Historical Figures Born in 1865

Feb 21 John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
Feb 22 Otto Modersohn, German landscape painter (Worpswede artist colony), born in Soest (d. 1943)
Feb 28 Arthur Symons, Welsh poet and critic (co-founder Savoy magazine), born in Milford Haven, Wales (d. 1945)
Feb 28 Wilfred Grenfell, British medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador, born in Neston, England (d. 1940)
Mar 1 Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
Mar 8 Frederick William Goudy, American printer and type designer, born in Bloomington, Illinois (d. 1947)
Mar 9 Margaret Murray Washington, Wife of Booker T. Washington and Lady Principal of Tuskegee, born in Macon, Mississippi (d. 1925)
Mar 19 William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
Mar 21 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, English historian and politician, born in London, United Kingdom (d. 1940)
Mar 25 Pierre Weiss, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism), born in Mulhouse, France (d. 1940)
Mar 31 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist (black-body rdiation), born in Wiesbaden (d. 1922)
Apr 1 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist (1925 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work colloids), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1929) [1]
Apr 9 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-American electrical engineer (development of alternating current), born in Breslau, Province of Silesia, Prussia (d. 1923)

Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937)

Apr 9 German general during World War I, born in Kruszewnia, Prussia

Apr 10 Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist and conservationist, born in Dover Center, Ohio (d. 1944)
Apr 11 Mary White Ovington, American journalist, suffragist, and co-founder of the NAACP, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1951)
Apr 16 Harry Chauvel, Australian Imperial Force senior officer, born in Tabulam, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1945)
Apr 17 Ursula Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint and foundress of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, born in Loosdorf, Austrian Empire (d. 1939)
Apr 23 Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general, born in Kazakhli, Russian Empire (d. 1943)
Apr 26 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, born in Pori, Finland (d. 1931) [1]
Apr 28 Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist, born in Champaign, Illinois (d. 1940)
Apr 30 Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian, born in Neuwaldegg, Austria (d. 1944)

Clyde Fitch (1865-1909)

May 2 American playwright (Nathan Hale, The Girl with the Green Eyes), born in Elmira, New York [1]

Nellie Bly (1865-1922)

May 5 American journalist and writer (Ten Days in a Mad House), born in Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania

May 15 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet and literary historian (Motion), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1937)
May 23 Epitácio Pessoa, 11th President of Brazil (Minas Gerais Republican: 1919-22), born in Umbuzeiro, Paraíba, Empire of Brazil (d. 1942)
May 25 Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony (1904-18), born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1932)
May 25 John Mott, American evangelist and organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946), born in Livingston Manor, Sullivan County, New York (d. 1955)
May 25 Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel Prize 1902), born in Zonnemaire, Schouwen-Duiveland (d. 1943)
May 26 Robert W. Chambers, American artist and fiction writer, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1933)
May 28 Gerrit Grijns, Dutch researcher and co-discoverer of vitamin B1 (thiamine), born in Leerdam, Netherlands (d. 1944)

George V (1865-1936)

Jun 3 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India (1910-36), born in Marlborough House, London,

