Birthdays In History 1863

1863 Pierre de Coubertin French historian and educator founded the International Olympic Committee (d. 1937)

1863 Anna Murray Vail American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden (d. 1955)

1863 Swami Vivekananda Indian monk and philosopher (d. 1902)

1863 Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa Portuguese general and politician 10th President of Portugal (d. 1929)

1863 Richard F. Outcault American author and illustrator (d. 1928)

1863 Wilhelm Marx German lawyer and politician 17th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)

1863 Konstantin Stanislavski Russian actor and director (d. 1938)

1863 Werner Sombart German economist and sociologist (d. 1941)

1863 August Adler Czech and Austrian mathematician (d. 1923)

1863 Anthony Hope English author and playwright (d. 1933)

1863 John F. Fitzgerald American politician; Mayor of Boston (d. 1950)

1863 Hugo Becker German cellist and composer (d. 1941)

1863 Charles McLean Andrews American historian author and academic (d. 1943)

1863 Joaquín Sorolla Spanish painter (d. 1923)

1863 George Herbert Mead American sociologist and philosopher (d. 1930)

1863 Alexander Golovin Russian painter and set designer (d. 1930)

1863 R. I. Pocock English zoologist and archaeologist (d. 1947)

1863 John Henry Wigmore American academic and jurist (d. 1943)

1863 Mary Harris Armor American suffragist (d. 1950)

1863 Andrew Stoddart English cricketer and rugby player (d. 1915)

1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio Italian soldier journalist poet and playwright (d. 1938)

1863 Vladimir Vernadsky Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945)

1863 Casey Jones American engineer (d. 1900)

1863 William Sulzer American lawyer and politician 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)

1863 Simon Flexner American physician and academic (d. 1946)

1863 Walter James Australian politician 5th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1943)

1863 Mary Calkins American philosopher and psychologist (d. 1930)

1863 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)

1863 Raul Pompeia Brazilian writer (d. 1895)

1863 Augustus Edward Hough Love English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)

1863 Count Leopold Berchtold Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942)

1863 Linton Hope English sailor and architect (d. 1920)

1863 Siegfried Bettmann founder of the Triumph Motorcycle Company and Mayor of Coventry (d. 1955)

1863 Hemmo Kallio Finnish actor (d. 1940)

1863 Josiah Thomas English-Australian miner and politician 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1933)

1863 Nikolai von Meck Russian engineer (d. 1929)

1863 Constantine P. Cavafy Egyptian-Greek journalist and poet (d. 1933)

1863 Maria Teresia Ledóchowska Austrian nun and missionary (d. 1922)

1863 Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Bengali writer painter violin player and composer technologist and entrepreneur (d. 1915)

1863 John Charles Fields Canadian mathematician founder of the Fields Medal (d. 1932)

1863 Frank Hornby English businessman and politician invented Meccano (d. 1936)

1863 Léon Gérin Canadian lawyer sociologist and civil servant (d. 1951)

1863 Archduke Eugen of Austria (d. 1954)

1863 Władysław Horodecki Polish architect (d. 1930)

1863 George Grey Barnard American sculptor (d. 1938)

1863 Arthur Mold English cricketer (d. 1921)

1863 Francis Younghusband Indian-English captain and explorer (d. 1942)

1863 Felix Weingartner Croatian-Austrian pianist composer and conductor (d. 1942)

1863 Bones Ely American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)

1863 Louis Couperus Dutch author and poet (d. 1923)

1863 Lucy Lady Duff-Gordon English fashion designer (d. 1935)

1863 Francisco León de la Barra Mexican politician and diplomat (d. 1939)

1863 Charles Michael duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1934)

1863 George Essex Evans English-Australian poet and author (d. 1909)

1863 Max Wolf German astronomer and academic (d. 1932)

1863 Sándor Bródy Hungarian author and journalist (d. 1924)

1863 Émile Francqui Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)

1863 Wilbert Robinson American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1934)

1863 William Grant Stairs Canadian-English captain and explorer (d. 1892)

1863 Margaret Murray British archaeologist anthropologist historian and folklorist (d. 1963)

1863 C. Aubrey Smith English-American cricketer and actor (d. 1948)

1863 Alec Hearne English cricketer (d. 1952)

1863 Jāzeps Vītols Latvian composer (d. 1948)

1863 Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski Russian general (d. 1919)

1863 Géza Gárdonyi Hungarian author and journalist (d. 1922)

1863 Jean Leon Gerome Ferris American painter (d. 1930)

1863 Ernest Thayer American poet and author (d. 1940)

1863 Aleksey Krylov Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)

1863 Gene Stratton-Porter American author and photographer (d. 1924)

1863 Dragutin Lerman Croatian explorer (d. 1918)

1863 Jessie Willcox Smith American illustrator (d. 1935)

1863 Mary of the Divine Heart German nun and saint (d. 1899)

1863 W.W. Jacobs English novelist and short story writer (d. 1943)

1863 Herbert Henry Ball English-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1943)

1863 Horatio Parker American organist composer and educator (d. 1919)

1863 John Bunny American actor (d. 1915)

1863 Mary Church Terrell American author and activist (d. 1954)

1863 Ludwig Holborn German physicist (d. 1926)

1863 Hugo Haase German lawyer jurist and politician (d. 1919)

1863 Pyotr Kozlov Russian archaeologist and explorer (d. 1935)

1863 Edythe Chapman American actress (d. 1948)

1863 Edward Bok Dutch-American journalist and author (d. 1930)

1863 Austen Chamberlain English businessman and politician Chancellor of the Exchequer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)

1863 Mirko Breyer Croatian writer bibliographer antiquarian and one of the notable alleged and false victims of the Stara Gradiška concentration camp (d. 1946)

1863 Alfred Perot French physicist and academic (d. 1925)

1863 Paul Signac French painter and educator (d. 1935)

1863 Andrés Bonifacio Filipino activist and politician co-founded Katipunan (d. 1897)

1863 Charles Edward Ringling American businessman co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus (d. 1926)

1863 Gussie Davis African-American songwriter (d. 1899)

1863 Paul Painlevé French mathematician and politician 84th Prime Minister of France (d. 1933)

1863 Charles Martin Hall American chemist and engineer (d. 1914)

1863 Felix Calonder Swiss soldier and politician 36th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1952)

1863 Pietro Mascagni Italian composer and conductor (d. 1945)

1863 Richard Warren Sears American businessman co-founded Sears (d. 1914)

1863 Charles Lincoln Edwards American zoologist (d. 1937)

1863 Arthur Dehon Little American chemist and engineer (d. 1935)

1863 George Santayana Spanish philosopher novelist and poet (d. 1952)

1863 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1914)

1863 Wallace Bryant American archer (d. 1953)

1863 Charles Pathé French record producer co-founded Pathé Records (d. 1957)

1863 Louis Lincoln Emmerson American lawyer and politician 27th Governor of Illinois (d. 1941)

1863 Ernest William Christmas Australian-American painter (d. 1918)

1863 Albert Calmette French physician bacteriologist and immunologist (d. 1933)

1863 Paul Drude German physicist and academic (d. 1906)

1863 Anderson Dawson Australian politician 14th Premier of Queensland (d. 1910)

1863 Ida Freund Austrian-born chemist and educator (d. 1914)

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