Birthdays In History 1857

1857 M. Carey Thomas American educator and activist (d. 1935)

1857 Hugh Mahon Irish-Australian publisher and politician 10th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1931)

1857 William Russell American lawyer and politician 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)

1857 Fred Archer English jockey (d. 1886)

1857 Wilhelm Kienzl Austrian pianist composer and conductor (d. 1941)

1857 Eugene Augustin Lauste French-American engineer (d. 1935)

1857 Andrija Mohorovičić Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (d. 1936)

1857 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)

1857 Jan Drozdowski Polish pianist and music teacher (d. 1918)

1857 Giuseppe Moretti Italian sculptor designed the Vulcan statue (d. 1935)

1857 A. P. Lucas English cricketer (d. 1923)

1857 Heinrich Hertz German physicist philosopher and academic (d. 1894)

1857 Robert Bond Canadian politician; first Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d. 1927)

1857 Julius Wagner-Jauregg Austrian physician and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)

1857 William V. Ranous American actor and director (d. 1915)

1857 B. H. Roberts English-American historian and politician (d. 1933)

1857 Christian Michelsen Norwegian businessman and politician 1st Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1925)

1857 Charles Harding Firth English historian (d. 1936)

1857 Alice Henry Australian journalist and activist (d. 1943)

1857 Paul Doumer French mathematician journalist and politician 14th President of France (d. 1932)

1857 Théodore Tuffier French surgeon (d. 1929)

1857 Karl Pearson English mathematician eugenicist and academic (d. 1936)

1857 Léon Charles Thévenin French engineer (d. 1926)

1857 Alexander of Battenberg (d. 1893)

1857 Arthur Wesley Dow American painter and photographer (d. 1922)

1857 Clarence Darrow American lawyer (d. 1938)

1857 Ruggero Leoncavallo Italian composer (d. 1919)

1857 Theodor Kittelsen Norwegian painter and illustrator (d. 1914)

1857 Eugen Bleuler Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist (d. 1940)

1857 Walter Simon German banker and philanthropist (d. 1920)

1857 Theo van Gogh Dutch art dealer (d. 1891)

1857 William A. MacCorkle American lawyer and politician 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930)

1857 Ronald Ross Indian-English physician and mathematician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)

1857 Williamina Fleming Scottish-American astronomer and academic (d. 1911)

1857 John Jacob Abel American biochemist and pharmacologist (d. 1938)

1857 Theodor Curtius German chemist (d. 1928)

1857 Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)

1857 Karl Adolph Gjellerup Danish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)

1857 Aleksandr Lyapunov Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1918)

1857 Maurice Perrault Canadian architect engineer and politician 15th Mayor of Longueuil (d. 1909)

1857 Arthur Arz von Straußenburg Austrian-Hungarian general (d. 1935)

1857 Henry Clay Folger American businessman and philanthropist founded the Folger Shakespeare Library (d. 1930)

1857 Clara Zetkin German theorist and activist (d. 1933)

1857 Julien Tiersot French musicologist and composer (d. 1936)

1857 Alfred Binet French psychologist and graphologist (d. 1911)

1857 Henrik Pontoppidan Danish journalist and author Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)

1857 Juan Vicente Gómez Venezuelan general and politician 27th President of Venezuela (d. 1935)

1857 Frank J. Sprague American naval officer and inventor (d. 1934)

1857 José Celso Barbosa Puerto Rican physician sociologist and politician (d. 1921)

1857 Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge English Egyptologist Orientalist and philologist (d.1934)

1857 Ballington Booth English-American activist co-founded Volunteers of America (d. 1940)

1857 Thorstein Veblen American economist and sociologist (d. 1929)

1857 Cécile Chaminade French pianist and composer (d. 1944)

1857 Ernestine von Kirchsberg Austrian painter and educator (d. 1924)

1857 Albert Ballin German businessman (d. 1918)

1857 Libert H. Boeynaems Belgian-American bishop and missionary (d. 1926)

1857 Ned Hanlon American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)

1857 Sandford Schultz English cricketer (d. 1937)

1857 Zelia Nuttall American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)

1857 Georg Michaelis German academic and politician 6th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)

1857 Manuel Espinosa Batista Colombian pharmacist and politician (d. 1919)

1857 Michał Drzymała Polish rebel and activist (d. 1937)

1857 Julia Platt American embryologist and politician (d. 1935)

1857 Anna Winlock American astronomer and academic (d. 1904)

1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Russian scientist and engineer (d. 1935)

1857 John Hessin Clarke American lawyer and judge (d. 1945)

1857 Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich Irish author and playwright (d. 1942)

1857 Juan Luna Filipino painter and sculptor (d. 1899)

1857 Ned Williamson American baseball player (d. 1894)

1857 Georges Gilles de la Tourette French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d. 1904)

1857 Mikhail Alekseyev Russian general (d. 1918)

1857 Ida Tarbell American journalist author reformer and educator (d. 1944)

1857 Janet Erskine Stuart English nun and educator (d. 1914)

1857 Joseph Babinski French neurologist and academic (d. 1932)

1857 Helena Westermarck Finnish artist and writer (d. 1938)

1857 George Gissing English novelist (d. 1903)

1857 Miklós Kovács Hungarian-Slovene poet and songwriter (d. 1937)

1857 Ferdinand de Saussure Swiss linguist and author (d. 1913)

1857 Charles Scott Sherrington English physiologist bacteriologist and pathologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)

1857 Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)

1857 Theodor Escherich German-Austrian pediatrician and academic (d. 1911)

1857 Bobby Abel English cricketer (d. 1936)

1857 Mathilde Kralik Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1944)

1857 Joseph Carruthers Australian politician 16th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1932)

1857 Sydney Young English chemist (d. 1937)

1857 Sylvio Lazzari French-Austrian composer (d. 1944)

1857 King Kelly American baseball player and manager (d. 1894)

1857 Eugène Atget French photographer (d. 1927)

1857 Bobby Peel English cricketer and coach (d. 1943)

1857 Émile Coué French psychologist and pharmacist (d. 1926)

1857 George E. Ohr American potter (d. 1918)

1857 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (d. 1944)

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