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Birthdays In History 1869

1869 Tommy Corcoran American baseball player and umpire (d. 1960)

1869 Bhagwan Das Indian philosopher academic and politician (d. 1958)

1869 Prince Emanuele Filiberto Duke of Aosta (d. 1931)

1869 Robert Fournier-Sarlovèze French polo player and politician (d. 1937)

1869 Ruby Laffoon American lawyer and politician 43rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 1941)

1869 Stanisław Wyspiański Polish poet playwright and painter (d. 1907)

1869 José Vicente de Freitas Portuguese colonel and politician 97th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1952)

1869 Helena Maud Brown Cobb (d. 1922)

1869 Bill Haywood American labor organizer (d. 1928)

1869 Royal Cortissoz American art critic (d. 1948)

1869 Helene Kröller-Müller German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist founded the Kröller-Müller Museum (d. 1939)

1869 Else Lasker-Schüler German poet and author (d. 1945)

1869 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Scottish physicist and meteorologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)

1869 Hovhannes Tumanyan Armenian-Russian poet and author (d. 1923)

1869 Zara DuPont American suffragist (d. 1946)

1869 Phoebus Levene Russian-American biochemist and physician (d. 1940)

1869 Alice Hamilton American physician and academic (d. 1970)

1869 Julien Félix French military officer and aviator (d. 1914)

1869 Henry Wood English conductor (d. 1944)

1869 Michael von Faulhaber German cardinal (d. 1952)

1869 George Forbes New Zealand politician 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947)

1869 Algernon Blackwood English author and playwright (d. 1951)

1869 Stanisław Wojciechowski Polish scholar and politician President of the Republic of Poland (d. 1953)

1869 Willy Burmester German violinist (d. 1933)

1869 David Robertson Scottish-English golfer and rugby player (d. 1937)

1869 Tom McInnes Scottish-English footballer (d. 1939)

1869 Calouste Gulbenkian Turkish-Armenian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1955)

1869 James McNeill Irish politician 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1938)

1869 J. R. Clynes English trade unionist and politician Home Secretary (d. 1949)

1869 Edwin Lutyens British architect (d. 1944)

1869 Hughie Jennings American baseball player and manager (d. 1928)

1869 Mary Colter American architect designed the Desert View Watchtower (d. 1958)

1869 Sergey Chaplygin Russian physicist mathematician and engineer (d. 1942)

1869 Albert Roussel French composer (d. 1937)

1869 Levon Shant Armenian author poet and playwright (d. 1951)

1869 Harvey Cushing American surgeon and academic (d. 1939)

1869 Gustav Vigeland Norwegian sculptor designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (d. 1943)

1869 Henri Désiré Landru French serial killer (d. 1922)

1869 Hans Poelzig German architect designed the IG Farben Building and Großes Schauspielhaus (d. 1936)

1869 Fabián de la Rosa Filipino painter and educator (d. 1937)

1869 Hans Pfitzner German composer and conductor (d. 1949)

1869 Junnosuke Inoue Japanese businessman and central banker 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (d. 1932)

