President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic (Jan 14), nine men from various Jewish charitable organizations form Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City (Jan 15), the first British public toilet for women opens in London (Feb 11), French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first - around 30 km long - airship trip (Sep 24), Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French (Dec 2) - and all these fine people were born:

1852-0108 James Milton Carroll* pastor/historian/educator - Monticello, AR USA (1931/79) 1852-0111 Constantin Fehrenbach* politician/Chancellor of Germany - Wellendingen, GD of Baden, German Empire (1926/74) 1852-0126 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza* (b Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà) explorer/helped establish French colonies in Central Africa - Castel Gandolfo, Papal States (1905/53) 1852-0131 1852-0201 1852-0202 José Guadalupe Posada* political lithographer - Aguascalientes, Mexico (1913/60) 1852-0203 Juho Lallukka* businessman/ commercial counsellor/patron of the arts - Räisälä, GD of Finland (1913/61) 1852-0205 Terauchi Masatake* military officer/politician/PM - Yamaguchi, Japan (1919/67) 1852-0210 1852-0216 Charles Taze Russell* minister/founder of what is now known as the Bible Student movement and of The Watchtower - Allegheny, PA USA (1916/64) 1852-0218 Ferdinand Lee Barnett* journalistst/ lawyer/civil rights activist - Nashville, TN USA (1936/84) 1852-0220 1852-0226 John Harvey Kellogg* doctor/health reformer/the inventor of the breakfast cereal corn flakes - Tyrone, MI USA (1943/91) 1852-0228 1852-0301 Théophile Delcassé* politician/foreign minister during WW2 - Pamiers, Ariège, France (1923/70) 1852-0310 1852-0327 Jan van Beers* (the younger) painter/illustrator - Lier, Belgium (1927/75) 1852-0401 Edwin Austin Abbey* muralist/ illustrator/painter - Philadelphia, PA USA (1911/59) 1852-0403 Talbot Baines Reed* writer of boys' fiction/typefounder - Hackney, London, England (1893/41) 1852-0413 F. W. Woolworth* businessman/founder of F. W. Woolworth Company - Rodman, NY USA (1919/66) 1852-0414 Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton* Irish-Australian naturalist/teacher/to Australia at age 14 - Bailieborough, Ireland (1941/89) 1852-0501 Calamity Jane* (b Martha Jane Cannary) frontierswoman/scout – Princeton, MO USA (1903/51) 1852-0501 Santiago Ramón y Cajal* neuroscientist/ pathologist/histologist/N - Petilla de Aragón, Spain (1934/82) 1852-0504 Alice Pleasance Liddell* model for Alice in Wonderland - Westminster, London England (1934/82) 1852-0511 Charles W. Fairbanks* politician/senator - Unionville Center, OH US (1918/66) 1852-0514 Henri Julien* artist/cartoonist - Quebec City, Province of Canada (1908/56) 1852-0522 Moritz von Auffenberg* military officer - Troppau, Austrian Empire (1928/75) 1852-0531 Julius Richard Petri* microbiologist/inventor of the Petri dish - Barmen, German Confederation (1921/69) 1852-0601 1852-0613 Anna Whitlock* journalist/suffragette/feminist - Stockholm, Sweden (1930/78) 1852-0620 1852-0624 Friedrich Loeffler* bacteriologist - Frankfurt-am-Oder, German Empire (1915/62) 1852-0628 Hans Huber* pianist/ composer - Eppenberg-Wöschnau, Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland (1921/69) 1852-0630 Karl Jessen* Baltic German admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy/of Danish descent - Dorpat, Livonia, Russian Empire (1918/66) 1852-0709 Grigore C. Crăiniceanu* Romanian military officer - Bucharest, Wallachia (1935/83) 1852-0715 Josef Josephi* Polish singer/actor - Kraków, Austrian Empire (1920/67) 1852-0720 Theo Heemskerk* Dutch politician/PM/the founder of the Dutch poverty and vaccination laws - Amsterdam (1932/79) 1852-0720 Maria Brace Kimball* elocutionist/author - Penn Yan, NY USA (1933/80) 1852-0730 Emma Gillett* lawyer/women’s rights activist - Princeton, WI USA (1927/74) 1852-0801 1852-0804 Catharine van Tussenbroek* physician/feminist - Utrecht, Kingdom of Netherlands (1925/72) 1852-0810 1852-0811 Hallam Tennyson* Governor of Australia - Twickenham, Surrey, England (1928/76) 1852-0820 1852-0822 Charles Norris-Newman* journalist/ adventurer/intelligence officer with the Russian Navy - Elvington Hall, Yorkshire, England (1920/67) 1852-0830 Jacobus van’t Hoff* physical chemist/N - Rotterdam, Netherlands (1911/58) 1852-0831 1852-0906 Schalk Willem Burger* lawyer/ military leader/president of the South African Republic - Lydenburg, Transvaal (1918/66) 1852-0908 Gojong of Korea* the last King of Joseon/the first Emperor of Korea - Hanseong, Joseon (1919/66) 1852-0910 Hans Niels Andersen* shipping magnate/businessman/founder of the East Asiatic Company - Nakskov, Denmark (1937/85) 1852-0920 1852-0923 William Stewart Halsted* pioneering surgeon (gloves etc) - New York City, NY USA (1922/69) 1852-0928 Isis Pogson* astronomer/meteorologist - Oxford, England (1945/92) 1852-0930 Charles Villiers Stanford* Anglo-Irish music teacher/composer/conductor - Dublin, Ireland (1924/71) 1852-1002 William Ramsay* chemist/N - Glasgow, Scotland (1916/63) 1852-1009 Hermann Emil Fischer* chemist/N - Euskirchen, Rhine Province (1919/66) 1852-1011 Mary Isabella Macleod* North American pioneer - Red River, USA (1933/80) 1852-1016 Carl von In der Maur* aristocrat/statesman - Wiener Neustadt, Austrian Empire (1913/61) 1852-1017 George Egerton* Royal Navy officer/Second Sea Lord - England (1940/87) 1852-1020 1852-1030 1852-1101 Eugene W. Chafin* politician/ writer - East Troy, WI USA (1920/68) 1852-1103 Emperor Meiji* 明治天皇 (b Mutsuhito) the 122nd emperor of Japan - Kyoto, Japan (1912/59) 1852-1110 Henry van Dyke Jr.* author/ educator/clergyman - Germantown, PA USA (1933/80) 1852-1122 Paul-Henri d’Estournelles* diplomat/politician - La Flèche, Loire Valley, France (1924/71) 1852-1128 Felix von Winiwarter* physician - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1931/78) 1852-12 1852-1210 Felix Graf von Bothmer* WW1 general - Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation (1937/84) 1852-1215 Henri Becquerel* physicist/N - Paris, France (1908/55) 1852-1215 Reginald F. Nicholson* military officer - Washington D.C. USA (1939/87) 1852-1219 Albert A. Michelson* American physicist/N - Strzelno, Kingdom of Prussia (1931/78) 1852-12 1852-0 1852-0 1852-0 Last updated 2025-0414 Helsinki Search for another year here