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Born in 1873

556 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Charlotte Hennessy

    actor

    1873–1928 · aged 55

    January 1 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  2. Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni

    politician, military personnel

    1873–1929 · aged 55

    July 23 · 1873

    No external source identified

  3. William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork

    military personnel, politician

    1873–1967 · aged 93

    November 30 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  4. Jean Adair

    stage actor, actor

    1873–1953 · aged 79

    June 13 · 1873

    Source: filmportal.de

  5. Miklós Bánffy

    diplomat, politician

    1873–1950 · aged 76

    December 30 · 1873

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  6. Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi

    statesperson, military leader

    1873–1938 · aged 64

    August 26 · 1873

    No external source identified

  7. Hans von Euler-Chelpin

    university teacher, chemist

    1873–1964 · aged 91

    February 15 · 1873

    Source: La France savante

  8. Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne

    politician, polo player

    1873–1939 · aged 66

    January 16 · 1873

    Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography

  9. Upendranath Brahmachari

    physician, scientist

    1873–1946 · aged 72

    December 19 · 1873

    No external source identified

  10. Félix d'Hérelle

    botanist, geneticist

    1873–1949 · aged 75

    April 25 · 1873

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  11. William David Coolidge

    chemist, university teacher

    1873–1975 · aged 101

    October 23 · 1873

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  12. Gus Mears

    entrepreneur, association football player

    1873–1912

    1873

    No external source identified

  13. Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg

    1873–1953 · aged 79

    August 11 · 1873

    Source: The Peerage

  14. Ziauddin Ahmad*

    pedagogue, politician

    Date disputed

    February 13 · 1873

    No external source identified

  15. J. E. H. MacDonald

    painter, landscape painter

    1873–1932 · aged 59

    May 12 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  16. Gyula Peidl

    journalist, politician

    1873–1943 · aged 69

    April 4 · 1873

    No external source identified

  17. Oliver Onions

    writer, science fiction writer

    1873–1961 · aged 87

    November 13 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  18. Joseph Paul-Boncour

    diplomat, politician

    1873–1972 · aged 98

    August 4 · 1873

    Source: Roglo

  19. Marija Jurić Zagorka*

    playwright, writer

    Date disputed

    March 2 · 1873

    No external source identified

  20. Vera Lewis*

    stage actor, film actor

    Date disputed

    June 10 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  21. Louis Ginzberg

    Judaic scholar, talmudist

    1873–1953 · aged 79

    November 28 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  22. Cécile Sorel

    actor

    1873–1966 · aged 92

    September 7 · 1873

    Source: IMDb

  23. Frances MacDonald*

    textile artist, illustrator

    Date disputed

    August 24 · 1873

    Source: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951

  24. James J. Davis

    politician

    1873–1947

    October 27 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  25. Princess Elisabeth of Waldeck and Pyrmont

    1873–1961 · aged 88

    September 6 · 1873

    Source: The Peerage

  26. Cesare Orsenigo

    Catholic priest, Catholic theologian

    1873–1946 · aged 72

    December 13 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  27. Franz Weidenreich

    anatomist, prehistorian

    1873–1948 · aged 75

    June 7 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  28. George Washington Lambert

    painter

    1873–1930

    September 13 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  29. Richard von Kühlmann

    diplomat, industrialist

    1873–1948

    May 3 · 1873

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  30. Eugeniusz Kazimirowski

    iconographer, painter

    1873–1939

    November 11 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  31. Zafar Ali Khan

    writer, journalist

    1873–1956

    January 19 · 1873

    No external source identified

  32. Johan Alfred Ander

    criminal

    1873–1910 · aged 37

    October 27 · 1873

    No external source identified

  33. José Martínez Ruiz*

    playwright, non-fiction writer

    Date disputed

    June 8 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  34. Louisa Garrett Anderson

    suffragette, physician

    1873–1943 · aged 70

    July 28 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  35. Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet

    historian, linguist

    1873–1944 · aged 70

    October 20 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  36. Max Švabinský

    glass designer, lithographer

    1873–1962 · aged 88

    September 17 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  37. Mariano Azuela

    physician, novelist

    1873–1952 · aged 79

    January 1 · 1873

    Source: Nouveau Dictionnaire des auteurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays

