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1884
The Congo Conference begins in Berlin , at which the division of Africa into colonies is decided.
Kaiser Wilhelm I lays the foundation stone for the new Reichstag building . A world exhibition is held in New Orleans .	German South West Africa becomes a German colony. The Frankfurt-Offenbach tramway opens.
1884 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1332/33 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1876/77 (September 10-11)
Baha'i calendar	40/41 (March 20/21)
Bengali solar calendar	1289/90 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2427/28 (southern Buddhism); 2426/27 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	76th (77th) cycle Year of the wood monkey甲申 ( at the beginning of the year water sheep 癸未)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1246/47 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4217/18 (October 2-3)
Iranian calendar	1262/63 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1301/02 (October 20-21)
Japanese calendar	Meiji 17 ( 明治 17 年 ); Koki 2544
Jewish calendar	5644/45 (September 19-20)
Coptic calendar	1600/01 (September 10-11)
Malayalam calendar	1059/60
Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire)	1299/1300 (March 1)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2194/95 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2195/96 (turn of the year October)
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1940/41 (April)

Events

Politics and world events

Europe

• January 1st : Emil Welti becomes Federal President of Switzerland for the fifth time .
• January 4th : The intellectual Fabian Society is created, a forerunner of the British Labor Party .
• March 27th : The three emperor's union is extended regardless of the tensions between Austria-Hungary and Russia .
• October 28 : In the Reichstag elections in the German Empire , the left-wing liberal parties record losses, while the Conservatives and Social Democrats gain.

• As part of his social legislation , Otto von Bismarck introduced accident insurance in Germany.

Africa

• February 4 : During the Mahdi uprising , a force under the slave trader Osman Digna succeeds in defeating an Anglo-Egyptian army commanded by Valentine Baker near at-Taib in eastern Sudan .
• April 24th : The coastal strip in the hinterland of the Lüderitz Bay in southern Africa, named after the brothers Adolf and August Lüderitz Lüderitzland , is placed under the protection of the German government and thus becomes the starting point of the "protected area" German South West Africa .
• July 5 : Togo becomes a German colony with the help of Gustav Nachtigal .
• July 14th : Cameroon becomes a German colony and thus also part of German West Africa .
• August 7 : The warships Leipzig and Elisabeth take in the bay of Angra Pequena the Luderitz country ( South West Africa ) for the German Reich in possession.
• August 16 : The Nieuwe Republiek , proclaimed by mercenaries, joins the Boer republics in South Africa .
• November 10th : Carl Peters arrives in Zanzibar and begins to sign “ protection treaties ”, from which the German East Africa colony will later emerge.
• November 15 : The Berlin Congo Conference begins , at the end of which Africa is divided into colonial areas .

America

• April 4 : Chile and Bolivia conclude an indefinite ceasefire agreement in the Treaty of Valparaíso in the saltpeter war . The coastal province with Antofagasta as its capital falls to the neighboring country. Bolivia becomes a landlocked country.

United States 1884

• May 17 : Alaska receives a civil administration and US -amtlich the District of Alaska renamed.
• November 4 : Presidential election in the United States : Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected as the new US President and triumphs over his Republican rival James G. Blaine . Since 1856 he has been the first democrat to win an election. Incumbent Chester A. Arthur was not re-established by his party.

• Revolt of the Métis against the Canadian government
• A change in the Indian Act bans potlatch in Canada .

Asia

• August: The Sino-French War begins.
• December 4 : The reform-oriented Gapsin coup begins in Korea . After three days he was knocked down with the help of Chinese troops.

Oceania

• November 3rd : The German flag is officially hoisted on Matupi in the later Bismarck Archipelago .
• November 6th : Papua territory is declared a British protectorate .

International Conferences

• March 14th : An international convention for the protection of undersea cables is agreed at the Telegraph Congress in Paris .
• October 13 : The International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC passes a resolution on time zones . The Meridian of Greenwich is an international prime meridian .

economy

Patents

• February 12 : Lewis Edson Waterman receives US patent number 293545 for the fountain pen he invented .
• August 8 : George Eastman and his assistant William Walker apply for a patent for the stripping film , a paper roll film .
• August 26 : Ottmar Mergenthaler receives the patent for an early version of the Linotype typesetting machine .

Business start-ups

• June 26 : The Waldhof pulp mill is founded in Mannheim , a forerunner of the Waldhof-Aschaffenburg paper mills .
• October 1st : The Danish daily Politiken is founded by three liberal writers.
• December 18 : The first edition of Svenska Dagbladet appears in Stockholm.

• Europe's first bicycle factory , the Express Werke, is founded in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz .

traffic

• February 18 : In Frankfurt am Main and Oberrad the first section of the Frankfurt-Offenbach tramway and its own power plant are opened.

Sassi-Superga funicular according to the Agudio system (with completely open drive car)

• April 27 : The Sassi – Superga rack railway in Turin opens.
• August 30th : The Pelham Park and City Island Railroad is established in the Bronx .
• September 8th The Altona-Kaltenkirchener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (AKE) opens the railway line from Altona (Gärlerplatz) to Kaltenkirchen .
• September 10 : The Osijek tram goes into operation as a horse-drawn tram .
• September 16 : Opening of the Lößnitzgrundbahn as the 3rd Saxon narrow-gauge railway

• The Corcovado mountain railway in Rio de Janeiro opens.

Others

• March 22nd : Ecuador introduces Sucre as the national currency .
• December 1 : Workers' health insurance comes into effect in the German Empire . The employers pay one third and the workers two thirds of the contributions. The reform is a milestone in the history of social insurance in Germany .
• December 16 : The World's Fair opens in New Orleans , Louisiana .

science and technology

• June 9 : The German Emperor Wilhelm I lays the foundation stone for the Berlin Reichstag building , which is being built according to the plans of the architect Paul Wallot .
• August 3 : Lewis A. Swift discovers the galaxy cataloged as NGC 27 in the constellation Andromeda .
• August 9th : The first controllable airship , the La France , circles over the town of Chalais-Mendon in France. The airship was developed by Charles Renard , his brother Paul and Captain Arthur HC Krebs.
• August 17th : Barnard's galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius is tracked down by its namesake Edward Emerson Barnard during astronomical observations.
• September 22 : The astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan place in the constellation Andromeda as NGC 76 called Galaxy .
• October 24 : Guillaume Bigourdan discovers the galaxy NGC 96 in the constellation Andromeda .
• November 14th : Guillaume Bigourdan observes the galaxies NGC 79 , NGC 84 and NGC 94-1 in the constellation Andromeda for the first time .

