Famous People Born in 1878

'Philadelphia' Jack O'Brien (1878-1942)

Jan 17 American boxer (World light heavyweight champion 1905), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jan 17 Oscar Apfel, American actor (The Squaw Man, Inspiration, Before Dawn), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1938)
Jan 18 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1951)
Jan 19 Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)
Jan 20 Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Avengers), born in Edinburgh (d. 1968)
Jan 21 Egon Friedell, Austrian journalist, actor and writer (Kleine Portratgalerie, Der Partylowe), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1938)
Jan 22 Constance Collier, British actress and writer (Rope, Stage Door, Whirlpool), born in Windsor, England (d. 1955)
Jan 23 Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom), born in Vinica, Črnomelj, Slovenia (d. 1949)
Jan 23 Rutland Boughton, British composer (The Immortal Hour), born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire (d. 1960)
Jan 25 Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American television pioneer (Alexanderson alternator), born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 1975) [1]
Jan 28 Walter Kollo, German composer of operettas, Singspiele, and popular songs (Der Juxbaron), born in Neidenburg, Kingdom of Prussia. (d. 1940)
Jan 29 Barney Oldfield, American auto racer (International Motorsports Hall of Fame; first to drive at 60mph on circular track), born near Wauseon, Ohio (d. 1946)
Jan 30 Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (Truth and Justice), born in Vetepere, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (d. 1940)
Jan 31 Willem van Eysinga, Dutch jurist and diplomat (Paris Peace Conference), born in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands (d. 1961)
Feb 1 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, American politician (1st woman elected to US Senate, Senator for Arkansas 1931-45), born near Bakerville, Tennessee (d. 1950) [1]
Feb 1 Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (d. 1944)
Feb 2 Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1955)
Feb 2 Christian Gauss, American professor and writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 1951)
Feb 3 Joseph Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925-28), born in Ruatuna, New Zealand (d. 1943)
Feb 5 André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
Feb 6 Waclaw Gieburowski, Polish conductor & composer, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland (d. 1943)
Feb 7 Ossip Gabrilovich, Russian-American pianist, conductor (Detroit Symphony, 1918-36), and composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1936)
Feb 8 Leonard Moon, English cricket batsman (4 Tests, Cambridge University CC, Middlesex CCC), born in London, England (d. 1916)
Feb 8 Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli dialogue philosopher and theologist (Ich und Du), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)
Feb 12 Clarence "Pants" Rowland, American baseball manager (World Series 1917; Chicago White Sox 1915-18) and MLB umpire (American League 1923-27), born in Platteville, Wisconsin (d. 1969)
Feb 14 Julius Nieuwland, Belgian-American chemist (inventor of neoprene), born in Hansbeke, Belgium (d. 1936)
Feb 16 (Vincenzo) "Big Jim" Colosimo, Italian-American gangster, born in Colosimi, Calabria, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1920)
Feb 16 Selim Palmgren, Finnish concert pianist, composer (Hakkapeliittojen marssi), conductor, and pedagogue, born in Pori, Finland (d. 1951)
Feb 21 Fritz Cortolezis, German conductor, opera director, and composer, born in Passau, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1934)
Feb 21 Mirra Richard [The Mother], French-born Indian spiritual leader (Sri Aurobindo), born in Paris, France (d. 1973)
Feb 22 Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
Feb 23 Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
Feb 27 Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)

Charles Strite (1878-1956)

