Today in History - Famous Birthdays - 1870

Christopher Brennan, We Were F(r)iends 

W. Graham Brown, Mrs. Plum's Pudding 

Evangeline W. Andrews, The Puritans 

Ernst Barlach, writer 

D'Arcy Corrigan, The Informer 

Ernst Barlach, Barlach-Kantate - Es geht ein kräftiges Atmen 

Tex Rickard, The Joe Gans-Battling Nelson Fight 

Henry Eichheim, composer 

Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist (Richard Mahoney) 

Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom 

A.H. Woods, Lonely Wives 

Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944) 

Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943) 

Miguel Primo de Rivera Orbaneja, dictator of Spain (1923-30) 

Burton Holmes, Snowbound 

Walter Edwards, A Pair of Silk Stockings 

Miguel Primo de Rivera, Episode dated 29 December 2006 

Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge) 

Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945) 

Joe Harris, The Face Most Fair 

Alice Hegan Rice, Sunshine Nan 

Joe Harris, And Saucy at That 

Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko) 

Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d.1959) 

Irving White, The Fiancee and the Fairy 

Sir George Pearce, Australian politician (d. 1952) 

H.L. Kyle, Smashed Back 

Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer (Greenland) 

Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954) 

Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (hardening of oils) 

Berend Modderman, printer (Drukkers yearbook) 

Orlando Hicks, Slippery Slim and the Impersonator 

Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer 

Grigor Avetyan, Mountainous March 

Fausto Salvatori, Christus 

Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer 

Leo Feodoroff, God Gave Me Twenty Cents 

George Randolph Chester, Dead Men Tell No Tales 

Marguerite de Morlaye, Les dames du Bois de Boulogne 

Charles L. Gaskill, The Sleep of Cyma Roget 

H.R. Hignett, Silent Evidence 

Harry De Vere, The Journey's End 

Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara) 

David Wall, Captain Swift 

Annette Kolb, Die Schaukel 

Ole Leikvang, Gjest Baardsen 

Beatrice Grimshaw, Black Cargoes of the South Seas 

Gyula Hegedüs, Élet, halál, szerelem 

Paul H. Cromelin, The Ghost of Slumber Mountain 

Edmund Elton, The Mystery of the Yellow Room 

Alfred Adler, Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex) 

Lon Poff, Isn't Life Terrible? 

Eva Moore, The Old Dark House 

William Welsh, The Shock 

Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter 

Norman McKinnel, When Boys Leave Home 

Marie Lloyd, English music-hall performer (d. 1922) 

Marie Lloyd, The Man Who Made Good 

Willy Grunwald, Die Vase der Semirames 

Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer 

Josephine Josephi, Lasset die Kleinen zu mir kommen 

Leopold Godowsky, Kate & Leopold 

Richard Kornay, Aphrodite 

Marthe Mellot, The Last Billionaire 

Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder (Flemish People's Party) 

Farren Soutar, The Crucifix 

Collin Kemper, The Bat 

William Laurel Harris, American mural painter, writer (d. 1924) 

Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen) 

Hermin Haraszti, Nobody's Son 

Alejandro Pérez Lugín, College Boarding House 

Hans von Kahlenberg, Nixchen 

Enrique Acosta, Monerías 

Louis Coerne, composer 

Gerda Christophersen, Genboerne 

Thomas Braidon, The Great Adventure 

Pomeroy Cannon, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 

Lloyd Lonergan, An Elusive Diamond 

Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944) 

Emilia Rózanska, Ochrana warszawska i jej tajemnice 

[B] Franc[lin] Norris, US, writer (McTeague, Octopus) 

Frank Norris, Greed 

Rosa Luxemburg, Valitsen rohkeuden 

Oscar Straus, Vienna Austria, composer (Ein Walzertraum) 

Oscar Straus, The Earrings of Madame de... 

Hugo Albert Kiefer, The Road to Mandalay 

Herbert Dunsey, Lost and Won 

Luigi Moneta, The Overcoat 

Count Stefenelli, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 

George Gibbs, Voltaire 

Sol Bloom, Francis Covers the Big Town 

Alfred Kastner, composer 

Ester Rachel Kaminska, Mirele Efros 

Victor Mapes, The Saphead 

Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946) 

Holger Rasmussen, Who Is She? 

Bruno Aspelin, Rautakylän vanha parooni 

Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (d. 1953) 

Henri Étiévant, La vendetta del giusto 

Yevdokiya Turchaninova, Varvary 

Hans Oberländer, Problematische Naturen 

Gaston Arman de Cavaillet, Ihana seikkailu 

E.M. Newman, High Spots of the Far East 

Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (d. 1951) 

Nellie Wallace, The Wishbone 

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician (East Africa) 

J. Henry Kruse, The Duke Is Tops 

Herbert G. Ponting, 90° South 

S. Hillkowitz, Que Viva Mexico 

W.H. Berry, The Bosun's Mate 

O.B. Clarence, Great Expectations 

Julian Royce, Not Negotiable 

Edward M. Langley, Robin Hood 

Robert Drouet, The Two Fathers 

Berthold Rose, Ein verhängnisvolles Sprichwort 

Tommy Ryan, Safe Guarded 

James M. Cox, For the People 

Tommy Ryan, Madison Sq. Garden 

Frank Craig, When Giants Fought 

José Gil, Freak Show 

George A Smith, Salt Lake City Utah, 8th pres of Mormon church 

George Albert Smith, Merely Mr. Hawkins 

J.T. Walton, The Wife Hunters 

W. Lane-Bayliff, Mystery Island 

Gustav Landauer, German socialist 

Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron 

George Rizard, The Old Swimmin' Hole 

Albrecht Schmidt, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages 

Ivane Perestiani, The Murder of General Gryaznov 

Ferdinand Gregori, Herzog Ferrantes Ende 

Ernst Decsey, The King Steps Out 

Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman in 58 Tests 1890-1912) 

Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905) 

Ray Stannard Baker, US, journalist (Puliter Prize 1940) 

Philip Egner, White Fury 

Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 

Ray Stannard Baker, Wilson 

Alexandre Arquillière, The Smiling Madame Beudet 

Charles-Henry Hirsch, Lilac 

Simeon Roncal, composer 

Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Urdu, Pakistani scholar (d.1961) 

Ernest Lawford, The Fighter 

Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941) 

Edwin S. Porter, The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog 

David Craig Montgomery, Dancing Boxing Match, Montgomery and Stone 

Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist and Premier of Russia 

V.I. Lenin, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty 

Émile Fabre, La Rabouilleuse 

Otto Reutter, Frühere Verhältnisse 

Friedrich Kühne, The Loves of Pharaoh 

John Underhill, Hush 

Hermann Suter, composer 

Cosmo Hamilton, The Love of Sunya 

Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta) 

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, Raja Harishchandra 

Franz Lehár, U-571 

Alma Chester, Sundown Trail 

Lewis J. Selznick, A Pair of Silk Stockings 

Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948) 

Frank Terry, An Eastern Westerner 

Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d. 1960) 

Alexandre Benois, Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet/In Tribute to Nijinsky 

Erdmann Graeser, Anna und das Familiengespenst 

Amedos Peter Giannine, San Jose California, founded Bank of America 

John McCutcheon, cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931) 

Marcus Loew, The Saphead 

Hans Baluschek, Orient Express 

Ben Hopkins, Soldiers' Sons 

Ernst Lessing, Das Blut 

Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer 

Lucjan Rydel, Zaczarowane kolo 

Leedham Bantock, Old Scrooge 

Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936) 

Albert Fish,  

William McCall, His Marriage Wow 

Wright Kramer, Before I Hang 

Frederick Truesdell, No Show for the Chauffeur 

Hubert Druce, Life 

Eugene Redding, Nothing to Live For 

Richard Bennett, The Magnificent Ambersons 

J. Storer Clouston, The Spy in Black 

Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938) 

Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and proponent of Commonwealth & League of Nations (d. 1950) 

Jan Smuts, Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace 

Gunnar Klintberg, Elisabet 

Charles Hill Mailes, The Mark of Zorro 

Sarah Adler, Sins of the Parents 

Lionel Palairet, cricketer (elegant England bat in the Golden Age) 

Knute Erickson, The Non-Stop Flight 

Felix Dormann, The Smiling Lieutenant 

Frank Cooley, Wild Jim, Reformer 

Joseph Manning, Rags 

Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, We of the Never Never 

Franz Pollak, Der letzte Kampf der Donau-Monarchie 

Bruno Ziener, Abend - Nacht - Morgen 

Elmo Red Fox, Episode dated 6 May 1971 

Barney Gerard, Jiggs and Maggie Out West 

Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919) 

Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (d. 1932) 

Frank Montgomery, The 'Epidemic' in Paradise Gulch 

William Norris, The Love Piker 

George Cormack, cereal inventor (Wheaties) 

Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician 

Joseph W. Smiley, The Other Sister 

William A. Williams, The Cliff Girl 

Harry Cashman, His Birthday Jacket 

Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915) 

Horatio Mbelle, Cape Colony, South African interpreter, community leader and politician 

Hans Brennert, Magda 

Hans Brenner, Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart 'Dr. Hart's Diary' 

Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands 

Camille Dalberg, Love and Money 

Joseph Carl Breil, composer 

Joseph Carl Breil, The Phantom of the Opera 

Roy L. McCardell, Ladies Love Hats 

Sam E. Rork, Wandering Daughters 

Paul Wilstach, What Happened at 22 

Richard Bedford Bennett, Hopewell Hill New Brunswick, (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35) 

R.B. Bennett,  

Shirley Vance Martin, My Boy 

Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Dutch boulders) 

Frank Dawson, The Woman in the Window 

Madeleine Guitty, Bric à Brac et compagnie 

Robert Whittier, The Call of Her People 

Richard Eivenack, Das Bad auf der Tenne 

Marie C of Zeggelen, Dutch novelist (Koloniaaltje) 

Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism) 

Anne Schaefer, Johanna Enlists 

Ned Finley, O'Garry of the Royal Mounted 

Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949) 

Louis Grimaldi, Le couronnement du Prince Louis II de Monaco 

John Miltern, Manslaughter 

Dawson Millward, Altar Chains 

Julie Lampe, Troll-Elgen 

Léon Moreau, L'agonie de Byzance 

Ernest Walker, composer 

Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956) 

Emil Mlynarski, composer 

Paul Franck, The Vengeance of the Kabyle 

Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian jurist/minister of Justice (1918-19) 

Charles McHugh, Be My Wife 

Theodore Seixas Solomons, The Barbarian 

Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932) 

Sofie Bernhoft, A Quiet flirt 

Fred Law Olmsted Jr, Staten Island NY, landscape architect 

Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar (Young Flanders) 

Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966) 

P. Munch, P. Munch 

Charles McCann, The Tiger Woman 

Maxfield Parrish,  

Alfred Turner, Missing the Tide 

Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome) 

Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children 

Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1927-31) 

George Dixon, Reproduction of the McGovern and Dixon Fight 

Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Russian Biologist who perfected the artificial insemination of animals and showed that his technology allowed one stallion to fertilize up to 500 mares 

Georges Millandy, The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir 

Claude Gillingwater, The Prisoner of Shark Island 

Arnold Korff, The Haunted Castle 

Dudley Hendricks, The Terror 

Vukosava Jurkovic, Ulrih Celjski i Vladislav Hunjadi 

Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin) 

Harry Lauder, Random Harvest 

Nellie Parker Spaulding, Arabella's Prince 

H.B. Irving, The Lyons Mail 

19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born) 

Jozef Brems, Flemish apostole (vicar of Denmark) 

Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Der Krupp-Komplex 

John Steppling, Uncle Heck, by Heck! 

J. Hartley Manners, Happiness 

Tom Richardson, legendary England cricket fast bowler (1893-98) 

Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?) 

Viktor Senger, Europa postlagernd 

Arthur J. Lamb, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 

R.H. Burnside, Manhattan 

Nelson McDowell, The Dawn Rider 

Kate Cutler, Pygmalion 

Bransby Williams, Scrooge 

Philippa Frederiksen, Champagneruset 

Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine 

Richmond P. Hobson, Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hobson 

Hugh Bromley-Davenport, England cricketer (d. 1954) 

Heinrich Eisenbach, Das Nachtlager von Mischli-Mischloch 

Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser (Cold War) 

Bernard Baruch, Animated Weekly, No. 56 

Carl Petersen, Den afbrudte bryllupsnat 

Carl Apolloff, Mot nya tider 

Harold Howard, One Million B.C. 

David Howard, A Bit of Jade 

George Davis, World Series Baseball Game 

Charles Sellon, Bright Eyes 

Vladimir Purishkevich,  

Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7] 

Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican writer/poet 

Amado Nervo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz entre el cielo y la razón 

Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891) 

Lavr Kornilov,  

Maria Montessori, Italy, educator (spontaneous response), (d. 1952) 

Maria Montessori, The Children's House 

Timotei Popovici, composer 

Marie Ault, [Mary Cragg], Wigan England 

Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (d. 1947) 

Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Das Nibelungenlied) 

Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [OS=Aug 26] 

Thomas Curtis, American athlete (d. 1944) 

Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer 

Clark Wissler, anthropologist (American Indian) 

Arthur Willard Pryor, composer 

John Lomax, Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist 

Georges Claude, inventor (neon light) 

Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47) 

Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926) 

Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948) 

Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor (grape-shot shells) 

Léon Rains, Der Star der großen Oper 

Carl Jönsson, My Son the Minister 

Kate Fabian, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages 

Frank Hemphill, The Non-Stop Flight 

Uncle Dave Macon, entertainer 

Uncle Dave Macon, The Cast 

Louis Vierne, composer 

Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935) 

