In the year 1872, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City (Feb 20), Yellowstone National Park becomes the world’s first national park (Mar 1), the New Zealand Wars end after 17 years (May 15), trade unions become legal in Canada (Jun 14), American suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes in the U.S. presidential election in defiance of the law (Nov 5), the Great Boston Fire takes place (Nov 9), Challenger expedition which will lay the foundation for oceanography takes off from Portsmouth, England (Dec 21) - and all these fine people were born:
1872-0104 Edmund Rumpler* Austrian automobile and aircraft designer - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1940/68)
1872-0106 Alexander Scriabin* virtuoso pianist/composer - Moscow, Russian Empire (1915/43)
1872-0109 Anastasia Mannerheim* (b Arapova) /m to Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim - Moscow, Russian Empire (1936/64)
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1872-0120 Julia Morgan* architect - San Francisco, CA USA (1957/85)
1872-0130 Eduard Bloch* physician/Adolf Hitler’s family doctor/allowed by Hitler to emigrate to USA - Frauenberg, Austria-Hungary (1945/73)
1872-0131 Zane Grey* dentist/ Western author - Zanesville, OH USA (1939/67)
1872-0201 Clara Butt* concert singer/contralto - Southwick, Sussex, England (1936/53)
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1872-0211 Edward Johnston* British craftsman/calligraphist - San José de Mayo, Uruguay (1944/72)
1872-0211 Hannah Mitchell* suffragette/ socialist - Hope Woodlands, England (1956/84)
1872-0219 Kustaa Eränen* veterinarian/ short story writer - Ikaalinen, GD of Finland (1931/59)
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1872-0228 Mehdi Frashëri* Albanian intellectual/politician/PM - Frashër, Albania, Ottoman Empire (1963/91)
1872-0303 Willie Keeler* baseball legend - Brooklyn, NY USA (1923/50)
1872-0303 Aina Osa* (b Vuorio) actress/ prompter - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1947/74)
1872-0307 Piet Mondrian* painter/art theoretician/to the U.S. at age 68 - Amersfoort, Netherlands (1944/71)
1872-0313 Eduard Cuypers* priest - Stabroek, Belgium (1906/34)
1872-0319 Anna Held* Polish-French stage performer on Broadway - Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (1918/46)
1872-0324 Gabriel Engberg* painter/ assistant of Gallen-Kallela - Tampere, GD of Finland (1953/80)
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1872-0409 Léon Blum* politician/PM - Paris, France (1950/77)
1872-0419 Lennart Rosenlew* landowner/ farmer/civil servant - Pori, GD of Finland (1943/71)
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1872-0425 May Mann Jennings* (b Mann) political aide/First Lady of Florida - Bayonne, NJ USA (1963/90)
1872-0426 William Desmond Taylor* Irish-American actor/film director - Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland (1922/49)
1872-0429 Harry Payne Whitney* businessman/ horse breeder - New York City, NY USA (1930/58)
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1872-0501 Sidónio Pais* military officer/politician/P - Caminha, Portugal (1918/46)
1872-0507 Onni von Zansen* architect - Kuhmoinen, GD of Finland (1947/84)
1872-0514 Marcel Renault* racing driver/industrialist, co-founder of the carma_ker Renault_ - Paris, France (1903/31)
1872-0518 Bertrand Russell* philosopher/logician/ writer/N - Trellech, Monmouthshire, England (1970/97)
1872-0520 Wivi Lönn* architect/ entrepreneur - Tampere, GD of Finland (1966/94)
1872-0521 Henry E. Warren* inventor/the “father of electric time” - Boston, MA USA (1957/85)
1872-0525 Thomas Moulder* cricketer - Georgetown, British Guiana (1920/48)
1872-0530 Paul-Émile Janson* francophone politician/PM - Brussels, Belgium (1944/71)
1872-0603 Habibullah Khan* Emir of Afghanistan - Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Emirate of Bukhara (1919/46)
1872-0606 Alexandra Feodorovna* the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor Nicholas II - Darmstadt, GD of Hesse, German Empire (1918/46)
