Born in 1862
- ️Wed Dec 17 2008
Born in 1862
LISTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice Barrès | Novelist | 19-Aug-1862 | 4-Dec-1923 | Cult of the Self |
| William Bragg | Physicist | 2-Jul-1862 | 12-Mar-1942 | Analyzed crystal structures |
| Aristide Briand | Politician | 28-Mar-1862 | 7-Mar-1932 | WWI French Prime Minister |
| Constantin Brunner | Philosopher | 27-Aug-1862 | 17-Aug-1937 | German Jewish philosopher |
| Nicholas Murray Butler | Educator | 2-Apr-1862 | 7-Dec-1947 | President of Columbia University, 1901-45 |
| William W. Campbell | Astronomer | 11-Apr-1862 | 14-Jun-1938 | Stellar Motions |
| John Jay Chapman | Essayist | 2-Mar-1862 | 4-Nov-1933 | Essayist, founder of The Nursery |
| Carl Charlier | Astronomer | 1-Apr-1862 | 5-Nov-1934 | Motion and the Distribution of the Stars |
| George B. Cortelyou | Politician | 26-Jul-1862 | 23-Oct-1940 | US Treasury Secretary, 1907-09 |
| Wilbur L. Cross | Politician | 10-Apr-1862 | 5-Oct-1948 | Governor of Connecticut, 1931-39 |
| Walter Damrosch | Conductor | 30-Jan-1862 | 22-Dec-1950 | Conductor, popularizer of music |
| Josephus Daniels | Government | 18-May-1862 | 15-Jan-1948 | Secretary of the Navy, 1913-21 |
| Claude Debussy | Composer | 22-Aug-1862 | 25-Mar-1918 | French Impressionist composer |
| Frederick Delius | Composer | 29-Jan-1862 | 10-Jun-1934 | Over the Hills and Far Away |
| Frank Doubleday | Business | 8-Jan-1862 | 30-Jan-1934 | Publisher |
| Robert Emden | Mathematician | 4-Mar-1862 | 8-Oct-1940 | Stellar structure |
| Andrew Fisher | Head of State | 29-Aug-1862 | 22-Oct-1928 | Former Prime Minister of Australia |
| Walter Lowrie Fisher | Government | 4-Jul-1862 | 9-Nov-1935 | US Interior Secretary, 1911-13 |
| Robert Ford | Criminal | 31-Jan-1862 | 8-Jun-1892 | Shot and killed Jesse James |
| Walter S. Goodland | Politician | 22-Dec-1862 | 12-Mar-1947 | Governor of Wisconsin, 1943-47 |
| Allvar Gullstrand | Doctor | 5-Jun-1862 | 28-Jul-1930 | Ophthalmologist, refraction of light in the eye |
| Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane | Author | 27-May-1862 | 24-Dec-1937 | Descartes: His Life and Times |
| Hjalmar Hammarskjöld | Head of State | 4-Feb-1862 | 12-Oct-1953 | Prime Minister of Sweden, 1914-17 |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | Playwright | 15-Nov-1862 | 6-Jun-1946 | Die Weber |
| O. Henry | Author | 11-Sep-1862 | 5-Jun-1910 | The Gift of the Magi |
| David Hilbert | Mathematician | 23-Jan-1862 | 14-Feb-1943 | Hilbert Space |
| Billy Hughes | Head of State | 25-Sep-1862 | 28-Oct-1952 | Prime Minister of Australia, 1915-23 |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Politician | 11-Apr-1862 | 27-Aug-1948 | US Chief Justice, Presidential Candidate |
| M. R. James | Author | 1-Aug-1862 | 12-Jun-1936 | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |
| Gustav Klimt | Painter | 14-Jul-1862 | 6-Feb-1918 | Founder of the Vienna Sezession |
| Philipp Lenard | Physicist | 7-Jun-1862 | 20-May-1947 | Investigations of cathode rays |
| Auguste Lumière | Inventor | 19-Oct-1862 | 10-Apr-1954 | Co-Inventor of motion pictures |
| Connie Mack | Baseball | 22-Dec-1862 | 8-Feb-1956 | Manager of the Philadelphia Athletics |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | Playwright | 29-Aug-1862 | 6-May-1949 | Pelléas et Mélisande |
| James C. McReynolds | Judge | 3-Feb-1862 | 24-Aug-1946 | US Supreme Court Justice, 1914-41 |
| Joseph Merrick | Oddity | 5-Aug-1862 | 11-Apr-1890 | The Elephant Man |
| Andrew J. Montague | Politician | 3-Oct-1862 | 24-Jan-1937 | Governor and Congressman from Virginia |
| Julius Rosenwald | Business | 12-Aug-1862 | 6-Jan-1932 | Sears executive and Good Samaritan |
| Arthur Schnitzler | Playwright | 15-May-1862 | 21-Oct-1931 | Reigen |
| Charles M. Schwab | Business | 18-Feb-1862 | 19-Sep-1939 | Founder of Bethlehem Steel |
| Edward Shortt | Politician | 10-Mar-1862 | 10-Nov-1935 | UK Home Secretary, 1919-22 |
| Lennington Small | Politician | 16-Jun-1862 | 17-May-1936 | Governor of Illinois, 1921-29 |
| Reed Smoot | Politician | 10-Jan-1862 | 9-Feb-1941 | Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act |
| Amos Alonzo Stagg | Football | 16-Aug-1862 | 17-Mar-1965 | Mr. Football |
| Billy Sunday | Religion | 19-Nov-1862 | 6-Nov-1935 | Baseball evangelist |
| George Sutherland | Judge | 25-Mar-1862 | 18-Jul-1942 | US Supreme Court Justice, 1922-38 |
| Claude A. Swanson | Politician | 31-Mar-1862 | 7-Jul-1939 | Governor and Senator from Virginia |
| Oscar W. Underwood | Politician | 6-May-1862 | 25-Jan-1929 | US Senator from Alabama, 1915-27 |
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett | Activist | 16-Jul-1862 | 25-Mar-1931 | Civil rights advocate |
| Edvard Westermarck | Anthropologist | 20-Nov-1862 | 3-Sep-1939 | The Origin & Development of Moral Ideas |
| Edith Wharton | Novelist | 24-Jan-1862 | 11-Aug-1937 | The Age of Innocence |
| William B. Wilson | Government | 2-Apr-1862 | 25-May-1934 | US Secretary of Labor, 1913-21 |
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