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Buffalo Bill Cody was born on 26 February 1846 in Scott County, Iowa, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Fighting with Buffalo Bill (1926), Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931) and The Indians Are Coming (1930). He was married to Louise Maude Frederici. He died on 10 January 1917 in Denver, Colorado, USA.- Henryk Sienkiewicz was born on 5 May 1846 in Wola Okrzejska, Poland, Russian Empire [now Wola Okrzejska, Lubelskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Quo Vadis (1951), Na jasnym brzegu (1921) and Invasion 1700 (1962). He was married to Maria Babska, Maria Romanowska and Maria Emilia Kazimiera Szetkiewicz. He died on 15 November 1916 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.
- People's recollections of Carrie Nation range from a female evangelical prophetess, to raving lunatic. Carry Amelia Moore was born into a family that operated a sharecropping plantation, that was in central Kentucky, on November 25, 1846. As a young woman she was unusually tall and not very pretty. She married a young man who, she discovered, was a free mason, a smoker, and an alcoholic. He left her at the age of twenty-one, and from then on she vowed to fight the demon liquor that had taken her man from her. She re-married, with several other women in her community, helped to form the Wormen's Christian Temperance Union, which is still in existence today. Yet Nation now took her crusade a step further, beginning a campaign of "hatchetation". Over the course of ten years, she led groups of women into saloons, wielding an ax, and smashed each place to bits. She made headlines all over the country, and was even the subject of at least four short films, where she was often portrayed in a comic light, by a male actor in women's clothes. Her fame soon got the better of her and she soon drifted into obscurity. She died in a mental health facility on Friday, June 9th, 1911, never living to see the result of her cause: the 18th Ammendment. Several years after the enactment of Prohibition, it was reported that an illegal liquor still has been discovered, on the grounds of Carry Nation's birthplace.
- Anna Swan was born on 6 August 1846 in Mill Brook, New Annan, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was married to Captain Bates. She died on 5 August 1888.
- Edmondo De Amicis was born on 21 October 1846 in Oneglia, Kingdom of Sardinia [now Imperia, Liguria, Italy]. He was a writer, known for The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918), Times Gone By (1952) and Dulce madre mía (1943). He died on 12 March 1908 in Bordighera, Liguria, Italy.
- Herbert Standing was born on 13 November 1846 in Peckham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for An International Marriage (1916), David Garrick (1916) and Peer Gynt (1915). He was married to Janet Grace Dalghesh Riddell and Emily Clementina Brown. He died on 5 December 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Augusto Mastripietri was born on 16 June 1846 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Malombra (1917), Christus (1916) and After Six Days (1920). He died on 8 July 1930 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Ottomar Anschütz was a German inventor, photographer, and chronophotographer. Between 1864 and 1868, he studied photography under some of the well-known photographers of the time. He received recognition for his photograph of John of Saxony on horseback in 1867, and then took over his father's company in Lissa, mainly working as a portrait photographer and as a decorative painter. In 1881, he made his first instantaneous photographs. In 1882, he developed his portable camera and made a name for himself with sharp photographs of imperial military demonstrations in Breslau the same year, and gained more fame with pictures of flying white storks in 1884 - the first photographs of birds on the wild. In 1885, he made his first chronophotographs of horses. The quality of his pictures was generally regarded to be much higher than that of the chronophotography works of Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey. In 1886, he developed the Electrotachyscope, an early device that displayed short motion picture loops with 24 glass plate photographs on a 1.5 meter wide rotating wheel that was hand-cranked to the speed of circa 30 frames per second. Each image was illuminated by a sparking spiral Geissler tube and displayed on a small opal glass window in a wall in a darkened room for up to seven spectators. Different versions were developed and shown at many international exhibitions, fairs, conventions and arcades from 1887 until at least 1894, and probably inspired many other pioneers in the history of film technology.- Soundtrack
Luigi Denza was born on 24 February 1846 in Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy. He died on 26 January 1922 in London, England, UK.- Brtitish novelist, poet and playwright Mrs. W.K. Clifford was born Lucy Lane in Barbados, British West Indies, in 1846. In 1875 she married writer William Kingdon Clifford, and they settled in England. Although he was only in his early 30s, Kingdon's health began to fail and the couple moved to the Mediterranean in 1878. The new change in climate seemed to improve his health, but upon their return to England it began to decline rapidly. Another move to Portugal didn't help, and he died in March of 1879. She was left with two children and little money, but her friendship with writer George Eliot resulted in Eliot's helping her both financially and professionally; it was through Eliot's efforts that Clifford had her first works published in "The Standard", and for the next few years she was a regular contributor to that publication.