  38. Max Adler

    jurist, political scientist

    1873–1937 · aged 64

    January 15 · 1873

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  39. Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven

    poet, writer

    1873–1932 · aged 58

    August 13 · 1873

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  40. Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield

    politician

    1873–1967 · aged 94

    September 27 · 1873

    Source: The Peerage

  41. Enrique Gómez Carrillo

    writer, journalist

    1873–1927 · aged 54

    February 27 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  42. Joseph Jongen

    organist, pianist

    1873–1953 · aged 79

    December 14 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  43. Albert Howard

    botanist, ecologist

    1873–1947 · aged 73

    December 8 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  44. Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck

    lawyer, politician

    1873–1936 · aged 62

    December 1 · 1873

    Source: GeneaStar

  45. Otto Harbach

    lyricist, journalist

    1873–1963 · aged 89

    August 18 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  46. Sahachiro Hata

    microbiologist, physician

    1873–1938 · aged 65

    March 23 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  47. Aurora Pavlovna Demidova*

    Date disputed

    November 2 · 1873

    Source: The Peerage

  48. Walter Evans Edge

    governor, ambassador

    1873–1956 · aged 82

    November 20 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  49. Carl Flesch

    composer, university teacher

    1873–1944

    October 9 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  50. Carlos Mendieta

    politician, military personnel

    1873–1960 · aged 86

    November 4 · 1873

    No external source identified

  51. Antun Gustav Matoš

    poet, journalist

    1873–1914 · aged 40

    June 13 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  52. Plum Warner

    athlete, author

    1873–1963 · aged 89

    October 2 · 1873

    Source: The Peerage

  53. Nikolai Tcherepnin*

    conductor, music arranger

    Date disputed

    May 15 · 1873

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  54. Ivan Shmelyov

    opinion journalist, writer

    1873–1950 · aged 76

    October 3 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  55. Lilian Braithwaite

    stage actor, film actor

    1873–1948 · aged 75

    March 9 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  56. Théodore Simon

    psychologist, psychiatrist

    1873–1961 · aged 88

    July 10 · 1873

    Source: Base biographique

  57. Edward Raymond Turner

    filmmaker, photographer

    1873–1903

    1873

    Source: Photographers' Identities Catalog

  58. Carl Lotus Becker

    university teacher, historian

    1873–1945 · aged 71

    September 7 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  59. Radoje Domanović

    writer, satirist

    1873–1908 · aged 35

    February 16 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  60. Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe

    politician

    1873–1962 · aged 88

    May 21 · 1873

    Source: The Peerage

  61. Domingos Oliveira

    politician, military personnel

    1873–1957 · aged 84

    July 31 · 1873

    No external source identified

  62. Duke Robert of Württemberg

    military officer

    1873–1947 · aged 74

    January 14 · 1873

    Source: The Peerage

  63. Mikhail Prishvin

    pedagogue, war correspondent

    1873–1954 · aged 80

    February 4 · 1873

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  64. Joseph Capgras

    psychiatrist

    1873–1950 · aged 76

    August 23 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  65. Lady Helena Gleichen

    painter

    1873–1947 · aged 73

    February 1 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  66. Lois Irene Kimsey

    politician

    1873–1958 · aged 84

    May 9 · 1873

    Source: GeneaStar

  67. Vladimir Ghika

    Catholic priest, writer

    1873–1954 · aged 80

    December 25 · 1873

    Source: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon

  68. Amangeldy Imanov

    revolutionary

    1873–1919 · aged 46

    April 3 · 1873

    No external source identified

  69. Florence Parpart

    inventor

    1873–1930

    1873

    No external source identified

  70. Harry Solter

    film actor, film director

    1873–1920 · aged 46

    November 19 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  71. Saint Benjamin of Petrograd

    Eastern Orthodox priest

    1873–1922 · aged 49

    April 29 · 1873

    No external source identified

  72. Élie Faure

    art collector, critic

    1873–1937

    April 4 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  73. Alfred Polgar

    playwright, writer

    1873–1955 · aged 81

    October 17 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  74. Ferenc Szisz

    racing automobile driver

    1873–1944 · aged 70

    September 20 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  75. Hamo Ohanjanyan

    physician, politician

    1873–1947 · aged 74

    February 1 · 1873

    No external source identified

  76. Ahmed Niyazi Bey

    politician, military officer

    1873–1913

    1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  77. Eduardo Schaerer

    entrepreneur, journalist

    1873–1941 · aged 67

    December 2 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  78. Halvdan Koht

