Notable Birthdays - 1861
1861 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
John Luther Long, Harakiri |
Jan 1 |
William Morris, Monsieur Lecoq |
Jan 2 |
Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12) |
Jan 3 |
William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904) |
Jan 3 |
Howard Truesdale, Go West |
Jan 6 |
Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer |
Jan 6 |
George Exton Lloyd, Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940) |
Jan 12 |
James Mark Baldwin, Columbia South Carolina, American Philosopher and Psychologist |
Jan 13 |
Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959) |
Jan 14 |
Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf) |
Jan 15 |
Madge Orlamond, Streets of New York |
Jan 16 |
Federico De Roberto, I vicerè |
Jan 18 |
Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist |
Jan 18 |
Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer |
Jan 20 |
Marie Grimm-Einödshofer, Wanda's Trick |
Jan 20 |
Peter Nansen, Lille Klaus og store Klaus |
Jan 21 |
Oscar Eagle, The Girl at the Cupola |
Jan 22 |
Karel Stecker, composer |
Jan 30 |
Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, Mulhouse Alsace, composer |
Jan 30 |
Alexandra Schmitt, Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness |
Feb 2 |
Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22) |
Feb 2 |
Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist (Guggenheim Museum NYC) |
Feb 2 |
Mehmed VI, Vahidettin'in biat merasimi |
Feb 3 |
Ernst Arndt, Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten |
Feb 9 |
Grace Duffie Boylan, A Rumor of Angels |
Feb 10 |
Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, Three Keys |
Feb 10 |
Walter Christmas, Millionærdrengen |
Feb 12 |
Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott) |
Feb 13 |
Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian) |
Feb 14 |
Augustus Yorke, The Grit of a Jew |
Feb 15 |
Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas) |
Feb 15 |
Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer |
Feb 16 |
Angel Gregorio Villoldo, Scent of a Woman |
Feb 16 |
Anker Kreutz, Mellem muntre musikanter |
Feb 17 |
Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1922) |
Feb 17 |
Anne Harriman-Vanderbilt, The Millionaires' Playground |
Feb 20 |
Nicolaas van Meeteren, Curacao, folklorist |
Feb 21 |
Pierre Breville, composer |
Feb 22 |
Zoltán Ambrus, A gyanú |
Feb 24 |
Santiago Rusiñol, El señor Esteve |
Feb 26 |
Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18) |
Feb 26 |
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, |
Feb 26 |
Adolph Lestina, Hearts of the World |
Feb 27 |
Rudolph Steiner, Kraljevic Aust, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy) |
Mar 3 |
Rudolf Del Zopp, Der Dornenweg |
Mar 3 |
Dagmar Wildenbrück, The Great Bank Robbery |
Mar 5 |
Gilbert Dalleu, Un soir |
Mar 10 |
Pauline Johnson, Shadow River |
Mar 16 |
Florence Roberts, Babes in Toyland |
Mar 18 |
Lucien Descaves, Troubled Heart |
Mar 19 |
Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (d. 1929) |
Mar 21 |
Charles Swickard, Hell's Hinges |
Mar 21 |
Albert Chevalier, Ziegfeld Follies |
Mar 25 |
Leo Stein, The Merry Widow |
Mar 27 |
Maud Gage Baum, The Wizard of Oz |
Mar 31 |
William Clarkson, Beerbohm Tree, the Great English Actor |
Apr 1 |
Ivar Knudsen, Direktør Ivar Knudsen til prøvesejlads om bord paa et dieselskib, omgivet af repræsentanter for handel og industri, hvoriblandt admiral A. de Richelieu, etatsraad Martin Dessau, gehejmeetatsraad Julius Larsen, baron Blixen-Finecke og flere |
Apr 2 |
Chung Ling Soo, |
Apr 4 |
José López Silva, La revoltosa |
Apr 5 |
Alberta Gallatin, Fine Feathers |
Apr 9 |
Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher |
Apr 14 |
Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor |
Apr 15 |
Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929) |
Apr 16 |
Isaac Murphy, US jockey (won 628 races) |
Apr 16 |
Albin Lavén, Dödskyssen |
Apr 19 |
Warden Oncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish farmer/writer |
Apr 22 |
Howard Kyle, A Star Reborn |
Apr 23 |
Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal |
Apr 23 |
Edmund Allenby, With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia |
Apr 27 |
Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer |
Apr 27 |
Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte) |
Apr 27 |
William Arms Fisher, Killer of Sheep |
Apr 27 |
Johan Skjoldborg, Sønnen fra Amerika |
Apr 30 |
Heinrich Vollrath Schumacher, Lady Hamilton |
May 3 |
Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937) |
May 6 |
Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913) |
May 6 |
Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931) |
May 6 |
Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata |
May 11 |
Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international scouting movement (d. 1947) |
May 12 |
Ivan Caryll, The Actress |
May 15 |
Jan Vávra, Loupezníci na Chlumu |
May 16 |
H. H. Holmes [Herman Webster Mudgett], Gilmanton, New Hampshire, American serial killer |
May 17 |
Marguerite St. John, The Laughing Lady |
May 19 |
Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931) |
May 19 |
Nellie Melba, Country Life |
May 22 |
Ed Ebele, Rascals |
May 23 |
David Coupar Thomson, |
May 27 |
Victoria E Matthews, educator |
May 31 |
Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker (1st christmas seal drive, 1907) |
May 31 |
Hans Beck, Tarantellen af 'Napoli' |
Jun 2 |
Concordia Selander, The Phantom Carriage |
Jun 8 |
Joseph Hart, Foxy Grandpa Shows Boys He Is a Magician |
Jun 8 |
Lucius Henderson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Jun 9 |
Floris H Verster, [van Wulverhorst], painter/cartoonist/etcher |
Jun 10 |
Josephus T J Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem) |
Jun 10 |
Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian |
Jun 11 |
Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer |
Jun 12 |
William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927) |
Jun 12 |
Mrs. William Bechtel, The Land Beyond the Sunset |
Jun 13 |
Juan A. Caicedo, Caicedo (with Spurs) |
Jun 15 |
Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink |
Jun 16 |
Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian |
Jun 17 |
Sidney James Jones, composer |
Jun 17 |
Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905) |
Jun 17 |
Omar Bundy, U.S. army general and soldier (d. 1940) |
Jun 17 |
Sidney Jones, Die Geisha |
Jun 18 |
Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores) |
Jun 19 |
Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I) |
Jun 19 |
Jose Protacio Rizal, Calamba City Laguna, optician/author/nationalist (Noli Me Tángere, El Filibusterismo) |
Jun 19 |
Jose Rizal, El filibusterismo |
Jun 19 |
Douglas Haig, The First World War |
Jun 20 |
Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer |
Jun 20 |
Fred Storey, Rip Van Winkle |
Jun 22 |
Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914) |
Jun 23 |
Tom Mowbray, The Brass Bottle |
Jun 28 |
Reverend William E. Barton, The King of Kings |
Jun 29 |
William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota |
Jul 1 |
Samuel D Riddle, horse owner (Man 'o War) |
Jul 1 |
Sixten Malmerfeldt, Gösta Berlings saga |
Jul 2 |
Herman Schwab, Helleveeg |
Jul 3 |
Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer) |
Jul 3 |
Mary Moore, David Garrick |
Jul 11 |
George William Norris, (Rep/Sen-Neb) (Lame duck-amendement) |
Jul 12 |
Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer |
Jul 12 |
Anton Stepanovich Arenski, Peace One Day |
Jul 12 |
Julius Elias, Wenn der junge Wein blüht |
Jul 23 |
Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16) |
Jul 25 |
Andrew Cowper Lawson, Anstruther Scotland, Scottish-Canadian Geologist who was the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault |
Jul 26 |
Vaja-Pshavela, Vedreba |
Jul 26 |
Martha Freud, |
Jul 29 |
Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt |
Jul 29 |
Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16) |
Jul 30 |
Harrison Grey Fiske, The District Attorney |
Aug 1 |
Sam Jones, cricketer (Australian batsman of 1880's) |
Aug 2 |
Knut Weckman, Rautakylän vanha parooni |
Aug 3 |
Michel Verne, Les Indes noires |
Aug 6 |
Edith Roosevelt, Norwich Connecticut, First Lady of the United States and wife of Teddy Roosevelt |
Aug 6 |
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Pres. Roosevelt's Fourth of July Oration |
Aug 7 |
Robert Disney, |
Aug 8 |
William Bateson, English biologist (originator of term "genetics") |
Aug 9 |
Wilhelm Berger, composer |
Aug 9 |
Gaston Dubosc, Mon père avait raison |
Aug 10 |
Almroth Wright, Yorkshire England, bacteriologist |
Aug 11 |
Augustin Berger, Únos bankére Fuxe |
Aug 18 |
André Calmettes, The Life and Death of King Richard III |
Sep 10 |
Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941) |
Sep 11 |
Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio) |
Sep 17 |
Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch) |
Sep 20 |
Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955) |
Sep 23 |
Edmond H H Allenby, British field marshal |
Sep 23 |
Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942) |
Sep 28 |
Pedro De Cordoba, NYC, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire, Saboteur) |
Sep 28 |
Amélie of Orléans, queen of Portugal (d. 1951) |
Sep 30 |
William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932) |
Oct 1 |
Anna Brigadere, Pohádka o Malíckovi |
Oct 2 |
Hal Wilson, The Unpardonable Sin |
Oct 4 |
Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West |
