[caption id=“attachment_2009” align=“alignleft” width=“347”] Colosseum in Rome, Italy in the year 1870[/caption] In the year 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil (Jan 10), The YWCA is founded in New York City (Feb 10), Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first African American to sit in the U.S. Congress (Feb 25), the blacks are given the right to vote in the U.S. (Mar 30), France declares war on Prussia (Jul 19), emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared (Sep 4), Rome becomes the capital of unified Italy (Oct 6), Japanese Yen replaces the Tokugawa coinage, Seitsemän veljestä by Aleksis Kivi is published - and all these fine people were born: 1870-xxxx Arthur MacPherson* stock exhange dealer/“Father of Russian football”/of Scottish heritage - St.Petersburg, Russian Empire (1919/c.49) 1870-0102 Ernst Barlach* sculptor/ printmaker/ writer - Wedel, Holstein, Germany (1938/68) 1870-0103 A. H. Woods* (b Aladore Herman) theatrical producer/to USA as an infant - Budapest, Austria-Hungary (1951/81) 1870-0110 1870-0111 Alexander Stirling Calder* sculptor/teacher - Philadelphia, PA USA (1945/74) 1870-0114 George Pearce* politician/senator - Mount Barker, Province of South Australia (1952/82) 1870-0120 1870-0123 William G. Morgan* educator/inventor of volleyball - Lockport, NY USA (1942/72) 1870-0203 Ada Negri* poet/writer - Lodi, Italy (1945/74) 1870-0205 C.E. Brock* painter/book illustrator - Holloway, London, England (1938/68) 1870-0207 Alfred Adler* psychologist - Rudolfsheim, Austria-Hungary (1937/67) 1870-0217 Ester Ståhlberg* (b Elfving) teacher/writer/the 1st First Lady of Finland - Vaasa, GD of Finland, Russian Empire (1950/80) 1870-0303 Géza Maróczy* Chess Grandmaster - Szeged, Hungary (1951/81) 1870-0304 Verner Järvinen* athete/OB/the first Finnish Olympic medalist in athletics (discus) - Ruovesi, GD of Finland (1941/70) 1870-0310 Andrew Petersen* American pattern maker/ politician - Thisted, Denmark (1953/83) 1870-0320 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck* military leader - Saarlouis, Prussia (1964/93) 1870-0404 George Albert Smith* Mormon leader - Salt Lake City, UT USA (1951/81). 1870-0422 Juhana Juhonpoika Aspinen** father of Elsa Maria Kivi - Vanhakylä, Viipuri, GD of Finland (unknown) 1870-0422 Vladimir I. Lenin* revolutionary/ politician - Simbirsk, Russian Empire (1924/53) 1870-0428 Hermann Suter* composer/ conductor - Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Switzerland (1926/56) 1870-0430 Franz Lehár* composer - Komárom, Austria-Hungary (1948/78) 1870-0430 Dadasaheb Phalke* director/producer/ known as the Father of Indian cinema - Trimbak, Bombay, British India (1944/73) 1870-0501 Frédéric Pelletier* physician/ choir conductor/music educator - Montreal, QC Canada (1944/74) 1870-0507 Marcus Loew* business magnate - New York, NY USA (1927/57). 1870-0510 1870-0519 Albert Fish* serial killer - Washington, D.C. (1936/65) 1870-0519 Reginald Lee* sailor/ Titanic crewman and survivor - Benson, England (1913/43) 1870-0524 Jan Smuts* statesman/ military leader/ philosopher - Bovenplaats, Cape Colony (1950/80) 1870-0531 1870-0613 Jules Bordet* microbiologist/ immunologist/N - Solgnies, Belgium (1961/90) 1870-0614 Sophia of Prussia* Queen consort of Greece/ granddaughter of Queen Victoria - Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (1932/61) 1870-0620 Georges Dufrénoy* painter - Thias, Île-de-France, France (1943/73) 1870-0621 Clara Immerwahr* German chemist - Polkendorf, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (1915/44) 1870-0703 R. B. Bennett* lawyer/ businessman/ politician - Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick, Canada (1947/76) 1870-0725 Maxfield Parrish* painter -  Philadelphia, PA USA (1966/85) 1870-0804 Harry Lauder* singer/comedian - Edinburgh, Scotland (1950/79) 1870-0806 Virginia Randolph* teacher/ educator - Richmond, VA USA (1958/87) 1870-0810 Lars Sonck* architect - Kälviä, GD of Finland (1956/85) 1870-0818 Bernard Baruch* financier/statesman/ philanthropist - Camden, SC USA (1965/94) 1870-0831 Maria Montessori* educator - Chiaravalle, Ancona, Italy (1952/81) 1870-0903 Grace Vanderbilt* socialite - New York City, NY USA (1953/82) 1870-0922 Charlotte Cooper* tennis player - Ealing, England (1966/96) 1870-0924 Georges Claude* engineer/ inventor (neon) - Paris, France (1960/89) 1870-0930 Jean Baptiste Perrin* physicist/N - Lille, France (1942/71) 1870-1001 1870-1015 Masabumi Hosono* 細野 正文 ciil servant/Titanic survivor - Hokura, Niigata, Empire of Japan (1939/68) 1870-1022 Ivan Bunin* writer/N - Voronezh, Russian Empire (1953/83) 1870-1022 Johan Ludwig Mowinckel* shipping magnate/ statesman/PM - Bergen, Norway (1943/72) 1870-1106 Willehad Martin* sculptor - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1944/73) 1870-1109 Magnus Enckell* symbolist painter - Hamina, GD of Finland (1925/55) 1870-1121 Alexander Berkman* political activist/anarchist - Vilna, Russian Empire (1936/65) 1870-1121 Joe Darling* cricketer/sheep farmer in Tasmania/pioneer on taking measures to eradicate rabbits - Glen Osmond, South Australia (1946/75) 1870-1127 Juho Kusti Paasikivi* politician/7thP - Hämeenläänin koski, GD of Finland (1956/86) 1870-1129 Trixie Friganza* (b Delia O’Callaghan) actress - Grenola, KS USA (1955/84) 1870-1203 Joseph Henry Loveless* outlaw/body identified by the DNA Doe Project in 2019 - Payson, Utah Territory (c.1916/46) 1870-1205 Vítězslav Novák* composer/pedagogue - Kamenice nad Lipou, Bohemia (1949/78) 1870-1210 Adolf Loos* Austrian and Czechoslovak architect/influential theorist - Brno, Austria-Hungary (1933/62) 1870-1231 1870-0 1870-0 1870-0 Updated 2025-0302 Helsinki Search for another year here