Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In 1844

May 03 Edouard a drumont: French anti-semitic journalist  

May 08 Hermann gradener: Composer  

May 09 [maria] catharina beersmans: Belgian actress (bad herders)  

May 17 Julius wellhausen: German biblical scholar  

May 20 Henri julien felix rousseau: French ambassador/painter (dream)  

May 22 Mary cassatt: Us, impressionist painter (woman bathing)  

May 23 `abdu'l-bahá: Successor to prophet of the bahá'í faith  

May 28 Leon felix augustin joseph vasseur: Composer  

May 30 Louis varney: Composer  

Jun 01 John j. toffey: American civil war hero  

Jun 01 Galusha pennypacker: Bvt major general (union army), died in 1916  

Jun 03 Garret augustus hobart: (r) 24th us vp (1897-99)  

Jun 03 Emile paladilhe: Composer  

Jun 03 Detlev [freiherr friedrich a von] liliencron: German poet  

Jun 06 Konstantin savitsky: Russian painter  

Jun 10 J albert neuhuys: Dutch painter (haagse school)  

Jun 10 Karl hagenbeck: German animal trainer (von tieren und menschen)  

Jun 14 Edouard naville: Swiss egyptologist  

Jun 21 Ernest f cambier: Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway congo)  

Jul 01 Verney l cameroon: English explorer (tanganyika)  

Jul 08 Mary johnson lincoln: Educator (boston cooking school)  

Jul 11 Peter i karadjordjevic: King of serbia/yugoslavia  

Jul 22 William archibald spooner: London, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms)  

Jul 25 Thomas eakins: American artist  

Jul 28 Gerard manley hopkins: England, poet (windhover)  

Jul 31 Ignazio guidi: Italian orientalist/archaeologist  

Aug 06 Alfred: Duke of saxe-coburg and gotha  

Aug 07 Auguste michel-lévy: French geologist  

Aug 17 Menelik ii: King of ethiopia (1896-1913)  

Aug 19 Minna canth: Finland, novelist/playwright (social evils)  

Aug 29 Edward carpenter: English poet  

Aug 30 Friedrich ratzel: German social-geographer (lebensraum)  

Sep 10 Abel hoadley: Australian confectioner  

Sep 11 George clement martin: Composer  

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Jan 15 Joseph mazzinghi: Composer,  

Jan 31 Henri gratien: Comte bertrand, french general (b. 1773)  

Feb 04 Willem de clerq: Dutch merchant/literary,  

Feb 15 Henry addington lord sidmouth: Brit premier (1801-04),  

Feb 16 Joseph crosfield: English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1792)  

Feb 27 Nicholas biddle: Us lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier,  

Feb 28 Abel p upshur: Secretary of state,  

Feb 29 Thaddaus weigl: Composer,