Oct 4 |
Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer |
Oct 4 |
Frederic Remington, John Ermine of Yellowstone |
Oct 8 |
Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments) |
Oct 8 |
Theodore Roberts, The Ten Commandments |
Oct 9 |
Tonka Savic-Flieder-Macuka, Brisem i sudim |
Oct 10 |
Fridtjof Nansen, Store Frøen, Christiania, Norway, Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922), (d. 1930) |
Oct 10 |
Plácido Sequeiros, La muerte silba un blues |
Oct 10 |
Fridtjof Nansen, Vår egen tid |
Oct 11 |
Eille Norwood, The Boscombe Valley Mystery |
Oct 14 |
Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer |
Oct 14 |
Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944) |
Oct 14 |
Alois Mrstík, Marysa |
Oct 16 |
J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927) |
Oct 19 |
William J. Burns, The Anthony Case |
Oct 20 |
Lloyd Neal, 6 Day Bike Rider |
Oct 21 |
William H. Turner, Traffic in Souls |
Oct 21 |
Cruz e Sousa, The Balcony of the Nightingales |
Oct 22 |
Antony Mars, Chaste Susan |
Oct 23 |
Herbert Quick, Double Trouble |
Oct 26 |
Richard D Sears, Boston, tennis champ, US Open (1881) |
Oct 26 |
Theo Siegmund, Die vom anderen Ufer |
Oct 29 |
Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904) |
Oct 30 |
Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929) |
Oct 30 |
Emil Albes, Die Revolutions-Hochzeit |
Oct 30 |
Horace Annesley Vachell, Lord Camber's Ladies |
Nov 1 |
Mrs. Stuart Robson, Lured from Squash Center |
Nov 3 |
Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist |
Nov 6 |
James Naismith, Almonte, Canada, inventor (basketball, football helmet), (d.1939) |
Nov 7 |
Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947) |
Nov 10 |
Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri) |
Nov 10 |
Roberto Bracco, Sperduti nel buio |
Nov 14 |
Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisc, historian/educator (Harvard U) |
Nov 16 |
Vaclav Suk, composer |
Nov 16 |
Percy Winter, Patsy, Married and Settled |
Nov 16 |
Arvid Järnefelt, Tiitus |
Nov 17 |
Archibald Lampman, Morning on the Lièvre |
Nov 18 |
Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951) |
Nov 19 |
Aranka Laczkó, A vén bakancsos és fia, a huszár |
Nov 21 |
Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet |
Nov 23 |
Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939) |
Nov 24 |
Ada Beecher, Sunlight |
Nov 25 |
Phyllis Allen, Pay Day |
Nov 27 |
Acton Bond, Henry VIII |
Nov 30 |
French Gailliard, Belgian painter (Zeustempel in Athens) |
Nov 30 |
Ludwig Thuille, composer |
Dec 4 |
Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul) |
Dec 4 |
Hannes Hafstein, Islands Altings besög i Köbenhavn |
Dec 5 |
Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24) |
Dec 5 |
James Thornton, My Sweet Suicide |
Dec 8 |
Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman) |
Dec 8 |
William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine |
Dec 8 |
George Melies, Paris France, early film maker (A trip to the Moon) |
Dec 8 |
Georges Méliès, An Impossible Voyage |
Dec 8 |
Aristide Maillol, Aristide Maillol, sculpteur |
Dec 9 |
Alfred Halm, The Schimeck Family |
Dec 10 |
Freifrau Elisabeth von Heyking, Briefe, die ihn nicht erreichten |
Dec 14 |
Zoltán Szerémy, A páter és a Péter |
Dec 15 |
Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US) |
Dec 15 |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Suomi kutsuu II |
Dec 16 |
Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917) |
Dec 17 |
Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer |
Dec 17 |
Leo Leipziger, Die Ballhaus-Anna |
Dec 18 |
Lionel Monckton, composer |
Dec 18 |
Lionel Monckton, The Golden Bowl |
Dec 19 |
Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton England, Russian-English translator |
Dec 19 |
Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno) |
Dec 19 |
Italo Svevo, Careless |
Dec 20 |
Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926) |
Dec 20 |
Cyrus Townsend Brady, Vengeance - and the Woman |
Dec 20 |
Ferdinand Bonn, Don Juans letztes Abenteuer |
Dec 22 |
Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology) |
Dec 25 |
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946) |
Dec 25 |
Sam Allen, Death Valley |
Dec 26 |
Friedrich Engel, German mathematician (group theory) |
Dec 28 |
Mari Hegyesi, Der junge Medardus |
2 |
Henrietta Crosman, Pilgrimage |
8 |
Marius Sestier, The Melbourne Cup |
11 |
Juhani Aho, Juha |
12 |
Alice Washburn, Martha's Rebellion |
12 |
Frederick Bond, The She Devil |
17 |
Maxime Desjardins, J'accuse! |
20 |
Dark Cloud, The Song of the Wildwood Flute |
28 |
Wilhelm Diegelmann, The Blue Angel |
30 |
Morgan Robertson, Masters of Men |
30 |
William Wrigley Jr., Catalina, Here I Come |
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