May 09
Today In History

Birthdays In History 1882

1882 Herbert Bayard Swope American journalist (d. 1958)

1882 Edwin Barclay 18th president of Liberia (d. 1955)

1882 Fan S. Noli Albanian-American bishop and politician 13th Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1965)

1882 Sam Rayburn American lawyer and politician 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)

1882 Milton Sills American actor and screenwriter (d. 1930)

1882 Hendrik Willem van Loon Dutch-American historian and journalist (d. 1944)

1882 Henry Burr Canadian singer radio performer and producer (d. 1941)

1882 Princess Margaret of Connaught (d. 1920)

1882 Margaret Wilson American author (d. 1973)

1882 Noah Beery Sr. American actor (d. 1946)

1882 John Cain Sr. Australian politician 34th Premier of Victoria (d. 1957)

1882 Johnny Torrio Italian-American mob boss (d. 1957)

1882 Pavel Florensky Russian mathematician and theologian (d. 1937)

1882 Francis Gailey Australian-American swimmer (d. 1972)

1882 Harold D. Babcock American astronomer (d. 1968)

1882 Ödön Bodor Hungarian athlete (d. 1927)

1882 Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (d. 1944)

1882 Thomas Selfridge American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1908)

1882 John Barrymore American actor (d. 1942)

1882 Elie Nadelman Polish-American sculptor (d. 1946)

1882 Eric Gill English sculptor and illustrator (d. 1940)

1882 Elisabeth Abegg German anti-Nazi resistance fighter (d. 1974)

1882 Charles Ponzi Italian businessman (d. 1949)

1882 Nicolae Titulescu Romanian academic and politician 61st Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1941)

1882 Dora Marsden English author and activist (d. 1960)

1882 Carlos Blanco Galindo Bolivian politician (d. 1943)

1882 Wacław Sierpiński Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1969)

1882 James Lightbody American runner (d. 1953)

1882 Gian Francesco Malipiero Italian composer and educator (d. 1973)

1882 Gaston Lachaise French-American sculptor (d. 1935)

1882 René Coty French lawyer and politician 17th President of France (d. 1962)

1882 Harold Weber American golfer (d. 1933)

1882 Aleksander Kesküla Estonian politician (d. 1963)

1882 Emmy Noether Jewish German-American mathematician physicist and academic (d. 1935)

1882 Hermann Obrecht Swiss politician (d. 1940)

1882 Thomas Graham Brown Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (d. 1965)

1882 Melanie Klein Austrian-English psychologist and author (d. 1960)

1882 Philippe Desranleau Canadian archbishop (d. 1952)

1882 Song Jiaoren Chinese revolutionary (d. 1913)

1882 Natalia Sedova 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky (d. 1962)

1882 Bert Ironmonger Australian cricketer (d. 1971)

1882 Kurt von Schleicher German general and politician 23rd Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)

1882 Dmytro Doroshenko Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 1951)

1882 Frederick Francis IV Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1946)

1882 Otz Tollen German actor (d. 1965)

1882 Seth Bingham American organist and composer (d. 1972)

1882 Artur Schnabel Polish pianist and composer (d. 1951)

1882 Isaac Babalola Akinyele Nigerian ruler (d. 1964)

1882 Leopold Stokowski English conductor (d. 1977)

1882 Percy Williams Bridgman American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)

1882 Albert Coates English composer and conductor (d. 1953)

1882 Hugh Dowding 1st Baron Dowding Scottish-English air marshal (d. 1970)

1882 Fred McLeod Scottish golfer (d. 1976)

1882 Jessie Redmon Fauset American author and poet (d. 1961)

1882 Auguste Herbin French painter (d. 1960)

1882 Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman Dutch printer typographer and Nazi resister (d. 1945)

1882 Isabel González Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American citizenship (d. 1971)

1882 Sylvia Pankhurst English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (d. 1960)

1882 Willem Elsschot Belgian author and poet (d. 1960)

1882 Georges Braque French painter and sculptor (d. 1963)

1882 Walter White Scottish international footballer (d. 1950)

1882 Simeon Price American golfer (d. 1945)

1882 Karl Burman Estonian architect and painter (d. 1965)

1882 Sigrid Undset Danish-Norwegian novelist essayist and translator Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)

