Birthdays In History 1884

1884 Chikuhei Nakajima Japanese lieutenant engineer and politician founded Nakajima Aircraft Company (d. 1949)

1884 Ben-Zion Dinur Russian-Israeli historian and politician 4th Israeli Minister of Education (d. 1973)

1884 Raoul Koczalski Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)

1884 Guy Pène du Bois American painter critic and educator (d. 1958)

1884 Texas Guinan American entertainer and bootlegger (d. 1933)

1884 Juhan Aavik Estonian-Swedish composer and conductor (d. 1982)

1884 Theodor Heuss German journalist and politician 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1963)

1884 Mammad Amin Rasulzade Azerbaijani scholar and politician 1st President of The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (d. 1955)

1884 Snowy Baker Australian boxer rugby player and actor (d. 1953)

1884 Alfred Carlton Gilbert American pole vaulter and businessman founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (d. 1961)

1884 Nils Olaf Chrisander Swedish actor and director (d. 1947)

1884 Kostas Varnalis Greek poet and playwright (d. 1974)

1884 Robert J. Flaherty American director and producer (d. 1951)

1884 Ants Piip Estonian lawyer and politician 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)

1884 Richard S. Aldrich American lawyer and politician (d. 1941)

1884 Red Murray American baseball player (d. 1958)

1884 Lee Shumway American actor (d. 1959)

1884 Lewi Pethrus Swedish minister and hymn-writer (d. 1974)

1884 Hugh Walpole New Zealand-English author and educator (d. 1941)

1884 Eric P. Kelly American journalist and author (d. 1960)

1884 Alcide Nunez American clarinet player (d. 1934)

1884 Bernard Cronin English-Australian journalist and author (d. 1968)

1884 Philipp Frank Austrian-American physicist mathematician and philosopher (d. 1966)

1884 John Jensen Australian public servant (d. 1970)

1884 George David Birkhoff American mathematician (d. 1944)

1884 Arthur H. Vandenberg American journalist and politician (d. 1951)

1884 Lyda Borelli Italian actress (d. 1959)

1884 Joseph Boxhall English sailor (d. 1967)

1884 Wilhelm Backhaus German pianist and educator (d. 1969)

1884 Georges Imbert French chemical engineer and inventor (d. 1950)

1884 Gordon Thomson English rower and lieutenant (d. 1953)

1884 Angelos Sikelianos Greek poet and playwright (d. 1951)

1884 Ed Archibald Canadian pole vaulter (d. 1965)

1884 Adriaan van Maanen Dutch-American astronomer and academic (d. 1946)

1884 J. C. Squire English poet author and historian (d. 1958)

1884 James Alberione Italian priest founded the Society of St. Paul (d. 1971)

1884 Ion Inculeț Bessarabian academic and politician President of Moldova (d. 1940)

1884 J. G. Parry-Thomas Welsh race car driver and engineer (d. 1927)

1884 Clement Smoot American golfer (d. 1963)

1884 Tenby Davies Welsh runner (d. 1932)

1884 Otto Meyerhof German physician and biochemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)

1884 Ronald Barnes 3rd Baron Gorell English cricketer journalist and politician (d. 1963)

1884 Jaan Anvelt Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937)

1884 Otto Rank Austrian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1939)

1884 Olof Sandborg Swedish actor (d. 1965)

1884 Francis Curzon 5th Earl Howe English race car driver and politician (d. 1964)

1884 Richard Baggallay English army officer and cricketer (d. 1975)

1884 Chief Bender American baseball player and coach (d. 1954)

1884 Oskar Rosenfeld Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)

1884 David Munson American runner (d. 1953)

1884 Manuel Pérez y Curis Uruguayan poet and publisher (d. 1920)

1884 Wilhelmina Hay Abbott Scottish suffragist and feminist (d. 1957)

1884 Corrado Gini Italian sociologist and demographer (d. 1965)

1884 Max Brod Czech journalist author and composer (d. 1968)

1884 Siegmund Glücksmann German soldier and politician (d. 1942)

1884 Ralph Benatzky Czech-Swiss composer (d. 1957)

1884 Ivy Compton-Burnett English author (d. 1969)

1884 Frederick Lorz American runner (d. 1914)

1884 Ester Claesson Swedish landscape architect (d. 1931)

1884 Leone Sextus Tollemache English captain (d. 1917)

1884 Leon Chwistek Polish painter philosopher and mathematician (d. 1944)

1884 Étienne Gilson French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)

