In the year 1869, The American Museum of Natural History is founded in New York (Apr 6), the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed (May 10), Sainsbury’s first store opens in London (May 22), celluloid is patented (Jun 15), the first Estonian Song Festival takes place (Jun 30), the Suez Canal is inaugurated (Nov 17), Tolstoy’s War and Peace is published (Dec), Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri (Dec7), DNA is discovered, Japan is on its way to a fully centralized government, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins - and all these fine people were born:
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1869-0106 Edith Anne Stoney* physicist - Dublin, Ireland (1938/69)
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1869-0118 Julius Meinl II* Austrian businessman (Julius Meinl AG)/son of the founder - Vienna (1944/75)
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1869-0121 Grigori Rasputin* mystic/self-proclaimed holy man - Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russian Empire (1916/47)
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1869-0204 Bill Haywood* labor organizer/founding member of the IWW/active in Russia - Salt Lake City, UT USA (1928/59)
1869-0209 Kalle Suosalo* (b Johansson) baker/politician/ the great grandfather of actor Martti Suosalo - Messukylä, GD of Finland (1918/49)
1869-0210 Royal Cortissoz* art historian/art critic - Brooklyn, NY USA (1948/79)
1869-0211 Helene Kröller-Müller* art collector - Essen, Germany (1939/70)
1869-0214 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson* physicist/N - Glencorse, Scotland (1959/90)
1869-0219 Hovhannes Tumanyan* translator/ activist/the national poet of Armenia - Dsegh, Armenia, Russian Empire (1923/54)
1869-0226 Nadezhda Krupskaya* Bolshevik revolutionary/politician/ Lenin’s wife - Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1939/70)
1869-0307 Berta Edelfelt* teacher/ author/sister of Albert Edelfelt - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1934/64)
1869-0314 Frederick Trump* businessman/second cousin of Henry J. Heinz/to U.S. at age 16 - Kallstadt, Kingdom of Bavaria (1918/49)
1869-0318 Neville Chamberlain* politician - Edgbaston, Birmingham, England (1940/71)
1869-0328 Christian Sibelius* psychiatrist/ brother of Jean Sibelius - Hämeenlinna, GD of Finland (1922/53)
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1869-0405 Henry Biaudet* historian/journalist/to Finland at age 4 - Heidelberg, GD of Baden (1915/46)
1869-0406 John W. Brady* attorney/convicted of murder - USA (1943/74)
1869-0410 Mabel Fuller Blodgett* (b Fuller) novelist/ writer of children’s books - Bangor, ME USA (1959/89-90)
1869-0411 Gustav Vigeland* sculptor/designer of the Nobel Peace Prize medal - Halse og Harkmark, Norway (1943/73)
1869-0412 Henri Désiré Landru* serial killer/“the Bluebeard of Gambais” - Paris, Second French Empire (1922/52)
1869-0415 Signe Brander* photographer - Parkano, GD of Finland (1942/73)
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1869-0429 Albert Gebhard* painter/ illustrator/caricaturist - Toholampi, GD of Finland (1937/68)
1869-0430 Philip de László* portrait painter - Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (1937/68)
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1869-0505 Hans Pfitzner* German composer - Moscow, Russian Empire (1949/80)
1869-0512 Carl Schuhmann* gymnast/OG - Münster, North German Confederation (1946/76)
1869-0515 Paul Probst* sport shooter/OGt - Switzerland (1945/76)
1869-0518 Lucy Beaumont* (b Pinkstone) actress - Bristol, England (1937/67)
1869-0518 Mary Haskell* American missionary - Philippopolis, Bulgaria (1953/84)
1869-0518 Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria* the last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne - Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria(1955/86)
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1869-0617 Flora Finch* actress - London, England (1940/72)
1869-0619 Mamah Borthwick* translator/the murdered partner of Frank Lloyd Wright - Boone, IA USA (1914/45)
1869-0624 Prince George of Greece and Denmark* son of George I of Greece/cousin of Nicholas II - Mon Repos, Corfu, Kingdom of Greece (1957/88)
1869-0627 Emma Goldman* anarchist political activist/writer/to U.S. at age 16 - Kovno, Russian Empire (1940/70)
1869-0627 Hans Spemann* German embryologist/N - Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg (1941/72)
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1869-0711 Pío Valenzuela* physician/ revolutionary leader - Polo, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire (1956/86)
