1878
Events
July
Europe after the Congress of Berlin in 1878 and the territorial and political rearrangement of the Balkan Peninsula.
Births
Carl Sandburg
Shaikh Shahid Husain
Theodoros Pangalos
January
January 2 – Jaakko Mäki , Finnish politician (d. 1938 )
January 4
January 6 – Carl Sandburg , American poet and historian (d. 1967 )
January 8 – Shaikh Shahid Husain , Indian Barrister and the father of novelist Attia Hosain and Air Commodore FS Hussain (d. 1924 )
January 9 – John B. Watson , American psychologist (d. 1958 )
January 11
January 12 – Ferenc Molnár , Hungarian-born author (d. 1952 )
January 16 – Harry Carey , American actor (d. 1947 )
January 19 – Suzanne Noël , French plastic surgeon, the first female plastic surgeon in the world (d. 1954 )
January 20 – Finlay Currie , Scottish actor (d. 1968 )
January 22 – Constance Collier , English stage, screen actress (d. 1955 )
January 23 – Rutland Boughton , English composer (d. 1960 )
January 25 – Ernst Alexanderson , Swedish-born American television pioneer (d. 1975 )
January 26
February
Gordon Coates
Kōki Hirota
February 1 – Milan Hodža , Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (d. 1944 )
February 2
February 3 – Gordon Coates , 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1943 )
February 4 – Grigory Petrovsky , Ukrainian Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik (d. 1958 )
February 5 – André Citroën , French automobile manufacturer (d. 1935 )
February 8 – Martin Buber , Austrian philosopher (d. 1965 )
February 14 – Kōki Hirota , 21st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948 )
February 16 – Big Jim Colosimo , Italian-born American gangster (d. 1920 )
February 18 – Kate Gordon Moore , American psychologist (d. 1963 )
February 21 – Mirra Alfassa , multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of Auroville , India (d. 1973 )
February 26 – Emmy Destinn , Czech soprano (d. 1930 )
February 28 – Pierre Fatou , French mathematician (d. 1929 )
May
May 2 – Roy Atwell , American actor, comedian and composer (d. 1962 )
May 10 – Gustav Stresemann , Chancellor of Germany , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1929 )
May 13 – Julia Dean , American actress (d. 1952 ),
May 16 – Taylor Holmes , American actor (d. 1959 )
May 17 – Conway Tearle , American actor (d. 1938 )
May 21 – Glenn Curtiss , American aviation pioneer (d. 1930 )
May 22 – The Great Gama , Punjabi wrestler (d. 1960 )
May 25 – Bill Robinson , African-American tap dancer (d. 1949 )
May 28 – Paul Pelliot , French sinologist (d. 1945 )
May 29 – Zelmira Segreda Solera de Cappella , Costa Rican soprano (d. 1923 )
June
June 1 – John Masefield , English poet, novelist (d. 1967 )
June 3 – Barney Oldfield , American automobile racer, pioneer (d. 1946 )
June 5 – Pancho Villa , Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923 )
June 10 – William Skelly , American oil magnate (d. 1957 )
June 12 – James Oliver Curwood , American writer, conservationist (d. 1927 )
June 19 – Yakov Yurovsky , Russian Old Bolshevik , revolutionary, and Chekist (d.1938 )
June 22 – John Burton Cleland , Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist (d. 1971 )
June 27 – He Xiangning , Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter and poet (d. 1972 )
August
August 1
August 2
August 9 – Eileen Gray , Irish architect, furniture designer (d. 1976 )
August 10 – Alfred Döblin , German writer (d. 1957 )
August 15 – Paa Grant , Ghanaian politician (d. 1956 )
August 19 – Manuel L. Quezon , 2nd President of the Philippines (d. 1944 )
August 20 – Maria Assunta Pallotta , Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (d. 1905 )
August 26 – Lina Stern , Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist (d. 1968 )
August 27 – Pyotr Wrangel , Russian general, anti-Bolshevik leader (d. 1928 )
August 28 – George Whipple , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976 )
August 31 – Frank Jarvis , American athlete (d. 1933 )
September
September 1 – Leonhard Kaupisch , German general (d. 1945 )
September 2 – Werner von Blomberg , German field marshal (d. 1946 )
September 5 – Robert von Lieben , Austrian physicist (d. 1913 )
September 9
September 13 – Matilde Moisant , American pilot (d. 1964 )
September 16 – Karl Albiker , German sculptor, lithographer and teacher (d. 1961 )
September 20 – Upton Sinclair , American writer (d. 1968 )
September 22 – Shigeru Yoshida , Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967 )
September 24 – Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz , Swiss writer (d. 1947 )