    historian, university teacher

    1873–1965 · aged 92

    July 7 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  79. Walter Nicolai

    military officer, soldier

    1873–1947 · aged 73

    August 1 · 1873

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  80. Karl Jatho

    aircraft pilot, inventor

    1873–1933 · aged 60

    February 3 · 1873

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  81. Eleanor Hallowell Abbott*

    children's writer, writer

    Date disputed

    September 22 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  82. Wilhelm Kreis

    university teacher, architect

    1873–1955 · aged 82

    March 17 · 1873

    Source: Structurae

  83. Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi

    1873–1939

    1873

    No external source identified

  84. Papa Jack Laine

    bandleader, jazz musician

    1873–1966 · aged 92

    September 21 · 1873

    Source: Discogs

  85. Oskari Tokoi

    editor, journalist

    1873–1963 · aged 89

    April 15 · 1873

    No external source identified

  86. Antonín Švehla

    politician, economist

    1873–1933 · aged 60

    April 15 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  87. Monty Noble

    cricketer

    1873–1940 · aged 67

    January 28 · 1873

    No external source identified

  88. Jan Janský

    physician, psychiatrist

    1873–1921 · aged 48

    April 3 · 1873

    Source: Students of the Universities of Prague 1882–1945

  89. Olav Bjaaland

    explorer, Nordic combined skier

    1873–1961 · aged 88

    March 5 · 1873

    Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon

  90. Peyveste Hanım

    aristocrat

    1873–1944

    May 10 · 1873

    No external source identified

  91. Georges Theunis

    politician

    1873–1966 · aged 92

    February 28 · 1873

    Source: ODIS

  92. Inez Haynes Irwin

    writer, suffragist

    1873–1970 · aged 97

    March 2 · 1873

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  93. Jaap Eden

    sport cyclist, bandy player

    1873–1925 · aged 51

    October 19 · 1873

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  94. Seraya Shapshal

    religious person, Turkologist

    1873–1961 · aged 88

    May 20 · 1873

    No external source identified

  95. Oscar von Sydow

    politician

    1873–1936 · aged 63

    July 12 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  96. Ferike Boros*

    film actor, actor

    Date disputed

    August 3 · 1873

    Source: Q1303302

  97. Charles Masterman

    member of parliament, politician

    1873–1927 · aged 54

    October 24 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  98. Harold Bauer*

    pianist, music educator

    Date disputed

    April 28 · 1873

    Source: Catalog of the German National Library

  99. Theodor Körner*

    politician, military personnel

    Date disputed

    April 24 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  100. William Pepperell Montague

    philosopher

    1873–1953 · aged 79

    November 11 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  101. Carl Vaugoin

    politician

    1873–1949 · aged 75

    July 8 · 1873

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  102. Matvei Muranov

    politician

    1873–1959 · aged 85

    December 11 · 1873

    No external source identified

  103. George Orton

    association football player, middle-distance runner

    1873–1958 · aged 85

    January 10 · 1873

    Source: Roglo

  104. Mykola Mikhnovsky

    historian, politician

    1873–1924

    1873

    Source: MAK

  105. Vasyl Krychevsky

    painter, scenographer

    1873–1952 · aged 79

    January 12 · 1873

    No external source identified

  106. Josiah Bailey

    politician, lawyer

    1873–1946 · aged 73

    September 14 · 1873

    Source: NCpedia

  107. Édouard Claparède

    teacher, university teacher

    1873–1940 · aged 67

    March 24 · 1873

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  108. Joseph I. France

    physician, politician

    1873–1939 · aged 65

    October 11 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  109. Julieta Lanteri

    social reformer, suffragette

    1873–1932 · aged 58

    March 22 · 1873

    No external source identified

  110. Jurgis Baltrušaitis

    writer, playwright

    1873–1944 · aged 70

    May 2 · 1873

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  111. Jane Emmet de Glehn

    painter

    1873–1961

    1873

    Source: Art UK painters database

  112. John St. Polis

    stage actor, actor

    1873–1946 · aged 72

    November 24 · 1873

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  113. Rudolf Tobias

    conductor, music teacher

    1873–1918 · aged 45

    May 29 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  114. Khoren I of Armenia

