{--page_num--}Famous Personalities Born In 1854

Sep 01 Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal) was born on this day in history.  

Sep 02 On this day in history birth of hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)  

Sep 08 Willem M van Rossum, Dutch cardinal/prefect of Propaganda File was born on this day in history.  

Sep 10 On this day in history birth of anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman)  

Sep 17 David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929) was born on this day in history.  

Sep 17 On this day in history birth of hans Muller, music historian  

Sep 23 On this day in history birth of cornelis W Lely, Dutch engineer/gov of Suriname (1902-05)  

Sep 28 Adam Sedgwick, Norwich England, English zoologist (Peripatus) was born in the year 1854.  

Sep 29 On this day in history birth of martin Pluddemann, composer  

Oct 03 On this day in history birth of william Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever  

Oct 07 Christiaan R de Wet, South Africa, Boer General (Nicholsonsnek) was born in the year 1854.  

Oct 07 On this day in history birth of christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War  

Oct 10 In the year 1854 birth of jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer  

Oct 16 On this day in history birth of karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist  

Oct 16 On this day in history birth of oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray)  

Oct 18 In the year 1854 birth of bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket)  

Oct 18 In the year 1854 birth of solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer  

Oct 20 Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) was born on this day in history.  

Oct 20 Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations) was born in the year 1854.  

Oct 24 In the year 1854 birth of hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte)  

Oct 26 August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam) was born in the year 1854.  

Oct 26 In the year 1854 birth of c. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)  

Oct 27 In the year 1854 birth of sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)  

Oct 31 Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt) was born on this day in history.  

Nov 05 On this day in history birth of alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)  

Nov 05 On this day in history birth of paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)  

Nov 06 On this day in history birth of john Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)  

Nov 08 Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919) was born on this day in history.  

Nov 09 On this day in history birth of joseph Miroslav Weber, composer  

Nov 13 George Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke) was born on this day in history.  

Nov 16 In the year 1854 birth of jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician  

Nov 17 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17) was born in the year 1854.  

Nov 21 On this day in history birth of benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22)  

Nov 27 Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs was born on this day in history.  

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Jan 08 On this day in history death of william Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)  

Jan 09 On this day in history filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77  

Jan 18 Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies in the year 1854.  

Feb 04 On this day in history carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66  

Feb 17 In the year 1854 hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71  

Mar 06 In the year 1854 caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80  

Mar 11 On this day in history death of willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)  

Apr 06 William Strickland, US architect, dies in the year 1854.