May 09
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Birthdays In History 1850

1850 John Wellborn Root American architect designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building (d. 1891)

1850 Joseph Charles Arthur American pathologist and mycologist (d. 1942)

1850 Pierre Loti French captain and author (d. 1923)

1850 Leonard Darwin English soldier eugenicist and politician (d. 1943)

1850 Mihai Eminescu Romanian journalist author and poet (d. 1889)

1850 Sofia Kovalevskaya Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)

1850 Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Brazilian cardinal (d. 1930)

1850 Alexander Taneyev Russian pianist and composer (d. 1918)

1850 Seth Low American academic and politician 92nd Mayor of New York City (d. 1916)

1850 Hermann Ebbinghaus German psychologist (d. 1909)

1850 Kate Chopin American author (d. 1904)

1850 Sophie Bryant Irish mathematician academic and activist (d. 1922)

1850 George Henschel German-English singer-songwriter pianist and conductor (d. 1934)

1850 César Ritz Swiss businessman founded The Ritz Hotel London and Hôtel Ritz Paris (d. 1918)

1850 Champ Clark American lawyer and politician 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)

1850 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)

1850 Hamo Thornycroft English sculptor and academic (d. 1925)

1850 Spencer Gore English tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)

1850 Edward Bellamy American author socialist and utopian visionary (d. 1898)

1850 Kyrle Bellew English theatre actor (d. 1911)

1850 Enrico Mazzanti Italian engineer and cartoonist (d. 1910)

1850 Arthur Matthew Weld Downing Irish astronomer (d. 1917)

1850 Luise Adolpha Le Beau German composer and educator (d. 1927)

1850 Hans Hartwig von Beseler German general and politician (d. 1921)

1850 Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (d. 1942)

1850 Ross Barnes American baseball player and manager (d. 1915)

1850 Henry Cabot Lodge American historian and politician (d. 1924)

1850 Frederick Holder Australian politician 19th Premier of South Australia (d. 1909)

1850 Giuseppe Mercalli Italian priest and volcanologist (d. 1914)

1850 Pat Garrett American sheriff (d. 1908)

1850 Karl Ferdinand Braun German-American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate in 1909 for physics (d. 1918)

1850 Max Delbrück German chemist and academic (d. 1919)

1850 William Arnon Henry American academic and agriculturist (d. 1932)

1850 Richard Heuberger Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)

1850 David Jayne Hill American historian and politician 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)

1850 Daniel Carter Beard American author and illustrator co-founded the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941)

1850 Ignác Goldziher Hungarian scholar of Islam (d. 1921).

1850 Herbert Kitchener 1st Earl Kitchener Irish field marshal and politician Governor-General of Sudan (d. 1916)

1850 Jørgen Pedersen Gram Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1919)

1850 Lafcadio Hearn Greek-Japanese historian and author (d. 1904)

1850 Florence Earle Coates American poet (d. 1927)

1850 Annie Armstrong American missionary (d. 1938)

1850 Frances Xavier Cabrini Italian-American nun and saint (d. 1917)

1850 Reginald Heber Roe English-Australian swimmer tennis player and academic (d. 1926)

1850 John Cockburn Scottish-Australian politician 18th Premier of South Australia (d. 1929)

1850 Charles Richet French physiologist and occultist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)

1850 Marcelo H. del Pilar Filipino journalist and lawyer (d. 1896)

1850 Jim O'Rourke American baseball player and manager (d. 1919)

1850 Eugene Field American author and poet (d. 1895)

1850 Albert Spalding American baseball player manager and businessman co-founded the Spalding Sporting Goods Company (d. 1915)

1850 Woldemar Voigt German physicist and academic (d. 1919)

1850 Luigi Cadorna Italian field marshal (d. 1928)

1850 Eugen Goldstein German physicist (d. 1930)

1850 Anton Mahnič Slovenian bishop philosopher and theologian (d. 1920)

1850 Guerra Junqueiro Portuguese journalist lawyer and politician (d. 1923)

1850 Sergey Muromtsev Russian lawyer and politician (d. 1910)

1850 Henry Louis Le Châtelier French chemist and academic (d. 1936)

1850 Hermann von Ihering German-Brazilian zoologist (d. 1930)

1850 Basil Hall Chamberlain English-Swiss historian author and academic (d. 1935)

1850 Annie Smith Peck American mountaineer and academic (d. 1935)

1850 Charles Kingston Australian politician 20th Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)

1850 Grigore Tocilescu Romanian archaeologist and historian (d. 1909)

1850 Ella Wheeler Wilcox American author and poet (d. 1919)

1850 Louis Lewin German pharmacologist and academic (d. 1929)

1850 Mikhail Chigorin Russian chess player and theoretician (d. 1908)

1850 Joseph Samuel Bloch Austrian rabbi and deputy (d. 1923)

1850 Charlotte Garrigue wife of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (d. 1923)

1850 Richard Butler English-Australian politician 23rd Premier of South Australia (d. 1925)

1850 Emma Abbott American soprano and actress (d. 1891)

1850 Zdeněk Fibich Czech composer and poet (d. 1900)

1850 Victoriano Huerta Mexican general and politician 35th President of Mexico (d. 1916)

1850 John Collier English painter and author (d. 1934)

1850 Silas Hocking English minister and author (d. 1935)

1850 Otto Schoetensack German anthropologist and academic (d. 1912)

1850 Oliver Heaviside English engineer mathematician and physicist (d. 1925)

1850 Edward Weston English-American chemist (d. 1936)

1850 Daniel Chester French American sculptor designed the Lincoln statue (d. 1931)

Edward Smith

Profession -

Born - Jan 27,1850

Died - Apr 15,1912

English

Guy de Maupassant

Profession - Author

Born - Aug 05,1850

Died - Jul 06,1893

French

Horatio Kitchener

Profession - General

Born - Jun 24,1850

Died - Jun 05,1916

British

Robert Louis Stevenson

Profession - Novelist

Born - Nov 13,1850

Died - Dec 03,1894

Scottish

Samuel Gompers

Profession -

Born - Jan 27,1850

Died - Dec 13,1924

American

Tomáš Masaryk

Profession -

Born - Mar 07,1850

Died - Sep 14,1937

Czech

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