What Happened in January 1872

Historical Events

Jan 4 Edmund Rumpler, Austrian auto/airplane builder
Jan 6 Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (Prometheus) and pianist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1915)
Jan 11 Paul Graener, composer
Jan 11 George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
Jan 11 Wilfred Baddeley, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), born in Bromley, England (d. 1929)
Jan 15 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer, born in Terek Oblast (d. 1944)
Jan 16 Edward Gordon Craig, British modernist actor, director and theorist (On the art of theatre), born in Stevenage Hertfordshire, England (d. 1966)
Jan 16 Henri-Paul Büsser, French composer and conductor, born in Toulouse, France (d. 1973)
Jan 18 Paul Leautaud [Maurice Boissard], French writer (Petit ami)
Jan 21 Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
Jan 23 Paul Langevin, French physicist, born in Paris, France (d. 1946)
Jan 23 Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 1957)
Jan 24 Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
Jan 24 Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
Jan 27 Learned Hand, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals), born in Albany, New York
Jan 31 Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)

Jan 19 Physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (26) weds Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Jan 7 James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
Jan 14 Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye-Terrier who spent 14 years guarding the grave of his owner John Gray, dies at 16
Jan 21 Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81