• Ludwig Boltzmann establishes the law found by Josef Stefan on total radiation power ( Stefan-Boltzmann law , see 1879 ).

Culture

Visual arts

The Parish Garden of Nuenen in Spring , Vincent van Gogh, oil on paper laid down on wood

• May: Vincent van Gogh paints the oil painting The Parish Garden of Nuenen in Spring .
• July 29th : The Société des Artistes Indépendants association is founded in Paris, with the aim of allowing the public to evaluate works of art themselves.

Hipólito Boaventura Caron : Praia da Boa Viagem 1884

• Johann Georg Grimm , German visiting professor for landscape painting at the Academia Impérial de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro, did not extend his contract due to constant disputes with the academy management and went to Niterói . His most loyal students followed him there to the beach of Boa Viagem and occupied themselves with outdoor painting . The informal group, which only existed for around two years, later became known as Grupo Grimm .
• Susan Hannah Macdowell marries Thomas Eakins .

literature

Book cover of the US American first edition

• Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ) . The novel will be published in the UK and Canada on December 10th . The work becomes Mark Twain's greatest success and is considered a key work of American literature .

• The English school principal and theologian Edwin Abbott Abbott writes the short story Flatland under the pseudonym A. Square . The writing is a satire on the structure of Victorian society and a mathematical essay on the fourth dimension .

Music and theater

→ Main article : Music year 1884

• January 25 : The world premiere of the operetta Gasparone by Karl Millöcker based on the libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna .
• Jan. 31 : At the Royal Theater in Antwerp, the world premiere of the carried Opera Pedro de Zalamea by Benjamin Godard .
• February 15 : The opera Mazeppa by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based on the poem Poltava by Alexander Pushkin is premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
• May 16 : The Vienna City Theater burns down. A reconstruction as a theater is not permitted due to the new fire protection regulations.
• May 31st : The opera Le Villi by Giacomo Puccini has its world premiere at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan. The libretto is by Ferdinando Fontana based on the story Les Willis by Alphonse Karr .

Bach monument in Eisenach

• September 23 : The Bach monument in Eisenach , designed by Adolf von Donndorf and cast by Hermann Heinrich Howaldt in Braunschweig, is unveiled.
• October 31 : The world premiere of the operetta Der Feldprediger by Karl Millöcker takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

society

• May 28 : The Chief Court of Mysore , now the Karnataka High Court , begins work in Bangalore .

religion

• August 30 : In the Encyclical Superiore anno , Pope Leo XIII emphasizes . his concern to pray the rosary with unchanged intensity and renews the indulgences for those who pray on certain days.

Disasters

• January 18 : The American liner City of Columbus sinks after a rock collision off the island of Martha's Vineyard on the coast of the US state of Massachusetts . 29 people could be rescued, while 103 drown or freeze to death in the ice-cold water, including all women and children on board.
• April 3 : At the entrance to the port of Halifax , the Belgian passenger ship Daniel Steinmann is thrown against the rocks of a reef three times in a storm and sinks (121 dead).
• April 18 : The British passenger steamer State of Florida sinks in the North Atlantic after colliding with a sailing ship. 130 people die.
• October 3rd : The Danish Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen is destroyed by fire.

The destroyed church of Zafarraya after the earthquake

• December 25 : The earthquake in Andalusia in 1884 , which lasted only 20 seconds, kills around 900 people and injures over 1,500.

Sports

→ Main article : Sports year 1884

• November 1 : The Gaelic Athletic Association for the Preservation and Cultivation of National Pastimes is founded.

Born

January

• 0January 1 : Papa Celestin , American jazz trumpeter, cornet player, singer and band leader († 1954 )
• 0January 1 : Edwin C. Johnson , American politician († 1970 )
• 0January 1 : George W. Meyer , American songwriter († 1959 )
• 0January 3 : Kurt Johnen , German pianist, music teacher and music writer († 1965 )
• 0January 3 : Eli Stanley Jones , American Methodist theologian, missionary in India, speaker, author and consultant († 1973 )
• 0January 3 : Rudolf Koppitz , Austrian photographer († 1936 )
• 0January 4 : Hovhannes Baptist Apcar , Persian bishop († 1967 )
• 0January 4 : Max Brose , German businessman and industrialist († 1968 )
• 0January 8 : Sophie Dorothea Eckener , German painter, graphic artist and portrait painter († 1975 )
• January 10 : Theodor Kärner , German porcelain and animal sculptor († 1966 )
• January 10 : Hossein Kazemzadeh , Iranian teacher, journalist and mystic († 1962 )
• January 10 : Yamamura Bochō , Japanese poet († 1924 )
• January 11 : Dietrich Wortmann , German wrestler († 1952 )
• January 12 : Paul Hunder , German national soccer player († 1948 )
• January 12 : Heinrich Lübbe , German mechanical engineer and inventor († 1940 )
• January 12 : Konrat Ziegler , German classical philologist († 1974 )
• January 14th : David Wilson , Scottish football player and coach
• January 15 : Erwin Jacobi , German constitutional and canon lawyer († 1965 )
• January 15 : William Mellody , American boxing world champion († 1919 )
• January 16 : Jules Supervielle , French poet, author of stage works and short stories († 1960 )
• January 16 : Frederick Dewhurst Yates , English chess player († 1932 )
• January 19 : Adalbert Defner , Austrian landscape photographer († 1969 )
• January 21 : Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter , German diplomat and leading figure of the NSDAP († 1923 )
• January 23 : Ralph DePalma , American racing driver († 1956 )
• January 23 : George McManus , American cartoonist and comic artist († 1954 )
• January 26 : Roy Chapman Andrews , American researcher, adventurer and paleontologist († 1960 )
• January 26 : Edward Sapir , American ethnologist and linguist († 1939 )
• January 27 : Johannes Antonius James Barge , Dutch anatomist († 1952 )
• January 28 : Joseph Boulnois , French composer and organist († 1918 )
• January 28 : Auguste Piccard , Swiss scientist, physicist and inventor († 1962 )
• January 28 : Jean Félix Piccard , American chemist and balloonist († 1963 )
• January 29 : Juhan Aavik , Estonian composer († 1982 )
• January 29 : Hans Adlhoch , German politician († 1945 )
• January 29 : Douglass Cadwallader , American golf († 1971 )
• January 30 : Pedro Pablo Ramírez Machuca , Argentine President († 1962 )
• January 31 : Edgar Haßmann , Latvian pastor and protestant martyr († 1919 )

