1869
Lucy Beaumont, English-American actress (died 1937)
Lucy Emily Beaumont was an English actress of the stage and screen from Bristol.
Lucy Beaumont, English-American actress (died 1937)
The 1860s
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1869
Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art critic (died 1918)
Robert Baldwin Ross was a British journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom he was a devoted friend, lover and literary execu…
Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art critic (died 1918)
1869
Grace Andrews, American mathematician (died 1951)
Grace Andrews was an American mathematician. She, along with Charlotte Angas Scott, was one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science, which appeared…
Grace Andrews, American mathematician (died 1951)
1869
Richard Wünsch, German philologist (died 1915)
Richard Wünsch was a German classical philologist.
Richard Wünsch, German philologist (died 1915)
1869
Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Indian businessman, founded the Kirloskar Group (died 1956)
Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar was an Indian businessman. He was the founder of the Kirloskar Group.
Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Indian businessman, founded the Kirloskar Group (died 1956)
1869
Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch Politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1944)
Hendrikus "Hendrik" Colijn was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 August 1925 until 8 March 1926, and from 26…
Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch Politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1944)
1869
Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957)
Prince George of Greece and Denmark was the second son and child of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia. He served as high commissioner of the Cretan State during …
Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957)
1869
Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author (died 1954)
Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and dur…
Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author (died 1954)
1869
Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (died 1961)
Mary Williams, who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was an American caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the New York World, providing illust…
Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (died 1961)
1869
Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (died 1940)
Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North Ame…
Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (died 1940)
1869
Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryoni…
Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
1869
William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (died 1946)
William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the author of The Elements of Style (1918). After his former student E. B. White revised and exten…
William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (died 1946)
1869
Liane de Pougy, French-Swiss dancer and author (died 1950)
Liane de Pougy was a French dancer, courtesan and novelist. She was a Folies Bergère vedette, and was known as one of the most beautiful and notorious courtesans in Paris. Later in…
Liane de Pougy, French-Swiss dancer and author (died 1950)
1869
Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (died 1933)
Svend Kornbeck was a Danish stage and film actor.
Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (died 1933)
1869
Rachel Caroline Eaton, American academic (died 1938)
Rachel Caroline Eaton was believed to be the first Native American woman from Oklahoma to be awarded a Ph.D.
Rachel Caroline Eaton, American academic (died 1938)
1869
Fernande Sadler, French painter and mayor (died 1949)
Fernande Sadler was a French painter and engraver. She established the art collection at Grez-sur-Loing and became the mayor of that town in 1945.
Fernande Sadler, French painter and mayor (died 1949)
1869
Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (died 1927)
Xenophon Stratigos was a Greek military officer. He played a major role in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 and the Asia Minor Campaign of the Greco-Turkish War in 1921–22, serving also …
Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (died 1927)
1869
Platon, Estonian bishop and saint (died 1919)
Platon, born Paul Kulbusch, was an Estonian bishop and the first Orthodox saint of Estonian ethnicity.
Platon, Estonian bishop and saint (died 1919)
1869
Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (died 1946)
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists t…
Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (died 1946)
1869
Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician (died 1959)
Mary Frances Winston Newson was an American mathematician. She became the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university, namely the University of …
Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician (died 1959)
1869
Laurence Binyon, English poet, playwright, and scholar (died 1943)
Robert Laurence Binyon, CH was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied …
Laurence Binyon, English poet, playwright, and scholar (died 1943)
1869
Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator (died 1959)
Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius was a leading American wildlife artist. He was born in Germany though he immigrated to the United States and he spent his career painting in the western…
Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator (died 1959)
1869
William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet and author (died 1963)
William Henry Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moust…
William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet and author (died 1963)
1869
Tom Kiely, British-Irish decathlete (died 1951)
Thomas Francis Kiely was an Irish athlete. Kiely won gold in the all-round at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri representing Great Britain and Ireland, making him the…
Tom Kiely, British-Irish decathlete (died 1951)