Year1864

Famous People Born in 1864

Birthdays by Year

Alfred Stieglitz(1864-1946)

Jan 1 Americanphotographer and art dealer (Camera Work), born in Hoboken, New Jersey

Qi Baishi(1864-1957)

Jan 1 Chinesepainter famous for whimsical and playful watercolor paintings, born in Xiangtan, China

Jan 5 Bob Caruthers, American baseball pitcher/outfielder (American Association wins & ERA leader 1885, wins leader 1880; St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Bridegrooms), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1911)

Ban Johnson(1864-1931)

Jan 6 American Baseball HOF executive (founder and president of MLB American League, 1900-27), born in Norwalk, Ohio[1]

Jan 8 Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, British prince, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, born at Frogmore House, Windsor (d. 1892)
Jan 9 Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist, born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (d. 1926)

George Washington Carver(1864-1943)

Jan 10 African-American agriculturalscientist (studied the peanut), born in Diamond Grove, Missouri [or Jul 12]

Jan 10 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1931)
Jan 11 Thomas Dixon, American white supremacist, novelist, playwright (The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan), born in Shelby, North Carolina (d. 1946)
Jan 13 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (1911 Nobel Prize for Physics - displacement law), born in Gaffken, Prussia (d. 1928)
Jan 15 Frances Benjamin Johnston, American photographer, born in Grafton West Virginia (d. 1952)
Jan 16 Frank Bacon, American playwright, actor and author (Lightnin'), born near Yuba City, California (d. 1922)
Jan 17 Lucien Herr, French intellectual and librarian (École Normale Supérieure), born in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin, France (d. 1926)
Jan 24 Marguerite Durand, French journalist, feminist, and publisher (La Fronde), born in Paris, France (d. 1936)
Jan 25 Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer, born in Požega, Croatia (d. 1934)
Jan 28 Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
Jan 29 Adolf Philipp, German-American Broadway composer (Adele), born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1936)
Feb 5 Carl Teike, German military composer, born in Stettin-Altdamm, Pomerania (now Szczecin, Poland) (d. 1922)
Feb 6 John Henry Mackay, Scottish-born German writer (Anarchists), born in Greenock, United Kingdom (d. 1933)
Feb 7 Arthur Collins, American baritone vocalist, known as 'King of the Ragtime Singers' (Peerless Quartet), and comedian, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1933)
Feb 7 Ricardo Castro Herrera, Mexican concert pianist and composer, born at Hacienda de santa Bárbara, Mexico (d. 1907)
Feb 14 Israel Zangwill, Jewish author (Children of The Ghetto) and Zionist leader, born in London (d. 1926)
Feb 14 Robert E. Park, American sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), born in Harveyville, Pennsylvania (d. 1944)
Feb 17 (Andrew) "Banjo" Paterson, Australian journalist, poet (Clancy of the Overflow), and lyricist ("Waltzing Matilda"), born near Orange, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1941)
Feb 17 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak priest and inventor who achieved radiotelegraph transmission between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton in 1905, born in Tajov, Austria-Hungary (d. 1929)
Feb 22 Jules Renard, French writer (Poil de Carotte), born in Châlons-du-Maine, France (d. 1910)
Mar 4 David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (1st towing tank), born in Louisa County, Virginia (d. 1940)
Mar 7 George Bean, English cricket batsman (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Sussex CCC), born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England (d. 1923)
Mar 12 Alice Tegnér (née Sandström), Swedish organist, poet, and composer of children's songs, born in Karlshamn, Sweden (d. 1943)
Mar 12 W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
Mar 13 Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter, born in Torzhok, Russia (d. 1941)
Mar 14 (John) "Casey" Jones, American railroad engineer who was immortalized in ("Ballad of Casey Jones"), born in southeastern Missouri (d. 1900)
Mar 15 Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, conductor (Nationaltheatret Orchestra, 1899-1929), and composer (Bergensiana), born in Drammen, Norway (d. 1934)
Mar 15 Leslie Stuart, [Thomas Barrett], British musical theater composer (Florodora), born in Southport, Lancashire, England (d. 1928)
Mar 18 Mikael Lybeck, Finnish-Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), born in Nykarleby, Finland (d. 1925)
Mar 19 Charles Marion Russell, American artist, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1926)
Mar 23 Hjalmar Borgstrom [Jensen], Norwegian composer (Hvæm er du med de tusene navne (Who are you with a thousand names)), and music critic, born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway (d. 1925)
Mar 23 Louis Glass, Danish pianist and composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1936)
Mar 30 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and economist (The State), born in Berlin, Prussia (d. 1943)
Apr 1 Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer, feminist and founder of the National Bureau for Women's Labor, born in Heiloo, Netherlands (d. 1908)
Apr 9 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, English electrical engineer and inventor, born in Liverpool, England (d. 1930)
Apr 10 Eugen d'Albert, English-German pianist and composer (Tiefland; Der Golem), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1932)
Apr 10 Tully Marshall, American actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), born in Nevada City, California (d. 1943)
Apr 18 Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (Soldiers of Fortune, The King's Jackal), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1916)

