May 20
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Birthdays In History 1852

1852 Eugène-Anatole Demarçay French chemist and academic (d. 1904)

1852 Quianu Robinson New Mexican Congressman and political ally of Conrad Hilton (d. 1919)

1852 James Milton Carroll American pastor and author (d. 1931)

1852 Constantin Fehrenbach German lawyer and politician 4th Chancellor of Weimar Germany (d. 1926)

1852 Thomas Price Welsh-Australian politician 24th Premier of South Australia (d. 1909)

1852 Frederic Hymen Cowen Jamaican-English pianist composer and conductor (d. 1935)

1852 Terauchi Masatake Japanese field marshal and politician 9th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1919)

1852 George Moore Irish author poet and playwright (d. 1933)

1852 Frank Gavan Duffy Irish-Australian lawyer and judge fourth Chief Justice of Australia (d. 1936)

1852 Prince George Maximilianovich 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (d. 1912)

1852 Théophile Delcassé French politician French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1923)

1852 Augusta Lady Gregory Anglo-Irish landowner playwright and translator (d. 1932)

1852 Otakar Ševčík Czech violinist and educator (d. 1934)

1852 Hector Sévin French cardinal (d. 1916)

1852 Élémir Bourges French author (d. 1925)

1852 Jan van Beers Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1927)

1852 Edwin Austin Abbey American painter and illustrator (d. 1911)

1852 Talbot Baines Reed English author (d. 1893)

1852 Émile Billard French sailor (d. 1930)

1852 Walter W. Winans American marksman and sculptor (d. 1920)

1852 Franz Eckert German composer and musician (d. 1916)

1852 Will Crooks English trade unionist and politician (d. 1921)

1852 Ferdinand von Lindemann German mathematician and academic (d. 1939)

1852 Cap Anson American baseball player and manager (d. 1922)

1852 William IV Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)

1852 Santiago Ramón y Cajal Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)

1852 Alice Liddell English model (d. 1934)

1852 Charles W. Fairbanks American journalist and politician 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918)

1852 Henri Julien Canadian illustrator (d. 1908)

1852 William Muldoon American wrestler and trainer (d. 1933)

1852 Billy Barnes English cricketer (d. 1899)

1852 Francisco Moreno Argentinian explorer and academic (d. 1919)

1852 Julius Richard Petri German microbiologist invented the Petri dish (d. 1921)

1852 Theodore Robinson American painter and academic (d. 1896)

1852 Guido Banti Italian physician and pathologist (d. 1925)

1852 Friedrich Loeffler German bacteriologist and academic (d. 1915)

1852 Daoud Corm Lebanese painter (d. 1930)

1852 Charles Cruft English showman founded Crufts Dog Show (d. 1938)

1852 Josef Josephi Polish-born singer and actor (d. 1920)

1852 Theo Heemskerk Dutch lawyer and politician Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1932)

1852 Michael J. McGivney American priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus (d. 1890)

1852 Radha Gobinda Kar Indian physician and philanthropist (d. 1918)

1852 Clímaco Calderón Colombian lawyer and politician 15th President of Colombia (d. 1913)

1852 Arnold Toynbee English economist and historian (d. 1883)

1852 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Dutch chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)

1852 J. Alden Weir American painter and academic (d. 1919)

1852 Paul Bourget French author and critic (d. 1935)

1852 Schalk Willem Burger South African commander lawyer and politician 6th President of the South African Republic (d. 1918)

1852 Gojong of Korea (d. 1919)

1852 Hans Niels Andersen Danish businessman founded the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)

1852 Alice Brown Davis American tribal chief (d. 1935)

1852 Edward Bouchet American physicist and educator (d. 1918)

1852 Jan Ernst Matzeliger Surinamese-American inventor (d. 1889)

1852 James Carroll Beckwith American painter and academic (d. 1917)

1852 William Stewart Halsted American physician and surgeon (d. 1922)

1852 Isis Pogson British astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1945)

1852 Charles Villiers Stanford Irish composer conductor and educator (d. 1924)

1852 William Ramsay Scottish chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)

1852 Hermann Emil Fischer German chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)

1852 Carl von In der Maur Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913)

1852 Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak Russian author (d. 1912)

1852 Emperor Meiji of Japan (d. 1912)

1852 Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)

1852 Tewfik Pasha Egyptian ruler (d. 1892)

1852 Francisco Tárrega Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1909)

1852 Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant French politician and diplomat Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)

1852 Daniel De Leon Curaçaoan-American journalist and politician (d. 1914)

1852 Albert Abraham Michelson Prussian-American physicist chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)

1852 Johannes François Snelleman Dutch zoologist orientalist and ethnographer (d. 1938)

1852 C. Lloyd Morgan English zoologist and psychologist (d. 1936)

1852 Vasily Safonov Russian pianist composer and conductor (d. 1918)

1852 John Harvey Kellogg American surgeon co-created Corn flakes (d. 1943)

1852 Gertrude Käsebier American photographer (d. 1934)

1852 Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton Australian biologist (d. 1941)

Antoni Gaudi

Profession - Architect

Born - Jun 25,1852

Died - Jun 10,1926

Catalan

Calamity Jane

Profession -

Born - May 01,1852

Died - Aug 01,1903

American

Charles Taze Russell

Profession - Religious Leader

Born - Feb 16,1852

Died - Oct 31,1916

American

Emil Fischer

Profession - Chemist

Born - Oct 09,1852

Died - Jul 15,1919

German

Frank Winfield Woolworth

Profession - Businessman

Born - Apr 13,1852

Died - Apr 08,1919

American

H. H. Asquith

Profession - British Prime Minister

Born - Sep 12,1852

Died - Feb 15,1928

British

Henri Becquerel

Profession - Physicist

Born - Dec 15,1852

Died - Aug 25,1908

French

Henri Moissan

Profession - Chemist

Born - Sep 28,1852

Died - Feb 20,1907

French

Hipólito Yrigoyen

Profession -

Born - Jul 12,1852

Died - Jul 03,1933

Argentine

John French

Profession - Field Marshal

Born - Sep 28,1852

Died - May 22,1925

British

Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza

Profession - Explorer

Born - Jan 26,1852

Died - Sep 14,1905

French

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