Theodor Heuss, 1953

• January 31 : Theodor Heuss , German politician, 1st Federal President of the FRG († 1963 )

February

• 0February 1 : Yevgeny Ivanovich Samjatin , Russian revolutionary and writer († 1937 )
• 0February 1 : Hans Weymar , German football player († 1959 )
• 0February 2 : Theodor Arps , German naval officer († 1947 )
• 0February 2 : Julius Deutsch , Austrian politician († 1968 )
• 0February 2 : Józef Turczyński , Polish pianist and music teacher († 1953 )
• 0February 3 : Robert W. Upton , American politician († 1972 )
• 0February 7th : Achille Liénart , French clergyman, Bishop of Lille and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1973 )
• 0February 8 : Albert Debrunner , Swiss classical philologist and linguist († 1958 )
• 0February 8 : John Moore-Brabazon , British aviation pioneer and conservative politician and racing car driver († 1964 )
• 0February 8 : Willy Schmitter , German racing cyclist († 1905 )
• February 11 : Paul Christiaan Flu , Surinamese tropical medicine doctor († 1945 )
• February 11 : Alfonso Leng , Chilean composer and odontologist († 1974 )
• February 12 : Max Beckmann , German painter and graphic artist († 1950 )
• February 13 : Franz Max Anderlohr , German electrical engineer († 1961 )
• February 13 : Halfdan Bjølgerud , Norwegian high jumper († 1970 )
• February 15 : Émile Bourdon , French organist and composer († 1974 )
• February 16 : Robert J. Flaherty , American filmmaker († 1951 )
• February 16 : Alfred Grünwald , Austrian operetta librettist († 1951 )
• February 17 : Reinier Beeuwkes , Dutch national soccer player († 1963 )
• February 17 : Arthur Hannett , American politician († 1966 )
• February 18 : Julius Gold , American violinist, musicologist and music teacher († 1969 )
• February 18 : Alphonse Martin , Canadian organist, pianist and music teacher († 1947 )
• February 22nd : Abe Attell , American boxer († 1970 )
• February 22nd : York Bowen , English pianist and composer († 1961 )
• February 22 : William Buehler Seabrook , American writer († 1945 )
• February 23 : Casimir Funk , Polish biochemist († 1967 )
• February 24 : William Theodore Heard , British Roman Catholic Cardinal († 1973 )
• February 25 : Abraham Aguilera Bravo , Chilean religious priest and bishop († 1933 )
• February 25 : Franz Josef Heinz , German politician, leader of the Free Peasantry († 1924 )
• February 26 : Francesco Borgongini Duca , Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal († 1954 )

March

• 0March 1 : Maria Assunta Arbesser , Austrian painter and wood sculptor († 1971 )
• 0March 1 : Erich Cohn , German chess player († 1918 )
• 0March 4 : María Barrientos , Spanish opera singer († 1946 )
• 0March 6 : Paul Amann , Austrian writer and translator († 1958 )
• 0March 8 : Georg Lindemann , German Army Officer and later Colonel General († 1963 )
• March 10 : Franz Kuhn , German lawyer, sinologist and literary translator († 1961 )
• March 11 : Lewi Pethrus , Swedish pastor, initiator and leader of the Pentecostal movement in Sweden († 1974 )
• March 12 : Hugo Hirsch , German operetta and hit composer († 1961 )
• March 12 : Joseph Chavée , Belgian racing driver († 1957 )
• March 13 : Hugh Walpole , British writer († 1941 )
• March 13 : Oskar Loerke , German Expressionist poet († 1941 )
• March 14 : Harald Hansen , Danish football player and coach († 1927 )
• March 15 : Céliny Chailley-Richez , French pianist and music teacher († 1973 )
• March 15 : Walter Thomas Layton , British newspaper publisher and economist († 1966 )
• March 16 : Alexander Belyayev , Russian writer († 1942 )
• March 17 : Joseph Bonnet , French-Canadian organist, composer and music teacher († 1944 )
• March 17 : Javier Rengifo , Chilean composer († 1958 )

Ralph Rose

• March 17 : Ralph Rose , American athlete († 1913 )
• March 18 : August Thalheimer , German philosopher and Marxist († 1948 )
• March 19 : Josef Aigner , Austrian state official and politician († 1947 )
• March 20 : Eugen Herrigel , German philosopher († 1955 )
• March 20 : Philipp Frank , Austrian philosopher, physicist and mathematician († 1966 )
• March 20 : José Cavaquinho , Brazilian cavaquinho player, guitarist, flautist, conductor and composer († 1951 )
• March 20 : Sócrates Nolasco , Dominican writer, essayist, historian, politician and diplomat († 1980 )
• March 21 : George David Birkhoff , American mathematician († 1944 )
• March 22 : Arthur H. Vandenberg , American politician († 1951 )
• March 23 : Joseph Groves Boxhall , English navigator, fourth officer of the RMS Titanic († 1967 )
• March 23 : Else von Hollander-Lossow , German translator and narrator
• March 23 : Robert Thelen , German engineer, pilot and aviation pioneer († 1968 )
• March 24th : Cardinal Eugène Tisserant , French cardinal dean († 1972 )
• March 24 : Paul Trendelenburg , German pharmacologist († 1931 )
• March 24 : Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye , Dutch physicist and chemist († 1966 )
• March 24 : Viktor Geramb , Austrian folklorist († 1958 )
• March 26 : Wilhelm Backhaus , German pianist († 1969 )
• March 26 : Georges Imbert , French chemist and inventor († 1950 )
• March 28 : Fritz Heckert , German politician and member of the Bundestag († 1936 )
• March 29 : Edward Archibald , Canadian pole vaulter († 1965 )