Max Weber(1864-1920)

Apr 21 Germansociologist,economist andhistorian (Ancient Judaism), born in Erfurt, Province of Saxony, Prussia

Apr 22 Phil May, English cartoonist, born in Wortley, Leeds (d. 1903)
Apr 24 George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of War (1918-20), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1937)
Apr 24 George Foottit, English clown, born in Manchester, United Kingdom (d. 1921)
Apr 28 William Frederick Archdall Ellison, Irish clergyman and astronomer (director of the Armagh Observatory), born in Thomastown, Ireland (d. 1962)
Apr 30 Frans Netscher, Dutch writer and journalist (Studies of nude model), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1923)
Apr 30 Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (I Saw Estonia Yesterday), born in Allatzkiwwi, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (d. 1913)
May 14 Eleanor Everest Freer, American composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1942)
May 15 Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter known for his subdued interiors and portraits, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1916)
May 16 Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian writer (Gottes Volk; Der Ruf), and philosopher (early Zionist, later anti-Zionist), born in Vienna, Austrian Empire (d. 1937)
May 18 Jan P. Veth, Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer and art historian, born in Dordrecht. Netherlands (d. 1925)
May 19 Carl Akeley, American taxidermist and naturalist who developed the animal mount process and other techniques for museums, born in Clarendon, New York (d. 1926)
May 21 Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
May 22 William Bruce, Australian cricketer (14 Tests for Australia 1885-95), and lawyer, born in South Yarra, Australia (d. 1925)
May 27 Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (23rd Mayor of Split), born in Split, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1938)
May 28 Basil Grieve, English cricket batsman (2 Tests), born in Kilburn, England (d. 1917)
Jun 2 Ben Webster, British actor (Old Curiosity Shop), born in London, England (d. 1947)
Jun 3 Ransom Eli Olds, American auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer, born in Geneva, Ohio (d. 1950)
Jun 11 Jean de Merode, Belgian lieutenant colonel, Grand Marshal of the Court of Belgium, and Prince de Merode, born in Paris, France (d. 1933)

Richard Strauss(1864-1949)

Jun 11 Germancomposer (Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote), born in Munich, Germany

Jun 13 Dwight B. Waldo, American educator (first President of Western Michigan University), born in Arcade, New York (d. 1939)
Jun 13 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics", born in Torsö, Sweden (d. 1922)

Alois Alzheimer(1864-1915)

Jun 14 Germanpsychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease), born in Marktbreit, Bavaria

