{--page_num--}Famous Personalities Born In 1857

Jan 02 Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02 On this day in history birth of martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)  

Jan 06 On this day in history birth of hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)  

Jan 06 William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 09 In the year 1857 birth of henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)  

Jan 11 Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 17 Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 17 Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 18 In the year 1857 birth of otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)  

Jan 23 Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 26 the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 31 In the year 1857 birth of george Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933)  

Feb 02 On this day in history birth of jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector  

Feb 09 Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education was born in the year 1857.  

Feb 12 Bobby Peel, cricketer (great English lefty 1884-96) was born in the year 1857.  

Feb 17 In the year 1857 birth of samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher  

Feb 18 In the year 1857 birth of max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor  

Feb 21 In the year 1857 birth of jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)  

Feb 22 In the year 1857 birth of heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves  

Feb 22 On this day in history birth of robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)  

Feb 26 In the year 1857 birth of emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)  

Feb 28 Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer was born in the year 1857.  

Mar 03 On this day in history birth of alfred Bruneau, composer  

Mar 07 In the year 1857 birth of julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)  

Mar 08 In the year 1857 birth of ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza)  

Mar 16 Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 22 On this day in history birth of arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)  

Mar 22 Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 23 In the year 1857 birth of fannie Farmer, actress (namesake of a candy company)  

Mar 27 In the year 1857 birth of karl Pearson, London England, mathematician  

Mar 27 In the year 1857 birth of pearson, mathematician  

Mar 30 On this day in history birth of leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)  

Apr 05 Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86) was born in the year 1857.  

Apr 10 On this day in history birth of henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker  

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Jan 20 In the year 1857 edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32  

Jan 27 On this day in history dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72  

Feb 07 On this day in history félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65  

Feb 09 On this day in history death of dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)  

Feb 10 David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770) died in the year 1857.  

Feb 14 On this day in history johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56  

Feb 15 On this day in history mikhail Glinka, composer, dies  

Feb 16 Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77 in the year 1857.