Notable Birthdays - 1859
1859 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 4 |
Karel Václav Rais, Pantáta Bezousek |
Jan 5 |
DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer) |
Jan 6 |
Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order & progress) |
Jan 6 |
Henry E. Dixey, Chelsea 7750 |
Jan 9 |
Carrie Chapman Catt, Ripon, Wisconsin, American women's suffrage leader and founder (League of Women Voters) |
Jan 9 |
Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries) |
Jan 11 |
[Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot & Sien) |
Jan 11 |
Josephine Crowell, The Birth of a Nation |
Jan 11 |
Mévisto, Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor |
Jan 13 |
Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature) |
Jan 13 |
Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943) |
Jan 15 |
Archibald Peake, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920) |
Jan 18 |
Gilbert Clayton, Blood and Sand |
Jan 19 |
Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of California) |
Jan 21 |
Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer |
Jan 22 |
Gyula Zilahi, Stars of Eger |
Jan 23 |
Martinius Nielsen, Lykketyven |
Jan 24 |
Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer |
Jan 27 |
Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918) |
Jan 27 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kejser Wilhelms ankomst til København 1905 |
Jan 27 |
Frederick Paulding, Trooper Billy |
Jan 29 |
Marie Montbazon, La villa bleue |
Jan 30 |
Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944) |
Feb 1 |
Victor Herbert, Dublin, Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland, Kiss in Dark) |
Feb 1 |
Victor Herbert, Young Frankenstein |
Feb 2 |
Havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex) |
Feb 3 |
Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935) |
Feb 4 |
Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881) |
Feb 4 |
Gus Leonard, His Royal Slyness |
Feb 4 |
Fanny Rice, My Husband's Other Wife |
Feb 5 |
Giovanni Capurro, The Hangover |
Feb 6 |
Elias Disney, |
Feb 7 |
Alexander Black, Miss Jerry |
Feb 8 |
John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop) |
Feb 10 |
Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943) |
Feb 10 |
Alexandre Millerand, Mutual Weekly, No. 91 |
Feb 13 |
Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist |
Feb 13 |
William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver |
Feb 14 |
George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel) |
Feb 14 |
Justus Hagman, Kärlekens ögon |
Feb 17 |
Egnate Ninoshvili, Qristine |
Feb 18 |
Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof) |
Feb 18 |
Sholom Aleichem, Fiddler on the Roof |
Feb 18 |
Charles J. Ross, The Senator |
Feb 19 |
Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903) |
Feb 21 |
George Lansbury, The Man with Two Faces |
Feb 23 |
Mrs. A.W. Filson, The Squaw Man |
Feb 25 |
John Burke, The Million Dollar Mystery |
Feb 28 |
Stanislaw Roman Lewandowski, Kult ciala |
Mar 3 |
Charles-Lucien Lépine, Mephisto's Son |
Mar 7 |
R.D. MacLean, The Silver Horde |
Mar 8 |
Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author (Wind in the Willows) |
Mar 8 |
Otto Taubmann, composer |
Mar 8 |
Kenneth Grahame, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad |
Mar 12 |
Josef Cyril Sychra, composer |
Mar 12 |
Abraham H. Cannon, Mormon apostle (d. 1896) |
Mar 13 |
Ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83) |
Mar 16 |
Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906) |
Mar 20 |
Victor Lundberg, Löjen och tårar |
Mar 21 |
Henry W. Savage, Excuse Me |
Mar 24 |
Maud Milton, The Old Wood Carver |
Mar 25 |
Jeanne Hading, André Cornélis |
Mar 26 |
A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad) |
Mar 26 |
Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer |
Mar 26 |
Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919) |
Mar 26 |
A.E. Housman, Titanic |
Mar 27 |
George Giffen, cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders) |
Mar 31 |
Emil Fenyvessy, A csikós |
Apr 3 |
Reginald De Koven, composer |
Apr 3 |
Johan Jensen, Elskovsbarnet |
Apr 3 |
Reginald De Koven, Harlem Nights |
Apr 5 |
Wilhelm Harteveld, composer |
Apr 7 |
Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale) |
Apr 8 |
Edmund Husserl, Germany, philosopher (founded Phenomenology) |
Apr 9 |
Henri Lavedan, The Assassination of the Duke de Guise |
Apr 11 |
Basil Harwood, composer |
Apr 11 |
E.H. Crowder, The Girl Who Stayed at Home |
Apr 12 |
Emil Ascher, Four for the Morgue |
Apr 16 |
Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (d. 1924) |
Apr 18 |
Eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren) |
May 1 |
Bohuslav Jeremias, composer |
May 1 |
Willem J Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat |
May 2 |
Eugene D'Harcourt, composer |
May 2 |
Jerome Klapka Jerome, English writer (d. 1927) |
May 2 |
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat |
May 2 |
William L. Abingdon, Manon Lescaut |
May 3 |
Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy) |
May 4 |
Abraham L. Erlanger, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
May 6 |
Luis Maria Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist |
May 6 |
Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice) |
May 6 |
Jean Noté, La Marseillaise |
May 8 |
Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (d. 1925) |
May 13 |
Eugust Enna, composer |
May 15 |
Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903) |
May 19 |
Eugene Py, La bandera argentina |
May 22 |
Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice |
May 22 |
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes |
May 23 |
Dion Boucicault Jr., Masks and Faces |
May 26 |
Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life) |
May 29 |
Peter Lang, Pete Tries the Stage |
May 29 |
Frankie Bailey, The Crown of Lies |
May 30 |
Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist |
May 30 |
Jenö Balassa, Három hét |
Jun 1 |
Poul Aars, Den moderne Messalina |
Jun 8 |
Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947) |
Jun 10 |
Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song) |
Jun 10 |
Ernest Hendrie, A Will and a Way |
Jun 15 |
Ödön Uher ifj., A bánya titka |
Jun 21 |
Henry O Tanner, artist |
Jun 22 |
Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music) |
Jun 22 |
Van Dyke Brooke, Sawdust and Salome |
Jun 23 |
Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman (building of houses) |
Jun 26 |
Edward Kimball, The Savage Woman |
Jun 27 |
Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You) |
Jun 27 |
Mildred J. Hill, Batman Begins |
Jun 27 |
Alma Bodén, Hemliga Svensson |
Jun 30 |
Paul Cinquevalli, Cannon Ball Juggling |
Jul 2 |
Hjalmar Selander, Herr Arnes pengar |
Jul 4 |
Virginia Ross, False Evidence |
Jul 6 |
Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916) |
Jul 6 |
Verner von Heidenstam, Father Bom |
Jul 8 |
Fergus Hume, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab |
Jul 11 |
A.M. Willner, The Rogue Song |
Jul 13 |
Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter |
Jul 14 |
Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928) |
Jul 16 |
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina, Don Diego i Pelageya |
Jul 17 |
Luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party) |
Jul 17 |
Jakob Christoph Heer, Eternal Love |
Jul 19 |
Carl Ludwig Schleich, Der Verführte |
Jul 20 |
Robert Bolder, Beyond the Rocks |
Jul 25 |
Nat C. Goodwin, Oliver Twist |
Jul 28 |
Mary Navarro, Babette |
Jul 30 |
Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939) |
Jul 30 |
Henry Louis Smith, Greensboro, North Carolina, American physicist who made the first X-ray photograph |
Jul 31 |
H.C. Chisholm, The Gold Rush |
Aug 4 |
Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920) |
Aug 4 |
Knut Hamsun, Hunger |
Aug 6 |
J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon) |
Aug 7 |
Ilija Stanojevic-Cica, Ulrih Celjski i Vladislav Hunjadi |
Aug 7 |
William Wandahl, Et Justitsmord |
Aug 10 |
Willy, Le friquet |
Aug 12 |
Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful) |
Aug 15 |
Charles A. Comiskey, The Giants-White Sox Tour |
Aug 16 |
Arthur Forrest, When Knighthood Was in Flower |
Aug 19 |
Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox) |
Aug 19 |
Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian/hagiographer |
Aug 23 |
Franz Porten, Der Trompeter von Säckingen |
Aug 27 |
Paul von Woringen, Die Siegerin |
Sep 3 |
AAJ Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité, Les Preuves) |
Sep 4 |
Edoardo Mascheroni, composer |
Sep 11 |
Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905) |
Sep 17 |
Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator |
Sep 17 |
Richard Henry Warren, composer |
Sep 18 |
John L. Bates, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946) |
Sep 18 |
Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940) |
Sep 20 |
Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator |
Sep 21 |
Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (Sursum Corda, Ace Knave) |
Sep 24 |
Julius Klengel, cellist/composer |
Oct 3 |
Elenora Duse, Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler) |
Oct 4 |
Henryk Pachulski, composer |
Oct 9 |
Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair) |
