Notable Birthdays - 1856
1856 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Giuseppe Martucci, composer |
Jan 6 |
Giuseppe Martucci, Arditi civili |
Jan 6 |
George Thorne, Highlights from The Mikado |
Jan 8 |
Nelly De Heer, Toffe jongens onder de mobilisatie (deel 1) |
Jan 9 |
Anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar) |
Jan 9 |
Lizette Woodworth Reese, US poet (Branch of May, Tears) |
Jan 9 |
Stevan Mokranjac, composer |
Jan 9 |
William Parry, A Cigarette Maker's Romance |
Jan 9 |
J. Franklin Bell, Brigadier-General Franklin Bell and Staff |
Jan 9 |
Stevan Stojanovic Mokranjac, Opelo za Bobija Fisera |
Jan 10 |
Péter Andorffy, Casanova |
Jan 11 |
Christian August Sinding, Kongsberg Norway, composer |
Jan 11 |
Christian Sinding, Intermezzo: A Love Story |
Jan 12 |
John Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters) |
Jan 14 |
J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919) |
Jan 15 |
Mia Gründer, Husband by Proxy |
Jan 18 |
John Hyatt Brewer, composer |
Jan 19 |
Thérèse Kolb, Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard |
Jan 25 |
Pierre Decourcelle, La bâillonnée - Épisode 1: Entre deux haines |
Jan 27 |
Cecil Raleigh, The Whip |
Jan 27 |
Lous van Korlaar-van Dam, De duivel |
Feb 2 |
Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer |
Feb 2 |
Albert Paul, Der Krieg brachte Frieden |
Feb 5 |
Otto Brahm, German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau) |
Feb 11 |
Antun Bauer, |
Feb 14 |
Frank Harris, England, journalist/writer (My Life & Loves) |
Feb 14 |
Frank Harris, Cowboy |
Feb 15 |
Frank Harris, Galway England, writer |
Feb 15 |
Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926) |
Feb 16 |
Willem Kes, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor (Parkorkest Amsterdam) |
Feb 16 |
Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (d. 1944) |
Feb 17 |
J.H. Rosny Sr., Quest for Fire |
Feb 21 |
Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam) |
Feb 22 |
Etienne Girardot, Twentieth Century |
Feb 25 |
Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876] |
Feb 27 |
Mattia Battistini, Donna Lisa |
Feb 28 |
Eva Dell'Acqua, I Married an Angel |
Feb 29 |
J. Edwin Brown, Discontent |
Feb 29 |
Sedley Brown, How Spriggins Took Lodgers |
Mar 1 |
Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw) |
Mar 3 |
Gustav Davis, Catacombs |
Mar 4 |
Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877) |
Mar 4 |
Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921) |
Mar 7 |
Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne) |
Mar 7 |
Matilde Serao, Episode #1.4 |
Mar 8 |
Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929) |
Mar 8 |
Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931) |
Mar 9 |
Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928) |
Mar 9 |
Eddie Foy, A Favorite Fool |
Mar 9 |
Marquis de Dion, M. le comte de Dion |
Mar 11 |
George Durham, Texas Rangers |
Mar 16 |
E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince |
Mar 17 |
Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910) |
Mar 17 |
John J. Williams, Marse Covington |
Mar 20 |
Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management |
Mar 20 |
Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941) |
Mar 21 |
Henry Ossian Flipper, Thomasville, Georgia, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877 |
Mar 26 |
David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda |
Mar 30 |
Bessie Bellwood, The Lodger |
Apr 1 |
Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933) |
Apr 5 |
Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp) |
Apr 5 |
Booker T. Washington, By Right of Birth |
Apr 6 |
May Evelynne, S.O.S. |
Apr 9 |
Arthur Kraußneck, The Chronicles of the Gray House |
Apr 11 |
Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (dominant England bat late 19th cent) |
Apr 11 |
Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India |
Apr 12 |
William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen) |
Apr 22 |
[Marie] Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Two Orphans) |
Apr 23 |
Arthur Twining Hadley, The Courage of the Common Place |
Apr 24 |
Henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime) |
Apr 24 |
Philippe Pétain, La nuit merveilleuse |
Apr 26 |
Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930) |
Apr 26 |
Henry Morgenthau, Auction of Souls |
Apr 27 |
Henry J.W. Dam, Her Silent Sacrifice |
Apr 29 |
Bert Woodruff, Speedy |
May 5 |
W.W. Denslow, Oz: The American Fairyland |
May 6 |
Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909) |
May 6 |
Sigmund Freud, Freiberg in Mähren, Moravia, Austrian neurologist and father of psychology, (d. 1939) |
May 6 |
Sigmund Freud, Conspirators of Pleasure |
May 6 |
Robert Peary, Animated Weekly, No. 36 |
May 7 |
Walter Browne, Everywoman |
May 13 |
Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art |
May 13 |
Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938) |
May 15 |
Lyman Frank Baum, NY, children's book author (Wizard of Oz) |
May 15 |
L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz |
May 20 |
Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter |
May 25 |
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942) |
May 26 |
George Templeton Strong, composer |
Jun 1 |
George Brest, Assignment in Brittany |
Jun 6 |
Gabrielle Réjane, Alsace |
Jun 6 |
Gustav Ranft, Värmlänningarna |
Jun 8 |
Natalia Janotha, composer |
Jun 9 |
Lyman H. Howe, Ride on a Runaway Train |
Jun 12 |
Frank Losee, Orphans of the Storm |
Jun 14 |
Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain) |
Jun 19 |
Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia) |
Jun 19 |
Elbert Hubbard, A Message to Garcia |
Jun 21 |
Henry Guy Carleton, The Phantom Honeymoon |
Jun 22 |
Henry Rider Haggard, Norfolk, England, author (King Solomon's Mine, She, Dawn) |
Jun 22 |
