Famous Personalities Born In 1862

Jan 01 Snitz edwards: Hungary, actor (college, phantom of the opera)  

Jan 03 Sir matthew nathan: British governor of queensland and other places  

Jan 08 Frank nelson doubleday: Publisher/founder (doubleday & co)  

Jan 17 John e akkeringa: Dutch painter/etcher  

Jan 23 David hilbert: Königsberg east prussia, mathematician  

Jan 24 Edith wharton[-jones]: Us, novelist (ethan frome, house of mirth)  

Jan 29 Frederick delius: Bradford england, composer (hiawatha)  

Jan 30 Walter johannes damrosch: Composer  

Feb 05 Felipe villanueva y gutierrez: Mexico, composer  

Feb 07 Bernard maybeck: Us architect (palace of fine arts, sf)  

Feb 10 W h "gobo" ashley: Cricketer (7 wkts in 1 test for s africa 1889)  

Feb 13 Karel weis: Composer  

Feb 17 Mori ÅŒgai: Japanese novelist and poet  

Feb 17 Edward german (jones): Whitchurch shropshire, british composer  

Feb 22 Karen hulda garborg[-bergersen]: Norwegian playwright (mot solen/eli)  

Feb 27 Anastasios metaxas: Greek architect and shooter  

Mar 02 Boris borisovich galitzine: Russian physicist  

Mar 02 John jay chapman: Us advocate/poet/writer (learning & other essays)  

Mar 04 Robert emden: Swiss geo/astro physics (emden-polytroop)  

Mar 05 Siegbert tarrasch: German chess player  

Mar 08 Joseph lee: Helped develop playgrounds  

Mar 12 Jane delano: Us, nurse/teacher/founder (red cross)  

Mar 13 Vasily mikhaylovich metallov: Composer  

Mar 14 Vilhelm fk bjerknes: Norwegian/us physicist/meteorology  

Mar 17 Silvio gesell: Belgian economist  

Mar 23 Nathaniel reed: American outlaw turned evangelist  

Mar 26 George william louis marshall-hall: Composer  

Mar 28 Aristide briand: France, 11x premier (1909-22) (nobel 1926)  

Apr 02 Nicholas murray butler: Us, columbia u pres/pacifist (nobel 1931)  

Apr 05 Louis ganne: Composer  

Apr 11 Charles evans hughs: 11th chief justice of supreme court (1930-41)  

Apr 11 William w campbell: Us astronomer/director lick observatory  

Apr 14 Pyotr a stolypin: Premier russia (1906-11)  

Apr 25 Edward grey: English viscount of fallodon/minister of foreign affairs  

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Jan 01 Mikhail vasilievich ostrogradsky: Russian physicist (b. 1801)  

Jan 05 Joseph frohlich: Composer,  

Jan 10 Samuel colt: Inventor (6 shot revolver),  

Jan 18 John tyler: 10th us pres (1841-45),  

Jan 20 Felix zollicoffer: Gen killed after mistakenly riding into union lines  

Jan 24 James mcintosh: Us confederate brig-gen,  

Feb 03 Jean-baptiste biot: French physicist/astronomer,  

Feb 07 Frantisek jan skroup: Composer,