April

• 0April 1 : Ernst Appel , German rabbi († 1973 )
• 0April 1 : Kurt Blaum , German politician († 1970 )
• 0April 1 : Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen , Dutch chemist († 1962 )
• 0April 1 : George A. Wilson , American politician († 1953 )
• 0April 2 : Dolf Kessler , Dutch football player († 1945 )
• 0April 3 : Rikichi Andō , Japanese general († 1946 )
• 0April 4 : Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese Grand Admiral († 1943 )
• 0April 5 : Heinrich Angermeier , German politician († 1945 )
• 0April 6 : Walter Huston , Canadian actor († 1950 )
• 0April 7 : John Hutchinson , British botanist († 1972 )
• 0April 7 : Bronisław Malinowski , British social anthropologist († 1942 )
• 0April 7 : Clement Smoot , American golfer († 1963 )
• 0April 9 : Marcel Aubert , French historian and art historian († 1962 )

Otto Meyerhof, 1923

• April 12 : Otto Fritz Meyerhof , German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize Winner († 1951 )
• April 14th : Horst Platen , German composer, conductor and theater manager, as well as broadcasting director of NORAG subsidiary station Hanover († 1964 )
• April 18 : Jaan Anvelt , Estonian communist and writer († 1937 )
• April 18 : Ludwig Meidner , German painter, poet and graphic artist († 1966 )
• April 18 : Artur Koenig , German politician and member of the Reichstag
• April 20 : Augusto dos Anjos , Brazilian poet († 1914 )
• April 20 : Maurice Dumesnil , French pianist († 1974 )
• April 21 : Kees van Nieuwenhuizen , Dutch football player († 1981 )
• April 23 : Jusztinián György Serédi , Hungarian clergyman, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal († 1945 )
• April 24th : Otto Froitzheim , German tennis player († 1962 )
• April 27 : Arthur Wieferich , German mathematician († 1954 )
• April 28 : Emil Ruh , Swiss composer and conductor († 1946 )
• April 28 : Hubert Giertz , German clergyman, priest and official in the Archdiocese of Cologne († 1966 )
• April 30 : Arthur Erich Haas , Austrian physicist († 1941 )
• April 30 : Walter Georg Karl Schröder , German writer († 1955 )

May

• 0May 1 : Siegfried Aufhäuser , German trade union leader and politician († 1969 )
• 0May 1 : Felipe Boero , Argentine composer († 1958 )
• 0May 1 : Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe , British officer, politician and racing car driver († 1964 )
• 0May 2 : Heinrich Steinbeck , Swiss composer and conductor († 1967 )
• 0May 6 : Pierre Aeby , Swiss politician († 1957 )
• 0May 6 : Hermann Quistorf , German writer and translator († 1969 )

Harry S. Truman, 1945

• 0May 8 : Harry S. Truman , American politician, 33rd President of the USA († 1972 )
• 0May 9 : Friedrich Krause-Osten , German painter († 1966 )
• May 10 : Roberto Firpo , Argentine tango musician and composer († 1969 )
• May 11 : Rudolf Dix , German lawyer and notary († 1952 )
• May 11 : Charlot Strasser , Swiss psychiatrist and writer († 1950 )
• May 12 : Josef Brönner , German politician († 1958 )
• May 14 : Hinrich Abel , German politician († 1954 )
• May 14 : Claude Dornier , German aircraft designer († 1969 )
• May 15 : Max Taut , German architect († 1967 )
• May 16 : Piotr Rytel , Polish composer, music teacher and critic († 1970 )
• May 17 : Sidney Preston Osborn , American politician († 1948 )
• May 18 : Pius Parsch , Austrian Augustinian canon and Catholic theologian († 1954 )
• May 21 : Friedrich Oertel , German ancient historian († 1975 )
• May 22 : August Asmuth , German politician († 1935 )
• May 23 : John Bright , American lawyer († 1948 )
• May 23 : Josef Nadler , German Germanist and literary historian († 1963 )
• May 23 : Ernst Pündter , German actor, theater director, radio play speaker and director, as well as broadcasting director of the Bremen branch of the Nordischen Rundfunk AG (NORAG) († 1929 )
• May 24 : Benjamin Markowitsch Blumenfeld , Russian chess player († 1947 )
• May 25 : Emilio Perea , Italian opera singer († 1946 )
• May 27 : Max Brod , Czech writer († 1968 )
• May 27 : Emil Pirchan , Austrian set designer and author († 1957 )
• May 28 : Edvard Beneš , Czech Foreign Minister and President († 1948 )
• May 28 : Martin Elsaesser , German professor of architecture († 1957 )

June

• 0June 1 : Georges Aubé , French general († 1971 )
• 0June 2 : Mia May , Austrian silent film actress († 1980 )
• 0June 2 : Ferdinando Minoia , Italian racing car driver († 1940 )
• 0June 5 : Armando Annuale , Italian actor († 1962 )
• 0June 5 : Ralph Benatzky , Austrian composer († 1957 )
• 0June 5 : Bernhard Goetzke , German actor († 1964 )
• June 10 : Burghard Breitner , Austrian surgeon († 1956 )
• June 10 : Adalbert Friedrich , German football player († 1962 )
• June 10 : Walther Schreiber , German politician († 1958 )
• June 12 : William Crosby Pierce Austin , British actor († 1975 )
• June 13 : Burrill Crohn , American doctor, first person to describe Crohn's disease († 1983 )
• June 13 : Anton Drexler , German politician, co-founder of the German Workers' Party (DAP) († 1942 )
• June 13 : Gerald Brousseau Gardner , English colonial administrator, sorcerer († 1964 )
• June 13 : Étienne Gilson , French philosopher († 1978 )
• June 13 : Albin Grau , German film producer, graphic artist and author († 1971 )
• June 15 : Rodney Heath , Australian tennis player († 1936 )

Harry Langdon (center)

• June 15 : Harry Langdon , American actor († 1944 )
• June 17 : Wilhelm of Sweden , Swedish nobleman, Duke of Södermanland († 1965 )
• June 18 : Édouard Daladier , French politician († 1970 )
• June 18 : Frédéric Gilliard , Swiss architect and archaeologist († 1967 )
• June 19 : Agnes von Zahn-Harnack , German teacher, writer and women's rights activist († 1950 )
• June 20 : Johannes Heinrich Schultz , German neurologist († 1970 )
• June 21 : Garrett L. Withers , American politician († 1953 )
• June 22nd : William B. Houchens , American musician († 1949 )
• June 23 : Werner Krauss , German actor († 1959 )
• June 25 : Wilhelm Diess , German (Bavarian) storyteller, lawyer and theater director († 1957 )
• June 26 : Hermann Bürkle , German football player († 1914 )
• June 26 : Peter Petersen , German reform pedagogue († 1952 )
• June 30 : Karl Aderhold , German politician († 1921 )
• June 30 : Heinrich Aschenbrandt , German officer († 1953 )
• June 30 : Georges Duhamel , French writer († 1966 )
• June 30 : Franz Halder , German General († 1972 )

