Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray), (d. 1900) |
Oct 16 |
Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray |
Oct 18 |
Bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket) |
Oct 18 |
Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer |
Oct 20 |
Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) |
Oct 20 |
Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations) |
Oct 20 |
Arthur Rimbaud, Criminal Lovers |
Oct 20 |
Alphonse Allais, Neither Seen Nor Recognized |
Oct 22 |
James Allen Bland, Around the World in Eighty Days |
Oct 24 |
Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte) |
Oct 26 |
August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam) |
Oct 26 |
C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914) |
Oct 26 |
August Kiehl, Op hoop van zegen |
Oct 26 |
Sandor Ksaver-Djalski, Nocturno |
Oct 27 |
Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914) |
Oct 28 |
Julia Bartet, Louis XI |
Oct 31 |
Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt) |
Nov 3 |
Jokichi Takamine, Takaoka Toyama, Japanese-American Biochemist who isolated adrenalin (epinephrine), which causes the body to respond to emergencies, the first pure hormone isolated from natural sources |
Nov 5 |
Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) |
Nov 5 |
Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920) |
Nov 6 |
John Philip Sousa, Washington DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever) |
Nov 6 |
John Philip Sousa, The Wolf of Wall Street |
Nov 7 |
Riley Chamberlin, The Evidence of the Film |
Nov 8 |
Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919) |
Nov 9 |
Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer |
Nov 13 |
George Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke) |
Nov 16 |
Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician |
Nov 16 |
Peter Fristrup, Svend, Knud og Valdemar |
Nov 17 |
Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17) |
Nov 17 |
Hubert Lyautey, |
Nov 20 |
Camillo De Riso, Avventura di collegio |
Nov 21 |
Benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22) |
Nov 27 |
Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs |
Nov 28 |
Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist |
Nov 29 |
Albion Örtengren, Johan Ulfstjerna |
Dec 4 |
Vaso Abashidze, Khanuma |
Dec 6 |
Adolf Jensen, Fyrstindens skæbne |
Dec 9 |
Pekka Hannikainen, composer |
Dec 13 |
G.H. Chirgwin, The Blind Boy |
Dec 23 |
Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926) |
Dec 31 |
Paul Bilhaud, Le pillole di Ercole |
1 |
Engelbert Humperdinck, Hannibal Rising |
28 |
Roman Zelazowski, Bartek zwyciezca |
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