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Born in 1870

512 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Alexandre Arquillière

    theatre director, film actor

    1870–1953 · aged 82

    April 18 · 1870

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  2. Alma Söderhjelm

    professor, author

    1870–1949 · aged 78

    May 10 · 1870

    Source: Biografiskt lexikon för Finland

  3. Agnes Sime Baxter

    mathematician

    1870–1917 · aged 46

    March 18 · 1870

    Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography

  4. Nat Butler

    sport cyclist

    1870–1943 · aged 73

    January 6 · 1870

    No external source identified

  5. Constant Van Langhendonck

    equestrian

    1870–1944 · aged 74

    February 4 · 1870

    No external source identified

  6. Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski

    photographer

    1870–1935 · aged 65

    January 8 · 1870

    No external source identified

  7. Ilya Bondarenko

    architect, restorer

    1870–1947 · aged 76

    July 30 · 1870

    No external source identified

  8. Luigi Sincero

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1870–1936 · aged 65

    March 26 · 1870

    Source: BnF authorities

  9. Panteleymon Zhuze*

    lecturer, orientalist

    Date disputed

    July 20 · 1870

    No external source identified

  10. Guy Chantepleure

    writer

    1870–1951 · aged 81

    February 1 · 1870

    Source: BnF authorities

  11. Raoul Bricard

    engineer, teacher

    1870–1943

    March 23 · 1870

    Source: Léonore database

  12. Fausta Labia

    opera singer

    1870–1935 · aged 65

    April 3 · 1870

    Source: Archivio Storico Ricordi

  13. Evelyn Leland

    astronomer

    1870–1930

    1870

    No external source identified

  14. Sergey Blazhko

    university teacher, astronomer

    1870–1956 · aged 85

    November 17 · 1870

    No external source identified

  15. Blanche Wheeler Williams

    art historian, archaeologist

    1870–1936 · aged 66

    January 9 · 1870

    Source: SNAC

  16. Ole Sæther

    sport shooter

    1870–1946 · aged 76

    January 23 · 1870

    No external source identified

  17. William Robinson

    swimmer

    1870–1940 · aged 70

    June 23 · 1870

    No external source identified

  18. Jonas Smilgevičius

    economist, agronomist

    1870–1942 · aged 72

    February 12 · 1870

    No external source identified

  19. Émile Moselly

    writer

    1870–1918 · aged 48

    August 12 · 1870

    Source: BnF authorities

  20. Elvira Dolinar

    writer, teacher

    1870–1961 · aged 91

    January 22 · 1870

    Source: Slovenska biografija

  21. Bernard de Pourtalès

    sailor, skipper

    1870–1935 · aged 65

    June 5 · 1870

    Source: Roglo

  22. Hans Georg Stehlin

    paleontologist, geologist

    1870–1941 · aged 71

    January 13 · 1870

    Source: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

  23. Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský

    composer, choir director

    1870–1931 · aged 61

    July 17 · 1870

    Source: regional database of the Regional Library of Highlands

  24. Agda Östlund.

    politician

    1870–1942 · aged 72

    April 3 · 1870

    Source: Sveriges dödbok 1860–2017

  25. Leonie Taylor

    archer

    1870–1936

    1870

    Source: Olympedia

  26. Walter Chaffe

    tug of war competitor

    1870–1918 · aged 48

    April 2 · 1870

    No external source identified

  27. Émile Bouhours

    joiner, sport cyclist

    1870–1953

    June 3 · 1870

    Source: Roglo

  28. Jan Mirosław Peszke

    lithographer, painter

    1870–1949 · aged 78

    July 27 · 1870

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  29. Jeanne Rij-Rousseau

    art theorist, painter

    1870–1956 · aged 86

    June 10 · 1870

    Source: BnF authorities

  30. Edward Dewhurst

    tennis player, dentist

    1870–1941 · aged 70

    March 27 · 1870

    No external source identified

  31. Bertha Wellin

    editing staff, nurse

    1870–1951 · aged 80

    September 11 · 1870

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  32. Ashraf Gilani*

    poet, literary scholar

    Date disputed

    1870

    Source: IdRef

  33. Anna Stecksén

    physician, pathologist

    1870–1904 · aged 34

    May 27 · 1870

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  34. Prosper Bruggeman

    rower

    1870–1939 · aged 68

    March 14 · 1870

    Source: Olympedia

  35. Hippolyte Fierens Gevaert

    university teacher, art historian

    1870–1926

    1870

    Source: AGORHA

  36. Josephine Siebe

    children's writer, writer

    1870–1941 · aged 70

    November 10 · 1870

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  37. Pere Coromines i Montanya

    lawyer, writer

    1870–1939 · aged 69

    May 6 · 1870

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  38. John Rhodes

    skipper

    1870–1947 · aged 76

    February 13 · 1870

    No external source identified

  39. Henry Edward Sears

    sport shooter

    1870–1920 · aged 50

    May 11 · 1870

    No external source identified

  40. Aleksey Pavlovitch Hansky

    astronomer

    1870–1908 · aged 38

    July 20 · 1870

    No external source identified

  41. Georg Hellat

    civil engineer, master builder

    1870–1943 · aged 73

    March 3 · 1870

    Source: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija Online

  42. Franz Albert Amrhein

    rugby union player

    1870–1945 · aged 74

    December 29 · 1870

    No external source identified

  43. Louis Vernet

    archer

    1870–1946 · aged 75

    May 5 · 1870

    No external source identified

  44. Joseph Buerger

    rower

    1870–1951 · aged 81

    September 19 · 1870

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  45. Julius Körner*

    rower

    Date disputed

    December 22 · 1870

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  46. Henri Bouckaert*

    rower

    Date disputed

    May 3 · 1870

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  47. John Downes

    sailor

    1870–1943 · aged 72

    October 18 · 1870

    No external source identified

  48. Albert Grisar

    sailor

    1870–1930 · aged 60

    September 26 · 1870

    No external source identified

  49. Gus Voerg

    rower

    1870–1944 · aged 73

    June 7 · 1870

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  50. August Schmierer

    rugby union player

    1870–date unavailable

    April 28 · 1870

    No external source identified

  51. Gilbert Laws

    sailor

    1870–1918 · aged 48

    January 6 · 1870

    No external source identified

  52. Joanny-Philippe Lagrula

    astronomer

    1870–1950

    October 23 · 1870

    Source: birth certificate

  53. Walter Tammas

    athlete

    1870–1952 · aged 81

    August 23 · 1870

    No external source identified

  54. Oskar Bye

    artistic gymnast, painter

    1870–1939 · aged 68

    June 3 · 1870

    No external source identified

  55. Gaston Cailleux

    sailor, architect

    1870–1946 · aged 75

    December 6 · 1870

    No external source identified

  56. Oramel H. Simpson

    lawyer, governor

    1870–1932 · aged 62

    March 20 · 1870

    Source: Find a Grave

  57. Louis Potheau

    skipper, sailor

    1870–1955 · aged 84

    August 14 · 1870

    Source: Departmental archives of Hauts-de-Seine

  58. Richard Sällström

    sailor

    1870–1951 · aged 80

    December 15 · 1870

    No external source identified

  59. Arnošt Bart

    politician, member of parliament

    1870–1956 · aged 85

    August 29 · 1870

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  60. Konstantyn Dominik

    Catholic priest, cleric

    1870–1942 · aged 71

    November 7 · 1870

    No external source identified

  61. Rene Defert

    tennis player

    1870–1896 · aged 26

    February 8 · 1870

    No external source identified

  62. Bogusław Adamowicz

    painter, writer

    1870–1944

    January 13 · 1870

    No external source identified

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