Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In January - 27
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1834 Dmitri mendeleev: Chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements) 

1834 Robert sanford foster: Bvt major general (union volunteers) 

1836 Leopold von sacher-masoch: Austrian writer (masochism) 

1841 Arkhip kuindzhi: Russian painter 

1848 Togo heihachiro: Japanese admiral 

1850 Samuel gompers: Dutch/us 1st president (american federation of labor) 

1850 Edward j. smith: English captain of the titanic 

1851 Rafael obligado: Argentina, writer (santos vega) 

1858 Neel [cornelia h] doff: Dutch/french/belgian painter's model/writer 

1859 Wilhelm ii: Potsdam, german emperor (1888-1918) 

1867 Claude antoine terrasse: Composer 

1868 Cato engelen-sewing: Dutch soprano prima donna (dutch opera) 

1869 Will marion cook: Composer 

1872 Learned hand: Albany ny, chief judge (us court of appeals) 

1882 Giuseppe prezzolini: Italy, writer (la voce, la cultura italiano) 

1885 Jerome kern: Nyc, broadway composer (showboat, roberta) 

1885 Eduard künneke: German composer 

1885 Maeda seison: Japanese painter 

1887 Carl blegen: Minneapolis, archaeologist (excavator at troy, pylos) 

1889 Balthasar van der pol: Physicist (comparison of van der pol) 

1891 Ilja ehrenburg: Writer 

1892 Mitya stillman: Composer 

1893 Soong ching-ling: Chinese wife of sun yat-sen 

1894 Fritz pollard: Early black nfl star (1920-26) 

1895 Claudio carneyro: Composer 

1895 Joseph rosenstock: Cracow poland, conductor (nippon phil orch 1936-41) 

1895 Harry ruby: American composer 

1899 Granville english: Composer 

1900 Hyman g rickover: Us admiral (father of modern nuclear navy) 

1901 Art rooney: Nfl team owner (pittsburgh steelers) 

1901 Willy fritsch: German actor (spies, women in the moon) 

1903 John eccles: British physiologist/neurologist 

1903 Otto p. weyland: American military figure 

1905 Howard mcnear: La calif, actor (floyd-andy griffith show, jetsons) 

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