January–March 2 1864

wilhelm wien



max weber



richard strauss, 1918



walther nernst



january 1

alfred stieglitz, american photographer (d. 1946)
qi baishi, chinese painter (d. 1957)


january 8 – prince albert victor, duke of clarence , avondale (d. 1892)
january 9 – alvah curtis roebuck, american businessman (d. 1948)
january 10 – annie lowrie alexander american physician, educator (d. 1929)
january 11 – henry marshall tory, canadian university founder (d. 1947)
january 13 – wilhelm wien, german physicist, nobel prize laureate (d. 1928)
january 21 – israel zangwill, british novelist, playwright (d. 1926)
january 24 – marguerite durand, french actress, journalist, , feminist leader (d. 1936)
january 26 – józsef pusztai slovene writer, poet, journalist in hungary (d. 1934)
january 28 – herbert akroyd stuart, english mechanical engineer, inventor (d. 1927)
february 7 – arthur collins, american recording artist (d. 1933)
february 11 – louis bouveault, french chemist (d. 1909)
february 20 – henry rawlinson, 1st baron rawlinson, british general (d. 1925)
march 4 – david w. taylor, u.s. navy architect (d. 1940)
march 6 – richard rushall, british businessman (d. 1953)
march 12 – w. h. r. rivers, english psychiatrist (d. 1922)
march 13 – alexej von jawlensky, russian expressionist painter (d. 1941)
march 14 – casey jones, american railway engineer (d. 1900)
march 15 – johan halvorsen, norwegian composer (d. 1935)
march 17 – joseph baptista, indian home rule movement founder (d. 1930)
march 19

charles marion russell, american artist (d. 1926)
mahatma hansraj, indian educationist, arya samaj leader (d. 1938)


march 23 – sándor simonyi-semadam, 26th prime minister of hungary (d. 1946)