Notable Birthdays - 1857
1857 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) |
Jan 2 |
Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) |
Jan 2 |
Frederick Opper, Hooligan Assists the Magician |
Jan 4 |
Émile Cohl, A Fantasy |
Jan 6 |
Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931) |
Jan 6 |
William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896) |
Jan 8 |
Augustus E. Thomas, The Capitol |
Jan 9 |
Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights) |
Jan 11 |
Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys) |
Jan 14 |
Alice Pike Barney, American painter |
Jan 17 |
Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording) |
Jan 17 |
Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann) |
Jan 17 |
Wilhelm Kienzl, Der Evangelimann |
Jan 17 |
Eugène Lauste, Drill of the Engineer Corps |
Jan 18 |
Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I) |
Jan 23 |
Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity) |
Jan 25 |
Richard Foster Baker, Kidder and Ko |
Jan 26 |
the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875) |
Jan 27 |
Al W. Filson, The Old Man Who Tried to Grow Young |
Jan 31 |
George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933) |
Feb 2 |
Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector |
Feb 3 |
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen, Copenhagen, Danish Botanist and Geneticist who provided evidence for Hugo de Vries' mutation theory |
Feb 4 |
Václav Cech-Strán, Chudá holka |
Feb 9 |
Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education |
Feb 9 |
Dan Mason, Dinkelspiel's Baby |
Feb 9 |
Avqsenti Tsagareli, Keto and Kote |
Feb 12 |
Bobby Peel, cricketer (great English lefty 1884-96) |
Feb 12 |
Marie von Buelow, Sein letzter Seitensprung |
Feb 17 |
Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher |
Feb 18 |
Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor |
Feb 21 |
Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907) |
Feb 22 |
Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves |
Feb 22 |
Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides) |
Feb 22 |
Robert Baden-Powell, Boys of the Otter Patrol |
Feb 22 |
Frank L. Stanton, Smile |
Feb 23 |
Margaret Deland, Smouldering Fires |
Feb 26 |
Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion) |
Feb 26 |
Charles Sheldon, In His Steps |
Feb 26 |
Miklós Bárd, Szováthy Éva |
Feb 28 |
Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer |
Mar 1 |
John MacSweeney, Wild Oats Lane |
Mar 3 |
Alfred Bruneau, composer |
Mar 7 |
Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927) |
Mar 7 |
Laszlo Gyenes, A fogadalom |
Mar 12 |
William V. Ranous, King Lear |
Mar 16 |
Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936) |
Mar 18 |
Mrs. William Vaughn Moody, The Faith Healer |
Mar 22 |
Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse) |
Mar 22 |
Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32) |
Mar 22 |
Harry Randall, The Rats |
Mar 23 |
Fannie Farmer, Boston, Massachusetts, American culinary figure |
Mar 27 |
Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician |
Mar 30 |
Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926) |
Mar 30 |
Gabriela Zapolska, Die Warschauer Zitadelle |
Apr 3 |
Mari K. Demjén, White Rose |
Apr 5 |
Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86) |
Apr 6 |
Per Sivle, Berre ein hund |
Apr 7 |
John C. Rice, The Kiss |
Apr 8 |
James May, It Happened in Hollywood |
Apr 10 |
Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker |
Apr 14 |
Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer (Gulliver) |
Apr 14 |
Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço |
Apr 15 |
Pol de Mont, De verrijzenis van Ons Heer |
Apr 18 |
Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial |
Apr 18 |
Clarence Darrow, Camille |
Apr 19 |
Lucien Levy-Bruhl, philosopher |
Apr 20 |
Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/author (HW Knife Day) |
Apr 20 |
Hermann Bang, writer |
Apr 20 |
Herman Bang, Michael |
Apr 21 |
Paul Dresser, The Myth of Fingerprints |
Apr 23 |
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza) |
Apr 23 |
Ruggero Leoncavallo, The Untouchables |