July

• 0July 2 : Alfons Maria Jakob , German neurologist († 1931 )
• 0July 3 : Arnold Eucken , German physical chemist († 1950 )
• 0July 4th : Fritz ter Meer , German chemist († 1967 )
• 0July 5 : Luigi Forlano , Italian football player († 1916 )
• 0July 5 : August Siemsen , German politician and educator († 1958 )
• 0July 6 : Willem Marinus Dudok , Dutch architect († 1974 )
• 0July 7 : Lion Feuchtwanger , German writer († 1958 )
• 0July 8 : Willi Trinne , German politician († 1973 )
• July 11 : Howard Estabrook , American screenwriter († 1978 )
• July 12 : Louis B. Mayer , American film producer († 1957 )

Amedeo Modigliani, self-portrait, 1907

• July 12 : Amedeo Modigliani , Italian painter and sculptor († 1920 )
• July 15 : Enrique Soro Barriga , Chilean composer († 1954 )
• July 15 : Phraya Manopakorn Nititada , Thai Prime Minister († 1948 )
• July 17 : Walter von Keudell , German politician, Reich Minister († 1973 )
• July 17th : Umberto Malvano , Italian football player, referee and official as well as engineer († 1971 )
• July 18 : Alberto di Joric , Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1979 )
• July 18 : Herman Jurgens , Dutch football player († 1964 )
• July 19 : Carl Eduard , German nobleman, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1954 )
• July 21 : Louis Grenville Abell , American rower († 1962 )

Emil Jannings, 1929

• July 23 : Emil Jannings , German actor († 1950 )
• July 23 : Apolinary Szeluto , Polish composer († 1966 )
• July 24 : Jakob Sprenger , German politician († 1945 )
• July 25 : Rafael Arévalo Martínez , Guatemalan novelist, essayist and poet († 1975 )
• July 25 : Martin Davey , American politician († 1946 )
• July 26 : Elie Redon , French racing car driver († 1963 )
• July 27 : Ernst Bertram , German Germanist, poet and writer († 1957 )
• July 27 : Zenzl Mühsam , wife of the poet Erich Mühsam († 1962 )
• July 28 : Kurt Landauer , German football official († 1961 )
• July 28 : John E. Miles , American politician († 1971 )
• July 29th : Boris Wladimirowitsch Assafjew , Russian composer († 1949 )
• July 29 : Fritz Neumayer , German politician († 1973 )
• July 29 : Karl Müller , German politician († 1964 )
• July 30 : Ernö Szép , Hungarian poet, writer and journalist († 1953 )

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, 1925

• July 31 : Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , German politician and resistance fighter († 1945 )

August

• 0August 3 : Constant Feith , Dutch football player († 1958 )
• 0August 3 : Georges Boillot , French racing driver and fighter pilot in World War I († 1916 )
• 0August 3 : Josias Braun-Blanquet , Swiss botanist († 1980 )
• 0August 4 : Béla Balázs , Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet († 1949 )
• 0August 4th : Henri Cornet , French cyclist († 1941 )
• 0August 5th : Ludwik Hirszfeld , Polish physician and immunologist († 1954 )
• 0August 5 : Panteleimon Sergejewitsch Romanow , Russian writer († 1938 )
• 0August 7 : Franz Auweck , German politician († 1964 )
• 0August 7 : Paul Frölich , German politician, author and biographer of Rosa Luxemburg († 1953 )
• 0August 8 : Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg , Austrian classical philologist and Germanist († 1943 )
• August 10 : Robert Wichard Pohl , German physicist († 1976 )
• August 11 : Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen , German writer († 1945 )
• August 13 : Johanna van Ammers-Küller , Dutch writer († 1966 )
• August 13 : Guus Lutjens , Dutch football player († 1974 )
• August 13 : Albert Kallee , German lawyer († 1956 )
• August 14 : Erwin von Sigel , German athlete († 1967 )
• August 15 : Dietrich Kralik , Austrian old Germanist († 1959 )
• August 15 : Michael Unterguggenberger , Austrian politician, Mayor of Wörgl (Tyrol) († 1936 )
• August 16 : Hugo Gernsback , American publisher and writer († 1967 )
• August 17 : Dario Resta , Italian-British racing car driver († 1924 )
• August 18 : Basil Cameron , English violinist and conductor († 1975 )

Rudolf Bultmann

• August 20 : Rudolf Karl Bultmann , German philosopher, Protestant theologian, New Testament scholar († 1976 )
• August 20 : Forrest C. Donnell , American politician († 1980 )
• August 21 : Chandler Egan , American golfer († 1936 )
• August 21 : Bohumil Kubišta , Czech painter († 1918 )
• August 22 : Hans Rudolf Theodor Schubert , Prussian state archivist and historian († 1961 )
• August 23 : Benito García de la Parra , Spanish composer and music teacher († 1953 )
• August 23 : Ogden L. Mills , American politician († 1937 )
• August 23 : Jules Fournier , Canadian journalist, newspaper publisher, translator and essayist († 1918 )
• August 24 : Earl Derr Biggers , American crime novelist († 1933 )
• August 25 : Léon Poirier , French film director and screenwriter († 1968 )
• August 27 : Alexander Abascheli , Georgian-Soviet poet († 1954 )
• August 27 : Vincent Auriol , politician and President of the French Republic († 1966 )
• August 27 : John Edward Brownlee , Canadian politician († 1961 )
• August 28 : Manfred Robert Erwin Aron , German-American industrialist († 1967 )
• August 28 : Christian Stock , German politician and first Prime Minister of Hesse († 1967 )
• August 28 : Hans Jensen , German linguist († 1973 )
• August 28 : Peter Wust , German existential philosopher († 1940 )
• August 29 : Ehm Welk , German writer († 1966 )
• August 30 : Karl Augustin-Hartmann , Swiss printer and publisher († 1988 )
• August 30 : Theodor Svedberg , Swedish chemist († 1971 )
• August 31 : George Sarton , American historian of science († 1956 )

