Notable Birthdays - 1855
1855 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914) |
Jan 5 |
King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) |
Jan 9 |
Elith Reumert, Grænsefolket |
Jan 10 |
Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People) |
Jan 15 |
Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889) |
Jan 18 |
Valentina Frascaroli, Gribouillette fiancée d'une heure |
Jan 20 |
Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer |
Jan 20 |
Ludwik Solski, Geniusz sceny |
Jan 21 |
John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer |
Jan 22 |
Ernst Kullak, composer |
Jan 22 |
Albert Neisser [Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser], Schweidnitz Prussia, German physician who discovered the bacterias that cause gonorrhea and leprosy |
Jan 23 |
John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926) |
Jan 26 |
Arthur Hervey, composer |
Jan 28 |
William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine) |
Feb 12 |
Jacob P. Adler, Michael Strogoff |
Feb 13 |
Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922) |
Feb 14 |
Vsevolod Garshin, Lyagushka-puteshestvennitsa |
Feb 15 |
Gustav Hollaender, composer |
Feb 17 |
Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I) |
Feb 17 |
Frederick de Belleville, The Daughter of the People |
Feb 21 |
Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame) |
Feb 25 |
George Bonnor, cricketer (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888) |
Feb 25 |
Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886) |
Feb 25 |
Raymond Blathwayt, Beyond the Rocks |
Mar 5 |
Jan Klecanda, Father Vojtech |
Mar 6 |
Elwyn Alfred Barron, The House of Silence |
Mar 8 |
Wilhelm Jacoby, Pension Schöller |
Mar 12 |
John White, composer |
Mar 13 |
Percival "Percy" Lowell, US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) |
Mar 24 |
Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, banker (Mellon Bank), US Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32) and philanthropist |
Mar 24 |
Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman) |
Mar 24 |
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm |
Mar 27 |
Alfred Ewing [James Alfred Ewing], Dundee, Scottish Physicist (magnetic properties of metals, hysteresis) |
Mar 29 |
James O. Barrows, The Old Fool |
Mar 31 |
Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899) |
Mar 31 |
John Hays Hammond, Our Mutual Girl, No. 35 |
Apr 9 |
Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet |
Apr 18 |
Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen) |
Apr 18 |
Josef Gruber, composer |
Apr 18 |
Miles B. McSweeney, President Roosevelt Reviewing the Troops at Charleston Exposition |
Apr 23 |
Ernst von Wolzogen, Schall und Rauch |
Apr 29 |
Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS] |
Apr 29 |
Edmund van der Straeten, composer |
May 1 |
Cecilia Beaux, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, American portrait painter |
May 1 |
Marie Corelli, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan |
May 2 |
Theodore Moses Tobani, composer |
May 2 |
Eduard von Keyserling, Wellen |
May 5 |
Helena Cavallier, Os Dois Proscritos ou a Restauração de Portugal em 1640 |
May 8 |
John Gates ("Bet-a-million" Gates), West Chicago, Illinois, USA, American inventor and industrialist who established the market for barbed wire fencing |
May 9 |
Julius Rontgen, composer |
May 10 |
Anatoli Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) [NS] |
May 10 |
Anatol Liadov, The Invisible Boy |
May 11 |
Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) |
May 15 |
Eduard von Keyserling, Baltic German writer (Dritte Stiege) |
May 21 |
Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) |
May 24 |
Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright |
May 24 |
Arthur Wing Pinero, The Enchanted Cottage |
May 25 |
Aranka Hegyi, A táncz |
Jun 3 |
Thecla Åhlander, The Hell Ship |
Jun 14 |
Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive) |
Jun 14 |
Robert LaFollette, Robert LaFollette Campaign Speech |
Jun 17 |
Fritz Steinbach, composer |
Jun 22 |
Sam Morris, Hobart, cricketer (Barbados parents only black Aus player) |
Jun 23 |
Maude Valerie White, composer |
Jun 24 |
Max Pategg, Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend |
Jun 25 |
Annegrethe Antonsen, Dæmonen |
Jul 3 |
Piotr Maszynski, composer |
Jul 7 |
Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920) |
Jul 7 |
Ludwig Ganghofer, The Monastery's Hunter |
Jul 7 |
Arthur Azevedo, Brava Gente |
Jul 9 |
Johann P Zilcher, German composer |
Jul 10 |
Marie Ring, Den glade løjtnant |
Jul 14 |
Richard Samuel Hughes, composer |
Jul 16 |
Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer |
Jul 25 |
Edward Solomon, composer |
Jul 26 |
Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936) |
Jul 30 |
James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History" |
Aug 1 |
Thomas Commerford, A Failure at Fifty |
Aug 3 |
Joe Hunter, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1891) |
Aug 3 |
H.C. Brunner, The Seven Graces |
Aug 4 |
Jay Hunt, Granddad |
Aug 7 |
Stanley J. Weyman, Under the Red Robe |
Aug 11 |
John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933) |
Aug 13 |
Charles T. Dazey, Shifting Sands |
Aug 14 |
Adam Geibel, Salute to Expo 67 |
Aug 18 |
Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942) |
Aug 26 |
Otto Elg-Lundberg, Gösta Berlings saga |
Aug 29 |
Emil Pauer, composer |
Aug 31 |
Stefan Surzynski, composer |
Sep 1 |
Innokenty Annensky, Omsk, Russian Empire, poet, critic and interpreter (poètes maudits) |
Sep 6 |
Ferdinand B Hummel, composer |
Sep 7 |
William Friese-Greene, British photographer (d. 1921) |
Sep 9 |
Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist |
Sep 9 |
Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921) |
Sep 12 |
Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician (d. 1920) |
Sep 28 |
Thomas F Tout, London, historian (Manchester school of historiography) |
Sep 29 |
Michele Esposito, composer |
Oct 8 |
Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist |
Oct 8 |
Edgar Saltus, Daughters of the Rich |
Oct 10 |
Herbert Kelcey, The Sphinx |
Oct 12 |
Arthur Nikisch, Szent-Miklos Hungary, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic) |
Oct 12 |
August Sauer, Austria literature historian (Euphorion) |
Oct 12 |
Jacobus of Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Death of My Cat) [or 9/12] |
Oct 12 |
Arthur Nikisch, |
Oct 14 |
George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl) |
Oct 14 |
Betzy Kofoed, The Folly of Sin |
Oct 16 |
Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian |
Oct 16 |
Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931) |
Oct 17 |
Joseph Harker, Henry VIII |
Oct 19 |
Robert H. Fordyce, Our Mutual Girl, No. 43 |
Oct 23 |
Eric Lewis, Brown Sugar |
Oct 24 |
James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912) |
Oct 26 |
Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals (Post Cereals) |
Oct 26 |
Sydney Rosenfeld, Children of Destiny |
Oct 28 |
Ivan V Mitshurin, Russian botanist (new types of fruit) |
Oct 29 |
Paul Bruchési, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939) |
Nov 1 |
Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music) |
Nov 5 |
Eugene V. Debs, Terre Haute, Indiana, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (d. 1926) |
Nov 5 |
Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere) |
Nov 5 |
Eugene V. Debs, |
Nov 6 |
Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer |
Nov 6 |
Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942) |
Nov 7 |
Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect) |
Nov 8 |
James Williamson, A Photographic Contortion |
Nov 10 |
Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God) |
Nov 11 |
Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova |
Nov 13 |
Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker |
Nov 19 |
Billy Bates, cricketer (England all-rounder 1882-87, hat-trick 1883) |
Nov 24 |
Elisabeth Christensen, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages |
Nov 30 |
Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance |
Nov 30 |
Hugh Moss, The King |
Dec 5 |
Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (d. 1942) |
Dec 7 |
Clementine Plessner, Different from the Others |
Dec 10 |
Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967) |
Dec 10 |
Henry Nicholas Ridley, West Harling Hall, Norfolk, U.K., Botanist (Malay Peninsula rubber industry) |
Dec 11 |
Julian Edwards, composer |
Dec 11 |
Julian Edwards, Shine on Harvest Moon |
Dec 12 |
Gerald Griffin, A Pair of Cupids |
Dec 23 |
Alan Gray, composer |
Dec 25 |
James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884 |
Dec 26 |
Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, composer |
Dec 27 |
Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist |
Dec 29 |
August Kitzberg, Libahunt |
Dec 30 |
Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Humanity) |
Dec 30 |
Frank Burbeck, Who's Your Brother? |
Dec 31 |
Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist/poet |
Dec 31 |
Giovanni Pascoli, quest'atomo opaco del Male |
4 |
Kees Lageman, Zonnestraal |
6 |
Ferdinand Hummel, Schwert und Herd |
7 |
William Friese-Greene, Hyde Park Corner |
8 |
Thomas F. Fallon, While New York Sleeps |
15 |
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, Monsieur Beaucaire |
17 |
Effie Ellsler, The Front Page |
25 |
William Shepherd Benson, Victory |
29 |
Michele Esposito, The Post-Bag |
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