Feb 27 American inventor who invented the automatic pop-up toaster, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Feb 28 Artur Kapp, Estonian organist, composer (Peace Symphony; Paradise and Peri), and educator, born in Suure-Jaani, Russian Empire (now Estonia) (d. 1952)
Feb 28 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)
Mar 1 Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, French composer, born in Caen, France (d. 1914)
Mar 2 Wander Johannes de Haas, Dutch physicist (Shubnikov–de Haas effect), born in Lisse, Netherlands (d. 1960)
Mar 2 William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1944)
Mar 4 Egbert Van Alstyne, American popular music songwriter and ragtime pianist ("In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"; "For Your Boy and My Boy"), born in Marengo, Illinois (d. 1951) [1]
Mar 4 Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian esotericist, born in Kharkov, Russian Empire (d. 1947)
Mar 7 Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
Mar 10 Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer and poet (God at Sea), born in Ghent, Netherlands (d. 1929)
Mar 12 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint and mystic, born near Lucca, Italy (d. 1903)
Mar 12 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, German violinist, conductor, composer (Max und Moritz) and pedagogue, born in Brno, Bohemia (d. 1944)
Mar 14 Carel T. Scharten, Dutch poet and writer (Forces of the Future), born in Middelburg, Netherlands (d. 1950)

Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878-1944)

Mar 15 Shah of Iran (1925-41), born in Alasht, Savad Kooh, Mazandaran, Persia

Mar 15 Sammy Carter, Australian cricket wicketkeeper (28 Tests, 65 dismissals; NSWCA), born in Northowram, England (d. 1948)
Mar 16 Clemens August Graaf von Galen, German Catholic Bishop of Münster (led opposition to Nazism, especially T4 extermination program), born in Drinklage, Germany (d. 1946)
Mar 16 Henry B Walthall, American actor (The Birth of a Nation, Klondike), born in Shelby City, Alabama (d. 1936)
Mar 21 Thurlow Lieurance, American composer (By the Waters of Minnetonka; Sad Moon on Falling Leaf), ethno-musicologist (Indigenous peoples), and educator, born in Oskaloosa, Iowa (d. 1963)
Mar 22 Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (Olympic gold representing France, marathon 1900), born in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (d. 1923)
Mar 23 Franz Schreker [Schrecker], Austrian conductor, composer (Die Gezeichneten; Der ferne Klang), teacher, and administrator born in Monaco (d. 1934)
Mar 24 Top Naeff, Dutch writer (School Idylls), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1953)
Mar 25 Theodore Samuel Holland, British composer and pedagogue, born in Wimbledon (d. 1947)
Mar 27 Miller Huggins, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1923, 27, 28; 6 x AL pennants NY Yankees), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1929)
Mar 28 Arthur B. Spingarn, American lawyer and civil rights activist (NAACP cchairman, 1940-65), born in New York City (d. 1971)

Jack Johnson (1878-1946)

Mar 31 American boxer (1st African-American world heavyweight champion 1908-15), born in Galveston, Texas [1]

Apr 1 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa), born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1942)
Apr 2 Émilie Charmy, French avant-garde artist, born in Saint-Etienne, France (d. 1974)
Apr 6 Carl Ehrenberg, German composer, kapellmeister, and pedagogue, born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1962)
Apr 6 Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
Apr 7 Jozef C Bittremieux, Belgian theologist (Virgin & Mother of God), born in Sijsele, Belgium (d. 1950)
Apr 7 Maitland Hathorn, South African cricketer (12 tests 1901-11), born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (d. 1920)
Apr 8 Rudolf Nelson, German composer, born in Berlin (d. 1960)
Apr 12 Richard B Goldschmidt, German-American zoologist (butterflies), born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (d. 1958)
Apr 15 Robert Walser, Swiss writer, born in Biel (d. 1956)
Apr 16 R. E. Foster, English cricket batsman (8 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 287 on debut 1903; Worcestershire CCC) and soccer forward (5 caps; Corinthian FC, Old Malvernians FC; only man to captain England in both sports), born in Malvern, England (d. 1914)
Apr 21 Albert Weisgerber, German painter and graphic artist, born in Sankt Ingbert, Germany (d. 1915)
Apr 22 Kitty Gordon, English entertainer, born in Folkestone, Kent (d. 1974)
Apr 24 Jean Crotti, Swiss-French artist, born in Bulle, Fribourg, Switzerland (d. 1958)
Apr 26 Ethel Griffies, British actress (Billy Liar, The Birds, We Live Again), born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (d. 1975)
Apr 26 Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (cared for the wounded, sick, and dying during the Mexican Revolution), born in Cotija, Michoacán, Mexico (d. 1938)
Apr 27 Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler, born in Humboldt, Iowa (d. 1917)

Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954)

Apr 28 American actor (It's A Wonderful Life; Dr. Kildare (films); Key Largo), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929)

May 10 German chancellor (1923) who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, born in Berlin, Germany

May 11 Jan Machiel Reyskens, oldest male resident of the Netherlands, (d. 1990 aged 111)
May 13 Muriel Robb, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1907)
May 14 J. L. Wilkinson, American Baseball HOF executive (founder All Nations Baseball club 1912 & NgL Kansas City Monarchs 1920), born in Algona, Iowa (d. 1964)
May 15 Francisco Pujol, Catalan singer, choirmaster (Orfeó Català), composer, and musicologist, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1945)
May 16 Taylor Holmes, American actor (Sleeping Beauty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1959)
May 19 Adam von Ahn Carse, British composer and instrument collector, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1958)
May 20 Karel Komzák III, Austrian conductor and composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1924) [1]
May 21 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, American inventor (hydroplane) and founder of the US aviation industry, born in Hammondsport, New York (d. 1930)
May 21 Louis de Visser, Dutch Communist politician (CPN), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1945)
May 24 Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and industrial engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954), born in Oakland, California (d. 1972)

Bill Robinson (1878-1949)

May 25 American actor and tap dancer (Stormy Weather; The Little Colonel), born in Richmond, Virginia

May 28 Paul Pelliot, French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and his discovery of many important Chinese texts among the Dunhuang manuscripts, born in Paris (d. 1945)
May 30 Mike Donlin, American baseball player (NY Giants), born in Peoria, Illinois (d. 1933)
Jun 1 John Masefield, British writer and poet (Salt-Water Ballads), Poet Laureate (1930-67), born in Ledbury, Herefordshire (d. 1967)
Jun 4 Frank Buchman, American theologist (Moral Re-Armament), born in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1961)
Jun 5 Pancho Villa [José Doroteo Arango Arámbula], Mexican revolutionary general and guerrilla leader, born in La Coyotada, San Juan del Río, Durango, Mexico (d. 1923)
Jun 5 William Franklin "Frank" Smith, American actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
Jun 6 Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney, born in Paris (d. 1956)
Jun 12 James Oliver Curwood, American journalist and writer (Kazan the wolfdog), born in Owosso, Michigan (d. 1927)
Jun 12 Myrtle McAteer, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1900), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1952)
Jun 15 Margaret Abbott, American golfer (1st American woman to win Olympic event, golf 1900), born in Calcutta, India (d. 1955)
Jun 17 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician (Minister of Armament WW1), born in Champigny-sur-Marne (d. 1932)
Jun 25 Jean Gallon, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1959)
Jun 26 Albert Siklós, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1942)
Jun 26 Ernest Torrence, Scottish actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Hunchback of Notre Dame), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1933)
Jun 27 Jean François van Royen, Dutch bibliophile, secretary-general of PTT, born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1942)

George M. Cohan (1878-1942)

Jul 3 American father of musical comedy (Phantom President; Give My Regards to Broadway), born in Providence, Rhode Island

