Famous Personalities Born In 1857

Jan 02 Frederick opper: Cartoonist (maud, alphonse & gaston)  

Jan 02 Martha carey thomas: Educator/president (bryn mawr college)  

Jan 06 William e. russell: 37th governor of massachusetts  

Jan 06 Hugh mahon: Irish-born australian politician  

Jan 09 Henry b fuller: American writer (under the skylights)  

Jan 11 Fred[erick j] archer: English jockey (won 5 derbys)  

Jan 17 Wilhelm kienzl: Austrian composer (evangelimann)  

Jan 17 Eugene augustin lauste: Developer (1st sound-on-film recording)  

Jan 18 Otto von below: German commandant (ww i)  

Jan 23 Andrija mohorovicic: Croatian geologist (moho discontinuity)  

Jan 26 The 12th dalai lama: The 12th dalai lama (d. 1875)  

Jan 31 George jackson churchward: Great western railway chief mechanical engineer  

Feb 02 Jan six: Dutch art historian/art collector  

Feb 09 Johannes t de visser: Theologist/dutch 1st minister of education  

Feb 12 Bobby peel: Cricketer (great english lefty 1884-96)  

Feb 17 Samuel sidney mcclure: Irish-american newspaper editor/publisher  

Feb 18 Max klinger: German graphic artist/painter/sculptor  

Feb 21 Jules de trooz: Baron/premier of belgium (1907)  

Feb 22 Robert baden-powell: Founder (boy scouts, girl guides)  

Feb 22 Heinrich hertz: Physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves  

Feb 26 Emile coué: French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)  

Feb 28 Gustave adolph kerker: Composer  

Mar 03 Alfred bruneau: Composer  

Mar 07 Julius wagner von jauregg: Austria, psychiatrist (nobel 1927)  

Mar 08 Ruggiero leoncavallo: Italian composer (i pagliacci/zaza)  

Mar 16 Charles harding firth: British historian  

Mar 22 Arnold sauwen: Flemish poet (along the meuse)  

Mar 22 Paul doumer: Gov-genl of indo-china/13th pres of france (1931-32)  

Mar 23 Fannie farmer: Actress (namesake of a candy company)  

Mar 27 Karl pearson: London england, mathematician  

Mar 27 Pearson: Mathematician  

Mar 30 Leon charles thevenin: French telegraph engineer  

Apr 05 Alexander-jozef von battenberg: Ruler of bulgaria (1879-86)  

Apr 10 Henry ernest dudeney: Mathematician/puzzle maker  

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Jan 20 Edward francis fitzwilliam: Composer,  

Jan 27 Dorothea von benckendorff: Baltic monarch of lieven,  

Feb 07 Félix pbog: Earl of merode, belgian minister of war,  

Feb 09 Dionysios solomos: Greek poet of the greek national anthem (b. 1798)  

Feb 10 David thompson: Canadian explorer (b. 1770)  

Feb 14 Johannes b van bree: Dutch violinist/composer/conductor,  

Feb 15 Mikhail glinka: Composer,  

Feb 16 Auguste-gaspard-louis desnoyers: French engraver,