1872-0627 Paul Laurence Dunbar* poet/ novelist/short story writer - Dayton, OH USA (1906/33)
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1872-0701 Louis Blériot* aviator/ engineer/inventor (headlamp for cars) - Cambrai, French Third Republic (1936/64)
1872-0704 Calvin Coolidge* lawyer/politician/30usp - Plymouth Notch, VT USA (1933/60)
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1872-0711 Bertel Jung* architect/ urban planner - Pietarsaari, GD of Finland (1946/73)
1872-0712 Emil Hacha* Czech lawyer/P - Trhové Sviny, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (1945/72)
1872-0716 Roald Amundsen* explorer of polar regions - Borge, Østfold, Norway (disappeared in 1928/55)
1872-0720 Antti Jussi Hakoniemi** brother of Mikko H./married to Elisabet Hakala - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1959/86)
1872-0724 Kirsti Suonio* (b Kjäll) actress/ comedianne - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1939/67)
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1872-0803 Haakon VII of Norway* King of Norway (1905-1957) - Copenhagen, Denmark (1957/85)
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1872-0813 Otto Manninen* poet/ writer/celebrated translator of world classics into Finnish language - Kangasniemi, GD of Finland (1950/77)
1872-0813 Richard Willstätter* chemist/N/ inventor - Karlsruhe, GD of Baden, German Empire (1942/69)
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1872-0826 Joseph Taylor Robinson* politician/ governor/senator - Lonoke, AR USA (1937/64)
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1872-0902 Hugo Lund* sinologist/ teacher - Hämeenlinna, GD of Finland (1915/43)
1872-0905 Carlo von Erlanger* explorer/ ornithologist - Ingelheim am Rhein, GD of Hesse, German Empire (1904/31)
1872-0921 Henry Tingle Wilde* naval officer/chief officer of the RMS Titanic - Walton, England (1912/39)
1872-0923 Solomiya Krushelnytska* Ukrainian opera singer - Bielawińce, Austria-Hungary (1952/80)
1872-0928 David Unaipon* Aboriginal preacher/inventor/“the Australian Leonardo da Vinci” - Point McLeay Mission, South Australia, British Empire (1967/94)
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1872-1004 Eino Voionmaa* (b Wallin ) journalist/ translator - Jyväskylä, GD of Finland (1928/56)
1872-1006 Carl Gustaf Ekman* politician/PM - Munktorp, Sweden (1945/72)
1872-1012 Ralph Vaughan Williams* composer - Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England (1958/85)
1872-1013 Leon Leonwood Bean* inventor/outdoor enthusiast/ founder of L.L.Bean - Greenwood, ME USA (1967/94)
1872-1015 Edith Wilson* (b Bolling) First Lady/descendant of Pocahontas - Wytheville, VA USA (1961/89)
1872-1023 Tekla Renfors* (b Mömmö) poet/translator - Kuopio, GD of Finland (1912/39)
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1872-1101 Louis Dewis* (b DeWachter) painter/ businessman - Leuze, Belgium (1946/74)
1872-1109 Marian Thayer* (b Morris) socialite/ mother of four/Titanic survivor - Philadelphia, PA USA (1944/71)
1872-1111 Maude Adams* (b Adams Kiskadden) actress/the character of Elise McKenna in Richard Matheson’s Somewhere in Time was based on Adams - Salt Lake City, UT USA (1953/80)
1872-1112 Konrad Tallroth* actor/ screenwriter/director - Nurmo, GD of Finland (1926/53)
1872-1116 Evert Katila* journalist/ music critic/composer - Punkalaidun, GD of Finland (1945/82)
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1872-1130 Morris Fuller Benton* typeface designer - Milwaukee, WI USA (1948/75)
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1872-1206 Uno Donner* engineer/ businessman/anthroposoph - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1958/85)
1872-1210 Ludwig Klages* psychologist/ graphologist/writer - Hannover, Prussia, German Confederation (1956/83)
1872-1221 Lorenzo Perosi* Italian composer - Tortona, Piedmont (1956/73)
1872-1226 Norman Angell* journalist active in the U.S./author/politician/N - Holbeach, England (1967/94)
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