Jul 5 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist, conductor and composer (3 Blind Mice), born in Croydon, Surrey (d. 1958)
Jul 6 Eino Leino, Finnish poet, born in Paltamo, Finland (d. 1926)
Jul 8 Jimmy Quinn, Scottish soccer striker (11 caps; Celtic 272 games, 188 goals), born in Croy, Scotland (d. 1945)
Jul 14 Donald Meek, Scottish-American stage and screen actor (You Can't Take It With You; Stagecoach), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1946)
Jul 15 Willem Paerels, Dutch-Belgian painter and graphic artist, born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1962)
Jul 17 Henri Zagwijn, Dutch composer and musicologist, born in Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands (d. 1954)
Jul 19 Robert Herman Woltjer, Dutch Minister of Education, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1955)
Jul 22 Janusz Korczak [Henryk Goldszmit], Polish-Jewish educator and pedagogue (ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto) [or born in 1879], born in Warsaw, Congress Poland (d. 1942)
Jul 22 Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un destin: Martin Luther), born in Nancy, France (d. 1956)
Jul 24 Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods), born in London (d. 1957)
Jul 25 Heinrich Gebhard, German-born American composer, born in Sobernheim, Rhineland-Palatinate (d. 1963)
Jul 29 Don Marquis, Ill, American journalist, poet and playwright (archy & mehitabel), born in Walnut, Illinois (d. 1937)
Aug 2 Aino Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales), born in Kiiskilä, Viipuri Province, Grand Duchy of Finland (d. 1956)
Aug 2 Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, wife of Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, born in Charlottenlund Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1958)
Aug 3 Constantino Gaito, Argentinian composer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1945)
Aug 10 Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
Aug 13 Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1942)
Aug 13 Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist and socialist theorist, born in Sneek, Netherlands (d. 1960)
Aug 14 Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Aage og Else), born in Vejle, Denmark (d. 1918)
Aug 15 Pyotr Nikolayevich, Baron Wrangel, Russian baron general (White Armies, WW II), born in Novalexandrovsk, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1928)
Aug 17 Reggie Duff, Australian cricket batsman (23 Tests; 104 on debut), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1911)
Aug 18 Fritz Brun, Swiss composer and conductor, born in Lucerne (d. 1959)

Manuel L. Quezon (1878-1944)

Aug 19 Second President of the Philippines (1935-42), born in Baler, Aurora, Philippines

Aug 27 Joseph John Richards, American composer, born in Cwmafan, Wales (d. 1956)
Aug 28 George Whipple, American physician and biomedical researcher (Nobel-1934), born in Ashland, New Hampshire (d. 1976)
Aug 30 Paul Hazard [Paul-Gustave-Marie-Camille Hazard], French critic and literature historian, born in Nordpeene, France (d. 1944)
Aug 31 Albert Riemenschneider, American pianist, educator, musicologist, and founder of America'a oldest Bach Festival, born in Berea, Ohio (d. 1950)
Aug 31 Frank Jarvis, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m 1900), born in California, Pennsylvania (d. 1933)
Sep 1 Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
Sep 2 Werner von Blomberg, German politician and general (Commander-in-Chief German Armed Forces 1935-38), born in Stargard, Prussia (d. 1946)
Sep 3 Dorothea Lambert Chambers, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1903-04, 06, 10-11, 13-14), born in Ealing, England (d. 1960)
Sep 5 Ben Simpson, Canadian Football HOF running back, placekicker (Queen's University, Hamilton Tigers), born in Peterborough, Ontario (d. 1964)
Sep 9 Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
Sep 9 Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
Sep 16 Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes), born in Ühlingen-Birkendorf, Germany (d. 1961)
Sep 17 Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (Le donne de buon umore), born in Rome (d. 1950)

