1860s births

The list 1860s births includes Lillian Russell, Mary Jane Kelly, Josephine Earp, Scott Joplin and Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones. The list consists of 657 members and 11 sublists.

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Lillian Russell

American opera singer and actress

Overview: Lillian Russell (born Helen Louise Leonard; December 4, 1860/1861 – June 6, 1922), was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early ...

Date of birth: 4 December 1860

Date of death: 6 June 1922

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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A Woman of the Century 883T

Burials at Allegheny Cemetery 160T

American Theater Hall of Fame inductees 561T
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H.G. Wells

English writer (1866–1946)

Overview: Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1866

Date of death: 13 August 1946

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Cycling writers 68T

British cultural critics 22T

British anti-capitalists 25T
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Mary Jane Kelly

Murder victim

Overview: Mary Jane Kelly (c. 1863 – 9 November 1888), also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary, and Black Mary, is widely believed to have been the final victim of the notorious unidentified ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1863

Date of death: 9 November 1888

Age: 25 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Victim

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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1880s murders in the United Kingdom 22T

Murder in 1888 10T

Conspiracy theories in Europe 35T
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Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp

Common-law wife of Wyatt Earp (1861–1944)

Overview: Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp (née Marcus; 1861 – December 19, 1944) was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, a famed Old West lawman and gambler. She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town of Tombstone ...

Date of birth: 1861

Date of death: 19 December 1944

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Burials at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park 10T

People from Tonopah, Nevada 21T

People from Tombstone, Arizona 35T
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Scott Joplin

American composer, music teacher, and pianist (1868–1917)

Overview: Scott Joplin (c. 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime". During his brief career, he wrote over ...

Date of birth: 24 November 1868

Date of death: 1 April 1917

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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African-American male classical composers 12T

African-American music educators 28T

Classical musicians from Arkansas 2T
6.

Viola Allen

American actress

Overview: Viola Emily Allen (October 27, 1867 – May 9, 1948) was an American stage actress who played leading roles in Shakespeare and other plays, including many original plays. She starred in over two dozen ...

Date of birth: 27 October 1869

Date of death: 9 May 1948

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Performance Artist

Gender: Female

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Actors from Huntsville, Alabama 16T

Actresses from Alabama 62T

19th-century American actresses 381T
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George Washington Carver

botanist

Overview: George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was the most p ...

Date of birth: 1861

Date of death: 5 January 1943

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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19th-century African-American scientists 19T

19th-century African-American educators 197T

George Washington Carver 7T
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Ad Gumbert

Major League Baseball player

Overview: Addison Courtney Gumbert (October 10, 1867 – April 23, 1925) was a pitcher for Major League Baseball in the 19th century. His brother Billy Gumbert and great nephew Harry Gumbert were also Major League ...

Date of birth: 10 October 1868

Date of death: 23 April 1925

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Burials at Homewood Cemetery 77T

Sportspeople from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 567T

Zanesville Kickapoos players 10T
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Snitz Edwards

Hungarian-American actor

Overview: Snitz Edwards (born Edward Neumann, 1 January 1868 – 1 May 1937) was a stage and character actor of the early years of the silent film era into the 1930s.

Date of birth: 1 January 1868

Date of death: 1 May 1937

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Hungarian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' (152 cm)

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Male actors from Budapest 96T

19th-century American male actors 196T

American male silent film actors 1,200T
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Florence Roberts

actress

Overview: Florence Roberts (March 16, 1861 – June 6, 1940) was an American actress of the stage and in motion pictures.

Date of birth: 16 March 1861

Date of death: 6 June 1940

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Maryland 90T

19th-century American actresses 351T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T
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Dahteste

Chiricahua Apache woman warrior

Overview: Dahteste (circa 1860–1955) was a Choconen Apache woman warrior.

Date of birth: 1860

Date of death: 1955

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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19th-century Native American women 17T

Native American rebels 2T

Native American women in warfare 42T
12.

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones

Singer

Overview: Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Sissieretta Jones, (January 5, 1868 or 1869 – June 24, 1933) was an American soprano. She sometimes was called "The Black Patti" in reference to Italian opera ...

Date of birth: 5 January 1868

Date of death: 24 June 1933

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Female

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African-American female opera singers 57T

20th-century women opera singers 1,242T

19th-century American opera singers 47T
13.

Nikolaos Trikoupis

General and politician

Overview: Nikolaos Trikoupis (Greek: Νικόλαος Τρικούπης; 1868–1956) was a Greek general and politician, most notable for his service in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, where he was taken as a prisoner of war ...

Date of birth: 1869

Date of death: 1956

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Greek male sport shooters 91T

Greek military personnel of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22) 97T

Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics 94T
14.

Minnie Devereaux

American, Actress

Overview: Minnie Devereaux (1869–1923) was an American silent film actress. She was a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Oklahoma. More commonly known as "Minnie Provost" and occasionally "Indian Minnie," ...

Date of birth: 1869

Date of death: 5 June 1923

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes people 15T

Canadian silent film actresses 28T

20th-century Canadian actresses 650T
15.

George Gurdjieff

Russian philosopher

Overview: George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (, Russian: Гео́ргий Ива́нович Гурджи́ев, Greek: Γεώργιος Γεωργιάδης, Armenian: Գեորգի Գյուրջիև; 31 March 1866/14 January 1872/28 November 1877 – 29 October 1949) was a mystic ...

Date of birth: 13 January 1866

Date of death: 29 October 1949

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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People of the Russian Empire of Armenian descent 4T

Russian hypnotists 5T

George Gurdjieff 2T
16.

Emily Horsnell

English, Victim

Date of birth: 1861

Date of death: 10 November 1887

Age: 26 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Victim

Gender: Female

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1880s murders in the United Kingdom 24T

Murder in 1887 3T

November 1887 events 3T
17.

Armand Point

French painter

Overview: Armand Point (23 March 1860 or 23 March 1861 – February 1932 or March 1932) was a French painter, engraver and designer who was associated with the Symbolist movement and was one of the founders of the ...

Date of birth: 23 March 1860

Date of death: 1932

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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20th-century male artists 3,569T

French male painters 1,874T

French portrait painters 195T
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Amalia Paoli

Puerto Rican operatic soprano

Overview: Amalia Paoli (c. 1861–1942) was a notable Puerto Rican soprano. She was the sister of tenor Antonio Paoli and of Olivia Paoli, a suffragist and activist who fought for the rights of women.

Date of birth: 1861

Date of death: 1941

Age: 79 (age at death)

Occupation: Singer

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Puerto Rican operatic sopranos 4T

Puerto Rican sopranos 5T

Singers from Ponce 28T
19.

Frank Darvall Newham

English, Educator

Overview: Canon Frank Darvall Newham (7 June 1864 6 March 1946) was an Anglican priest and educator from Barrow upon Soar who spent most of his career in Cyprus. He was the Director of Education of Cyprus under ...

Date of birth: 7 June 1864

Date of death: 6 March 1946

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Male

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20th-century English Anglican priests 771T

Cypriot educators 9T

Church of England clergy 297T
20.

Spyros Spyromilios

Greek colonel

Overview: Spyros Spyromilios (Greek: Σπύρος Σπυρομήλιος; 1864–1930) was a Greek Gendarmerie officer who took part in the Greek struggle for Macedonia and the Balkan Wars. In 1914 proclaimed the Autonomy of his native ...

Date of birth: 1864

Date of death: 1930

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Activist

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Northern Epirus independence activists 13T

Greek people of the Macedonian Struggle 38T

Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus 16T