|
1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). In the ISO 8601 calendar, 1875 is defined as the year the Convention du Mètre was originally signed, by way of a reference year.
Events
January - April
May - August
September - December
Unknown date
Births
- January 5 - James Stuart Blackton, American film producer
- January 7 - Thomas Hicks, American runner
- January 9 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and socialite (d. 1942)
- January 11 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (d. 1956)
- January 14 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, philosopher, and musician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1965)
- January 15 - Tom Burke, American runner
- January 22 - D. W. Griffith, director
- February 2 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962)
- February 11 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
- February 21 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian oldest documented human being of all time (d. 1997)
- February 26 - Hans Böckler, unionist and politician (d. 1951)
- March 7 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
- March 26 - Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
- March 30 - Jonathan Campbell, film pioneer (d. 1942)
- April 1 - Edgar Wallace, writer (d. 1932)
- April 2 - Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
- April 4 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964)
- April 5 - Mistinguett, French singer
- April 8 - Albert I of Belgium
- April 15 - James J. Jeffries, boxer (d. 1953)
- May 11 - Harriet Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912)
- June 12 - Sam De Grasse, actor (d. 1953)
- June 24 - Diedrich Westermann, German linguist (d. 1956)
- June 28 - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (d. 1941)
- July 26 - Carl Jung, psychologist
- July 26 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
- August 18 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (d. 1912)
- August 21 - Winnifred Eaton, author (d. 1954)
- August 27 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist
- September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
- October 1 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter
- October 12 - Aleister Crowley, British occultist (d. 1947)
- October 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist
- December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)
- December 5 - Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader (d. 1933)
- December 25 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna
- Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya
Deaths
- January 23 - Charles Kingsley, English writer (b. 1819)
- February 22 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
- February 22 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist (b. 1797)
- March 1 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
- May 17 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
- June 3 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1836)
- June 4 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
- June 25- Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
- July 30 - George Pickett, American Confederate General (b. 1825)
- July 31 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
- August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
- August 10 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
- August 17 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (b. 1827)
- September 22 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur (b. 1786)
- October 10 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1817)
- October 12 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
- November 22 - Henry Wilson, United States Vice President (b. 1812)
- November 24 - William Backhouse Astor, Sr., American business tycoon (b. 1792)
|