1884 John McCormack Irish tenor and actor (d. 1945)

1884 Georg Zacharias German swimmer (d. 1953)

1884 Harry Langdon American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1944)

1884 Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes French painter and historian (d. 1974)

1884 Mary R. Calvert American astronomer and author (d. 1974)

1884 Johannes Heinrich Schultz German psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d. 1970)

1884 Claude Auchinleck English field marshal (d. 1981)

1884 James Rector American sprinter and lawyer (d. 1949)

1884 Cyclone Taylor Canadian ice hockey player and politician (d. 1979)

1884 Frank Waller American runner (d. 1941)

1884 Géza Gyóni Hungarian soldier and poet (d. 1917)

1884 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler German-French art collector and historian (d. 1979)

1884 Gaston Bachelard French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)

1884 Lamina Sankoh Sierra Leonean banker and politician (d. 1964)

1884 Georges Duhamel French author and critic (d. 1966)

1884 Alfons Maria Jakob German neurologist and author (d. 1931)

1884 Enrico Dante Italian cardinal (d. 1967)

1884 Harold Stirling Vanderbilt American businessman and sailor (d. 1970)

1884 Lion Feuchtwanger German author and playwright (d. 1958)

1884 Yrjö Saarela Finnish wrestler and coach (d. 1951)

1884 Alberto di Jorio Italian cardinal (d. 1979)

1884 Odell Shepard American poet and politician 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (d. 1967)

1884 Maria Caserini Italian actress (d. 1969)

1884 Ralph Austin Bard American financier and politician 2nd Under Secretary of the Navy (d. 1975)

1884 Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Polish-German economist and politician (d. 1945)

1884 Rómulo Gallegos Venezuelan author and politician 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)

1884 Béla Balázs Hungarian poet and critic (d. 1949)

1884 Henri Cornet French cyclist (d. 1941)

1884 Billie Burke American actress and singer (d. 1970)

1884 Nikolai Triik Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1940)

1884 Sara Teasdale American poet and educator (d. 1933)

1884 Panait Istrati Romanian journalist and author (d. 1935)

1884 Hermann Wlach Austrian-Swiss actor (d. 1962)

1884 Harry Dean English cricketer and coach (d. 1957)

1884 Hugo Gernsback Luxembourger-American author and publisher (d. 1967)

1884 Rudolf Bultmann German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg (d. 1976)

1884 Chandler Egan American golfer and architect (d. 1936)

1884 Will Cuppy American author and critic (d. 1949)

1884 Ogden L. Mills American captain lawyer and politician 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)

1884 Earl Derr Biggers American author and playwright (d. 1933)

1884 Vincent Auriol French lawyer and politician President of the French Republic (d. 1966)

1884 Denis G. Lillie British biologist member of the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition (d. 1963)

1884 Theodor Svedberg Swedish chemist and physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1884 George Sarton Belgian-American historian of science (d. 1956)

1884 Hilda Rix Nicholas Australian artist (d. 1961)

1884 Sigurd Wallén Swedish actor and director (d. 1947)

1884 Frank Laubach American missionary and mystic (d. 1970)

1884 Théodore Pilette Belgian race car driver (d. 1921)

1884 Herbert Johanson Estonian architect (d. 1964)

1884 Sudhamoy Pramanick Indian activist and politician (d. 1974)

1884 Martin Klein Estonian wrestler and coach (d. 1947)

1884 Charles Griffes American pianist and composer (d. 1920)

1884 Dénes Kőnig Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1944)

1884 Gustave Garrigou French cyclist (d. 1963)

1884 İsmet İnönü Turkish general and politician 2nd President of Turkey (d. 1973)

