Famous Birthdays
Alfred Stieglitz
Jan 1 Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), born in Hoboken, New Jersey
Alfred Stieglitz
- Jan 1 Qi Baishi, Chinese artist, born in Xiangtan, China (d. 1957)
- Jan 5 Bob Caruthers, American baseball player, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1911)
- Jan 6 Ban Johnson, American baseball executive (American League), born in Norwalk, Connecticut (d. 1931)
- Jan 8 Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
- Jan 9 Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
- Jan 10 George Washington Carver, African-American agricultural scientist (studied the peanut), born in Diamond Grove, Missouri [or Jul 12] (d. 1943)
- Jan 10 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1931)
- Jan 11 Thomas Dixon, US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword)
- Jan 13 Wilhelm K W Wien, German physicist (Nobel 1911)
- Jan 15 Frances Benjamin Johnston, Grafton West Virginia, early female photographer
- Jan 16 Frank Bacon, American playwright, actor and author (Lightnin'), born near Yuba City, California (d. 1922)
- Jan 17 Lucien Herr, French scientist (Corresp entre Schiller et Schiller)
- Jan 24 Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
- Jan 25 Julije Kempf, Croatian historian & writer, born in Požega, Croatia (d. 1934)
- Jan 28 Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
- Jan 29 Adolf Philipp, composer