1870 - 1879
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Birthdays of famous people
Decade 1870 - 1879
76 Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist; developer of the theory of relativity (1879–1955)
*March 14th, 1879, Ulm †April 18th, 1955, Princeton
81 Dorothea Douglass
English tennis and badminton player (1878–1960)
*September 3rd, 1878, Ealing †January 7th, 1960, Kensington
53 Vladimir Lenin
Russian politician, communist theorist and the founder of the Soviet Union
*April 10th, 1870, Ulyanovsk †January 21st, 1924, Bolshiye Gorki
79 Ludwig Curtius
German classical archeologist
*December 13th, 1874, Augsburg †April 10th, 1954, Rome
74 Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
*December 18th, 1878, Gori †March 5th, 1953, Kuntsevo Dacha
86 Ernst Rodenwaldt
German racial hygienist, university teacher and military physician (1878-1965)
*August 5th, 1878, Berlin †June 4th, 1965, Ruhpolding
90 Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
*November 30th, 1874, Blenheim Palace †January 24th, 1965, Hyde Park Gate
91 Konrad Adenauer
German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
*January 5th, 1876, Cologne †April 19th, 1967, Rhöndorf
55 Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole
*July 16th, 1872, Borge Municipality †June 18th, 1928, Arctic Ocean
51 Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
*July 10th, 1871, 16th arrondissement of Paris †November 18th, 1922, 16th arrondissement of ParisWilfred Baddeley
Tennis player and sports administrator
*January 11th, 1872, London Borough of Bromley †January 24th, 1929, MentonHerbert Baddeley
Tennis and badminton player
*January 11th, 1872, London Borough of Bromley †July 20th, 1931, Cannes
85 Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
*July 2nd, 1877, Calw †August 9th, 1962, Montagnola
66 Ernest Rutherford
British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)
*August 30th, 1871, Nelson †October 19th, 1937, Cambridge
47 Rosa Luxemburg
German-Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary, editor (1871–1919)
*March 5th, 1871, Zamość †January 15th, 1919, BerlinBetty Nansen
Danish actor and theatre director
*March 19th, 1873, Copenhagen †March 15th, 1943, Frederiksberg
60 Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
*October 26th, 1879, Bereslavka †August 21st, 1940, CoyoacánFelix Jacoby
German classicist and philologist (1876–1959)
*March 19th, 1876, Magdeburg †November 10th, 1959, Berlin
63 Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
*April 25th, 1874, Bologna †July 20th, 1937, RomeElla Harper
American circus performer
*January 5th, 1870, Sumner County †December 19th, 1921, NashvilleOle Mørk Sandvik
Norwegian musicologist and educator
*May 9th, 1875, Ringsaker Municipality †August 5th, 1976, OsloWalter Friedrich Otto
German classical philologist (1874-1958)
*June 22nd, 1874, Hechingen †September 23rd, 1958, TübingenRobert Zahn
German classical archaeologist
*January 9th, 1870, Bruchsal †November 27th, 1945, BerlinMax Pohlenz
German classical philologist
*July 30th, 1872, Kolkwitz †January 5th, 1962, Göttingen
87 Marie-Elisabeth Lüders
German politician (1878–1966)
*June 25th, 1878, Berlin †March 23rd, 1966, West Berlin
60 Calvin Coolidge
President of the United States from 1923 to 1929
*July 4th, 1872, Plymouth Notch †January 5th, 1933, Northampton
90 Herbert Hoover
President of the United States from 1929 to 1933
*August 10th, 1874, West Branch †October 20th, 1964, New York City.JPG "Wilhelm Anschütz")
83 Wilhelm Anschütz
German university professor
*September 24th, 1870, Halle (Saale) †September 15th, 1954, Kiel
97 Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
*May 18th, 1872, Trellech †February 2nd, 1970, Plas PenrhynFred Duesenberg
American automobile designer and manufacturer
*December 6th, 1876, Lippe †July 26th, 1932
80 Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
*June 6th, 1875, Lübeck †August 12th, 1955, Zürich
64 Victor Grignard
French chemist (1871-1935)
*May 6th, 1871, Cherbourg †December 13th, 1935, 7th arrondissement of Lyon
67 Alfred Adler
Austrian psychotherapist (1870–1937)
*February 7th, 1870, Rudolfsheim †May 28th, 1937, Aberdeen
64 Janusz Korczak
Polish-Jewish educator and physician (1878– 1942)
*July 22nd, 1878, Warsaw †August 7th, 1942, Treblinka extermination camp
71 Alexis Carrel
French surgeon and biologist
*June 28th, 1873, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon †November 5th, 1944, Paris
89 Carl Sandburg
American writer and editor
*January 6th, 1878, Galesburg †July 22nd, 1967, Flat Rock