1884 Hugo Schmeisser German weapons designer and engineer (d. 1953)

1884 Adolf Bolm Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1951)

1884 Jack Bickell Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1951)

1884 Ramchandra Shukla Indian historian and author (d. 1941)

1884 Harold Geiger American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1927)

1884 Walther von Reichenau German field marshal (d. 1942)

1884 Nikolai Klyuev Russian poet and author (d. 1937)

1884 Ida Wüst German actress and screenwriter (d. 1958)

1884 Friedrich Bergius German-Argentinian chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)

1884 Sig Ruman German-American actor (d. 1967)

1884 Archibald Hoxsey American pilot (d. 1910)

1884 Rembrandt Bugatti Italian sculptor (d. 1916)

1884 Claire Waldoff German singer and actress (d. 1957)

1884 Emil Fjellström Swedish actor (d. 1944)

1884 Maria Czaplicka Polish cultural anthropologist (d. 1921)

1884 William Hogenson American sprinter (d. 1965)

1884 Shirō Takasu Japanese admiral (d. 1944)

1884 William Douglas Cook New Zealand horticulturalist founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum (d. 1967)

1884 Joseph William Martin Jr. American publisher and politician 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1968)

1884 Harry Ferguson Irish engineer invented the tractor (d. 1960)

1884 James Elroy Flecker English author poet and playwright (d. 1915)

1884 May Brahe Australian composer (d. 1956)

1884 Hermann Rorschach Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1922)

1884 Zofia Nałkowska Polish author and playwright (d. 1954)

1884 Norman Thomas American minister and politician (d. 1968)

1884 C. J. "Jack" De Garis Australian entrepreneur (d. 1926)

1884 Sulaiman Nadvi Pakistani historian author and scholar (d. 1953)

1884 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Ukrainian-Israeli historian and politician 2nd President of Israel (d. 1963)

1884 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff German painter and etcher (d. 1976)

1884 Erima Harvey Northcroft New Zealand soldier lawyer and judge (d. 1953)

1884 Yahya Kemal Beyatlı Turkish poet and author (d. 1958)

1884 Walther Stampfli Swiss lawyer and politician 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1965)

1884 R. C. Majumdar Indian historian (d. 1980)

1884 Cornelia Meigs American author playwright and academic (d. 1973)

1884 John Carpenter American sprinter (d. 1933)

1884 Francis Balfour English colonel and politician (d. 1965)

1884 Piet Ooms Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1961)

1884 Aimilios Veakis Greek actor director and playwright (d. 1951)

1884 Jane Cowl American actress and playwright (d. 1950)

1884 John Gunn Australian politician 29th Premier of South Australia (d. 1959)

1884 Seibo Kitamura Japanese sculptor (d. 1987)

1884 Alison Uttley English children's book writer (d. 1976)

1884 Emil Starkenstein Czech pharmacologist co-founded clinical pharmacology (d. 1942)

1884 Antonín Zápotocký Czech politician President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (d. 1957)

1884 María Cadilla Puerto Rican writer educator women's rights activist (d. 1951)

1884 St. Elmo Brady African American chemist and educator (d. 1966)

1884 Samuel Berger American boxer (d. 1925)

1884 Evelyn Nesbit American model and actress (d. 1967)

1884 Bobby Byrne American baseball and soccer player (d. 1964)

1884 Mihály Fekete Hungarian actor screenwriter and film director (d. 1960)

1884 Auguste Piccard Swiss physicist and explorer (d. 1962)

1884 Bradbury Robinson American football player and physician (d. 1949)

1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin Russian journalist and author (d. 1937)

1884 Marcel Cohen French linguist and scholar (d. 1974)

1884 Max Beckmann German painter and sculptor (d. 1950)

1884 Johan Laidoner Estonian-Russian general (d. 1953)

1884 Alice Roosevelt Longworth American author (d. 1980)

1884 Marie Vassilieff Russian-French painter (d. 1957)

1884 Peter Debye Dutch-American physicist and chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)

1884 Chika Kuroda Japanese chemist (d. 1968)

1884 Eugène Tisserant French cardinal (d. 1972)

1884 Amedeo Modigliani Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)

1884 Anna Vyrubova Russian author (d. 1964)

1884 Valdemar Psilander Danish actor (d. 1917)

1884 Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)

1884 Oliver Kirk American boxer (d. 1960)

1884 Daniel Varoujan Armenian poet and educator (d. 1915)

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