May 09
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Birthdays In History 1861

1861 Ernest Renshaw English tennis player (d. 1899)

1861 William Renshaw English tennis player (d. 1904)

1861 Victor Horta Belgian architect designed Hôtel van Eetvelde (d. 1947)

1861 George Lloyd English-Canadian bishop and theologian (d. 1940)

1861 Max Nonne German neurologist and academic (d. 1959)

1861 Mehmed VI Ottoman sultan (d. 1926)

1861 George Fuller Australian politician 22nd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1940)

1861 Louis Anquetin French painter (d. 1932)

1861 Florida Ruffin Ridley American civil rights activist teacher editor and writer (d. 1943)

1861 Charles Martin Loeffler German-American violinist and composer (d. 1935)

1861 Solomon R. Guggenheim American businessman and philanthropist founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949)

1861 Charles Édouard Guillaume Swiss-French physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938)

1861 Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont duchess of Albany (d. 1922)

1861 Arthur Cushman McGiffert American theologian and author (d. 1933)

1861 Lomer Gouin Canadian lawyer and politician Premier of Quebec (d. 1929)

1861 Iván Persa Slovenian priest and author (d. 1935)

1861 Stanislas de Guaita French poet and author (d. 1897)

1861 Edmund Allenby 1st Viscount Allenby English field marshal and diplomat British High Commissioner in Egypt (d. 1936)

1861 John Peltz American baseball player and manager (d. 1906)

1861 William Arms Fisher American composer and music historian (d. 1948)

1861 Motilal Nehru Indian lawyer and politician President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1931)

1861 Abel Ayerza Argentinian physician and academic (d. 1918)

1861 József Rippl-Rónai Hungarian painter (d. 1927)

1861 Gerald Strickland 1st Baron Strickland Maltese lawyer and politician 4th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1940)

1861 Concordia Selander Swedish actress and manager (d. 1935)

1861 William Propsting Australian politician 20th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1937)

1861 Robina Nicol New Zealand photographer and suffragist (d. 1942)

1861 Pierre Duhem French physicist mathematician and historian (d. 1916)

1861 Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)

1861 Alexander Peacock Australian politician 20th Premier of Victoria (d. 1933)

1861 William Attewell English cricketer and umpire (d. 1927)

1861 Pete Browning American baseball player (d. 1905)

1861 Omar Bundy American general (d. 1940)

1861 Émile Haug French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1927)

1861 Frederick Gowland Hopkins English biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)

1861 Maximilian von Spee Danish-German admiral (d. 1914)

1861 William James Mayo American physician and surgeon co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)

1861 Nettie Stevens American geneticist (d. 1912)

1861 Kate M. Gordon American activist (d. 1931)

1861 Kadambini Ganguly Indian physician one of the first Indian women to obtain a degree (d. 1923)

1861 Sammy Jones Australian cricketer (d. 1951)

1861 Prafulla Chandra Ray Indian chemist and academic (d. 1944)

1861 Daniel Edward Howard 16th president of Liberia (d. 1935)

1861 Dorothea Klumpke American astronomer and academic (d. 1942)

1861 Byron G. Harlan American singer (d. 1936)

1861 William Lane English-Australian journalist founded New Australia (d. 1917)

1861 Juhani Aho Finnish author and journalist (d. 1921)

1861 M. Visvesvaraya Indian engineer scholar and Bharat Ratna Laureate Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom (d. 1962)

1861 Miriam Benjamin African-American educator and inventor (d. 1947)

1861 Herbert Putnam American lawyer and publisher 8th Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)

1861 Robert Bosch German engineer and businessman founded Robert Bosch GmbH (d. 1942)

1861 Bhikaiji Cama Indian activist (d. 1936)

1861 Corinne Roosevelt Robinson American poet and author (d. 1933)

1861 Amélie of Orléans queen consort of Portugal (d. 1951)

1861 William Wrigley Jr. American businessman founded Wrigley Company (d. 1932)

1861 Walter Rauschenbusch American pastor and theologian (d. 1918)

1861 Frederic Remington American painter sculptor and illustrator (d. 1909)

1861 Julia A. Ames American journalist editor and reformer (d. 1891)

1861 J. B. Bury Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927)

1861 Richard Sears American tennis player (d. 1943)

1861 Andrei Ryabushkin Russian painter (d. 1904)

1861 Antoine Bourdelle French sculptor and painter (d. 1929)

1861 Jeff Milton American police officer (d. 1947)

1861 Frederick Jackson Turner American historian and author (d. 1932)

1861 Luigi Facta Italian politician and journalist (d. 1930)

1861 Georgina Febres-Cordero Venezuelan nun (d. 1925)

1861 Camillo Laurenti Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1938)

1861 Ranavalona III of Madagascar (d. 1917)

1861 Adina Emilia De Zavala American teacher historian and preservationist of Texas history (d. 1955)

1861 Spyridon Samaras Greek composer (d. 1917)

1861 Hannes Hafstein Icelandic poet and politician 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1922)

1861 Konstantin Korovin Russian-French painter and set designer (d. 1939)

1861 Henri Mathias Berthelot French general during World War I (d. 1931)

1861 William C. Durant American businessman founded General Motors and Chevrolet (d. 1947)

1861 Aristide Maillol French sculptor and painter (d. 1944)

1861 Georges Méliès French actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1938)

1861 Hélène Smith French psychic and occultist (d. 1929)

1861 Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns 5th Baron Ventry British Army officer and Anglo-Irish peer (d. 1923)

1861 Charles Duryea American engineer and businessman co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (d. 1938)

1861 Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Finnish lawyer judge and politician 3rd President of Finland (d. 1944)

1861 Antonio de La Gándara French painter and illustrator (d. 1917)

1861 Lionel Monckton English composer and critic (d. 1924)

1861 Italo Svevo Italian author and playwright (d. 1928)

1861 Ferdinand Bonn German actor (d. 1933)

1861 Ivana Kobilca Slovenian painter (d. 1926)

1861 Madan Mohan Malaviya Indian educator lawyer and politician President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1946)

1861 Julián Felipe Filipino composer and educator (d. 1944)

1861 Nikolay Zelinsky Russian chemist and academic (d. 1953)

1861 Lou Andreas-Salomé Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (d. 1937)

1861 Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (d. 1948)

1861 Nadezhda Krupskaya Russian soldier and politician (d. 1939)

1861 Anton Arensky Russian pianist composer and educator (d. 1906)

1861 Bliss Carman Canadian-British poet and playwright (d. 1929)

Albert B. Fall

Profession - US Senator

Born - Nov 26,1861

Died - Nov 30,1944

American

1861 Alfred North Whitehead English

Douglas Haig

Profession - General

Born - Jun 19,1861

Died - Jan 29,1928

British

Edith Roosevelt

Profession - US First Lady

Born - Aug 06,1861

Died - Sep 30,1948

American

Fridtjof Nansen

Profession - Explorer

Born - Oct 10,1861

Died - May 13,1930

Norwegian

H. H. Holmes

Profession - Serial Killer

Born - May 16,1861

Died - May 07,1896

American

James Naismith

Profession - Inventor

Born - Nov 06,1861

Died - Nov 28,1939

Canadian

José Rizal

Profession - Novelist

Born - Jun 19,1861

Died - Dec 30,1896

Filipino

Nellie Melba

Profession - Soprano

Born - May 19,1861

Died - Feb 23,1931

Australian

Rabindranath Tagore

Profession - Poet

Born - May 07,1861

Died - Aug 07,1941

Indian

Richard Sears

Profession - Tennis Player

Born - Oct 26,1861

Died - Apr 08,1943

American

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