Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
1879
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
== Births == ===January–March=== [[File:Grace Coolidge 1924.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Grace Coolidge]]]] [[File:Otto Hahn (Nobel).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Otto Hahn]]]] [[File:Einstein 1933.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Albert Einstein]]]] * [[January 1]] **[[E. M. Forster]], English writer (d. [[1970]]) **[[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]], Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer, founded the [[Fox Film Corporation]] and [[Fox Theatres]] (d. 1952) * [[January 3]] – [[Grace Coolidge]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1957]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Calbraith Perry Rodgers]], American pioneer aviator, makes first transcontinental U.S. flight (d. [[1912]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Ruth St. Denis]], American dancer (d. [[1968]]) * [[January 28]] ** [[Betty Kuuskemaa]], Estonian actress (d. [[1966]]) ** [[Francis Picabia]], French painter, poet (d. [[1953]]) * [[February 6]] – [[Magnús Guðmundsson]], 3rd prime minister of Iceland (d. [[1937]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Sarojini Naidu]], Indian independence activist and poet (d. [[1949]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Hod Stuart]], Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. [[1907]]) * [[February 22]] **[[Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted]], Danish chemist (d. [[1947]]) **[[Norman Lindsay]], Australian painter (d. [[1969]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Frank Bridge]], English composer (d. [[1941]]) * [[March 6]] – [[William P. Cronan]], 19th [[Naval Governor of Guam]] (d. [[1929]]) * [[March 8]] – [[Otto Hahn]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1968]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Alfredo Kindelán]], Spanish general and politician (d. [[1962]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Albert Einstein]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1955]]) * [[March 18]] – [[Emma Carus]], American opera singer (d. [[1927]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Maud Menten]], Canadian biochemist and medical researcher (d. [[1960]]) * [[March 26]] – [[Othmar Ammann]], Swiss-born American engineer (d. [[1965]]) * [[March 27]] ** [[Sándor Garbai]], Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1947]]) ** [[Edward Steichen]], Luxembourgeois-born American painter and photographer (d. [[1973]]) ===April–June=== [[File:Ahmad nami.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ahmad Nami]]]] [[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Portret van Raden Ajeng Kartini TMnr 10018776.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Kartini]]]] [[File:Richárd Weisz 1908 matchbox label 2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Richárd Weisz]]]] [[File:Georgia Ann Robinson.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georgia Ann Robinson]]]] *[[April 1]] – [[Mary J. L. Black]], Canadian librarian and suffragist (d. [[1939]]) *[[April 9]] – [[Thomas Meighan]], American actor (d. [[1936]]) * [[April 11]] – [[Bernhard Schmidt]], German-Estonian optician, inventor (d. [[1935]]) * [[April 16]] – [[Gala Galaction]], Romanian writer (d. [[1961]]) * [[April 20]] ** [[Italo Gariboldi]], Italian general (d. [[1970]]) ** [[Robert Wilson Lynd]], Irish essayist, writer (d. [[1949]]) ** [[Paul Poiret]], French couturier (d. [[1944]]) * [[April 21]] ** [[Kartini]], Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist (d. [[1904]]) ** [[Mary Willie Arvin]], American nurse (d. [[1947]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Owen Willans Richardson]], British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1959]]) * [[April 29]] – Sir [[Thomas Beecham]], English conductor (d. [[1961]]) * [[April 30]] – [[Richárd Weisz]], Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (d. [[1945]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_j1DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Rich%C3%A1rd+Weisz%22+jewish&pg=PA270|title=Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame|first=Joseph|last=Siegman|date=August 