In the year 1864, Danish-Prussian War starts (Feb 1), the first submarine sinking takes place (Feb 17), In God We Trust starts appearing in all U.S. coins (Apr 22), President Lincoln issues a proclamation of conscription for the U.S. Civil War (Jul 18), the first fish&chips shop perhaps opens in London (Aug 13), the first Geneva Convention is signed (Aug 22), Brazil invades Uruguay (Oct 12), hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants are massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado (Nov 29), the American Civil War goes on - and all these fine people were born:
1864-xxxx Richard Joseph Yeoward* owner of the shipping line company that helped build trade and tourism on the Canary Islands - England Tenerife News
1864-0101 Alfred Stieglitz* photographer/ modern art promoter - Hoboken, NJ USA (1946/82)
1864-0104 Clara Emilia Smitt* physician/author - Stockholm, Sweden (1928/64)
1864-0108 Prince Albert Victor* son of King Edward VII/grandson of Queen Victoria - Windsor, Berkshire, England (1892/28)
1864-0113 Wilhelm Wien* physicist/N - Fischhausen, Province of Prussia (1928/64)
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1864-0124 Marguerite Durand* actress/ suffragette/newspaper owner - Paris, French Empire (1936/72)
1864-0128 Herbert Akroyd Stuart* mechanical engineer/inventor - Halifax, Yorkshire, England (1927/63)
1864-0130 Jaakko Hakoniemi** brother of Mikko H. - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1866/2)
1864-0131 Hilda Käkikoski* (b Sjöström) writer/schoolteacher/ politician/MP - Lapinjärvi, GD of Finland (1912/48)
1864-0204 James Fenton* politician - Avoca, VIC Australia (1950/86)
1864-0209 Miina Härma* composer/conductor - Kõrveküla, Estonia, Russian Empire (1941/77)
1864-0211 Louis Bouveault* chemist - Nevers, France (1909/45)
1864-0217 Banjo Peterson* bush poet/ journalist - Orange, New South Wales, Australia (1941/76)
1864-0220 Henry Rawlinson* army general/ water colour artist - Trent Manor, Dorset, England (1925/61)
1864-0227 Eemil Nestor Setälä* linguist/politician/author of the Finnish Declaration of Independence - Kokemäki, GD of Finland (1935/70)
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1864-0304 David W. Taylor* engineer/ naval architect - Louisa County, VA CSA (1940/76)
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1864-0311 Henry S. Harper* businessman/Titanic survivor - New York City, NY USA (1944/79)
1864-0312 W. H. R. Rivers* anthropologist/ neurologist/ psychiatrist - Chatham, Kent, England (1922/58)
1864-0312 Alice Tegnér* (b Sandström) music teacher/composer/poet - Karlshamn, Sweden (1943/79)
1864-0318 Mikael Lybeck* poet/writer - Uusikaarleby, GD of Finland (1925/61)
1864-0319 Charles Marion Russell* prolific painter of the American Old West/storyteller/author - St. Louis, MO USA (1926/62)
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1864-0322 Clarence G. Child* educator/scholar - Newport, RI USA (1948/84)
1864-0330 Franz Oppenheimer* sociologist/ political economist - Berlin, German Confederation (1943/79)
1864-0402 Jakob Emanuel Lange* Danish mycologist - Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Kingdom of Prussia (1941/77)
1864-0410 Tully Marshall* actor - Nevada City, CA USA (1943/78)
1864-0413 Emil Wikström* sculptor (the Lantern Carriers of the Helsinki Central railway station) - Turku, GD of Finland (1942/78)
1864-0416 Rose Talbot Bullard* physician/medical school professor - Birmingham, IA USA (1915/51)
1864-0419 Erik Lallerstedt* architect - Skå, Ekerö, Sweden (1955/90)
1864-0421 Max Weber* sociologist/ historian/political economist - Erfurt, Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (1920/56)
1864-0430 Konrad Fazer* amateur violinist//founder of Musiikki-Fazer/brother of Karl Fazer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1940/76)
1864-0501 Anna Jarvis* the founder of the Mother’s Day holiday in the U.S. - Webster, WV USA (1948/84)
1864-0505 Nellie Bly* (b Cochran) investigative journalist/industrialist/ inventor - Cochran’s Mills, PA USA (1922/57)
1864-0505 Henry Wilson* British officer/Irish unionist politician - County Longford, Ireland (1922/58)
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1864-0511 Ethel Voynich* (b Boole) British novelist (The Gadfly)/musician - Ballintemple, County Cork, Ireland (1960/96)
1864-0515 Vilhelm Hammershøi* painter - Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark (1916/51)
1864-0521 Princess Stéphanie of Belgium* daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium - Palace of Laeken, Laeken, Brussels (1945/81)
1864-0603 Ransom E. Olds* pioneer of the American automotive industry (Oldsmobile) - Geneva, OH USA (1950/86)
1864-0610 Ninian Comper* architect - Aberdeen, Scotland (1960/96)