1882 William Halpenny Canadian pole vaulter (d. 1960)

1882 Marie Doro American actress (d. 1956)

1882 Wyndham Halswelle English runner and soldier (d. 1915)

1882 Sándor Festetics Hungarian politician Hungarian Minister of War (d. 1956)

1882 Robert Kerr Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1963)

1882 Nils Økland Norwegian Esperantist and teacher (d. 1969)

1882 Adolphus Frederick VI Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)

1882 Georgi Dimitrov Bulgarian compositor and politician 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949)

1882 Daniel Sawyer American golfer (d. 1937)

1882 Lluís Companys Spanish lawyer and politician 123rd President of Catalonia (d. 1940)

1882 Adrianus de Jong Dutch fencer and soldier (d. 1966)

1882 Rockwell Kent American painter and illustrator (d. 1971)

1882 Athanase David Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1953)

1882 Carl Diem German businessman (d. 1962)

1882 Eduard Spranger German philosopher and academic (d. 1963)

1882 Henry Hawtrey English runner (d. 1961)

1882 Franz Seldte German captain and politician Reich Minister for Labour (d. 1947)

1882 Bidhan Chandra Roy Indian physician and politician 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1962)

1882 Inayat Khan Indian mystic and educator (d. 1927)

1882 Yanka Kupala Belarusian poet and writer (d. 1941)

1882 Percy Grainger Australian-American pianist and composer (d. 1961)

1882 Ima Hogg American society leader philanthropist patron and collector of the arts (d. 1975)

1882 James Larkin White American miner explorer and park ranger (d. 1946)

1882 James Somerville English admiral and politician Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (d. 1949)

1882 Olga Hahn-Neurath Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1937)

1882 David Burliuk Ukrainian author and illustrator (d. 1967)

1882 Edward Hopper American painter and etcher (d. 1967)

1882 Kâzım Karabekir Turkish general and politician 5th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1948)

1882 George S. Rentz American commander (d. 1942)

1882 Albert Dunstan Australian politician 33rd Premier of Victoria (d. 1950)

1882 Geoffrey de Havilland English pilot and engineer founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company (d. 1965)

1882 Red Ames American baseball player and manager (d. 1936)

1882 Albert Bloch American painter and academic (d. 1961)

1882 Anne Acheson Irish sculptor (d. 1962)

1882 Ladislas Starevich Russian-French animator screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 1965)

1882 Marion Bauer American composer and critic (d. 1955)

1882 Gisela Richter English archaeologist and art historian (d. 1972)

1882 Désiré Mérchez French swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)

1882 Raymonde de Laroche French pilot (d. 1919)

1882 Volin Russia anarchist intellectual (d. 1945)

1882 Seán T. O'Kelly Irish journalist and politician 2nd President of Ireland (d. 1966)

1882 James Franck German physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)

1882 Sam Hardy English footballer (d. 1966)

1882 Johnny Douglas English cricketer and boxer (d. 1930)

1882 Clem McCarthy American sportscaster (d. 1962)

1882 Ion Agârbiceanu Romanian journalist politician and archbishop (d. 1963)

1882 Ramón Grau Cuban physician and politician 6th President of Cuba (d. 1969)

1882 Christopher Stone English radio host (d. 1965)

1882 Geevarghese Ivanios Indian metropolitan (d. 1953)

1882 Max Decugis French tennis player (d. 1978)

1882 Dorothy Greenhough-Smith English figure skater and tennis player (d. 1965)

1882 Mart Saar Estonian organist and composer (d. 1963)

1882 Lilias Armstrong English phonetician (d. 1937)

1882 Hans Geiger German physicist and academic (d. 1945)

1882 Boris Shaposhnikov Russian colonel (d. 1945)

1882 A. Y. Jackson Canadian painter and academic (d. 1974)

1882 Karol Szymanowski Polish pianist and composer (d. 1937)

1882 Harry McClintock American singer-songwriter and poet (d. 1957)

1882 Charlie Parker English cricketer coach and umpire (d. 1959)

1882 Charley O'Leary American baseball player and coach (d. 1941)

1882 Haritina Korotkevich Russian war heroine (d. 1904)

1882 Lucien Petit-Breton French cyclist (d. 1917)

1882 Umberto Boccioni Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)

1882 Margaret Dumont American actress (d. 1965)

1882 Edmund Dulac French-English illustrator (d. 1953)

1882 N. C. Wyeth American painter and illustrator (d. 1945)

1882 Sybil Thorndike English actress (d. 1976)

1882 John T. Flynn American journalist and author (d. 1964)

1882 Tony Jackson American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1921)

1882 André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1964)

1882 Theodora Agnes Peck American author and poet (d. 1964)

1882 Jean Giraudoux French author and playwright (d. 1944)

1882 Oldřich Duras Czech chess player and composer (d. 1957)

1882 William Halsey Jr. American admiral (d. 1959)

1882 Günther von Kluge Polish-German field marshal (d. 1944)

1882 Yakub Kolas Belarusian writer (d. 1956)

1882 Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)

