In the year 1875, the first performance of the opera Carmen takes place in Paris, and the very first indoor hockey game is played in Montreal (Mar 3), an Egyptian invasion of Ethiopia fails (Sep 7), the Ottoman state declares partial bankruptcy and places its finances in the hands of European creditors (Oct 1), the Theosophical Society is founded in New York (Oct 30) - and all these fine people were born:

1875-0104 Anni Swan* writer/ translator - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1959/84) 1875-0105 J. Stuart Blackton* (b Blacktin) British-American film director/producer/to America at age 10 - Sheffield, England (1941/66) 1875-0110 1875-0114 Albert Schweitzer* theologian/ philosopher/ physician/N - Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire (1965/90) 1875-0115 Ibn Saud* the founder and first king of Saudi Arabia - Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd (1953/78) 1875-0117 William Robinson Brown* businesman/ influential Arabian horse breeder - Portland, ME USA (1955/80) 1875-0120 1875-0130 Charles Metcalfe* British colonial administrator - Calcutta, British India (1946/61)

1875-0201 1875-0202 Erkki Melartin* composer - Käkisalmi, GD of Finland (1937/62) 1875-0210 1875-0220 1875-0221 Jeanne Calment* oldest confirmed supercentenarian - Arles, France (1997/122) 1875-0226 Emma Dunn* actress - Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (1966/91) 1875-0228 1875-0301 1875-0307 Maurice Ravel* composer - Ciboure, France (1937/62) 1875-0310 1875-0316 Matti Niemi** (b Hakoniemi) brother of Mikko H./married to Augusta Amanda Sjöblom - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1943/68) 1875-0320 1875-0328 Juho Jaakko Hautamäki*' son of Juho Jaakonpoika Hautamäki - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1913/37) 1875-0331 1875-0401 Edgar Wallace* war corresponent/prolific writer/playwright - Greenwich, Kent, England (1932/56) 1875-0402 Walter Chrysler* automobile pioneer - Wamego, KS USA (1940/65) 1875-0409 Jacques Futrelle* journalist/ mystery writer/a RMS Titanic victim - Pikeville, GA USA (1912/37) 1875-0430 1875-0510 Eugen Schauman* Finnish nationalist/assassin of Governor-General Bobrikov - Kharkiv, Russian Empire (1904/29) 1875-0511 Harriet Quimby* journalist/aviation pioneer/screenwriter - Arcadia, MI USA (1912/37) 1875-0606 Thomas Mann* novelist/ social critic/ philanthropist/N - Lübeck, German Empire (1955/80) 1875-0610 1875-0619 William E. Carter* millionaire/ polo player/the RMS Titanic  survivor - Philadelphia, PA USA (1940/64) 1875-0623 Carl Milles* sculptor - Lagga, Knivsta, Sweden (1955/80) 1875-0623 Norman Pritchard*  British-Indian athlete/OG/actor - Calcutta, British India (1929/54) 1875-0710 Mary McLeod Bethune* educator/ activist - Mayesville, SC USA (1955/79) 1875-0711 H. M. Brock* illustrator/landscape painter  - Cambridge, England (1960/85) 1875-0715 Charles Hatfield* rainmaker - Fort Scott, KS USA (1958/82) 1875-0726 Carl Gustav Jung* psychologist/ philosopher - Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland (1961/85) 1875-0726 Antonio Machado* poet - Seville, Spain (1939/63) 1875-0730 1875-0801 1875-0808 Arthur Bernardes* politician/P - Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Empire of Brazil (1955/79) 1875-0809 John Beaton* gold miner/businessman - Judique, Nova Scotia, Canada (1945/69) 1875-0809 Albert Ketèlbey* pianist/ composer/conductor - Aston, Birmingham, England (1959/84) 1875-0810 Elvira Willman-Eloranta* (b Willman) journalist/ playwright/activist - Uusikaupunki, GD of Finland (1925/49) 1875-0816 Florrie Forde* (b Flannagan) singer/music hall entertainer - Fitzroy, VIC Australia (1940/64) 1875-0816 Juho Sunila* politician/PM - Liminka, Finland (1936/61) 1875-0818 Matti Ruotsi* school teacher/playwright - Keltto, Ingria (19xx) 1875-0821 Winnifred Eaton* writer/ screenwriter/w Chinese mother - Montreal, QBC Canada (1954/78) 1875-0826 Armand Bénédic* curler/OB - Paris, France (1962/87) 1875-0826 John Buchan* novelist/ historian/Governor General of Canada - Perth, Perthsire, Scotland (1940/64) 1875-0827 Katharine McCormick* suffragist/ philanthropist - Dexter, MI USA (1967/92) 1875-0829 Leonardo De Lorenzo* flutist/ music educator - Viggiano, Basilicata, Kingdom of Italy (1962/86) 1875-0831 Rosa Lemberg* (b Clay) Finnish-American teacher/theater director/to U.S. at age 28 - Omaruru, in today’s Namibia (1959/c. 83) 1875-0901 Edgar Rice Burroughs* author - Chicago, IL USA (1950/74) 1875-0903 Ferdinand Porsche* Austro-Bohemian automobile pioneer - Reichenberg, Austria-Hungary (1951/76) 1875-0909 Charles Keck* sculptor - New York City, NY USA (1951/75) 1875-0916 James Cash Penney* entrepreneur/ founder of JCPenney – Hamilton, MO USA (1971/95) 1875-0930 1875-1001 Eugeen Van Mieghem* painter - Antwerp, Belgium (1930/54) 1875-1002 Pattie Ruffner Jacobs* suffragist - West Virginia, USA (1935/60) 1875-1003 Mikko Haanpää* farmer/ local politician/father of Pentti Haanpää - Pulkkila, GD of Finland (1954/78) 1875-1008 Lucile Carter* (b Polk) socialite/ wife of milionaire William Ernest Carter/Titanic survivor - Baltimore, MD USA (1934/59) 1875-1012 Aleister Crowley* occultist/ poet/yogi - Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire England (1947/72) 1875-1020 Edgar Selwyn* actor/ producer - Cincinnati, OH USA (1944/68) 1875-1029 Marie of Romania* the last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I - Eastwell Park, Kent, England (1938/62) 1875-1031 1875-1119 Hiram Bingham III* academic/explorer/politician - Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii (1956/80) 1875-1119 Luis Rodríguez Figueroa* writer/politician - Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain (1936/60) 1875-1204 Rainer Maria Rilke* author - Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (1926/51) 1875-1219 Mileva Marić* Serbian physicist/mathematician/the first wife of Albert Einstein - Titel, Austro-Hungarian Empire (1948/72) 1875-0 1875-0 1875-0 Updated 2025-0327 Helsinki Search for another year here