1, 2020|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=9781496222121|via=Google Books}}</ref> * [[May 6]] – [[Bedřich Hrozný]], Czech orientalist, linguist (d. [[1952]]) * [[May 11]] – [[Ahmad Nami]], Prince of the Ottoman Empire, 5th [[Prime Minister of Syria]] and 2nd [[President of Syria]] (d. [[1962]]) * [[May 12]] ** [[George Landenberger]], [[United States Navy]] [[Captain (USN)|Captain]] and the 23rd [[Governor of American Samoa]] (d. [[1936]]) ** [[Georgia Ann Robinson]], community worker, first [[African Americans|African-American]] woman to be appointed a [[Los Angeles]] [[police officer]] (d. [[1961]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Gustaf Aulén]], Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (d. [[1977]]) * [[May 19]] ** [[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor]], American-born British politician, wife of [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor]] (d. [[1964]]) ** [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor]], British businessman, politician, husband of [[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor]] (d. [[1952]]) * [[May 20]] – [[Hans Meerwein]], German chemist (d. [[1965]]) * [[May 22]] – [[Alla Nazimova]], Russian-born American stage, film actress (d. [[1945]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook]], Canadian-born British statesman and newspaper publisher (d. [[1964]]) * [[May 27]] – [[Lucile Watson]], Canadian-born American film, stage actress (d. [[1962]]) * [[May 28]] – [[Milutin Milanković]], Serbian scientist (d. [[1958]]) * [[June 3]] – [[Raymond Pearl]], American biologist (d. [[1940]]) *[[June 4]] – [[Mabel Lucie Attwell]], British illustrator (d. 1964) *[[June 9]] – [[Joseph Avenol]], 2nd Secretary General of the [[League of Nations]] (d. 1952) *[[June 7]] – [[Knud Rasmussen]], Danish polar explorer, anthropologist (d. 1933) * [[June 10]] – [[Rafael Erich]], Prime Minister of Finland (d. [[1946]]) * [[June 13]] **[[Charalambos Tseroulis]], Greek general (d. [[1929]]) **[[Lois Weber]], American film director, screenwriter (d. [[1939]]) * [[June 23]] – [[Huda Sha'arawi]], Egyptian feminist (d. [[1947]]) ===July–September=== [[File:Emperor Taishō (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Emperor Taishō]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146III-105, Joseph Wirth.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Joseph Wirth]]]] [[File:Joseph Lyons.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Joseph Lyons]]]] [[File:Emiliano Zapata.tiff|thumb|110px|[[Emiliano Zapata]]]] * [[July 1]] – [[Léon Jouhaux]], French labour leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1954]]) * [[July 5]] ** [[Wanda Landowska]], Polish harpsichordist, musicologist (d. [[1959]]) ** [[José Millán-Astray]], Spanish general, founder of the [[Spanish Legion]] (d. [[1954]]) * [[July 9]] – [[Ottorino Respighi]], Italian composer, musicologist and conductor (d. [[1936]]) * [[July 15]] – [[Joseph Campbell (poet)|Joseph Campbell]], Irish poet, lyricist (d. [[1944]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Janusz Korczak]] (pen-name of Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician and child pedagogist (b. 1878 or [[#Births|1879]]) (d. [[1942]]) * [[July 26]] – [[Shunroku Hata]], Japanese field marshal (d. [[1962]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Lucy Burns]], American women's rights campaigner (d. [[1966]]) * [[August 8]] ** [[Hisaichi Terauchi]], Japanese field marshal (d. [[1946]]) ** [[Emiliano Zapata]], Mexican revolutionary (d. [[1919]]) * [[August 13]] – [[John Ireland (composer)|John Ireland]], English composer and organist (d. [[1962]]) * [[August 15]] – [[Ethel Barrymore]], American film and stage actress (d. [[1959]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Claude Grahame-White]], British aviation pioneer (d. [[1959]]) * [[August 23]] – [[Yevgenia Bosch]], Ukrainian politician (d. [[1925]]) * [[August 30]] – [[Fritzi Scheff]], Viennese-born American actress and singer (d. [[1954]]) * [[August 31]] ** [[Isidro Ayora]], 22nd president of Ecuador (d. [[1978]]) ** [[Emperor Taishō]], 123rd [[Emperor of Japan]] (d. [[1926]]) * [[September 6]] ** [[Max Schreck]], German actor (d. [[1936]]) ** [[Joseph Wirth]], [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[1956]]) * [[September 14]] – [[Margaret Sanger]], American birth control advocate (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret Sanger {{!