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

Sep 20 American author (The Jungle), born in Baltimore, Maryland

Sep 22 Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese Prime Minister (1946-54), born in Yokosuka (d. 1967)
Sep 24 Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (Le Petit Village), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1947)
Oct 1 Othmar Spann, Austrian economist and sociologist (Geschichtsfilosofie), born in Vienna (d. 1950)
Oct 2 François Conrad Schlumberger, French physicist, born in Guebwiller, Upper Rhine (d. 1936)
Oct 5 Louise Dresser [Kerlin], American actress (Maid of Salem), born in Evansville, Indiana (d. 1965)
Oct 9 Robert Warwick, American actor (Falcon's Adventure), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1964)
Oct 12 Karl Buresch, Austrian lawyer and politician, born in Groß-Enzersdorf, Austria (d. 1936)
Oct 13 Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest, born in O'Connell Town, Yass, New South Wales (d. 1952)
Oct 15 Paul Reynaud, Premier of France (May-June 1940), born in Barcelonette, France (d. 1966)
Oct 16 Carlos Pedrell, Uruguayan guitarist and composer, born in Minas, Uraguay (d. 1941)
Oct 16 Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
Oct 17 Barlow Carkeek, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (6 Tests, 6 dismissals; Victoria), born in Walhalla, Australia (d. 1937)
Oct 17 Henri Mulet, French organist, cellist, and composer (Carillon-Sortie; Esquisses Byzantines), born in Paris (d. 1967)
Oct 18 James Truslow Adams, American historian (Pulitzer Prize 1921, popularized phrase "American Dream"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1949)
Oct 19 Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), born in Langenfelde near Hamburg (d. 1980)
Oct 25 Nico van Suchtelen, Dutch writer and publisher, born in Amsterdam (d. 1949)
Oct 29 Alex von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II), born in Gut Blumenthal, Province of Silesia, German Empire (d. 1966)

Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878-1959)

Nov 1 Argentine politician (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nov 1 Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter, born in Hellenurme Manor, Elva Parish, Governorate of Livonia (d. 1925)
Nov 6 Ernest Irving, English composer, born in Godalming, Surrey (d. 1953)
Nov 7 Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist (discovered the nuclear fission of uranium), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1968)
Nov 13 John C. Kielstra, Dutch economist and governor of Suriname (1933-44) (d. 1951)
Nov 13 Max Dehn, German mathematician (Dehn’s lemma), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1952)
Nov 14 Julie Manet, French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot (d. 1966)
Nov 14 Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
Nov 17 Grace Abbott, American social worker (US Children's Bureau), born in Grand Island, Nebraska (d. 1939)
Nov 21 Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and jurist, born in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia (d. 1949)
Nov 23 André Caplet, French composer and conductor (Conte Fantastic; Le miroir de Jesus), born on a boat sailing between Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) and Honfleur (Calvados) in France (d. 1925)
Nov 23 Ernest King, US fleet admiral (Chief of Naval Operations in WWII), born in Lorain, Ohio (d. 1956)
Nov 23 Holcombe Ward, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1904; President USLTA 1937-47), born in New York, NY (d. 1967)
Nov 25 Georg Kaiser, German playwright (The Burghers of Calais), born in Magdeburg (d. 1945)
Nov 26 (Marshall) "Major" Taylor, American track cyclist (first African-American world champion; 1899 World Track C'ships), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1932)
Nov 27 Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet, born in Jamsherpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1948).
Nov 27 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, American composer (Deep Forest, The Desolate City), born in Swampscott, Massachusetts (d. 1971)
Nov 28 Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit and literary (Hadewych), born in Turnhout, Belgium (d. 1958)
Dec 5 Arrigo Pedrollo, Italian composer, born in Montebello Vicentino, Veneto, Italy (d. 1964)
Dec 7 Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet (Tangled Hair), born in Sakai, Ōsaka, Japan (d. 1942)
Dec 10 C. Rajagopalachari, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India, born in Thorapalli, Madras Presidency, British India (d. 1972)
Dec 15 Hans Carossa, German writer, born in Tölz, Bavaria (d. 1956)

Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)

Dec 18 Dictator and General Secretary of the Soviet Union (1922-53), born in Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire

Dec 19 Anton Lajovic, Slovenian composer, born in Vače, Slovenia (d. 1960)
Dec 21 Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish logician, philosopher, professor, and author, born in Lembeck, Galacia (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 1956)
Dec 23 Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
Dec 25 Louis Chevrolet, Swiss auto racer (co-founder Chevrolet Motor Car Company), born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (d. 1941)
Dec 25 William Starling Burgess, American yacht designer (America's Cup yachts "Enterprise", "Rainbow", "Ranger") and aviation pioneer, born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 1947)
Dec 26 Isaiah Bowman, American geographer (co-founder of the Geographical Review), born in Waterloo, Ontario (d. 1950)

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