1869-0718 Maria von Linden* German bacteriologist/zoologist - Burgberg Castle, Württemberg (1936/67)
1869-0719 James Kyd Duncan Ingram* physician active in Tenerife - Urquhart, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1933/63) PDLC.com
1869-0719 Xenophon Stratigos* army general/Transport Minister - Corfu, Kingdom of Greece (1927/57)
1869-0730 Cristóbal Magallanes Jara* Catholic priest/martyr - Totatiche, Jalisco, United Mexican States (1927/57)
1869-0804 Lydia Lyytikäinen* school teacher/ poet - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1947/77)
1869-0811 Hale Holden* lawyer/railroad leader - Kansas City, MO USA (1940/71)
1869-0813 Tony Garnier* architect/ city planner - Lyon, Second French Empire (1948/78)
1869-0814 Armas Järnefelt* conductor/composer/brother-in-law of Jean Sibelius - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1958/88)
1869-0816 Mignon Talbot* paleontologist (Podokesaurus) - Iowa City, IA USA (1950/80)
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1869-0829 Emil Aaltonen* (b Widell) industrialist/owner of the largest shoe manufacturing business of its time in the Nordic region/philanthropist - Sääksmäki, GD of Finland (1949/80)
1869-0901 Robert Reino* actor - Pielisjärvi, GD of Finland (1905/36)
1869-0902 Hanna Kunnas* actress/ active also in the U.S. - Kuopio, GD of Finland (unknown)
1869-0903 Fritz Pregl* physician/chemist/N - Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (1930/61)
1869-0904 Karl Seitz* Austrian politician/mayor of Vienna - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1950/80)
1869-0906 Felix Salten* author/ literary critic - Pest, Austria-Hungary (1945/76)
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1869-0917 Christian Lous Lange* historian/ teacher/political scientist/N - Stavanger, Norway (1938/69)
1869-0919 Ben Turpin* actor/comedian - New Orleans, LA USA (1940/70)
1869-0926 Winsor McCay* cartoonist/animator (Little Nemo) - Spring Lake, MI USA (1934/c.75) (date of birth uncertain)
1869-0927 Aleksander Ijas* Finnish colonel in the Russian Imperial Army /diplomat in Persia - Loviisa, GD of Finland (1914/45) Loviisan Sanomat
1869-10xx Mattie Edwards Hewitt* photographer - St. Louis, MO USA (1956/c. 86)
1869-1002 Mahatma Gandhi* activist/leader of the Indian independence movement - Porbandar, Bombay, British India (1948/78)
1869-1018 Johannes Linnankoski* (b Vihtori Johan Peltonen) author/playwright - Askola, GD of Finland (1913/43)
1869-1021 William Dodd* historian/ author/ambassador - Clayton, NC USA (1940/70)
1869-1026 Washington Luís* politician/P - Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil (1957/87)
1869-1031 William A. Moffett* admiral/the architect of naval aviation in the United States Navy - Charleston, SC USA (1933/63)
1869-1110 Gaetano Bresci* weaver/anarchist - Prato, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy (1901/31)
1869-1114 John Lumsden* physician/founder of an ambulance brigade - Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland (1944/74)
1869-1116 Joseph Vacher* serial killer - Beaufort, Isère, Second French Empire (1898/29)
1869-1122 André Gide* author/N - Paris, Second French Empire (1951/81)
1869-1130 Gustaf Dalén* physicist/N - Stenstorp, Sweden (1937/68)
1869-1201 Eligiusz Niewiadomski* painter/ art critic/president assassin - Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (1923/53)
1869-1204 Antti Mikkola* lawyer/newspaper editor/founder of Turun Sanomat - Lieto, GD of Finland (1918/48)
1869-1205 Ellis Parker Butler* author - Muscatine, IA USA (1937/67)
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1869-1216 Bertha Lamme Feicht* engineer - Bethel Township, OH USA (1943/73)
1869-1218 Karl Ekman* pianist/ conductor/music critic - Turku, GD of Finland (1947/77)
1869-1218 William Sanford Evans* publisher/politician - Spencerville, ON Canada (1949/79)
1869-1218 Harry Arthur Saintsbury* actor/playwright/mentor of Charlie Chaplin - Chelsea, London, England (1939/69)
1869-1220 Charley Grapewin* vaudeville and circus performer/writer/actor - Xenia, OH USA (1956/86)
1869-1222 Edwin Arlington Robinson* poet/ playwright - Head Tide, ME USA (1935/65)
1869-1226 August Blom* film director/producer - Copenhagen, Denmark-Norway (1947/77)
1869-1227 Lugné-Poe* actor/ theatre director/scenic designer - Paris, Second French Empire (1940/70)
1869-1231 Henri Matisse* painter - Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Second French Empire (1954/84)
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