Shorty English, King Kong 

Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist 

Marion Ballou, Little Women 

Eddie Leonard, Melody Lane 

D T Suzuki, Kanazawa Japan, Zen Buddhist scholar 

Daisetz Suzuki, A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki 

Rosa Palmese, Kitty Foyle 

Townsend Whitling, Blanche Fury 

Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from San Francisco-Nobel 1933) 

Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945) 

Ivan Bunin, Meshcherskie 

Harue Ichikawa, Kiri no minato 

Francis Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma (d. 1948) 

Queenie Vassar, Primrose Path 

Nicola Maldacea, Villa da vendere 

Lawrence Grant, Shanghai Express 

Charles Baldwin, Mumming Birds 

John Motley Morehead III, American Chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding) 

Carlo Bertolazzi, Vanità 

Nils Kjaer, Norwegian playwright (Det evige Savn) 

Nils Kjær, Det lykkelige valg 

Edward Ellis, Fury 

Glen MacDonough, Babes in Toyland 

Fred Patey, Secret of the Skies 

Henry Kolker, Quincy IL, actor (Real Glory, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry) 

Henry Kolker, Holiday 

Alfred Paumier, The Lifeguardsman 

Alfred Hill, composer 

Alfred Hill, 40,000 Horsemen 

Jack Richardson, Trial Marriage 

Salvador Alarma, Christophe Colomb 

Vicente Lleo, composer 

Vicente Lleó, La corte de Faraón 

Joe Darling, cricketer (Australian lefty batsman at turn of century) 

Stanley Jackson, cricketer (captain of England, governor of Bengal) 

Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (d. 1964) 

Mary Johnston, Jamestown 

Howard Brockway, composer 

George A. Billings, Hands Up! 

István Ráth-Végh, Fekete Krónika 

Louis Fitzroy, Blind Husbands 

Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937) 

Petrine Sonne, Bedstemor går amok 

Winthrop Ames, Snow White 

Irma Gramatica, I mariti (Tempesta d'anime) 

Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president Finland 

Robert Horton, Murder at the Baskervilles 

Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Maailmat kohtaavat - XV Olympiakisat Helsingissä 1952 

Andre Lichtenberger, French sociologist/writer (Le petit roi) 

Harry Graham, cricketer (107 on Test debut Aust v Eng 1893) 

Cecil Forsyth, composer 

Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (d. 1948) 

Frank Stockdale, Snakeville's Most Popular Lady 

Gertrud Eysoldt, Hotelgeheimnisse 

Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor 

Francis Casadesus, Un village dans Paris, l'Île Saint-Louis 

Arturo Ambrosio, The Last Days of Pompeii 

Nino Martoglio, San Giovanni decollato 

Lee Beggs, The Egyptian Mummy 

Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949) 

Bill Pickett, The Bull-Dogger 

Bahiano, A Serrana 

Cora Williams, One Way to Advertise 

Bruno Lessing, Aschenbrödel 

Bert Sprotte, Pass the Gravy 

Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses) 

Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet) 

Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us) 

T R McKibbin, cricketer (NSW & Aust off-spinner late 19th century) 

Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947) 

Pierre Louÿs, That Obscure Object of Desire 

Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron (d. 1912) 

William De Vaull, The Old Batch 

Gabriel Trarieux, La brebis perdue 

Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940) 

Edward LeSaint, Modern Times 

George Ovey, Fireman, Save My Gal! 

Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40) 

Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50) 

Anton Gambetta Salmson, The Story of a Mother 

Edward Royce, Words and Music 

Karl Renner,  

Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect 

Samuel Adams, Treasure Blues 

Edfrid A. Bingham, The Johnstown Flood 

Andres Randolf, Denmark, actor (The Kiss) 

Saki, [Hector Hugo Munro], Burma, author (Reginald, When William Came) 

Hector Hugh Munro, Sredni Vashtar 

Anders Randolf, The Black Pirate 

Otto Jacobsen, Husband by Proxy 

Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Voices, Carmina) 

Sir Patrick Duncan, Fortrie, Banffshire, Scotland, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943) 

Stephen Grattan, Other Men's Shoes 

Rosario Scalero, composer 

Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics industrialist (d. 1965) 

Helena Rubenstein, Bye Bye Birdie 

Louis Baron fils, Our Masters, the Servants 

Charles Crockett, Abraham Lincoln 

Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years 

Leopold Wharton, The Exploits of Elaine 

Ferdinand Martini, The Pleasure Garden 

Marie Ault, The Lodger 

Stanislaw Stanislawski, Story of a Sin 

Aleksandr Kuprin, Sisters of the Gion 

Felipa Gómez, Key Largo 

Emma Tansey, Young Oldfield 

Billy McClain, Undercurrent