Births 1864

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

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)

april–june

alois alzheimer



april 6 – william bate hardy, english biologist, food scientist (d. 1934)
april 10

michael mayr, 2nd chancellor of austria (d. 1922)
tully marshall, american actor (d. 1943)


april 11 – johanna elberskirchen, german feminist (d. 1943)
april 12 – rosslyn wemyss, 1st baron wester wemyss, british admiral (d. 1933)
april 14 – artur văitoianu, 27th prime minister of romania (d. 1956)
april 16 – rose talbot bullard, american medical doctor, professor (d. 1915)
april 21 – max weber, german sociologist (d. 1920)
may 4 – marie booth, third daughter of william , catherine booth (d. 1937)
may 5 – sir henry wilson, 1st baronet, british field marshal, politician (d. 1922)
may 10 – léon gaumont, french film pioneer (d. 1946)
may 15 – vilhelm hammershøi, danish painter (d. 1916)
may 25 – princess anne of löwenstein-wertheim-freudenberg, british-born german aristocrat, aviation enthusiast (d. 1927, officially declared dead february 1928)
june 2 – wilhelm souchon, german admiral (d. 1946)
june 3 – ransom e. olds, american automotive pioneer (d. 1950)
june 10 – ninian comper, british architect (d. 1960)
june 11 – richard strauss, german composer (d. 1949)
june 13 – dwight b. waldo, american educator, historian (d. 1939)
june 14 – alois alzheimer, german psychiatrist, neuropathologist (d. 1915)
june 22 – hermann minkowski, german mathematician (d. 1909)
june 25 – walther nernst, german chemist, nobel prize laureate (d. 1941)
june 30 – frederick bligh bond, english architect (d. 1945)

july–september

henri de toulouse-lautrec



july 11 – petar danov, bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
july 12 – george washington carver, african-american botanist (d. 1943)
july 13 – john jacob astor iv, american businessman, inventor (d. 1912)
july 15 – marie tempest, english stage, film actress (d. 1942)
july 20

erik axel karlfeldt, swedish writer, nobel prize laureate (d. 1931)
ruggero oddi, italian physiologist, anatomist (d. 1913)


july 21 – frances folsom cleveland preston, first lady of united states (d. 1947)
july 23 – apolinario mabini, filipino political theoretician, prime minister (d. 1903)
august 9 – roman dmowski, polish politician (d. 1939)
august 20 – ion i. c. brătianu, 5-time prime minister of romania (d. 1927)
august 23 – eleftherios venizelos, 7-time prime minister of greece (d. 1936)
september 14 – robert cecil, 1st viscount cecil of chelwood, english politician, diplomat, recipient of nobel peace prize (d. 1958)

october–december

october 5 – louis lumière, french inventor (d. 1948)
october 10 – t. frank appleby, united states congressman new jersey (d. 1924)
october 25 – alexander gretchaninov, russian composer (d. 1956)
october 31 – cosmo gordon lang, archbishop of canterbury (d. 1945)
november 5 – jessie ralph, american actress (d. 1944)
november 1 – grand duchess elizabeth feodorovna of russia (d. 1918)
november 11 – alfred hermann fried, austrian writer, pacifist, recipient of nobel peace prize (d. 1921)
november 13 – bishop james cannon jr., american religious , temperance movement leader (d. 1944)
november 16 – stéphane javelle, french astronomer (d. 1917)
november 23 – henry bourne joy, american business leader (d. 1936)
november 24 – henri de toulouse-lautrec, french painter (d. 1901)
november 26 – edward higgins, 3rd general of salvation army (d. 1947)
december 6

alberico albricci, italian general (d. 1936)
william s. hart, american film actor, film director, , writer (d. 1946)


december 12 – paul elmer more, american critic, essayist (d. 1937)
december 14 – frank campeau, american actor (d. 1943)
december 23 – princess zorka of montenegro (d. 1890)
december 25 – thomas cahill, american soccer coach (d. 1951)

date unknown

rida pasha al-rikabi, 2-time prime minister of jordan (d. 1943)