Famous People Born in February 1857

  • Feb 2 Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector
  • Feb 3 Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen, Copenhagen, Danish Botanist and Geneticist who provided evidence for Hugo de Vries' mutation theory
  • Feb 9 Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
  • Feb 12 Bobby Peel, cricketer (great English lefty 1884-96)
  • Feb 17 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
  • Feb 18 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor
  • Feb 21 Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
  • Feb 22 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves

Person of interestRobert Baden-Powell

Feb 22 Robert Baden-Powell, British officer and founder of the modern scouting movement, born in Paddington, London (d. 1941)

Founder of Scouts Robert Baden-Powell
Founder of Scouts
Robert Baden-Powell
  • Feb 26 Emile CouĂ©, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
  • Feb 28 Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer