May 09
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Birthdays In History 1853

1853 Sophie Elkan Swedish writer (d. 1921)

1853 Georgios Jakobides Greek painter and sculptor (d. 1932)

1853 Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Italian mathematician (d. 1925)

1853 Johnston Forbes-Robertson English actor and manager (d. 1937)

1853 Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton Greek-English general (d. 1947)

1853 Alva Belmont American suffragist (d. 1933)

1853 T. Alexander Harrison American painter and academic (d. 1930)

1853 Marthinus Nikolaas Ras South African farmer soldier and gun-maker (d. 1900)

1853 Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser German psychiatrist (d. 1931)

1853 Howard Pyle American author and illustrator (d. 1911)

1853 Thomas Mackenzie Scottish-New Zealand cartographer and politician 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)

1853 Ferdinand Hodler Swiss painter (d. 1918)

1853 Elihu Thomson English-American engineer and inventor (d. 1937)

1853 Arnoldo Sartorio German composer pianist and teacher (d. 1936)

1853 Remy de Gourmont French poet novelist and critic (d. 1915)

1853 Winthrop M. Crane American businessman and politician 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)

1853 Jules Lemaître French playwright and critic (d. 1914)

1853 Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin Ukrainian-American journalist actor and playwright (d. 1909)

1853 Dan Brouthers American baseball player and manager (d. 1932)

1853 Vaiben Louis Solomon Australian politician 21st Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)

1853 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac French politician (d. 1905)

1853 Carl Larsson Swedish painter and author (d. 1919)

1853 Flinders Petrie English archaeologist and academic (d. 1942)

1853 William Turner Dannat American painter (d. 1929)

1853 Alexius Meinong Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and academic (d. 1920)

1853 Hendrik Lorentz Dutch physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)

1853 Vladimir Korolenko Ukrainian journalist author and activist (d. 1921)

1853 Elizabeth Plankinton American philanthropist (d. 1923)

1853 John Henry Twachtman American painter etcher and academic (d. 1902)

1853 Vladimir Shukhov Russian architect and engineer designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (d. 1939)

1853 Aleksei Brusilov Russian general (d. 1926)

1853 Wilhelm Ostwald Latvian-German chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)

1853 Ponnambalam Arunachalam Ceylonese civil servant and politician (d. 1924)

1853 Albrecht Kossel German physician and biochemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)

1853 Frederick Corbett British officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1912)

1853 Chulalongkorn Siamese king (d. 1910)

1853 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Dutch physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)

1853 Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1923)

1853 Luther D. Bradley American cartoonist (d. 1917)

1853 Lillie Langtry English actress and singer (d. 1929)

1853 John William Kendrick American engineer and businessman (d. 1924)

1853 Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)

1853 Karl August Otto Hoffmann German botanist (d. 1909)

1853 Anna Bayerová Czech physician (d. 1924)

1853 Stanford White American architect and partner co-founded McKim Mead & White (d. 1906)

1853 John Drew Jr. American actor (d. 1927)

1853 Oskar Potiorek Austro-Hungarian Army officer (d. 1933)

1853 Hussein Kamel of Egypt (d. 1917)

1853 Bat Masterson American police officer and journalist (d. 1921)

1853 Frank Dicksee English painter and illustrator (d. 1928)

1853 Helen Magill White American academic (d. 1944)

1853 Hans Molisch Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (d. 1937)

1853 Haraprasad Shastri Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)

1853 Pierre Paul Émile Roux French physician and immunologist co-founded the Pasteur Institute (d. 1933)

1853 Charles Fitzpatrick Canadian lawyer and politician 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d. 1942)

1853 Teresa Carreño Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1917)

1853 Evgraf Fedorov Russian mathematician crystallographer and mineralogist (d. 1919)

1853 Sarada Devi Indian mystic and philosopher (d. 1920)

1853 René Bazin French author and academic (d. 1932)

1853 André Messager French pianist composer and conductor (d. 1929)

1853 José Martí Cuban journalist poet and theorist (d. 1895)

1853 Vladimir Solovyov Russian philosopher poet and critic (d. 1900)

André Michelin

Profession - Industrialist

Born - Jan 16,1853

Died - Apr 04,1931

French

Cecil Rhodes

Profession - Businessman

Born - Jul 05,1853

Died - Mar 26,1902

British

Émile Roux

Profession - Physician

Born - Dec 17,1853

Died - Nov 03,1933

French

Fred Spofforth

Profession - Cricketer

Born - Sep 09,1853

Died - Jun 04,1926

Australian

Vincent van Gogh

Profession - Painter

Born - Mar 30,1853

Died - Jul 29,1890

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