    Christian minister

    1873–1938 · aged 64

    December 8 · 1873

    No external source identified

  115. Oswald West

    lawyer, politician

    1873–1960 · aged 87

    May 20 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  116. Henri Rabaud

    composer, conductor

    1873–1949 · aged 75

    November 10 · 1873

    Source: Archivio Storico Ricordi

  117. George Forrest

    collector, botanical collector

    1873–1932 · aged 58

    March 13 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  118. Charles Avery

    screenwriter, film actor

    1873–1926 · aged 53

    May 28 · 1873

    Source: IMDb

  119. Nikola Uzunović

    politician

    1873–1954 · aged 81

    May 3 · 1873

    No external source identified

  120. Ethel Sands

    socialite, artist

    1873–1962 · aged 88

    July 6 · 1873

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  121. Giovanni Calabria

    Catholic priest

    1873–1954 · aged 81

    October 8 · 1873

    Source: GCatholic.org

  122. Gustaf John Ramstedt*

    diplomat, Esperantist

    Date disputed

    October 22 · 1873

    No external source identified

  123. Ernest Lawson

    painter

    1873–1939 · aged 66

    March 22 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  124. Milorad Drašković

    politician

    1873–1921 · aged 48

    April 10 · 1873

    No external source identified

  125. Tatsukichi Minobe

    university teacher, jurist

    1873–1948 · aged 75

    May 7 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  126. Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde

    gynecologist, sexologist

    1873–1937 · aged 64

    February 12 · 1873

    Source: filmportal.de

  127. Joaquín Mir Trinxet

    painter

    1873–1940 · aged 67

    January 6 · 1873

    Source: Mir (i Trinxet), Joaquim

  128. Lucila Gamero Medina

    writer, suffragette

    1873–1964 · aged 90

    June 12 · 1873

    No external source identified

  129. Sazkar Hanım

    aristocrat

    1873–1945

    May 8 · 1873

    No external source identified

  130. Tekkan Yosano

    waka poet, poet

    1873–1935 · aged 62

    February 26 · 1873

    Source: Find a Grave

  131. Federico Tedeschini

    Catholic priest, diplomat

    1873–1959 · aged 86

    October 12 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  132. Louis Versiglia

    Catholic priest, missionary

    1873–1930 · aged 56

    June 10 · 1873

    Source: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon

  133. Arturo Labriola*

    politician, journalist

    Date disputed

    January 21 · 1873

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  134. Lázaro Chacón González

    politician, military personnel

    1873–1931 · aged 57

    June 27 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  135. Antonis Benakis

    merchant, art collector

    1873–1954

    1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  136. Lucy Beaumont

    film actor, actor

    1873–1937 · aged 63

    May 18 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  137. Konstantin Igumnov

    pianist, musician

    1873–1948 · aged 74

    May 1 · 1873

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  138. Josip Plemelj

    university teacher, mathematician

    1873–1967 · aged 93

    December 11 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  139. Theophan (Bystrov)*

    archbishop, Eastern Orthodox priest

    Date disputed

    January 12 · 1873

    No external source identified

  140. John R. Swanton

    linguist, ethnologist

    1873–1958 · aged 85

    February 19 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  141. Matteo Bartoli*

    romanist, philologist

    Date disputed

    November 22 · 1873

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  142. Jean-Jacques Waltz

    local historian, draftsperson

    1873–1951 · aged 78

    February 23 · 1873

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  143. Lola Ridge

    editor, writer

    1873–1941 · aged 67

    December 12 · 1873

    Source: SNAC

  144. Robert Wrenn

    American football player, tennis player

    1873–1925 · aged 52

    September 20 · 1873

    Source: The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.)

  145. Thomas Curtis

    athletics competitor, sprinter

    1873–1944 · aged 71

    January 9 · 1873

    No external source identified

  146. Leo Fall

    bandleader, composer

    1873–1925

    February 2 · 1873

    Source: BnF authorities

  147. Ivan Babushkin

    journalist, politician

    1873–1906 · aged 33

    January 15 · 1873

    Source: Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia

  148. Emmanuel de Martonne

    geographer, climatologist

    1873–1955 · aged 82

    April 1 · 1873

    Source: Léonore database

  149. Kawai Gyokudō

    painter, Nihonga painter

    1873–1957 · aged 83

    November 24 · 1873

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  150. Ivan Kliun

    art theorist, painter

    1873–1943 · aged 70

    September 1 · 1873

    No external source identified

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