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Alaska area compared with the other U.S. states[/caption]
In the year 1867, Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (Feb 3), Johann Strauss' The_ Blue Danube_ is first performed, in Vienna (Feb 13), the United States purchases Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars (Mar 30), Queen Victoria signs the British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada - the first independent dominion in the British Empire (May 29), Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital (Sep 14), the last shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, tenders his resignation to Emperor Meiji (Nov 9) - and all these fine people were born:
1867-0101 1867-0108 Emily Greene Balch* economist/ sociologist/pacifist/N - Boston, MA USA (1961/94) 1867-0115 Chauncey Yellow Robe* (b Canowicakte) educator/ actor/Native American activist - Sičháŋǧu Oyáte territory, SD USA (1930/63) 1867-0120 1867-0122 Gisela Januszewska* Austrian physician - Drnovice, Austria-Hungary (1943/76) 1867-0123 Sanna Amalia Hakoniemi** (b Linnusmaa) mother of Arvo Matti Hakoniemi - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1935/68) 1867-0129 Carl L. Boeckmann* Norwegian-American portrait painter/to U.S. at age 19 - Oslo, Sweden-Norway (1923/56)
1867-0201 1867-0207 Laura Ingalls Wilder* author - Pepin County, WI USA (1957/90) 1867-0210 1867-0214 Sakichi Toyoda* inventor/ industrialist/father of Toyota founder Kiichiro Toyoda - Kosai, Shizuoka, Empire of Japan (1930/63) 1867-0220 Flora MacDonald Denison* journalist/businesswoman/a leadership in the Canadian suffragist movement - Tweed, ON Canada (1921/54) 1867-0221 Otto Hermann Kahn* investment banker/ collector/ philanthropist - Mannheim, German Confederation (1934/67) 1867-0228 1867-0301 1867-0306 Samuel Franklin Cody* (b Cowdery) changed his name to Cody for Buffalo Bill Cody/Wild West showman/aviation pioneer - Davenport, IA USA (1913/46) 1867-0307 Arvid Knöppel* sport shooter/OG - Stockholm, Sweden (1925/58) 1867-0314 Marie Steiner-von Sivers* Baltic German aristocrat/actress/second wife of Rudolf Steiner - Włocławek, Russian Empire (1948/81) 1867-0320 1867-0321 Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.* Broadway impresario/the “glorifier of the American girl” - Chicago, IL USA (1932/65) 1867-0325 Arturo Toscanini* conductor - Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Kingdom of Italy (1957/89) 1867-0326 Marion Wheeler Ulmer* turpentine still owner/citrus grower in Largo - Early Branch, SC USA (1936/69) Tampa Bay Times 1867-0330 Enzio Reuter* entomologist - Turku, GD of Finland (1951/83) 1867-0331 1867-0401 1867-0402 Eugen Sandow* (b Friedrich Müller**)** German bodybuilder/showman - Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (1925/58) 1867-0410 1867-0416 Wilbur Wright* aviation pioneer - Millville, IN USA (1912/45) 1867-0420 1867-0423 Johannes Fibiger* physician/N (erroneously given) - Silkeborg, Denmark (1928/60) 1867-0430 1867-0507 Wladyslaw Reymont* novelist/N - Kobiele Wielkie, Congress Poland (1925/58) 1867-0514 Kurt Eisner* journalist/ politician, revolutionary - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1919/51) 1867-0515 Eoin MacNeill* scholar /Gaelic revivalist/politician - Glenarm, County Antrim, Ireland (1945/78) 1867-0519 Selim A. Lindqvist* architect - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1939/71) 1867-0526 Mary of Teck* Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions/Empress of India - Kensington Palace, London, England (1953/85) 1867-0527 Caleb Bradham* pharmacist/ inventor of Pepsi - Chinquapin, NC USA (1934/66) 1867-0604 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim* general/ statesman/6thP - Askainen, GD of Finland (1951/83) 1867-0608 Frank Lloyd Wright* architect/interior designer/ educator - Richland Center, WI USA (1959/91) 1867-0616 Kitty Loftus* dancer/singer/ actor-manager - Whitecliffe, Gloucestershire, England (1927/59) 1867-0617 Flora Finch* actress/to U.S. as a child - London, England (1940/72) 1867-0617 Henry Lawson* writer/bush poet - New South Wales, Australia (1922/55) 1867-0628 Luigi