The American Museum of Natural History is founded in New York (Apr 6), the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed (May 10), Sainsbury’s first store opens in London (May 22), celluloid is patented (Jun 15), the first Estonian Song Festival takes place (Jun 30), the Suez Canal is inaugurated (Nov 17), Tolstoy’s War and Peace is published (Dec), Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri (Dec7), DNA is discovered, Japan is on its way to a fully centralized government, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins – and all these fine people were born:
1869-0121 Grigori Rasputin* mystic/self-proclaimed holy man – Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russian Empire (1916/47)
1869-0210 Royal Cortissoz* art historian/art critic – Brooklyn, NY USA (1948/79)-a
1869-0214 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson* physicist/N – Glencorse, Scotland (1959/90)
1869-0226 Nadezhda Krupskaya* Bolshevik revolutionary/politician/Lenin’s wife – Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1939/70)-a
1869-0314 Frederick Trump* businessman/second cousin of Henry J. Heinz/to U.S. at age 16 – Kallstadt, Kingdom of Bavaria (1918/49)
1869-0318 Neville Chamberlain* politician – Edgbaston, Birmingham, England (1940/71)
1869-0328 Christian Sibelius* psychiatrist/ brother of Jean Sibelius – Hämeenlinna, Finland (1922/)
1869-0406 John W. Brady* attorney/convicted of murder – USA (1943/74)
1869-0411 Gustav Vigeland* sculptor/designer of the Nobel Peace Prize medal – Halse og Harkmark, Norway (1943/73)-a
1869-0412 Henri Désiré Landru* serial killer/”the Bluebeard of Gambais” – Paris, France (1922/52)
1869-0518 Mary Haskell* American missionary – Philippopolis, Bulgaria (1953/84)
1869-0627 Emma Goldman* anarchist political activist/writer – Kovno, Russian Empire (1940/70)
1869-0719 James Kyd Duncan Ingram* physician active in Tenerife – Urquhart, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1933/63)-a PDLC.com
1869-0814 Armas Järnefelt* conductor/composer/brother-in-law of Jean Sibelius – Viipuri, GD of Finland (1958/88)
1869-0903 Fritz Pregl* physician/chemist/N – Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (1930/61)
1869-1002 Mahatma Gandhi* activist/leader of the Indian independence movement – Porbandar, Bombay, British India (1948/78)
1869-1114 John Lumsden* physician/founder of an ambulance brigade – Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland (1944/74)
1869-1122 André Gide* author/N – Paris, French Empire (1951/81)
1869-1130 Gustaf Dalén* physicist/N – Stenstorp, Sweden (1937/68)
1869-1231 Henri Matisse* painter – Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France (1954/84)
Updated 5.5.2019
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