September 26 – Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord , German general and Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr (d. 1943 )
September 28 – Jirō Tamon , Japanese general (d. 1934 )
October
October 1 – Othmar Spann , Austrian philosopher, economist (d. 1950 )
October 5 – Louise Dresser , American actress (d. 1965 )
October 9 – Robert Warwick , American actor (d. 1964 )
October 11 – Nicole Girard-Mangin , French physician in the French Army (d. 1919 )
October 12 – Karl Buresch , 9th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1936 )
October 15 – Paul Reynaud , 77th Prime Minister of France (d. 1966 )
October 16 – Maxie Long , American athlete (d. 1959 )
October 18 – Miguel Llobet , Spanish guitarist (d. 1938 )
October 26 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II , American motor racing driver and yachtsman (d. 1944 )
October 29 – Alexander von Falkenhausen , German general (d. 1966 )
October 30 – Arthur Scherbius , German electrical engineer, mathematician, cryptanalyst and inventor (d. 1929 )
November
Lise Meitner
November 1 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas , Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959 )
November 7
November 8 – Dorothea Bate , British archaeologist and pioneer of archaeozoology (d. 1951 )
November 14
November 17 – Grace Abbott , American social worker, activist (d. 1939 )
November 23
Ernest Joseph King , Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations (COMINCH-CNO) during World War II (d. 1956 )
Frank Pick , British transport administrator, designer (d. 1941 )
November 27 – William Orpen , Irish artist (d. 1931 )
Deaths
Victor Emmanuel II
Pope Pius IX
Anna Sewell
William Cullen Bryant
Saint Mariam Baouardy
January– June
January 5 – Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora , 6th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1804 )
January 8 – Nikolay Nekrasov , Russian poet (b. 1821 )
January 9 – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820 )
January 18 – Antoine César Becquerel , French scientist (b. 1788 )
February 7 – Pope Pius IX (b. 1792 )
February 11 – Gideon Welles , American politician (b. 1802 )
February 19 – Charles-François Daubigny , French painter (b. 1817 )
February 26 – Angelo Secchi , Italian astronomer (b. 1818 )
March 8 – Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (b. 1802 )
March 20 – Julius von Mayer , German physician and physicist, a founder of thermodynamics (b. 1814 )
March 27 – Sir George Gilbert Scott , English architect (b. 1811 )
April 8 – Henrietta Treffz , Austrian soprano, first wife of Johann Strauss II (b. 1818 )
April 11 – Robert Wentworth Little , English occultist (b. 1840 )
April 12 – William M. Tweed , American politician (b. 1823 )
April 13 – Bezalel HaKohen , Russian rabbi (b. 1820 )
April 25 – Anna Sewell , English author (b. 1820 )
May 11 – Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau , French military officer and politician (b. 1823 )
May 12 – Anselme Payen , French chemist (b. 1795 )
May 13 – Joseph Henry , American scientist (b. 1797 )
May 14 – Ōkubo Toshimichi , Japanese samurai, later leader of the Meiji restoration (b. 1830 )
May 28 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792 )
June 5 – Ernst von Bibra , German scientist (b. 1806 )
June 6
June 12
June 15 – Shiv Dayal Singh , founder and first SatGuru of Radha Soami faith (b. 1818 )
June 27 – Sidney Breese , U.S. senator from Illinois, 'father of the Illinois Central Railroad ' (b. 1800 )
July– December
July 21 – Sam Bass (outlaw) , American outlaw (b. 1851 )
July 23 – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky , Bohemian pathologist, philosopher and politician (b. 1804 )
August 13 – Henry James Montague , English-born actor (b. 1844 )
August 16 – Richard Upjohn , English-American architect (b. 1802 )
August 26 – Mariam Baouardy , Syrian Discalced Carmelite and Melkite Greek Catholic nun and saint, canonized (b. 1846 )
August 30 – James Geiss , English businessman (b. 1820 )
September 7 – Mehmed Ali Pasha , Prussian-born Ottoman military leader (b. 1827 )
October 4 – Dora Hand , dance hall singer, actress (b.1844 )
October 11 – Satanta, Kiowa war chief (b. 1820)
December 10 – Henry Wells , American businessman (b. 1805 )
December 14 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843 )
December 18 – W H Payne , actor and mime artist (b. 1804 )
December 23 – Frederick Aiken , American lawyer, journalist, and soldier (b. 1832 )
December 24 – Elizabeth Duncan Campbell , Scottish poet and autobiographical writer (b. 1804 )
December 25 – Henry K. Hoff , American admiral (b. 1809 )
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