In the year 1877, the Satsuma Rebellion breaks out in Japan between disaffected samurai and the new imperial government (Jan 29), microphone is invented, and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake debuts (Mar 4), Crazy Horse surrenders in Nebraska (May 6), Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Canada (Jun 20), the Wimbledon tennis tournament is played for the first time (Jul 9), Deimos, the outer moon of Mars, is discovered (Aug 12) and days later its inner moon Phobos (Aug 18), Thomas Edison demonstrates his newest invention, the phonograph (Nov 29), American Indian Wars go on - and all these fine people were born:
1877-0101 Joosef Sallila* a.k.a. Raja-Jooseppi/hermit in Lapland - Kuivasjärvi, GD of Finland (1946/69)
1877-0102 Sirkka Hertzberg* actress - Joensuu, GD of Finland (1955/78)
1877-0103 Josephine Hull* (b Sherwood) actress/director - Newtonville, MA USA (1957/80)
1877-0122 K. N. Rantakari* (b Grönqvist) journalist/ politician - Loimaa, GD of Finland (1948/71)
1877-0209 Svend Gade* set designer/ screenwriter/theatre and film director - Copenhagen, Denmark (1952/75)
1877-0212 Louis Renault* industrialist/one of the founders of Renault - Paris, France (1944/67)
1877-0216 Tom Crean* seaman/ Antarctic explorer - Gurtuchrane, County Kerry, Ireland (1938/61)
1877-0217 Isabelle Eberhardt* explorer/author - Geneva, Switzerland (1904/27)
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1877-0309 Albert Leo Stevens* pioneering balloonist - Cleveland, OH USA (1944/67)
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1877-0316 Hilma Matilda Salomonintytär Kivistö**(b Yli-Jussila) farmer’s wife/married to Jaakko Mikonpoika Kivistö/mother of Siiri Hakoniemi - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1960/82)
1877-0318 Edgar Cayce* psychic - Hopkinsville, KY USA (1945/67)
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1877-0327 Friedrich Ulmer* actor/ screenwriter - Munich, German Empire (1952/75)
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1877-0415 Georg Kolbe* German sculptor - Waldheim, Saxony (1947/60)
1877-0417 Lionel Pape* British-American actor/to U.S. as a young man - Brighton, Sussex, England (1944/67)
1877-0430 Alice B. Toklas* life partner of Gertrude Stein/to France at age 30 - San Francisco, CA USA (1967/89)
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1877-0504 Robert Goldschmidt* chemist/ physicist/engineer (microfilm) - Brussels, Belgium (1935/58)
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1877-0523 Grace Ingalls* schoolteacher/younger sister of Laura Ingalls - Burr Oak, IA USA (1941/64)
1877-0526 Isadora Duncan* dancer - San Francisco, CA USA (1927/50) alternative birth date 27.5.1878
1877-0529 Reinhold Blomberg* businessman/editor/father of Lars Lindgren - Svanhals, Sweden (1847/70)
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1877-0604 Heinrich Otto Wieland* chemist/N - Pforzheim, Baden, Germany (1957/80)
1877-0607 Charles Barkla* physicist/N - Widnes, Lancashire, England (1944/67)
1877-0614 Ida Maclean* (b Smedley) biochemist - Birmigham, England (1944/66)
1877-0619 Charles Coburn* actor - Macon, GA USA (1961/84)
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1877-0622 T.E.Stockwell* wholesale tea dealer/business associate Jack Kohen used his initials in the name of his company (Tesco) - Islington, Middlesex, England (1947/69)
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1877-0702 Hermann Hesse* poet/novelist/painter/N - Calw, Württemberg, German Empire (1962/85)
1877-0724 Calogero Vizzini* mafia boss - Villalba, Sicily, Italy (1954/76)
1877-0728 Jaakko Mikonpoika Kivistö** farmer/father of Siiri Hakoniemi - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1942/65)
1877-0801 George Hackenschmidt* wrestler - Dorpat, Livonia, Russian Empire (1968/90)
1877-0809 Annie Turnbo Malone* first female African-American self-made millionaire - Metropolis, IL USA (1957/79)
1877-0827 Charles Rolls* co-founder of Rolls-Royce - Berkeley Square, London, England (1910/32)
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1877-0909 Frank Chance* baseball player - Salida, CA USA (1924/47)
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1877-0914 Agnes Ballard* architect/educator - Oxford, MA USA (1969/92)
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1877-0926 Bertha De Vriese* physician - Ghent, Belgium (1958/80)
1877-0926 Edmund Gwenn* (b Kellaway) actor - Wandsworth, London, England (1959/81)
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1877-1014 Grace Drayton* illustrator/cartoonist - Philadelphia, PA USA (1936/58)
1877-1030 Herbert William Hoover* manufacturer of vacuum cleaners - USA (1954/76)
1877-1103 Archibald Selwyn* theater owner/stage producer - Canada (1959/81)
1877-1104 Ulrich Bonnell Phillips* historian - La Grange, GA USA (1934/56)
1877-1109 Enrico De Nicola* journalist/ politician/1st president of Italy - Naples, Kingdom of Italy (1959/81)
1877-1213 Mykola Leontovych* Ukrainian composer/choral conductor/ teacher - Selevyntsi, Russian Empire (1921/43)
1877-1220 Friedrich Sieggrün* German nautical scientist/astrologer - Lübeck, Germany (83-1961)
1877-1222 Francis Fisher* tennis player/politician/MP - Wellington, New Zealand (1960/82)
1877-1224 Sigrid Schauman* Finnish artist/art critic - Chuguev, Russian Empire (1979/101)
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1877-1231 Lawrence Beesley* science teacher/journalist/Titanic survivor - Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England (1967/89)
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