Apr 27 |
Jamshedji Framji Madan, Vasant Prabha |
Apr 28 |
Alberto de Oliveira, Caídos do Céu |
Apr 29 |
Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e) |
Apr 29 |
Frantisek Ondricek, composer |
Apr 30 |
Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940) |
May 2 |
Frederic Cliffe, composer |
May 3 |
George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933) |
May 7 |
William A. MacCorkle, American politician (d. 1930) |
May 7 |
Oreste Calabresi, Amore senza stima |
May 8 |
Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, Dutch actor/husband of Alida Klein |
May 8 |
Heinrich Berte, April Blossoms |
May 9 |
Luigi Illica, Quantum of Solace |
May 10 |
Hendrik Zwaardemaker, Dutch physiologist (olfactometer) |
May 13 |
Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902) |
May 15 |
Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911) |
May 16 |
Juan Morel Campos, composer |
May 18 |
Adolf Lindfors, Rautakylän vanha parooni |
May 18 |
L.D. Littlefield, The Man from Beyond |
May 19 |
John Jacob Abel, Cleveland Ohio, American Pharmacologist (endocrine glands) |
May 27 |
Marie Van Westerhoven, De Jantjes |
May 28 |
Robert Hilliard, The Ex-Convict |
May 31 |
Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39) |
May 31 |
Pope Pius XI, Cavalcade of Faith |
Jun 2 |
Edward William Elgar, Broadheath, England, composer (Pomp & Circumstance) |
Jun 2 |
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Denmark, poet (Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917) |
Jun 2 |
Karl Gjellerup, Kvarnen |
Jun 2 |
Edward Elgar, Forrest Gump |
Jun 4 |
Barbara Baynton, Squeaker's Mate |
Jun 6 |
Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918) |
Jun 8 |
Lawrence Marston, The Evidence of the Film |
Jun 12 |
Achille Simonetti, composer |
Jun 12 |
Kate Lester, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Jun 15 |
George Backus, The Warrens of Virginia |
Jun 18 |
Henry Clay Folger Jr, US, businessman/Shakespeare fan |
Jun 28 |
Emerson Hough, The Covered Wagon |
Jul 1 |
Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants) |
Jul 2 |
Francesco Spetrino, composer |
Jul 4 |
Lizzie McCall, The Other Girl |
Jul 5 |
Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist |
Jul 7 |
Armand Numès, The Six-Legged Sheep |
Jul 8 |
Rudolf Dellinger, composer |
Jul 9 |
Frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18) |
Jul 10 |
Frank Norcross, Friends in San Rosario |
Jul 11 |
Alfred Binet, French child psychologist |
Jul 11 |
Iacob Moresianu, composer |
Jul 14 |
Maytag, inventor (washing machine) |
Jul 21 |
A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer |
Jul 23 |
French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years) |
Jul 24 |
Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917) |
Jul 24 |
Henrik Pontoppidan, Das Totenreich |
Jul 25 |
Frank Sprague, Milford Connecticut, American Inventor who installed the first U.S. electric trolley system in Richmond, Virgina |
Jul 27 |
Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator |
Jul 27 |
Jose Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900 |
Jul 27 |
Károly Mihályfi, Vorrei morir |
Jul 28 |
Ballington Booth, Brighouse, England, Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of Volunteers of America |
Jul 30 |
Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899) |
Aug 1 |
Alfred J. West, The New Republic |
Aug 8 |
Cecile Chaminade, composer |
Aug 8 |
Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research) |
Aug 8 |
Cécile Chaminade, Goin' South |
Aug 9 |
Harriet May Mills, Votes for Women |
Aug 14 |
Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922) |
Aug 15 |
Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918) |
Aug 18 |
Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926) |
Aug 18 |
Olive West, Madame Butterfly |
Aug 21 |
Iisakki Lattu, Kihlaus |
Aug 22 |
Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937) |
Aug 28 |
Alice Chapin, Daughters of the Night |
Aug 28 |
Charles Lamy, The Fall of the House of Usher |
Aug 29 |
Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937) |
Sep 2 |
Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927) |
Sep 6 |
Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933) |
Sep 8 |
Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936) |
Sep 8 |
Ida Henrietta Hyde, Davenport Iowa, American physiologist who invented the micro-electrode. She was the first woman allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School and to be elected to the American Physiology Society. |
Sep 10 |
James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn) |
Sep 12 |
George H Breitner, Dutch impressionist painter/water colors painter |
Sep 13 |
Milton S. Hershey, Derry Township, Pennsylvania, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, (d. 1945) |
Sep 13 |
Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937) |
Sep 15 |
William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice |
Sep 17 |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research |
Sep 29 |
Conrad T van Deventer, lawyer/2nd-Member of parliament |
Sep 30 |
Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge) |
Oct 2 |
Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902) |
Oct 3 |
Maurice Desvallières, Hotel Paradiso |
Oct 4 |
Henry Schoenfeld, composer |
Oct 5 |
Ida Brander, Rakkauden kaikkivalta - Amor Omnia |
Oct 5 |
Fedor von Zobeltitz, Drei Mädchen spinnen |
Oct 8 |
Vincent Sternroyd, The Street Singers |
Oct 9 |
Ivo Vojnovic, Nevjera |
Oct 11 |
Henri Cain, Cyrano de Bergerac |
Oct 12 |
James Bradbury Sr., Badgered |
Oct 14 |
Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st US autos |
Oct 24 |
Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894) |
Oct 25 |
Jeffreys Lewis, A Regular Girl |
Oct 29 |
Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal) |
Oct 30 |
John H Aberson, 1st chancellor (Dutch Agricultural University) |
Oct 30 |
Gertrude Atherton, The Foghorn |
Oct 31 |
Axel Munthe, Story of San Michele |
Nov 2 |
Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (Babinski reflex) |
Nov 3 |
Michail V Alekseyev, Imperial Russian general and WW I Chief of Staff (d. 1918) |
Nov 5 |
Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy) |
Nov 5 |
Joseph Tabrar, Jean Stapleton |
Nov 10 |
Luella Forepaugh, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Nov 11 |
Frederick Vroom, The General |
Nov 15 |
Mikhail Alekseyev, |
Nov 16 |
Jón Sveinsson, Episode #1.6 |
Nov 17 |
Herbert Waring, Sleeping Partners |
Nov 22 |
George Gissing, English author (Thyrza, Crown of Life) |
Nov 22 |
George Gissing, The Turning Point |
Nov 25 |
Alfred Capus, L'aventurier |
Nov 25 |
László Molnár, A Nagymama |
Nov 26 |
Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913) |
Nov 27 |
Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952) |
Nov 27 |
Camillo Antona Traversi, Il segreto del dottore |
Nov 28 |
Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85) |
Nov 29 |
Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911) |
Nov 29 |
Alex Rautio, Salaviinanpolttajat |
Nov 30 |
Robert Abel, cricketer (The Guv'nor Surrey & England batsman) |
Dec 3 |
Joseph Conrad, Berdychiv, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), (d. 1924) |
Dec 3 |
Joseph Conrad, The Duellists |
Dec 7 |
Nicola van Westerhout, composer |
Dec 9 |
Edgar Smith, Ah, Wilderness! |
Dec 12 |
Max Devrient, Die Totenhand |
Dec 14 |
Harry L. Rattenberry, The Delicious Little Devil |
Dec 15 |
Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer |
Dec 16 |
Edward Emerson Barnard, Tenn, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite) |
Dec 21 |
Nat Gould, The Rank Outsider |
Dec 22 |
George [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist |
Dec 22 |
Frank Clark, When the Cook Fell Ill |
Dec 29 |
Morley Roberts, The Shadow Before |
Dec 31 |
King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894) |
Dec 31 |
Alois Charvát, Nocní des |
Dec 31 |
Oscar Byström, Janssons frestelse |
2 |
Paul Hervieu, La course du flambeau |
4 |
Frank Currier, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
14 |
Ermete Zacconi, Don Buonaparte |
15 |
William Howard Taft, Taft Playing Golf |
17 |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella |
28 |
William Huch, Five Millions Seek an Heir |
30 |
Hermann Sudermann, Sunrise |
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