September

• 0September 1 : Friedrich von Prittwitz and Gaffron , German Ambassador to the USA, Member of the Bundestag († 1955 )
• 0September 2 : André Auffray , French cyclist († 1953 )
• 0September 2 : Joachim Wilhelm Robert Feulgen , German physician and university professor († 1955 )
• 0September 4 : Georges Pitoëff , French actor, director and theater manager († 1939 )
• 0September 6 : Emerson Whithorne , American composer († 1958 )
• 0September 8 : James Earle Ash , American pathologist and officer († 1986 )
• 0September 9 : Arthur Lieutenant , German politician († 1968 )
• September 10 : Walter A. Berendsohn , German literary scholar († 1984 )
• September 15 : Floro Ugarte , Argentine composer († 1975 )
• September 16 : Philipp Wilhelm Jung , German politician († 1965 )
• September 17 : Charles Tomlinson Griffes , American composer († 1920 )
• September 19 : Jean Rossel , Swiss politician and federal judge († 1944 )
• September 21 : Maximilian Adler , Czech classical philologist and university lecturer († 1944 )
• September 21 : Hachirō Arita , Japanese diplomat and politician († 1965 )
• September 21 : Clarence Dill , American politician († 1978 )
• September 21 : Raymond Glaszmann , French racing car driver († 1953 )
• September 22 : Oskar Farner , Swiss Protestant clergyman and Zwingli researcher († 1958 )
• September 23 : Eugene Talmadge , American politician († 1946 )
• September 24 : Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag , Polish Kabbalist († 1954 )
• September 24th : Gustave Garrigou , French cyclist († 1963 )

İsmet İnönü

• September 24th : İsmet İnönü , General, State and Prime Minister of Turkey († 1973 )
• September 24th : Hugo Schmeisser , German weapons designer († 1953 )
• September 29 : Wilhelm Bendow , German actor and comedian († 1950 )
• September 30 : Adeodato Giovanni Piazza , Patriarch of Venice and Cardinal († 1957 )
• 00.September: Henri-Julien Matthys , Belgian entrepreneur and racing car driver († 1925 )

October

• 0October 2 : Ralph Arthur Roberts (pseudonym), German actor, director, writer and composer († 1940 )
• 0October 6 : Maurice Hewitt , French violinist and conductor († 1971 )
• 0October 7 : Fritz Noether , German mathematician († 1941 )
• 0October 8 : Theodor Dombart , German architect, university lecturer and Munich local history researcher († 1969 )
• 0October 8 : Walter von Reichenau , German Field Marshal General and war criminal († 1942 )
• 0October 9 : Helene Deutsch , Austrian-Polish-American psychoanalyst († 1982 )
• October 10 : Friedrich von Rabenau , German general, theologian and Nazi victim († 1945 )
• October 10 : Ida Wüst , German actress († 1958 )
• October 11 : Eleanor Roosevelt , wife of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt († 1962 )

Friedrich Bergius

• October 11 : Friedrich Bergius , German chemist, Nobel Prize winner († 1949 )
• October 11 : Anton Wilhelm Brøgger , Norwegian prehistorian and politician († 1951)
• October 11 : Sig Ruman , American actor († 1967 )
• October 13 : Antonio Mediz Bolio , Mexican writer, journalist and politician († 1957 )
• October 14 : Jean de Sperati , Italian stamp forger († 1957 )
• October 15 : Wilhelm Schapp , German philosopher and lawyer († 1965 )
• October 16 : Rembrandt Bugatti , Italian sculptor († 1916 )
• October 17 : Thomas Mabry , American politician († 1962 )
• October 18 : Karl Witzell , German General Admiral for Arms Development († 1976 )
• October 19 : Max Nemetz , German actor († 1971 )

Claire Waldoff, 1905

• October 21 : Claire Waldoff , German chanson singer. († 1957 )
• October 21 : Max Mack , German film director († 1973 )
• October 23 : Wilbur Louis Adams , American politician († 1937 )
• October 24 : Hertha Koenig , German writer and poet († 1976 )
• October 30 : Willy Andreas , German historian († 1967 )
• October 30 : Rudolf Forster , Austrian actor († 1968 )

November

• 0November 2 : Sigurd Savonius , Finnish architect and inventor († 1931 )
• 0November 5 : Joseph C. O'Mahoney , American politician († 1962 )
• 0November 8 : Christian Mergenthaler , German politician, Prime Minister of Württemberg († 1980 )
• 0November 8 : Hermann Rorschach , Swiss psychiatrist († 1922 )
• 0November 9th : Vincenz Duncker , German athlete, Olympic participant
• November 13 : Ernst Adam , German priest and clergyman († 1955 )
• November 15 : Julius Herman Boeke , Dutch economist († 1956 )
• November 16 : Bruno Arnold , German photographer († 1933 )
• November 16 : Kurt Frick , German architect († 1963 )
• November 19 : Giuseppe Ernesto Ardizzone , American mobster († 1931 )
• November 22nd : Raoul Bachmann , French racing car driver († 1934 )
• November 24 : Michel de Klerk , Dutch architect († 1923 )
• November 27 : Paul-Alexandre Arnoux , French writer († 1973 )
• November 28 : Anton Lens , Dutch football player († 1955 )
• November 30th : John Maurice Clark , American economist († 1963 )
• November 30th : Yvan Goor , Belgian cyclist and motorcycle racer († 1958 )