Jun 10 Frederick Cook, American explorer, claimed to have 1st discovered North Pole, born in Callicoon, New York (d. 1940)
Jun 11 J. H. Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam), born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (d. 1925)
Jun 13 W. B. Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923), born in Sandymount, Ireland (d. 1939)
Jun 19 Alfred Hugenberg, German politician and businessman, born in Hanover (d. 1951)
Jun 24 Robert Henri, American painter (The Eight) and leader of Ashcan school of painting, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1929)
Jun 26 Bernard Berenson, American art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance), born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire (d. 1959)
Jun 26 Charles Bonin, French explorer and diplomat (China), born in Poissy, France (d. 1929)
Jun 28 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), born in Grünberg, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1910)
Jun 29 Shigechiyo Izumi, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but birth date now disputed (120 y 237 d), born in Isen, Tokunoshima, Satsuma Domain, Japan (d. 1986)
Jun 29 William E. Borah, American lawyer and politician (Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho), born in Fairfield, Illinois (d. 1940)
Jul 2 Lily Braun, German feminist and socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen), born in Halberstadt, Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1916)
Jul 10 Johannes "Pa" van der Steur, Dutch missionary and philanthropist (Steurtjes), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1945)
Jul 14 Annie Jones, American bearded lady (appeared in P. T. Barnum circus), born in Marion, Virginia (d. 1902)
Jul 15 Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, British influential journalist and newspaper publisher (started The Daily Mail, Daily Mirror), born in Chapelizod, Ireland (d. 1922)
Jul 15 Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
Jul 16 George A. Birmingham, Irish clergyman and novelist, born in Belfast (d. 1950)
Jul 18 Laurence Housman, English author and playwright (Victoria Regina), born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England (d. 1959)
Jul 19 Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and co-founder (Mayo Clinic), born in Rochester, Minnesota (d. 1939)
Jul 23 Friedrich Aereboe, German landlord and agricultural economist, born in Horn, Hamburg (d. 1942)
Jul 23 Max Heindel, Danish-American Christian occultist, astrologer and mystic, born in Aarhus, Denmark (d. 1919)
Jul 25 Jac[obus] P. Thijsse, Dutch biologist and educator (Contact with Plants), born in Maastricht, Netherlands (d. 1945)
Jul 26 Philipp Scheidemann, German politcian (SPD) and Mayor of Kassel, born in Kassel, Germany (d. 1939)
Aug 2 Irving Babbitt, American writer (Rousseau & Romanticism), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1933)
Aug 2 John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist, born in Łódź, Poland (d. 1955)
Aug 7 Micha Josef Berdyczewski, Jewish writer, born in Medzhybizh, Russian Empire (d. 1921)
Aug 14 Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician, born in Venice (d. 1952)
Aug 15 Johan Bernard Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga), born in Heerenveen, Netherlands (d. 1937)
Aug 15 Louisa Aldrich-Blake, British pioneering surgeon, born in Chingford, Essex (d. 1925)
Aug 15 Mikao Usui, Japanese founder of Reiki (form of spiritual practice), born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan (d. 1926)
Aug 22 Pieter Hopmans Dutch Bishop of Breda (Eucharistic Crusade) (d. 1951)
Aug 24 Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania (1914-27), born in Sigmaringen, German Confederation (d. 1927)
Aug 27 Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States, banker and 1925 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Marietta, Ohio (d. 1951)
Aug 27 James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist and anthropologist, born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1935)
Sep 3 Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist and historian, born in Lübeck, Germany (d. 1920)
Sep 8 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (Amore & Amore, Top), born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1924)
Sep 11 Rainis [Jānis Pliekšāns], Latvian poet and playwright, born in Dunava parish, Russian Empire (d. 1929)
Sep 15 Henri Capitant, French lawyer (Loi Falcidie) (d. 1937)
Sep 15 Nicolaus Adriani, Dutch linguist (Middle-Celebes languages), born in Oud-Loosdrecht, North Holland, Netherlands (d. 1926)
Sep 20 Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist and anthropologist, born in Klatovy, Czech Republic (d. 1944)
Sep 23 Emmuska Orczy, Hungarian-born British Baroness and writer (The Scarlet Pimpernel), born in Tarnaörs Hungary (d. 1947)
Sep 26 Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English aviator and ornithologist, born in Stockbridge, Hampshire, England (d. 1937)
Oct 3 Johan Eilerts de Haan, Dutch sea officer (Lucie R, Suriname), born in Noordwolde, Friesland, Netherlands (d. 1910)
Oct 4 Max Halbe, German playwright (Jugend), born in Güttland, Gdańsk (d. 1944)
Oct 10 Rafael Merry del Val, British-born Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, born in London, England (d. 1930)
Oct 11 Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philological and writer (Mot Karnaval), born in Øksfjord, Norway (d. 1926)
Oct 12 Arthur Harden, English biochemist (Nobel Prize 1929), born in Manchester, England (d. 1940)
Oct 15 Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, born in Szczecin, Poland (d. 1927)
Oct 17 James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)
Oct 18 Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)
Oct 18 Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
Oct 22 Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and one of the founders of the Estonian National Museum, born in Kirikuküla, Vinni Parish, Estonia (d. 1943)
Oct 23 Neltje Blanchan, American nature writer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1918)
Oct 27 Charles Spencelayh, English painter (Why War), born in Rochester, Kent (d. 1958)

Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)

Nov 2 29th President of the United States (1921-23), born in Blooming Grove, Ohio

Nov 17 John Stanley Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), born in Hickson, Ontario (d. 1941)
Nov 27 Jose Asunción Silva, Colombian poet (Nocturno III), born in Bogotá, Colombia (d. 1896)

Edith Cavell (1865-1915)

Dec 4 British nurse in World War I who was executed by Germany, born in Swardeston, Norfolk, England

Dec 8 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (proved the prime number theorem), born in Versailles, France (d. 1963)
Dec 16 Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor (d. 1954)
Dec 19 Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), born in Magdeburg Prussia (d. 1936)
Dec 20 Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator, born in NYC, New York (d. 1950)
Dec 20 Maud Gonne, English-born Irish revolutionary, born in Tongham, United Kingdom (d. 1953)
Dec 25 Evangeline Cory Booth, English-American religious leader (Salvation Army general 1904-34), born in London, England (d. 1950)
Dec 28 Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French painter and writer (Chaste Suzanna), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1925)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Dec 30 English author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), born in Bombay, British India

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