1882 Felix Frankfurter Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (d. 1965)

1882 Amelita Galli-Curci Italian-American soprano (d. 1963)

1882 Wyndham Lewis English painter and critic (d. 1957)

1882 Jacques Maritain French philosopher and author (d. 1973)

1882 Frances Gertrude McGill pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist (d. 1959)

1882 Ernestas Galvanauskas Lithuanian engineer and politician (d. 1967)

1882 Nikolai Janson Russian politician (d. 1938)

1882 Henri Fabre French pilot and engineer (d. 1984)

1882 Constance Davey Australian psychologist (d. 1963)

1882 Warren Bardsley Australian cricketer (d. 1954)

1882 Elmer Booth American actor (d. 1915)

1882 Joaquín Turina Spanish-French composer critic and educator (d. 1949)

1882 Otto Neurath Austrian sociologist and philosopher (d. 1945)

1882 Shigenori Tōgō Japanese politician 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1950)

1882 Subramania Bharati Indian journalist and poet (d. 1921)

1882 Max Born German physicist and mathematician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

1882 Fiorello H. La Guardia American lawyer and politician 99th Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)

1882 Jane Edna Hunter African-American social worker (d. 1971)

1882 Zoltán Kodály Hungarian composer conductor and musicologist (d. 1967)

1882 Walther Meissner German physicist and engineer (d. 1974)

1882 Richard Maury American-Argentinian engineer designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway (d. 1950)

1882 Hans Rebane Estonian journalist and politician 8th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1961)

1882 Georges Legagneux French aviator (d. 1914)

1882 Arthur Eddington English astronomer physicist and mathematician (d. 1944)

1882 Walter Nash English-New Zealand lawyer and politician 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1968)

1882 Husband E. Kimmel American admiral (d. 1968)

1882 F. Burrall Hoffman American architect co-designed Villa Vizcaya (d. 1980)

1882 Guy Kibbee American actor and singer (d. 1956)

1882 Marcel Lalu French gymnast (d. 1951)

1882 George Monckton-Arundell 8th Viscount Galway English politician 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1943)

1882 Violette Neatley Anderson American judge (d. 1937)

1882 Babe Adams American baseball player manager and journalist (d. 1968)

1882 George Barker American painter (d. 1965)

1882 Holland Smith American general (d. 1967)

1882 Moritz Schlick German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1936)

A. A. Milne

Profession - Author

Born - Jan 18,1882

Died - Jan 31,1956

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Arnold Rothstein

Profession - Businessman

Born - Jan 17,1882

Died - Nov 06,1928

American

Bela Lugosi

Profession - Actor

Born - Oct 20,1882

Died - Aug 16,1956

Austrian

Éamon de Valera

Profession - Revolutionary

Born - Oct 14,1882

Died - Aug 29,1975

Irish

Fiorello La Guardia

Profession -

Born - Dec 11,1882

Died - Sep 20,1947

American

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Profession - President

Born - Jan 30,1882

Died - Apr 12,1945

THE 32ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Günther von Kluge

Profession - Field Marshal

Born - Oct 03,1882

Died - Aug 19,1944

German

Harold Gillies

Profession - Surgery

Born - Jun 17,1882

Died - Sep 10,1960

British

Henry J. Kaiser

Profession - Industrialist

Born - May 09,1882

Died - Aug 24,1967

American

Igor Stravinsky

Profession - Composer

Born - Jun 17,1882

Died - Apr 06,1971

Russian

Jack Hobbs

Profession - Cricketer

Born - Dec 16,1882

Died - Dec 21,1963

English

James Joyce

Profession - Novelist

Born - Feb 02,1882

Died - Jan 13,1941

Irish

John Barrymore

Profession - Actor

Born - Feb 15,1882

Died - May 29,1942

American

Lili Elbe

Profession - Painter

Born - Dec 28,1882

Died - Sep 13,1931

Danish

Louis St. Laurent

Profession - Prime Minister of Canada

Born - Feb 01,1882

Died - Jul 25,1973

Canadian

Mohammad Mosaddegh

Profession -

Born - Jun 16,1882

Died - Mar 05,1967

Iranian

Robert H. Goddard

Profession - Rocket Pioneer

Born - Oct 05,1882

Died - Aug 10,1945

American

Samuel Goldwyn

Profession - Mogul

Born - Aug 17,1882

Died - Jan 31,1974

American

Virginia Woolf

Profession - Author

Born - Jan 25,1882

Died - Mar 28,1941

English

Wilhelm Keitel

Profession - General

Born - Sep 22,1882

Died - Oct 16,1946

German

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