}} Biography, Birth Control, & Significance |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Sanger |website=Britannica |access-date=7 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[September 15]] – [[Joseph Lyons]], 10th [[Prime Minister of Australia]], [[Premier of Tasmania]] (d. [[1939]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Victor Sjöström]], Swedish film actor, director (d. [[1960]]) * [[September 25]] ** [[Shinobu Ishihara]], Japanese ophthalmologist and professor (d. [[1963]]) ** [[Lope K. Santos]], Filipino writer and grammarian (d. [[1963]]) * [[September 27]] ** [[Hans Hahn (mathematician)|Hans Hahn]], Austrian mathematician (d. [[1934]]) ** [[Cyril Scott]], English composer and writer (d. [[1970]]) === October–December === [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-U0205-502, Max von Laue.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Max von Laue]]]] [[File:Trotsky Portrait.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Leon Trotsky]]]] [[File:Paul Klee 1911.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Paul Klee]]]] [[File:Prudencia Grifell c. 1904 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Prudencia Grifell]]]] * [[October 2]] – [[Wallace Stevens]], American poet (d. [[1955]]) * [[October 3]] – [[Warner Oland]], Swedish-born American actor (d. [[1938]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Francis Peyton Rous]], American pathologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1970]]) * [[October 9]] – [[Max von Laue]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1960]]) * [[October 15]] – [[Jane Darwell]], American actress (d. [[1967]]) * [[October 18]] – [[Giovanni Marinelli]], Italian Fascist political leader (d. [[1944]]) * [[October 21]] ** [[Joseph Canteloube]], French composer, singer (d. [[1957]]) ** [[Eugene Burton Ely]], American pioneer aviator (d. [[1911]]) * [[October 25]] – [[Fritz Haarmann]], German serial killer (d. [[1925]]) * [[October 29]] – [[Franz von Papen]], German diplomat and politician; Chancellor (1932) and Vice-Chancellor (1933–34; under Adolf Hitler) (d. [[1969]]) * [[November 1]] – [[Pál Teleki]], 2-time prime minister of Hungary (d. [[1941]]) * [[November 4]] – [[Will Rogers]], Native American humorist (d. [[1935]]) * [[November 7]] – [[Leon Trotsky]], Russian revolutionary (d. [[1940]]) * [[November 9]] – [[S. O. Davies]], oldest post-war British MP (d. [[1972]]) * [[November 10]] ** [[Vachel Lindsay]], American poet (d. [[1931]]) ** [[Patrick Pearse]], Irish rebel leader (d. [[1916]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Lewis Stone]], American stage, film actor, known for playing ''Judge Hardy'' (d. [[1953]]) * [[December 4]] – [[Nagai Kafu]], Japanese writer (d. [[1959]]) * [[December 5]] – [[Clyde Cessna]], American aviator, aircraft designer, manufacturer (d. [[1954]]) * [[December 10]] – [[E. H. Shepard]], English artist, book illustrator (d. [[1976]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Laura Hope Crews]], American film, stage actress (d. [[1942]]) * [[December 18]] – [[Paul Klee]], Swiss artist (d. [[1940]]) * [[December 20]] – [[Ion G. Duca]], 35th prime minister of Romania (d. [[1933]]) * [[December 27]] ** [[Prudencia Grifell]], Spanish-born Mexican actress (d. [[1970]]) ** [[Sydney Greenstreet]], British-born American film, stage actor (d. [[1954]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Billy Mitchell]], U.S. general, military aviation pioneer (d. [[1936]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Florence Mary Taylor]], Australia's first female architect (d. [[1969]]) * [[December 30]] – [[Ramana Maharshi]], Indian [[Sage (philosophy)|sage]], [[jivanmukta]] (d. [[1950]]) === Date unknown === * [[Abdallah Beyhum]], 10th prime minister of Lebanon (d. [[1962]]) * Ali Muhammad Shibli, Bengali revolutionary (d. unknown)<ref>{{cite book|author=Sengupta, Subodha|editor=Bose, Anjali|title=সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান|language=bn|volume=1|publisher=Sahitya Samsad|location=[[Kolkata]]}}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
1879
(section)
Add topic