December

• 0December 1 : Hans Eicke , German athlete († 1947 )
• 0December 1 : Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , German expressionist painter († 1976 )
• 0December 2 : Johannes Popitz , Prussian finance minister and resistance fighter († 1945 )
• 0December 2 : Paul Schmitthenner , German historian († 1963 )
• 0December 3 : Rajendra Prasad , Indian politician and 1st President († 1963 )
• 0December 3 : Walther Stampfli , Swiss politician († 1965 )
• 0December 6 : Werner Arndt , German table tennis official († 1939 )
• 0December 6 : James Francis Kenney , Canadian historian, archivist and Celtologist († 1946 )
• 0December 6 : Eleuterio Riccardi , Italian painter and sculptor († 1963 )
• December 10 : Albert Steffen , Swiss anthroposophist and poet († 1963 )
• December 11 : Otto Kneipp , German politician († 1965 )
• December 11 : Wilhelm Brückner , German military, chief adjutant of Adolf Hitler († 1954 )
• December 12 : John Heijning , Dutch football player († 1947 )
• December 14 : Erich Ponto , German actor († 1957 )
• December 14th : Mykolay Charnetskyi , Seliger, Ukrainian bishop († 1959 )
• December 14 : Regina Ullmann , Swiss poet († 1961 )
• December 15 : Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund , German chemist († 1965 )
• December 15 : Paul Schmitthenner , German architect and university professor († 1972 )
• December 17 : Robert John Armstrong , American Bishop († 1957 )
• December 17 : Heinrich Scholz , German Protestant theologian and philosopher († 1956 )
• December 18 : Gustaf Henning Andersson , Swedish politician († 1961 )
• December 19 : Gaston Aumoitte , French croquet player († 1957 )
• December 19 : Antonín Zápotocký , Czechoslovak politician († 1957 )
• December 20 : Juozas Gruodis , Lithuanian composer and music teacher († 1948 )
• December 21 : Camillo Ugi , German football player († 1970 )
• December 28 : Karel Anděl Czech selenographer and co-founder of the Czech Astronomical Society († 1947 )
• December 28 : Hugo Rosendahl , German politician († 1964 )
• December 30 : Wilhelm Arnoldi , German Ministerial Director († 1965 )
• December 30th : Hideki Tōjō , Japanese Prime Minister and General († 1948 )
• 00.December: Wilhelm Lemke , German gymnast

Exact date of birth unknown

• Ali Aaltonen , Finnish lieutenant in the army of the Russian Empire, journalist and communist leader († 1918 )
• Halide Edip Adıvar , Turkish poet, revolutionary, officer, professor, parliamentarian and writer († 1964 )
• Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi , Iranian Lieutenant General of the Army, Minister and Senator in Iran († 1974 )
• Paul Felix Augustin , Dutch Germanist
• José Backhaus , Chilean painter († 1922 )
• Samuel Belov , American violinist, violist and music teacher († 1954 )
• Eva Clare , Canadian pianist and music teacher († 1961 )
• Blanche Gauthier , Canadian actress and singer († 1960 )
• Sardar Mohammed Haschim Khan , Afghan politician and regent († 1953 )
• Arthur Pigeon , Canadian accordionist († 1966 )

Died

First quarter

• 0January 2 : Margarethe von Bülow , German writer (* 1860 )
• 0January 2nd : Daniel Harrwitz , German chess master (* 1821 )
• 0January 2 : Johann Gerhard Oncken , German founder of the German Baptist congregations (* 1800 )
• 0January 4th : Louis Ehlert , German composer and music critic (* 1825 )
• 0January 5 : Eduard Lasker , Prussian politician and lawyer (* 1829 )

Gregor Mendel

• 0January 6th : Gregor Mendel , Austrian monk and naturalist (* 1822 )
• January 14th : Philippe Suchard , Swiss chocolate producer (* 1797 )
• January 17th : Hermann Schlegel , German ornithologist (* 1804 )
• January 18 : Green Adams , American politician (* 1812 )
• January 22nd : Guido von Usedom , Prussian diplomat (* 1805 )
• January 24th : Johan Christian Gebauer , Danish composer, music theorist and organist (* 1808 )
• January 25 : Johann Gottfried Piefke , Prussian military musician and composer (* 1815 )
• January 26 : John Letcher , American lawyer and politician (* 1813 )
• January 28 : August Wilhelm Grube , German educator and writer (* 1816 )

• 0February 2 : Julius Köbner , Danish co-founder of the German Baptist congregations (* 1806 )
• 0February 3 : Josefine Gallmeyer , Austrian actress (* 1838 )
• 0February 3 : Louis Jéhotte , Belgian sculptor (* 1803 or 1804 )
• 0February 4 : Henry Cooper , American politician (* 1827 )
• 0February 8 : Cetshwayo , King of the Zulu and their leader in the Zulu War (* around 1826 )
• February 12 : Aaron Bernstein , German writer (* 1812 )
• February 17 : Heinrich Berghaus , German cartographer (* 1797 )
• February 19 : George Henry Martin Johnson , Chief of the Mohawk (* 1816 )
• February 19 : Karl Viktor Müllenhoff , German philologist (* 1818 )
• February 24 : Georg Büchmann , German philologist (* 1822 )
• February 24 : Christian Gottlob Schmidt , German entrepreneur (* 1844 )
• February 25 : Samuel Price , American politician (* 1805 )
• February 26 : Johann Daniel Eschenburg , German politician, Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (* 1809 )
• February 27 : William H. Hunt , American politician (* 1823 )

• 0March 4 : Friedrich Ahlfeld , German theologian, preacher and author (* 1810 )
• March 13 : Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold , German mathematician and physicist (* 1819 )
• March 14th : Robert Oettel , German businessman and city councilor, founder of German pedigree poultry breeding (* 1798 )
• March 15 : Ernst Behm , German writer (* 1830 )
• March 17th : Paul Pogge , German traveler to Africa (* 1838 )
• March 19 : Charles Renaud de Vilbac , French organist and composer (* 1829 )
• March 19 : Elias Lönnrot , Finnish medic (* 1802 )
• March 20 : Wladimir Adlerberg , Russian general and minister (* 1791 )
• March 21 : Ezra Abbot , American theologian, Bible critic and university professor (* 1819 )
• March 27 : Richard Böhm , German zoologist and explorer (* 1854 )
• March 31 : Konrad Deubler , Austrian farmer, farmer philosopher (* 1814 )

Second quarter

• 0April 6 : Emanuel Geibel , German poet (* 1815 )
• April 22nd : Marie Taglioni , Italian dancer (* 1804 )
• April 24th : Isaac Newton Arnold , American politician (* 1815 )
• April 25 : Marcus Lawrence Ward , American politician (* 1812 )

• 0May 2 : Michail Fjodorowitsch Rajewski , Russian Orthodox Archpriest, Head of the Embassy Church in Vienna (*  1811 )
• 0May 3 : Truman Smith , American politician (* 1791 )
• 0May 6 : Judah Philip Benjamin , American politician (* 1811 )
• 0May 8 : Midhat Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (* 1822 )
• 0May 8 : Michael Stourdza , Prince of the Moldau and honorary citizen of Baden-Baden (* 1794 )

