Births 1865

1 births

1.1 january–march
1.2 april–june
1.3 july–september
1.4 october–december
1.5 date unknown

births
january–march

january 5 – julio garavito armero, colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
january 9 – leo ditrichstein, austrian-born stage actor, playwright (d. 1928)
january 10 – mary ingalls, blind older sister of american author laura ingalls wilder (d. 1928)
january 19 – valentin serov, russian painter, of portraits (d. 1911)
january 20 – yvette guilbert, french cabaret singer, actress (d. 1944)
january 27 – nikolai pokrovsky, russian politician, last foreign minister of russian empire (d. 1930)
january 28

verina morton jones, african-american physician, suffragist , clubwoman (d. 1943)
lala lajpat rai ( lion of punjab ), leader of indian independence movement (d. 1928)
kaarlo juho ståhlberg, president of finland (d. 1952)


january 31 – henri desgrange, french cycling enthusiast, founder of tour de france (d. 1940)
february 4 – ernest hanbury hankin, english bacteriologist, naturalist (d. 1939)
february 9 – beatrice stella tanner, later mrs. patrick campbell, english theatre actress, producer (d. 1940)
february 28 – alexander henderson, american businessman (d. 1925)
february 12 – kazimierz tetmajer, polish writer (d. 1940)
february 17 – ernst troeltsch, german theologian (d. 1923).
february 19 – sven hedin, swedish scientist, explorer (d. 1952)
february 21 – john haden badley, english author, educator (d. 1967)
february 28 – wilfred grenfell, english medical missionary newfoundland , labrador (d. 1940)
march 1 – elma danielsson, swedish socialist, journalist (d. 1936)
march 10 – tan sitong, chinese reformist leader (d. 1898)
march 15 – edith maude eaton, english-born writer (d. 1914)
march 19 – william morton wheeler, american entomologist (d. 1937)
march 20 – alan macmasters, scottish inventor (d. 1927)
march 30 – heinrich rubens, german physicist (d. 1922)

april–june

april 1 – richard adolf zsigmondy, austrian-born chemist, nobel prize laureate (d. 1929)
april 2 – gyorche petrov, macedonian , bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1921)
april 9

laurence hope, english poet (d. 1904)
erich ludendorff, german general (d. 1937)
charles proteus steinmetz, german-american engineer, electrician (d. 1923)


april 14 – alfred hoare powell, english arts , crafts architect, , designer , painter of pottery (d. 1960)
april 18 – leónidas plaza, 16th president of ecuador (d. 1932)
april 28

vital brazil, brazilian physician, immunologist (d. 1950)
charles w. woodworth, american entomologist (d. 1940)


may 2 – clyde fitch, american dramatist (d. 1909)
may 3 – henry francis bryan, governor of american samoa (d. 1944)
may 23 – epitácio pessoa, 11th president of brazil (d. 1942)
may 25

john mott, american ymca leader, recipient of nobel peace prize (d. 1955)
pieter zeeman, dutch physicist, nobel prize laureate (d. 1943)




pieter zeeman



may 26 – robert w. chambers, american artist (d. 1933)
june 2 – george lohmann, english cricketer (d. 1901)
june 3 – king george v of united kingdom (d. 1936)
june 5 – charles stanton ogle, american actor (d. 1940)
june 9

albéric magnard, french composer (d. 1914)
carl nielsen, danish composer (d. 1931)


june 13 – w. b. yeats, irish writer, nobel prize laureate (d. 1939)
june 19

alfred hugenberg, german businessman, politician (d. 1951)
may whitty, british stage , screen actress (d. 1948)


june 21 – otto frank (physiologist), german doctor (d. 1944)
june 26 – bernard berenson, american art historian (d. 1959)
june 29 – shigechiyo izumi, japanese supercentenarian (d. 1986)

july–september

philipp scheidemann



july 13 – gérard encausse, french occultist (d. 1916)
july 15 – alfred harmsworth, 1st viscount northcliffe, irish-born british publisher; founder of daily mail , daily mirror (d.1922)
july 23

max heindel, danish-born christian occultist, astrologer, , mystic (d. 1919)
edward terry sanford, associate justice of supreme court of united states (d. 1930)


july 26 – philipp scheidemann, chancellor of germany (d. 1939)
august 2

irving babbitt, american literary critic (d. 1933)
john radecki, australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)


august 10 – alexander glazunov, russian composer (d. 1936)
august 15 – usui mikao, japanese founder of reiki (d. 1926)
august 17 – julia marlowe, english-born american stage actress (d. 1950)
august 20 – bernard tancred, south african cricketer (d. 1911)
august 24 – king ferdinand of romania (d. 1927)
august 26 – arthur james arnot, scottish-australian electrical engineer, inventor (d. 1946)
august 27

james henry breasted, american egyptologist (d. 1935)
charles g. dawes, 30th vice president of united states, recipient of nobel peace prize (d. 1951)


september 11 – rainis, latvian poet, playwright (d. 1929)
september 13 – william birdwood, 1st baron birdwood, british field marshal (d. 1951)
september 24 – mollie mcconnell, american actress (d. 1920)
september 26 – mary russell, duchess of bedford, english aviator, ornithologist (d. 1937)
september 27 – ezra fitch, american businessman, co-founder of abercrombie & fitch (d. 1930)

october–december

charles w. clark



hovhannes abelian



warren g. harding



rudyard kipling



october 1 – paul dukas, french composer (d. 1935)
october 9 – arthur hayes-sadler, british admiral (d. 1952)
october 12 – arthur harden, english chemist, nobel prize laureate (d. 1940)
october 15 – charles w. clark, american baritone (d. 1925)
october 17 – james rudolph garfield, u.s. politician (d. 1950)
october 22

charles james briggs, british general (d. 1941)
raymond hitchcock, american actor (d. 1929)


october 23 – hovhannes abelian, armenian actor (d. 1936)
october 26 – benjamin guggenheim, american businessman (d. 1912)
october 27 – tinsley lindley, english footballer (d. 1940)
november 2

warren g. harding, 29th president of united states (d. 1923)
paul olaf bodding, norwegian missionary india, creator of santali latin alphabet (d. 1938)


november 11 – edwin thanhouser, american actor, businessman, , film producer, founder of thanhouser company (d. 1956)
december 8 – jean sibelius, finnish composer (d. 1957)
december 16 – olavo bilac, brazilian poet (d. 1918)
december 19 – minnie maddern fiske, american stage actress (d. 1932)
december 20 – elsie de wolfe, american socialite, interior decorator (d. 1950)
december 23 – albrecht, duke of württemberg, german field marshal (d. 1939)
december 25

evangeline booth, 4th general of salvation army (d. 1950)
fay templeton, broadway musical comedy star (d. 1939)


december 28 – félix vallotton, swiss painter, printmaker (d. 1925)
december 30 – rudyard kipling, indian-born english writer, nobel prize laureate (d. 1936)

date unknown

pauline schmidt, danish magician (d. 1944)