May 16
Today In History

Birthdays In History 1847

1847 Ettore Marchiafava Italian physician (d. 1935)

1847 Joseph Achille Le Bel French chemist (d. 1930)

1847 Eduard Magnus Jakobson Estonian missionary and engraver (d. 1903)

1847 Hugh Price Hughes Welsh-English clergyman and theologian (d. 1902)

1847 Nabinchandra Sen Bangladeshi poet and author (d. 1909)

1847 Anna Howard Shaw American physician minister and activist (d. 1919)

1847 Robert Fuchs Austrian composer and educator (d. 1927)

1847 Ellen Terry English actress (d. 1928)

1847 Carl Josef Bayer Austrian chemist and academic (d. 1904)

1847 Martin Pierre Marsick Belgian violinist composer and educator (d. 1924)

1847 Castro Alves Brazilian poet and playwright (d. 1871)

1847 Albert Pinkham Ryder American painter (d. 1917)

1847 Otto Wallach German chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)

1847 Gyula Farkas Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1930)

1847 Hermann de Pourtalès Swiss sailor (d. 1904)

1847 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1878)

1847 Hans Auer Swiss-Austrian architect designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (d. 1906)

1847 Joachim Andersen Danish flautist composer conductor and co-founder of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (d. 1907)

1847 Henry Demarest Lloyd American journalist and politician (d. 1903)

1847 Wilhelm Killing German mathematician and academic (d. 1923)

1847 William Pirrie 1st Viscount Pirrie Canadian-Irish businessman and politician Lord Mayor of Belfast (d. 1924)

1847 George Washington Ball American legislator from Iowa (d. 1915)

1847 Millicent Fawcett English academic and activist (d. 1929)

1847 Gina Krog Norwegian suffragist and women's rights activist (d. 1916)

1847 Max Liebermann German painter and academic (d. 1935)

1847 Paul Langerhans German pathologist physiologist and biologist (d. 1888)

1847 Ignacio Cervantes Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1905)

1847 Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo French-Italian wife of Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1876)

1847 Robert Comtesse Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1922)

1847 Andrew Greenwood English cricketer (d. 1889)

1847 Bolesław Prus Polish journalist and author (d. 1912)

1847 John Forrest Australian politician 1st Premier of Western Australia (d. 1918)

1847 Sarah Frances Whiting American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)

1847 Mary Watson Whitney American astronomer and academic (d. 1921)

1847 Fanny Holland English actress and singer (d. 1931)

1847 Susanna Rubinstein Austrian psychologist (d. 1914)

1847 Annie Besant English-Indian activist and author (d. 1933)

1847 Rose Scott Australian activist (d. 1925)

1847 Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911)

1847 Frits Thaulow Norwegian painter (d. 1906)

1847 Giuseppe Giacosa Italian poet and playwright (d. 1906)

1847 Galileo Ferraris Italian physicist and engineer (d. 1897)

1847 Emma Albani Canadian-English soprano and actress (d. 1930)

1847 Hiệp Hòa Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)

1847 Georges Sorel French philosopher and author (d. 1922)

1847 Jean Casimir-Perier French politician 6th President of France (d. 1907)

1847 Mir Mosharraf Hossain famous novelist of Bengali literature (d. 1912)

1847 Edmund James Flynn Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1927)

1847 Afonso Pena Brazilian lawyer and politician 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)

1847 Julia A. Moore American poet (d. 1920)

1847 Deacon White American baseball player and manager (d. 1939)

1847 Émile Faguet French author and critic (d. 1916)

1847 Augusta Holmès French pianist and composer (d. 1903)

1847 Henry Janeway Hardenbergh American architect designed the Plaza Hotel (d. 1918)

Alexander Graham Bell

Profession - Inventor

Born - Mar 03,1847

Died - Aug 02,1922

American

Archibald Primrose

Profession - British Prime Minister

Born - May 07,1847

Died - May 21,1929

British

Bram Stoker

Profession - Novelist

Born - Nov 08,1847

Died - Apr 20,1912

Irish

James Anthony Bailey

Profession - Businessman

Born - Jul 04,1847

Died - Apr 11,1906

American

Jesse James

Profession - Outlaw

Born - Sep 05,1847

Died - Apr 03,1882

American

Joseph Pulitzer

Profession - Newspaper Publisher

Born - Apr 10,1847

Died - Oct 29,1911

American

Kate Sheppard

Profession - Suffragette

Born - Mar 10,1847

Died - Jul 13,1934

New Zealand

1847 Koos de la Rey South African

Paul von Hindenburg

Profession - General

Born - Oct 02,1847

Died - Aug 02,1934

German

Thomas Edison

Profession - Inventor

Born - Feb 11,1847

Died - Oct 18,1931

American

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