1869 Archibald Warden English tennis player (d. 1943)

1869 Carl Schuhmann German gymnast wrestler and weightlifter (d. 1946)

1869 Mehmet Emin Yurdakul Turkish writer (d. 1944)

1869 Arthur Rostron English captain (d. 1940)

1869 Paul Probst Swiss target shooter (d. 1945)

1869 John Storey Australian politician 20th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1921)

1869 Robbie Ross Canadian journalist and art critic (d. 1918)

1869 Grace Andrews American mathematician (d. 1951)

1869 Laxmanrao Kirloskar Indian businessman founded the Kirloskar Group (d. 1956)

1869 Prince George of Greece and Denmark (d. 1957)

1869 Martin Andersen Nexø Danish journalist and author (d. 1954)

1869 Kate Carew American illustrator and journalist (d. 1961)

1869 Emma Goldman Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (d. 1940)

1869 Hans Spemann German embryologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

1869 William Strunk Jr. American author and educator (d. 1946)

1869 Liane de Pougy French-Swiss dancer and author (d. 1950)

1869 Svend Kornbeck Danish actor (d. 1933)

1869 Rachel Caroline Eaton American academic (d. 1938)

1869 Fernande Sadler French painter and mayor (d. 1949)

1869 Xenophon Stratigos Greek general and politician Greek Minister of Transport (d. 1927)

1869 Platon Estonian bishop and saint (d. 1919)

1869 Booth Tarkington American novelist and dramatist (d. 1946)

1869 Mary Frances Winston American mathematician (d. 1959)

1869 Laurence Binyon English poet playwright and scholar (d. 1943)

1869 Carl Rungius German-American painter and educator (d. 1959)

1869 William Henry Ogilvie Scottish-Australian poet and author (d. 1963)

1869 Tom Kiely British-Irish decathlete (d. 1951)

1869 Fritz Pregl Slovenian chemist and physician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)

1869 Walford Davies English organist and composer (d. 1941)

1869 Felix Salten Austrian-Swiss author and critic (d. 1945)

1869 Ben Viljoen South African general (d. 1917)

1869 José María Pino Suárez Mexican politician Vice President of Mexico murdered in a military coup (d. 1913)

1869 Paweł Owerłło Polish actor (d. 1957)

1869 Kid Nichols American baseball player and manager (d. 1953)

1869 Christian Lous Lange Norwegian political scientist historian and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938)

1869 Ben Turpin American comedian and actor (d. 1940)

1869 Komitas Armenian-French priest and composer (d. 1935)

1869 Alfred Flatow German gymnast (d. 1942)

1869 Joseph Duveen 1st Baron Duveen English art dealer (d. 1939)

1869 Claude H. Van Tyne American historian and author (d. 1930)

1869 Johannes Linnankoski Finnish author (d. 1913)

1869 Washington Luís Brazilian lawyer and politician 13th President of Brazil (d. 1957)

1869 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)

1869 Gaetano Bresci Italian anarchist assassin (d. 1901)

1869 Helene Stöcker German author and activist (d. 1943)

1869 Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams Russian-American activist journalist and politician (d. 1962)

1869 John Lumsden Irish physician founded the St. John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland (d. 1944)

1869 Zinaida Gippius Russian writer and editor (d. 1945)

1869 Josaphata Hordashevska Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun (d. 1919)

1869 Valdemar Poulsen Danish engineer (d. 1942)

1869 Óscar Carmona Portuguese field marshal and politician 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)

1869 Ben Lindsey American lawyer and judge (d. 1934)

1869 Maud of Wales (d. 1938)

1869 James Hamilton 3rd Duke of Abercorn English lawyer and politician Governor of Northern Ireland (d. 1953)

1869 Eligiusz Niewiadomski Polish painter and critic (d. 1923)

1869 Ellis Parker Butler American author and poet (d. 1937)

1869 Frank Laver Australian cricketer (d. 1919)

1869 Leon Marchlewski Polish chemist and academic (d. 1946)

1869 Hristo Tatarchev Bulgarian physician and activist co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1952)

1869 Bertha Lamme Feicht American electrical engineer (d. 1943)

1869 Edward Willis Redfield American painter and educator (d. 1965)

1869 Charley Grapewin American actor (d. 1956)

1869 Dmitri Egorov Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1931)

1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson American poet and playwright (d. 1935)

1869 Henriette Roland Holst Dutch poet playwright and politician (d. 1952)

1869 Charles Finger English-American journalist and author (d. 1941)

1869 Mathieu Cordang Dutch cyclist (d. 1942)

1869 Stephen Leacock English-Canadian political scientist and author (d. 1944)

1869 Ōzutsu Man'emon Japanese sumo wrestler the 18th Yokozuna (d. 1918)

1869 Will Marion Cook American violinist and composer (d. 1944)

1869 Kiến Phúc Vietnamese emperor (d. 1884)

1869 Émile Fabre French author and playwright (d. 1955)

1869 Richard Wünsch German philologist (d. 1915)

1869 Lucy Beaumont English-American actress (d. 1937)

Albert Kahn

Profession - Architect

Born - Mar 21,1869

Died - Dec 08,1942

American

André Gide

Profession - Writer

Born - Nov 22,1869

Died - Feb 19,1951

French

Emilio Aguinaldo

Profession - Revolutionary

Born - Mar 22,1869

Died - Feb 06,1964

Filipino

Grigori Rasputin

Profession -

Born - Jan 21,1869

Died - Dec 30,1916

Russian

Gustaf Dalén

Profession - Industrialist

Born - Nov 30,1869

Died - Dec 09,1937

Swedish

Henri Matisse

Profession - Painter

Born - Dec 31,1869

Died - Nov 03,1954

French

John Heisman

Profession - American Football Coach

Born - Oct 23,1869

Died - Oct 03,1936

American

Mahatma Gandhi

Profession - Spiritual Leader

Born - Oct 02,1869

Died - Jan 30,1948

Indian

Neville Chamberlain

Profession - British Prime Minister

Born - Mar 18,1869

Died - Nov 09,1940

British

Typhoid Mary

Profession -

Born - Sep 23,1869

Died - Nov 11,1938

American

Victor Emmanuel III

Profession - King

Born - Nov 11,1869

Died - Dec 28,1947

Italian

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