1876 births

The list 1876 births includes Mata Hari, Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai, Maria Ouspenskaya, Joseph M. Schenck and Princess Victoria Melita Of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The list consists of 4,749 members.

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1876

Calendar year

1.

Mata Hari

Dutch, Dancer

Overview: Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle, 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (MAH-tə HAR-ee, Indonesian for 'sun', lit. 'eye of the day'), was a Dutch ...

Date of birth: 7 August 1876

Date of death: 15 October 1917

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Paris in World War I 12T

People executed by the French military by firing squad 24T

People convicted of spying for Imperial Germany 6T
2.

Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai

Indian writer

Overview: Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai (Tamil: கவிமணி தேசிகவிநாயகம் பிள்ளை; 27 July 1876 – 26 September 1954) was an eminent Tamil poet. He was born in the southern district of Tamil Nadu in Kanniyakumari district ...

Date of birth: 27 July 1876

Date of death: 26 September 1954

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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19th-century Indian poets 158T

Poets from Tamil Nadu 72T

20th-century Indian poets 1,196T
3.

Natalie Barney

Writer and salonist

Overview: Natalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972) was an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris.

Date of birth: 31 October 1876

Date of death: 2 February 1972

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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American writers in French 39T

Novelists from Ohio 259T

American salon-holders 11T
4.

Maria Ouspenskaya

Russian actress (1876–1949)

Overview: Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya (Russian: Мария Алексеевна Успенская; July 29, 1876 – December 3, 1949) was a Russian actress and acting teacher. She achieved success as a stage actress as a young ...

Date of birth: 23 July 1876

Date of death: 3 December 1949

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Broadway actors 482T

Actresses from Tula 3T

20th-century Russian educators 13T
5.

Joseph M. Schenck

Film studio executive

Overview: Joseph Michael Schenck (December 25, 1876 – October 22, 1961) was a Russian-born American film studio executive.

Date of birth: 25 December 1878

Date of death: 22 October 1961

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film/TV Producer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Businesspeople from Palm Springs, California 21T

20th Century Fox people 69T

United Artists 11T
6.

Princess Victoria Melita Of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Princess of Great Britain and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; former Grand Duchess of Hesse; pretender Empress of Russia; a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England.

Overview: Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha GCStJ CI VA RRC (25 November 1876 – 2 March 1936) was the third child and second daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Grand ...

Date of birth: 25 November 1876

Date of death: 2 March 1936

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

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Anti-communists of the Russian Empire 20T

Recipients of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous 38T

White Russian emigrants to Finland 15T
7.

Georgia Caine

American actor

Overview: Georgiana Caine (October 30, 1876 – April 4, 1964) was an American actress who performed both on Broadway and in more than 80 films in her 51-year career.

Date of birth: 30 October 1876

Date of death: 4 April 1964

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Actresses from San Francisco, California 207T

19th-century American actresses 389T

American Shakespearean actresses 77T
8.

James Kirkwood

American actor and film director

Overview: James Cornelius Kirkwood Sr. (February 22, 1876 – August 24, 1963) was an American actor and director.

Date of birth: 22 February 1875

Date of death: 24 August 1963

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Male actors from Grand Rapids, Michigan 20T

American male silent film actors 1,200T

Male actors from Michigan 179T
9.

Charles Stoneham

American sports executive

Overview: Charles Abraham Stoneham (July 5, 1876 – January 6, 1936) was the owner of the New York Giants baseball team, New York Nationals soccer team, the center of numerous corruption scandals and the i ...

Date of birth: 5 July 1876

Date of death: 6 January 1936

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Businesspeople from Jersey City, New Jersey 31T

New York Nationals (ASL) 4T

New York Giants (NL) owners 8T
10.

Mrs. Harry Houdini

Stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini (1876–1943)

Overview: Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini (née Rahner; January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943) was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini.