Jun 15 Guy Ropartz [Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz], French composer, born in Guingamp, France (d. 1955)
Jun 20 Pier Pander, Dutch sculptor, born in Drachten, Friesland (d. 1919)
Jun 21 Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1945)
Jun 22 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (work on relativity - Minkowski spacetime), born in Aleksota, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1909)
Jun 25 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist and chemist (Nobel 1920), born in Briesen, West Prussia (d. 1941)
Jun 29 Anton Beer-Walbrun, German composer, born in Kohlberg, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1929)
Jun 29 Ashutosh Mukherjee, Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician described as the "Banglar Bagh" (Tiger of Bengal), born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1924)
Jun 29 Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law) and historian, born in Poggio Mirteto, Italy (d. 1932)
Jun 29 Wilbert Robinson, American Baseball HOF catcher (Philadelphia A's, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Robins), born in Bolton, Massachusetts (d. 1934)
Jul 6 Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (Artemis), born in Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil (d. 1920)
Jul 11 Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher, born in Nikolaevka, Bulgaria (d. 1944)

John Jacob Astor IV(1864-1912)

Jul 13 American businessmagnate, real estate developer (Astoria Hotel) and soldier (richest passenger aboard the Titanic), born in Rhinebeck, New York

Jul 15 Marie Tempest [Marie Susan Etherington], British actress known as the "queen of her profession" (Yellow Sands), born in London, England (d. 1942)
Jul 18 Phillip Snowden, British politician, 1st Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, born in Cowling, Yorkshire (d. 1937)
Jul 18 Ricarda Huch, German writer and historian "First Lady of German humanism", born in Braunschweig (d. 1947)
Jul 20 Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1919-refused; 1931-posthumous), born in Karlbo, Sweden (d. 1931)[1]
Jul 21 Frances Cleveland, American 1st lady (1885-89, 93-97), wife of President Grover Cleveland, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1947)
Jul 23 Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines, born in Tanauan, Batangas, Philippines (d. 1903)

Frank Wedekind(1864-1918)

Jul 24 Germanactor andplaywright (The "Lulu" plays), born in Hanover, German Confederation

Jul 24 Michel-Gaston Carraud, French composer, born in Le Mée-sur-Seine, France (d. 1920)
Aug 5 Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, Basque priest, composer and first head of the Euskaltzaindia, born in Lekeitio, Spain (d. 1951)
Aug 8 Henri de Vries [Hendricus Van Walterop], Dutch actor (Cleopatra, White Cargo), born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1949)

Eleftherios Venizelos(1864-1936)

Aug 11 Prime Minister of Greece (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), born in Mournies, Chania, Crete, Ottoman Empire

Aug 16 Ferdinand C. S. Schiller, German-British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx), born in Altona, Holstein, German Confederation (d. 1937)
Aug 23 Eleftherios K. Venizalos, Premier of Greece (1910-15, 28-32), born in Mournies, Greece (d. 1936)
Aug 31 Max Wilhelm Zach, Polish-American violinist and conductor (Boston Symphony 1896-1907; St. Louis Symphony, 1907-21), born in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 1921)
Sep 1 Roger David Casement, Irish diplomat, nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), and poet, born in Sandycove, Dublin, Ireland (d. 1916)
Sep 3 Hale A. VanderCook, American composer, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 1949)
Sep 7 Ernest Halliwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests), born in Ealing, England (d. 1919)
Sep 7 Giovanni Tebaldini, Italian composer, born in Brescia, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1952)
Sep 14 Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British lawyer and politician who helps form League of Nations (Nobel 1937), born in Cavendish Square, London (d. 1958)
Sep 22 Lodewijk van Deyssel, Dutch writer (A Love Affair), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1952)
Sep 23 Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
Sep 27 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist and author, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1961)
Sep 27 Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic priest, born in Liptó County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1938)
Sep 28 Barry Pain, English writer (Punch), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1928)
Sep 29 Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (Ensayos, Teatro), born in Bilbao Spain (d. 1936)
Oct 5 Louis Lumière, French inventor, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895, born in Besançon, France (d. 1948)
Oct 8 Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter, born in Saint-Hilaire-de-Rouville, Quebec (d. 1955)
Oct 9 Maud Watson, British tennis player (first Wimbledon female champion 1884-85), born in London, England (d. 1946)
Oct 10 T. Frank Appleby, American Republican Party politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey), born in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey (d. 1924)
Oct 13 Ted Tyler, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 4 wickets; Somerset CCC), born in Kidderminster, England (d. 1917)
Oct 14 Maurice de Plessys, French poet (Palace Occidental), born in Paris (d. 1924)
Oct 17 Elinor Glyn, British novelist (3 Weeks) and screenwriter, born in Jersey, Channel Islands (d. 1943)
Oct 20 James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico, born in Franklin County, Missouri (d. 1951)