Bedřich Smetana (approx. 1878)

• May 12 : Bedřich Smetana , Bohemian composer (* 1824 )
• May 13 : Cyrus McCormick , American inventor of agricultural machinery and company founder (* 1809 )
• May 15 : Georg Friedrich Kolb , German politician (* 1808 )
• May 16 : Teobaldo Power , Spanish composer (* 1848 )
• May 18 : Heinrich Göppert , German botanist, paleontologist and professor (* 1800 )
• May 26 : Joaquim António de Aguiar , Portuguese politician (* 1792 )
• May 26 : Wilhelm Achtermann , German sculptor (* 1799 )
• May 31 : Bethel Henry Strousberg , German entrepreneur from the early days (* 1823 )

• 0June 8 : Frederik Stang , Norwegian politician and President of the Interior Department (* 1808 )
• 0June 9 : Johann Jakob Kraft , German auxiliary bishop (* 1808 )
• June 11 : August von Hauner , German pediatrician and university professor (* 1811 )
• June 13 : Jan Arnošt Smoler , Sorbian philologist, writer and publisher (* 1816 )
• June 13 : Anton Zwengauer , German painter (* 1810 )
• June 19 : Juan Bautista Alberdi , Argentine politician, diplomat, writer and journalist (* 1810 )
• June 19 : Johann Gustav Droysen , German historian (* 1808 )
• June 25 : Hans Rott , Austrian composer and organist (* 1858 )
• June 26 : Jacques-Joseph Moreau , French doctor and psychiatrist (* 1804 )
• June 27 : Andreas Munch , Norwegian poet (* 1811 )

Third quarter

• 0July 1 : Allan Pinkerton , Scottish-American founder of a private detective agency (* 1819 )
• 0July 2 : Franz Adler , German politician (* 1814 )
• 0July 3 : Candelario Obeso , Colombian writer (* 1849 )
• 0July 8 : Georg Eberlein , German builder and painter (* 1819 )
• July 10 : Karl Richard Lepsius , German Egyptologist and Africa explorer (* 1810 )
• July 10 : Paul Morphy , American chess player (* 1837 )
• July 18 : Ferdinand von Hochstetter , German geologist, naturalist and explorer (* 1829 )
• July 25 : Walter Harriman , American politician (* 1817 )
• July 30th : Mark Pattison , English author (* 1813 )

• 0August 1 : Heinrich Laube , German writer and playwright (* 1806 )
• 0August 1 : Kiến Phúc , seventh emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty (* 1868 )
• 0August 3 : Paul Abadie , French builder (* 1812 )
• August 11 : Moritz Thausing , German art writer (* 1838 )
• August 13 : Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington , British general (* 1807 )
• August 16 : John Pool , American politician (* 1826 )
• August 18 : Franz Seraphin Hölzl , Austrian composer, choir director and church musician (* 1808 )
• August 21 : Ottilie Davida Assing , German writer (* 1819 )
• August 23 : Aegidius Rudolph Nicolaus Arntz , German legal scholar (* 1812 )
• August 27 : Maximilian von Wächter , Mayor of Nuremberg from 1854 to 1867 (* 1811 )

• 0September 2 : Henry B. Anthony , American politician (* 1815 )
• 0September 4 : Charles J. Folger , American politician (* 1818 )
• September 25 : Karl Appold , German painter, draftsman and engraver (* 1840 )
• September 27 : Jakob Bruderer , Swiss entrepreneur and politician (* 1821 )
• September 30th : Louis Lacombe , French composer (* 1818 )

Fourth Quarter

• 0October 3 : Hans Makart , Austrian painter and decorative artist (* 1840 )
• October 10 : Robert Christian Barthold Avé-Lallemant , German doctor and explorer (* 1812 )
• October 18 : Duke Wilhelm , the last Guelph of the New House of Brunswick on the Brunswick throne (* 1806 )
• October 25 : Carlo Alberto Castigliano , Italian builder, engineer and scientist (* 1847 )
• October 29 : Albert Dulk , German free thinker, playwright, revolutionary (* 1819 )
• October 29 : Klara Wendel , alleged "robber queen" (* 1804 )
• October 30 : Pasquale Brignoli , Italian opera tenor (* 1824 )
• October 31 : Marie Bashkirtseff , Russian painter, writer and philosopher (* 1858 )

• 0November 1 : Jacobus Anthonie Fruin , Dutch legal scholar (* 1829 )
• 0November 2 : Karel Slavoj Amerling , Czech pedagogue, writer and philosopher (* 1807 )
• November 11th : Rudolph Anton , German lawyer and politician (* 1830 )
• November 11th : Alfred Brehm , German zoologist (* 1829 )

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe

• November 25th : Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe , German chemist (* 1818 )
• November 25 : Mathilde Franziska Anneke , German writer, editor of a German women's newspaper (* 1817 )

Fanny Elßler (1831)

• November 27th : Fanny Elßler , Austrian dancer (* 1810 )

• 0December 8 : Sigmund Lebert , German music teacher (* 1821 )
• December 10 : Jules Bastien-Lepage , French painter (* 1848 )
• December 10 : Eduard Rüppell , German scientist and Africa explorer (* 1794 )
• December 13 : Lars Anton Anjou , Swedish church historian, politician and clergyman (* 1803 )
• December 18 : Hermann von Abendroth , Saxon politician (* 1807 )
• December 18 : Leopold Schoeller , German entrepreneur and founder of the Düren carpet office (* 1792 )
• December 20 : Domenico Consolini , Italian Curia Cardinal (* 1806 )
• December 20 : José Lorenzo Buenaventura Güell y Renté , Cuban-Spanish politician and writer (* 1818 )
• December 24th : August Otto , Austrian businessman (* unknown)
• December 29th : Johann Petzmayer , German zither player (* 1803 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Tomàs Aguiló i Forteza , Mallorcan poet, writer and journalist (* 1812 )
• Johann Ludwig Aickelin , German scribe and copyist (* 1810 )
• Mirza Sa'id Khan Ansari , Persian Foreign Minister (* 1816 )
• John Player , British entrepreneur (* 1839 )

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