Date of birth: 22 January 1876

Date of death: 11 February 1943

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' (152 cm)

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People from Inwood, Manhattan 19T

Catholics from New York (state) 548T

Harry Houdini 52T
11.

James Carew

American stage and film actor

Overview: James Usselman (February 5, 1876 – April 4, 1938), known professionally as James Carew, was an American actor who appeared in many films, mainly in Britain. He was born in Goshen, Indiana in 1876 and ...

Date of birth: 5 February 1876

Date of death: 4 April 1938

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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American emigrants to England 337T

19th-century American male actors 196T

American male silent film actors 1,200T
12.

H.B. Warner

Actor

Overview: Henry Byron Warner (born Henry Byron Lickfold, 26 October 1876 – 21 December 1958) was an English film and theatre actor. He was popular during the silent era and played Jesus Christ in The King ...

Date of birth: 26 October 1875

Date of death: 21 December 1958

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T

British expatriate male actors in the United States 258T

Male actors from London 1,398T
13.

Charles Halton

Actor

Overview: Charles Halton (March 16, 1876 – April 16, 1959) was an American character actor who appeared in over 180 films.

Date of birth: 16 March 1876

Date of death: 16 April 1959

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Broadway actors 482T

American male silent film actors 1,200T

Male actors from Washington, D.C. 138T
14.

Clara Blandick

Actress

Overview: Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey; June 4, 1876 – April 15, 1962) was an American stage and screen actress best known for her role as Aunt Em in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz ...

Date of birth: 4 June 1880

Date of death: 15 April 1962

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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American expatriates in British Hong Kong 7T

1962 suicides 27T

American actresses who committed suicide 77T
15.

Victor Moore

American actor (1876–1962)

Overview: Victor Frederick Moore (February 24, 1876 – July 23, 1962) was an American actor of stage and screen, a major Broadway star from the late 1920s through the 1930s. He was also a comedian, writer, and director ...

Date of birth: 24 February 1876

Date of death: 23 July 1962

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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19th-century American comedians 14T

Broadway actors 482T

20th-century American comedians 1,253T
16.

Jack London

American writer of fiction and non-fiction; journalist

Overview: John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines ...

Date of birth: 12 January 1876

Date of death: 22 November 1916

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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American democratic socialists 62T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

American psychological fiction writers 15T
17.

Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia

Russian noble

Overview: Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia RE (Russian: Кири́лл Влади́мирович Рома́нов; Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov; 12 October [O.S. 30 September] 1876 – 12 October 1938) was a son ...

Date of birth: 12 October 1876

Date of death: 12 October 1938

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

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People from Tsarskoselsky Uyezd 46T

House of Romanov in exile 29T

Recipients of the Order of Henry the Lion 74T
18.

Ernest Augustus Taylor

Member of Parliament

Overview: Vice-Admiral Sir Ernest Augustus Taylor, KCMG, CVO (17 April 1876 – 11 March 1971) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician.

Date of birth: 17 April 1876

Date of death: 11 March 1971

Age: 94 (age at death)

Occupation: Military

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Participants in the Norway Debate 80T

Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 3,688T

UK MPs 1945–50 688T
19.

José Palma

Filipino writer

Overview: José Palma y Velásquez (3 June 1876 – 12 February 1903) was a Filipino poet and soldier. He was on the staff of La Independencia at the time he wrote Filipinas, a patriotic poem in Spanish. It was published ...

Date of birth: 3 June 1876

Date of death: 12 February 1903

Age: 26 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

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Tuberculosis deaths in the Philippines 9T

Writers from Manila 65T

20th-century deaths from tuberculosis 903T
20.

Bertha Gifford

American serial killer

Overview: Bertha Alice Williams Graham Gifford (30 October 1871 – August 20, 1951) was a farmwife in rural Catawissa, Missouri during the early 1900s who was accused of murdering three members of the local ...

Date of birth: 23 October 1872

Date of death: 20 August 1951

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Female

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Criminals from Missouri 31T

American female serial killers 74T

Serial killers who died in prison custody 239T