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
59 Herbert Baddeley
Tennis and badminton player
*January 11th, 1872, London Borough of Bromley †July 20th, 1931, Cannes
57 Wilfred Baddeley
Tennis player and sports administrator
*January 11th, 1872, London Borough of Bromley †January 24th, 1929, Menton
53 Vladimir Lenin
Russian politician, communist theorist and the founder of the Soviet Union, one of the initiators and organizers of the Red Terror
*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.jpg "Ella Harper")
51 Ella Harper
American circus performer
*January 5th, 1870, Sumner County †December 19th, 1921, Nashville
101 Ole Mørk Sandvik
Norwegian musicologist and educator
*May 9th, 1875, Ringsaker Municipality †August 5th, 1976, Oslo
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 Paris
60 Calvin Coolidge
President of the United States from 1923 to 1929
*July 4th, 1872, Plymouth Notch †January 5th, 1933, NorthamptonBetty Nansen
Danish actor and theatre director
*March 19th, 1873, Copenhagen †March 15th, 1943, FrederiksbergFelix Jacoby
German classicist and philologist (1876–1959)
*March 19th, 1876, Magdeburg †November 10th, 1959, BerlinWalter Friedrich Otto
German classical philologist (1874-1958)
*June 22nd, 1874, Hechingen †September 23rd, 1958, TübingenRobert Zahn
German classical archaeologist (1870–1945)
*January 9th, 1870, Bruchsal †November 27th, 1945, BerlinMax Pohlenz
German classical philologist
*July 30th, 1872, Kolkwitz †January 5th, 1962, Göttingen
47 Rosa Luxemburg
German-Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary, editor (1871–1919)
*March 5th, 1871, Zamość †January 15th, 1919, Berlin
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
60 Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
*October 26th, 1879, Bereslavka †August 21st, 1940, CoyoacánFred Duesenberg
American automobile designer and manufacturer
*December 6th, 1876, Lippe †July 26th, 1932
90 Herbert Hoover
President of the United States from 1929 to 1933
*August 10th, 1874, West Branch †October 20th, 1964, New York City
63 Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
*April 25th, 1874, Bologna †July 20th, 1937, Rome
85 Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
*July 2nd, 1877, Calw †August 9th, 1962, Montagnola
87 Marie-Elisabeth Lüders
German politician (1878–1966)
*June 25th, 1878, Berlin †March 23rd, 1966, West Berlin.jpg "Frieda Lawrence")
80 Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
*June 6th, 1875, Lübeck †August 12th, 1955, Zurich
63 Friedrich Opel
German entrepreneur
*April 30th, 1875, Rüsselsheim am Main †August 30th, 1938, Vienna.JPG "Wilhelm Anschütz")
83 Wilhelm Anschütz
German university professor
*September 24th, 1870, Halle (Saale) †September 15th, 1954, Kiel
70 Börries von Münchhausen
German poet and activist
*March 20th, 1874, Hildesheim †March 16th, 1945, Windischleuba
97 Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
*May 18th, 1872, Trellech †February 2nd, 1970, Plas Penrhyn
67 Alfred Adler
Austrian psychotherapist (1870–1937)
*February 7th, 1870, Rudolfsheim †May 28th, 1937, Aberdeen
64 Victor Grignard
French chemist (1871-1935)
*May 6th, 1871, Cherbourg †December 13th, 1935, 7th arrondissement of Lyon