Oct 11 |
Georgia Woodthorpe, Kultur |
Oct 11 |
Colin Campbell, Monte Cristo |
Oct 12 |
Maurice Donnay, Bargekeepers Daughter |
Oct 14 |
Camille Chevillard, composer |
Oct 15 |
Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro) |
Oct 17 |
William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants, Cin Reds) |
Oct 18 |
Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927) |
Oct 18 |
Paolo Orsi, Rovereto, Italian Archaeologist (Sicilian excavations) |
Oct 18 |
Henri Bergson, Origins of the 21st Century |
Oct 20 |
G B Studd, cricketer (brother of C T, 4 Tests for England) |
Oct 20 |
John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) |
Oct 21 |
Francesc Macià, |
Oct 23 |
Sam Marx, Monkey Business |
Oct 23 |
Edgar Høyer, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan |
Oct 25 |
Stephanie H [Lapidoth-]Swarth, Dutch author (Lonely Flowers) |
Oct 26 |
Arthur Friedheim, composer |
Oct 26 |
Antonio Grisanti, The Last Days of Pompeii |
Oct 29 |
Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn) |
Oct 30 |
Conrad Dreher, Der müde Theodor |
Nov 1 |
Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC) |
Nov 1 |
William Henry Grattan Flood, composer |
Nov 1 |
George Wylie Paul Hunt, A Western Governor's Humanity |
Nov 4 |
Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer |
Nov 13 |
Georg Knorr, German engineer (brake system trains) |
Nov 14 |
Jan Grader, Op hoop van zegen |
Nov 15 |
Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960) |
Nov 15 |
Bjørn Bjørnson, Children of the Stage; or, When Love Speaks |
Nov 17 |
Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer |
Nov 17 |
Giuseppe Campanari, Webb Singing Pictures |
Nov 19 |
Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody) |
Nov 19 |
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Dreams |
Nov 23 |
Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], NYC, frontier outlaw, (d. 1881) |
Nov 24 |
Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934) |
Nov 25 |
Louis Calvert, David Garrick |
Nov 26 |
Thomas Crahan, White Horse Rapids |
Nov 30 |
Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer |
Nov 30 |
Jefferson De Angelis, Beware of the Dog |
Dec 2 |
Georges Seurat, Paris France, post-impressionist painter (Grande Jatte), (d. 1891) |
Dec 2 |
Georges Seurat, Sunday in the Park with George |
Dec 3 |
Maurice de Féraudy, Après lui |
Dec 5 |
John Jellicoe, British admiral (d. 1935) |
Dec 5 |
John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British Admiral of the Fleet, Southampton |
Dec 5 |
Louise Beaudet, Sauce for the Goose |
Dec 5 |
Earl Jellicoe, Q-Ships |
Dec 6 |
E.H. Sothern, An Enemy to the King |
Dec 8 |
Cardinal William O'Connell, Cavalcade of Faith |
Dec 9 |
Algernon Ashton, composer |
Dec 10 |
Frederick Upham Adams, The Bottom of the Well |
Dec 12 |
Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners) |
Dec 12 |
Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers) |
Dec 15 |
Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist (Esperanto) |
Dec 17 |
Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927) |
Dec 20 |
Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher |
Dec 20 |
Joseph Holland, Back to Primitive |
Dec 21 |
Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre) |
Dec 22 |
Cecil [James] Sharp, London England, collector of English folk music and dance |
Dec 23 |
Adrian Ross, Smilin' Through |
Dec 24 |
Roman Statkowski, composer |
Dec 25 |
Raoul Gunsbourg, composer |
Dec 26 |
Johan F van Bemmelen, Dutch zoologist |
Dec 26 |
William Stephens, U.S. political figure (d. 1944) |
Dec 26 |
Madeleine Lucette Ryley, Mice and Men |
Dec 27 |
William Henry Hadow, composer |
Dec 28 |
Gerard Brucken Fock, composer |
Dec 28 |
John W Fortescue, military historian |
Dec 29 |
Venustiano Carranza, pres of Mexico (1915-20) |
Dec 29 |
Venustiano Carranza, Hearst-Pathé News, No. 20 |
Dec 30 |
Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer |
Dec 30 |
Edward Connelly, The Saphead |
Dec 31 |
Max Fiedler, composer |
3 |
Jean Jaurès, |
3 |
Richard Lundin, Kärlek och björnjakt |
4 |
Izsó Barna, Casanova |
6 |
Frank H. Spearman, Medicine Bend |
9 |
Alfred Dreyfus, Captain Dreyfus |
9 |
J.C. Buckstone, Old Scrooge |
10 |
Guido Thielscher, Theophrastus Paracelsus |
11 |
Vjenceslav Novak, Poslednji Stipancici |
15 |
Edwin B. Tilton, Hearts United |
16 |
Jules Hanft, One-Thing-At-a-Time O'Day |
19 |
Marshall P. Wilder, The Widow's Might |
20 |
Cyriel Buysse, Het gezin van Paemel |
21 |
Ilka Pálmay, Johann Strauß an der schönen blauen Donau |
22 |
Mathilde Brundage, My Boy |
26 |
Irving Bacheller, Old Shep |
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