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines |
Jun 30 |
Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers) |
Jun 30 |
Louise Fahlman, Sången om den eldröda blomman |
Jul 1 |
Georg Busch, Lille Dorrit |
Jul 5 |
Hedworth Meux, The Queen's Reception to the Heroes of Ladysmith |
Jul 6 |
Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT |
Jul 7 |
George Hearne, cricketer (brother of Frank & Alec, Test for England) |
Jul 9 |
Daniel Guggenheim, US (Guggenheim Museum) |
Jul 10 |
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil |
Jul 10 |
Nikola Tesla, |
Jul 15 |
Owen Dunell, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test captain) |
Jul 15 |
Charles Frohman, Are You a Mason? |
Jul 21 |
Harry A P Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania) |
Jul 21 |
Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st US woman architect |
Jul 23 |
Arthur H Bird, composer |
Jul 23 |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader |
Jul 24 |
Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941) |
Jul 25 |
Charles Major, When Knighthood Was in Flower |
Jul 26 |
George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ireland, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), (d. 1950) |
Jul 26 |
George Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady |
Jul 28 |
Kate Phillips, The Sands of Time |
Jul 30 |
Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith) |
Aug 1 |
George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883) |
Aug 3 |
Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919) |
Aug 6 |
Nestor de Tière, Roze Kate |
Aug 7 |
Lew Dockstader, Dan |
Aug 8 |
F. Anstey, Vice Versa |
Aug 10 |
Paul Geisler, composer |
Aug 12 |
"Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917) |
Aug 13 |
Anthony Gildès, L'affaire est dans le sac |
Aug 15 |
J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament |
Aug 15 |
Frank Daniels, Captain Jinks and Himself |
Aug 17 |
Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master) |
Aug 18 |
Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer |
Aug 18 |
Jan Karol Gali, composer |
Aug 18 |
Charles Gabriel, Django Unchained |
Aug 19 |
James Milton Black, Runaway Jury |
Aug 19 |
Harold Frederic, Copperhead |
Aug 20 |
Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania) [NS Sept 1] |
Aug 20 |
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909) |
Aug 23 |
Betty Waid, Troika |
Aug 24 |
Felix Mottl, composer |
Aug 26 |
Clara Schønfeld, Master of the House |
Aug 27 |
Iwan Franko, writer |
Aug 27 |
Ivan Franko, Zakhar Berkut |
Aug 30 |
Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927) |
Aug 31 |
Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, composer |
Sep 1 |
Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953) |
Sep 2 |
Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion |
Sep 3 |
Louis Sullivan, Boston Massachusetts, American architect (father of skyscrapers) |
Sep 5 |
Jacobus C J Hermans, actor (7th Command) |
Sep 12 |
Johann Heinrich Beck, composer |
Sep 23 |
William Archer, Scotland, writer (Green Goddess) |
Sep 28 |
Edward Herbert Thompson, Mass, archaeologist (Mayan civilization) |
Sep 28 |
Kate Douglas Wiggins, author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) |
Sep 30 |
Andrejs Jurjans, composer |
Oct 6 |
William Shea, Auld Robin Gray |
Oct 11 |
Alfredo Testoni, Il cardinale Lambertini |
Oct 15 |
R G Nivelle, French military man |
Oct 15 |
Robert Nivelle, |
Oct 15 |
Mary Plamondon, |
Oct 25 |
Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936) |
Oct 25 |
Paul d'Ivoi, The Five Cents of Lavarede |
Oct 28 |
Franz Xavier Arens, composer |
Nov 3 |
Jim McCormick, baseball player (d. 1918) |
Nov 3 |
Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, El verdugo |
Nov 6 |
Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia |
Nov 7 |
Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878) |
Nov 13 |
Louis D Brandeis, Mass, 68th Supreme Court Justice (1916-39) |
Nov 13 |
Sigwart Aspestrand, composer |
Nov 18 |
Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929) |
Nov 18 |
Grand Duke Nicholas, |
Nov 22 |
Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th pres of Mormon church |
Nov 22 |
Melbourne MacDowell, There It Is |
Nov 22 |
Heber J. Grant, Latter-Day Saint Leaders: Past and Present |
Nov 22 |
I.C. Christensen, Islands Altings besög i Köbenhavn |
Nov 25 |
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, Russia, composer (Oresteia) |
Nov 28 |
Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer |
Nov 29 |
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia |
Nov 29 |
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, The First World War |
Dec 2 |
Robert Kajanus, composer |
Dec 11 |
Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist |
Dec 13 |
Svetozar Boroević, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920) |
Dec 17 |
August Palme, Bodakungen |
Dec 18 |
J. J. Thomson, Manchester, England, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906) |
Dec 22 |
Frank Kellogg, Potsdam, New York, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929), (d. 1937) |
Dec 22 |
Frank B. Kellogg, |
Dec 25 |
Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913) |
Dec 27 |
Andre Gedalge, composer |
Dec 28 |
[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, 28th (D) US President (1913-21), Nobel Peace Prize 1919 |
Dec 28 |
Woodrow Wilson, Our Bridge of Ships |
Dec 29 |
Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes integral) |
5 |
Ellen Adelstam, Husband by Proxy |
6 |
Charles E. Evans, Happy Days |
10 |
Thomas Jefferson, Forbidden |
13 |
Ernest Gillet, The Dancing Masters |
14 |
Charles Plamondon, |
23 |
William Archer, The Green Goddess |
28 |
Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mother Carey's Chickens |
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