Famous Birthdays In 1857

Jan 02 Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) was born in the year 1857.

Jan 02 On this day in history birth of martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)

Jan 06 Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931) was born in the year 1857.

Jan 06 In the year 1857 birth of william E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)

Jan 09 In the year 1857 birth of henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)

Jan 11 On this day in history birth of fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys)

Jan 17 Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording) was born in the year 1857.

Jan 17 On this day in history birth of wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann)

Jan 18 In the year 1857 birth of otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)

Jan 23 On this day in history birth of andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity)

Jan 26 the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875) was born on this day in history.

Jan 31 On this day in history birth of george Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933)

Feb 02 Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector was born on this day in history.

Feb 09 On this day in history birth of johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education

Feb 12 Bobby Peel, cricketer (great English lefty 1884-96) was born on this day in history.

Feb 17 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher was born in the year 1857.

Feb 18 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor was born on this day in history.

Feb 21 Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907) was born on this day in history.

Feb 22 In the year 1857 birth of heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves

Feb 22 On this day in history birth of robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)

Feb 26 On this day in history birth of emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)

Feb 28 Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer was born in the year 1857.

Mar 03 In the year 1857 birth of alfred Bruneau, composer

Mar 07 In the year 1857 birth of julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)

Mar 08 Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza) was born in the year 1857.

Mar 16 On this day in history birth of charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)

Mar 22 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse) was born in the year 1857.

Mar 22 Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32) was born in the year 1857.

Mar 23 In the year 1857 birth of fannie Farmer, actress (namesake of a candy company)

Mar 27 Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician was born in the year 1857.

Mar 27 In the year 1857 birth of pearson, mathematician

Mar 30 In the year 1857 birth of leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)

Apr 05 In the year 1857 birth of alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86)

Apr 10 In the year 1857 birth of henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker

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Jan 20 On this day in history edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32

Jan 27 On this day in history dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72

Feb 07 On this day in history félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65

Feb 09 Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798) died in the year 1857.

Feb 10 David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770) died on this day in history.

Feb 14 In the year 1857 johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56

Feb 15 On this day in history mikhail Glinka, composer, dies

Feb 16 On this day in history auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77