1864-0611 Richard Strauss* composer - Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (1949/85)
1864-0614 Alois Alzheimer* psychiatrist/neuropathologist - Marktbreit, Bavaria Germany (1915/51)
1864-0625 Walther Nernst* chemist/N - Briesen, Kingdom of Prussia (1941/77)
1864-0630 Frederick Bligh Bond* architect/ archaeologist/psychical researcher - Marlborough, Wiltshire, England (1945/80)
1864-0701 Emil Albert Mauritz Standerskjöld* Finnish nobleman -Tula, Russian Empire (1900/36) - Geni
1864-0710 Austin Chapman* hotelier/ politician - Bong Bong, NSW Australia (1926/61)
1864-0712 George Washington Carver* botanist/ agricultural scientist/inventor - Diamond Grove, MO USA (1943/c. 78)
1864-0713 John Jacob Astor IV* business magnate/real estate developer/sank aboard the Titanic - Rhinebeck, NY USA (1912/47)
1864-0715 Marie Tempest* singer/ actress - London, England (1942/78)
1864-0719 Fiammetta Wilson* (b Worthington) astronomer - Lowestoft, Suffolk, England (1920/56)
1864-0720 Erik Axel Karlfeldt* poet/N - Karlbo, Dalarna, Sweden (1931/66)
1864-0723 Apolinario Mabini* Filipino lawyer/revolutionary leader/the first PM of the First Philippine Republic - Barrio Talaga, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire (1903/38)
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1864-0809 Roman Dmowski* politician/ statesman - Kamionek, Kingdom of Poland (1939/74)
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1864-0816 Elsie Inglis* Scottish pioneering surgeon/teacher/suffragist - Naini Tal, British India (1917/53)
1864-0818 Gemma Bellincioni* Italian opera singer - Monza (1950/85)
1864-0823 Eleftherios Venizelos* statesman/prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement - Mournies, Crete, Ottoman Empire (1936/71)
1864-0827 Hermann Weingärtner* Olympic athlete (gymnast) - Frankfurt, German Confederation (1919/55)
1864-0905 Onni Tarjanne* architect (Finnish National Theatre) - Virrat, GD of Finland (1946/81)
1864-0908 Hanna Bergh* painter - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1890/25)
1864-0908 Jakob Johann von Uexküll* biologist - Keblas Manor, Estonia, Russian Empire (1944/79)
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1864-0914 Robert Cecil* lawyer/ politician/diplomat/N - Cavendish Square, London, England (1958/94)
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1864-0926 Frans Viitanen* tailor/playwright - Virrat, GD of Finland (1932/77)
1864-0929 Miguel de Unamuno* poet/ playwright/philosopher - Bilbao, Spanish Empire (1936/72)
1864-1001 Emma Sheridan Fry* actress/ playwright/teacher - Painesville, OH USA (1936/72)
1864-1005 Louis Jean Lumière* together with his brother Auguste a manufacturer of photography equipment/Cinématographe motion picture system - Besançon, France (1948/83)
1864-1008 Kikunae Ikeda* 池田 菊苗 chemist - Kyoto, Tokugawa Shogunate (1936/71)
1864-1015 Anna Haava* Estonian poet/ writer/translator - Pala, Livonia, Russian Empire (1957/92)
1864-1017 Robert Lansing* lawyer/ diplomat - Watertown, NY USA (1928/64)
1864-1025 John Dodge* co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company - Niles, MI USA (1920/55)
1864-1025 Alexander Gretchaninov* American-Russian composer/to U.S. at age 75 - Kaluga, Russian Empire (1956/91)
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1864-1105 Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh* artist - Tipton, Staffordshire, England (1933/68)
1864-1105 Jessie Ralph* (b Chambers) actress - Gloucester, MA USA (1944/79)
1864-1111 Alfred Hermann Fried* journalist/ pacifist/co-founder of the German peace movement/N - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1921/56)
1864-1124 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec* painter/ printmaker/illustrator - Albi, Tarn, Second French Empire (1901/36)
1864-1126 Herman Gorter* poet/socialist/leading member of the Tachtigers - Wormerveer, Netherlands (1927/62)
1864-1128 Fernand Renault* one of the founders of Renault – Paris, France (1909/44) Oh Brother
1864-1202 Carr Van Anda* journalist/editor - Georgetown, Ohio USA (1945/80)
1864-1206 William S. Hart* actor/ screenwriter/director - Newburgh, NY USA (1946/81)
1864-1214 Frank Campeau* actor - Detroit, MI USA (1943/78)
1864-1218 S. Parkes Cadman* American clergyman/ writer/ pioneer Christian radio broadcaster - Wellington, Shropshire, England (1936/71)
1864-1225 Thomas Cahill* football coach/a founding father of soccer in the United States - New York City, NY USA (1951/86)
1864-1228 Frank G. Higgins* lawyer/ politician/mayor - Hell Gate, Montana Territory (1905/40)
1864-1231 Robert Grant Aitken* astronomer - Jackson, CA USA (1951/86)
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