Alexander Gretchaninov(1864-1956)

Oct 25 Russian-American Romanticcomposer, born in Moscow, Russia

Oct 25 John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (Co-Founder of Dodge Brothers Company), born in Niles, Michigan (d. 1920)
Oct 26 Joseph Moorat, British composer (Prunella), born in England (d. 1938)
Oct 28 Adolfo Camarillo, American prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher, born in Ventura, California (d. 1958)
Oct 28 Dmitry Ivanovsky, Russian botanist who discovered the organisms that came to be known as viruses, born in Gdov, Russia (d. 1920)
Oct 30 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, American pianist and philanthropist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1953)
Nov 5 Jessie Ralph, American stage, silent and sound screen actress (The Good Earth; San Francisco: The Bank Dick), born in Gloucester, Massachusetts (d. 1944)
Nov 5 Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Scottish artist and designer, one of the Glasgow Four alongside her husband Charles Rennie Mackintosh, born in Tipton, England (d. 1933)[1]
Nov 10 Alexandre Levy, Brazilian composer and pianist, born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 1892)
Nov 11 Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist (Nobel 1911-co-founder of the German peace movement), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1921)
Nov 11 George Washington Crile, American surgeon (conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock), born in Chili, Ohio (d. 1943)
Nov 19 George Barbier, American actor (Tarzan's Revenge, Wife vs Secretary), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1945)
Nov 20 Gerard Wilhelm Kernkamp, Dutch historian and editor (Groene Amsterdammer), born in Hoorn, Netherlands (d. 1943)
Nov 23 Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (Packard Motor Car Co.), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1936)
Nov 24 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and printmaker (At the Moulin Rouge), born in Albi, France (d. 1901)
Nov 26 Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist and poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem), born in Wormerveer, Netherlands (d. 1927)
Nov 28 Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, Dutch lithographer and wood carver, born in Amsterdam (d. 1945)
Nov 28 James Allen, English writer (As a Man Thinketh), born in Leicester, England (d. 1912)
Nov 28 Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer and 46th U.S. Secretary of War (1913-16), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 1932)
Dec 3 Herman Heijermans, Dutch writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1924)
Dec 6 William S. Hart, American silent film actor (Wild Bill Hickok; Tumbleweeds), born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1946)
Dec 9 Sidney Homer, American composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1953)
Dec 9 Willoughby Hamilton, Irish tennis player (Wimbledon 1890), born in Monasterevin, Kildare (d. 1943)
Dec 12 Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist, born in Saint Louis, Missouri (d. 1937)
Dec 13 Emil Seidel, German-American politician (36th Mayor of Milwaukee), born in Ashland, Pennsylvania (d. 1947)
Dec 17 (John) Felix Körling, Swedish composer and conductor, born in Kristdala, Sweden (d. 1937)
Dec 19 Adolf Sandberger, German composer and musicologist, born in Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1943)
Dec 23 Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia, born in Cetinje, Montenegro (d. 1890)
Dec 25 Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach and administrator (first coach US men's national team), born in New York City (d. 1951)
Dec 27 Joseph Lauber, Swiss concert pianist and composer, born in Ruswil, Switzerland (d. 1952)
Dec 27 René Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist and illustrator (Calendar of the War, The Dance with Death), born in Paris, France (d. 1940)[1]
Dec 30 Alessandro Longo, Italian composer and musicologist, born in Amantea, Italy (d. 1945)
Dec 31 Robert G Aitken, American astronomer (Binary Stars), born in Jackson, California (d. 1951)