Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In 1853

May 08 Dan brouthers: Baseball player  

May 08 Charles lee williams: Composer  

May 21 Jacques marie eugène godefroy cavaignac: French politician  

May 26 Monroe a althouse: Composer  

May 28 Carl larsson: Swedish painter  

May 30 Karl fritjof valentin: Composer  

May 30 Andries andre: Dutch actor/husband of geertruida meeuwissen  

Jun 03 William matthew flinders petrie: English egyptologist  

Jun 16 Johan gustaf emil sjogren: Composer  

Jun 28 Edwin arthur jones: Composer  

Jul 05 Cecil john rhodes: South africa, politician/diamond merchant  

Jul 07 Albert vandal: French earl/historian (le pacha bonneval)  

Jul 17 Francesco fanciulli: Composer  

Jul 18 Hendrik antoon lorentz: Holland, physicist (nobel 1902)  

Jul 20 Geo[rge] poggenbeek: Dutch water colors painter  

Jul 22 Victor roger: Composer  

Jul 23 William h gillette: Actor (sherlock holmes on stage)  

Jul 27 Vladimir korolenko: Russian writer  

Jul 29 Henry morton dunham: Composer  

Jul 29 Esther de boer-van rijk: Dutch actress (kniertje-hope of blessing)  

Aug 12 Jean louis nicode: Composer  

Aug 19 Aleksei brusilov: Russian general  

Aug 28 Vladimir shukhov: Russian engineer and inventor  

Sep 02 Wilhelm ostwald: Germany, physical chemist (nobel 1909)  

Sep 04 Hermann von wissmann: German africa explorer/governor east-africa  

Sep 09 Frederick r spofforth: Australia, cricketer (demon)  

Sep 16 Albrecht kossel: German physician, nobel laureate  

Sep 17 Clemens baeumker: German historian (patristischen philosophie)  

Sep 20 Rama v: King of thailand  

Sep 21 Heike kamerlingh onnes: Dutch physicist (liquid helium, nobel 1913)  

Sep 23 Marcel planiol: French private law scholar  

Sep 29 Princess thyra: Daughter of christian ix of denmark  

Oct 13 Maria e "beppie" bakker: Dutch actress/wife of piet vink sr  

Oct 13 Lillie langtry: [jersey lily], vaudevillian actress (lillie)  

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Jan 01 Gregory blaxland: Australian explorer (b. 1778)  

Jan 03 Theodor uhlig: Composer,  

Jan 09 Juan n gallego: Spanish poet/interpreter (el dos de mayo),  

Jan 13 Theophilos kairis: Greek priest, humanist and revolutionary (b. 1783)  

Mar 04 Christian leopold von buch: German geologist (b. 1774)  

Mar 05 Georg a kestner: German art collector/diplomat,  

Mar 17 Christian doppler: Physicist,  

Apr 08 Jan w pieneman: Historical painter (battle at waterloo),