Pirandello* dramatist/ novelist/poet/N - Girgenti, Sicily, Italy (1936/69) 1867-0705 Ada Patterson* print journalist - Mount Joy, PA USA (1939/71) 1867-0715 Adolphe Alexandre Chaillet* electrical engineer/inventor/to U.S. at age 25 - Paris, France (after 1914) 1867-0718 Margaret Brown* (b Tobin) socialite/ philanthropist/Titanic survivor - Hannibal, MO USA (1932/65) 1867-0720 1867-0721 Harry “Little Tich” Relph* music hall comedian/ dancer - Cudham, Kent, England (1928/60) 1867-0725 Alexander Rummler* painter/best known for his work on murals and billboards - Dubuque, IA USA (1959/92) 1867-0727 Enrique Granados* pianist/composer - Lleida, Catalonia, Spain (1916/48) 1867-0803 Stanley Baldwin* statesman/PM - Bewdley, Worcestershire, England (1947/80) 1867-0806 Amalia Wallenius* housekeeper/ centenarian - Lohja, GD of Finland (1975/107) 1867-0809 Evelina Haverfield* British suffragette/aid worker - Kingussie, Scotland (1920/52) 1867-0811 Hobart Bosworth* actor/director/ producer - Marietta, OH USA (1943/76) 1867-0814 John Galsworthy* novelist/ playwright/N - Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England (1933/65) 1867-0822 Maximiliam Bircher-Benner* physician/nutritionist - Aarau, Switzerland (1939/71) 1867-0828 Umberto Giordano* composer - Foggia, Apulia, Kingdom of Italy (1948/81) 1867-0831 1867-0903 Oscar Neumann* German ornithologist/naturalist - Berlin (1946/78) 1867-0905 Amy Beach* pianist/ composer - Henniker, NH USA (1944/77) 1867-0907 J. P. Morgan* banker/finance executive/philanthropist - Irvington, NY USA (1943/75) 1867-0914 Charles Dana Gibson* illustrator (Gibson Girl) - Roxbury, MA USA (1944/77) 1867-0917 Mikhail Eisenstein* civil engineer/architect - St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (1920/52) 1867-0919 Arthur Rackham* book illustrator - Vauxhall, London, England (1939/71) 1867-0923 John Lomax* teacher/ pioneering musicologist/folklorist - Goodman, MS USA (1948/80) 1867-0928 Väinö Kataja* (b Jurvelius) farmer/writer - Hailuoto, GD of Finland (1914/47) 1867-0929 Walther Rathenau* industrialist/ writer/politician - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1922/54) 1867-1003 Pierre Bonnard* painter/ illustrator/printmaker - Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine, France (1947/79) 1867-1006 Knut Wasastjerna* architect - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1935/67) 1867-1007 Heikki Hallamaa* (b Häyrén) school teacher/sport shooter - Käkisalmi, GD of Finland (1951/83) 1867-1011 Viivi Paarmio* (b Palander) sculptor - GD of Finland (1952/85) 1867-1012 Johannes Lundson* bank executive/politician/chairman at the Declaration of Independence - Leppävirta, GD of Finland (1939/71) 1867-1014 Masaoka Shiki* 正岡 子規 poet/author/major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry - Matsuyama, Japan (1902/34) 1867-1027 Viola Allen* actress - Huntsville, AL USA (1948/80) 1867-1028 Hans Driesch* German biologist and philosopher - Bad Kreuznach (1941/73) 1867-1028 Richard Faltin Jr.* surgeon/pioneer in Finnish surgery - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1952/84) 1867-1107 Marie Curie* physicist/chemist/N - Warsaw, Congress Poland (1934/66) 1867-1108 Léon Houa* bicycle racer- Liège, Belgium (1918/50) 1867-1112 Leonard Jägerskiöld* Swedish zoologist - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1945/77) 1867-1127 Margaret Ruthven Lang* composer - Boston, MA USA (1972/104) 1867-1130 János Vaszary* painter/ graphic artist - Kaposvár, Kingdom of Hungary (1939/71) 1867-1204 Ewert Saarnio* sculptor - Kerimäki, GD of Finland (1920/53) 1867-1206 Arthur af Hällström* architect - Lempäälä, GD of Finland (1933/65) 1867-12 1867-1218 Tor Carpelan* secretary at the Helsinki University/genealogist - Uskela, GD of Finland (1960/92) 1867-1220 William Heffelfinger* the first professional American football player/coach - Minneapolis, MN USA (1954/86) 1867-1223 Madam C. J. Walker* (b Sarah Breedlove) entrepreneur/ social activist/philanthropist - Delta, LA USA (1919/51) 1867-1226 Ella Young* poet/Celtic mythologist - Fenagh, County Antrim, Ireland (1956/88) 1867-1231 1867-0 1867-0 1867-0 Updated 2025-0209 Helsinki Search for more years here