{--page_num--}Famous Personalities Born In 1878

Nov 14 On this day in history birth of leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)  

Nov 15 Bela Reinitz, composer was born in the year 1878.  

Nov 17 Grace Abbott, Grand Island Neb, social worker (US Children Bureau) was born in the year 1878.  

Nov 21 In the year 1878 birth of gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice  

Nov 23 In the year 1878 birth of andre Caplet, composer  

Nov 23 In the year 1878 birth of ernest J King, US fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations (WW II)  

Nov 23 On this day in history birth of holcombe Ward, tennis champ (US Open-1904)  

Nov 24 In the year 1878 birth of mark N Tod, English classicist/historian  

Nov 25 Georg Kaiser, writer was born in the year 1878.  

Nov 27 Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d.1948) was born in the year 1878.  

Nov 27 In the year 1878 birth of mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer  

Nov 28 In the year 1878 birth of jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit/literary (Hadewych)  

Dec 01 Arthur B Spingarn, US NAACP-chairman (1940-65) was born in the year 1878.  

Dec 05 In the year 1878 birth of arrigo Pedrollo, composer  

Dec 07 On this day in history birth of akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)  

Dec 10 In the year 1878 birth of rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)  

Dec 15 Hans Carossa, writer was born in the year 1878.  

Dec 19 On this day in history birth of anton Lajovic, composer  

Dec 21 Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956) was born on this day in history.  

Dec 23 In the year 1878 birth of stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)  

Dec 25 Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver (d. 1941) was born in the year 1878.  

Dec 25 W Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise) was born in the year 1878.  

Dec 26 Isaiah Bowman, US, geography/co-founder (Geographical Review) was born in the year 1878.  

Dec 30 On this day in history birth of william Aberhart, Canadian politician (d. 1943)  

Dec 31 Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (d. 1966) was born in the year 1878.  

Dec 31 In the year 1878 birth of horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author/poet (El Crimen del Otro)  

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Jan 07 François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794) died on this day in history.  

Jan 09 Victor Emmanuel II, king of Sard (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at 57 on this day in history.  

Jan 18 In the year 1878 death of antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)  

Jan 19 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67 in the year 1878.  

Feb 01 George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85 in the year 1878.  

Feb 07 In the year 1878 pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85  

Feb 08 In the year 1878 elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at 83  

Feb 17 Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59 on this day in history.