Her first novel, "Mrs. Keith's Crime", was published in 1885, but it didn't carry her name; it wasn't until the work was in its second printing that her name appeared on it. Over the following years she wrote in a variety of genres--plays, short stories, novels, poems--and she became a favorite of many of the finest writers of the day, among them Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and James Russell Lowell.
She died in London, England, on April 21, 1929. - George Siler was born on 23 September 1846 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on 13 June 1908 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Wilson Barrett was born on 18 February 1846 in Essex, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Sign of the Cross (1932), Hoodman Blind (1913) and A Man of Sorrow (1916). He was married to Caroline Heath and Caroline Heath (actress). He died on 22 July 1904 in London, England, UK.
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Francesco Paolo Tosti was born on 9 April 1846 in Ortona, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer, known for Because of Him (1946), Ritorna all'onda (1914) and The Great Caruso (1951). He died on 2 December 1916 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Henry Youngman was born on 7 November 1846 in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Humanity (1916), Slippery Slim, the Mortgage and Sophie (1914) and Slippery Slim and the Impersonator (1914). He died on 24 December 1940 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Doc Crane was born on 22 April 1846 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Lord John's Journal (1915), Lord John in New York (1915) and The College Orphan (1915). He died on 17 April 1920 in California, USA.
- American novelist Anna Katharine Green, often called "the mother of the American detective novel", was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1846. She graduated from Ripley Female College in Vermont at 20 years of age. She intended to be a poet, a career choice no doubt enhanced by her meeting renowned poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, but her first published work turned out to be something entirely different: a detective thriller called "The Leavenworth Case" (1878), which was critically praised for its clever, well-constructed plot and an obvious grounding in criminal law (her father was a lawyer). The book was a resounding success, selling more than 150,000 copies. More successful detective thrillers followed, many featuring her character of detective Ebenezer Gryce. She finally tried her hand at poetry, turning out two volumes, but they were not successful, and she decided to devote her talents full-time to her detective novels.
She died in 1935 in Buffalo, NY. - The Count of Lautreamont Isidore Ducasse was born on 4 April 1846 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The was a writer, known for Maldoror (1977), Watson and the Shark (2006) and Correspondances (1953). The died on 24 November 1870 in Paris, France.
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Riccardo Drigo was born on 30 June 1846 in Padua, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Veneto, Italy]. He is known for Let Freedom Ring (1939), Aizen katsura (1938) and Due South (1994). He died on 1 October 1930 in Padua, Veneto, Italy.- Composer
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Ange Flégier was born on 25 February 1846 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a composer, known for Rehearsal: The Telephone Hour (1947) and Le Cor (1932). He died on 8 October 1927 in Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.- E. Story Gofton was born on 31 July 1846 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sixty Years a Queen (1913), Circus Jim (1921) and Onder spiritistischen dwang (1921). He died on 1 May 1939 in Hornchurch, Essex, England, UK.
- Born on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village, Henry Francis Downing was a member of a prominent African American family of New York City. After serving in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, Henry Downing traveled the world, stopping in the West African country of Liberia for several years. After returning to New York, he became involved in local politics. In 1886, he was appointed U.S. Consul to Loanda, Angola, in Portuguese East Africa, where he served until his resignation in 1888. He would later move to Great Britain, where he would serve as a commercial agent representing Liberian businessmen and for European merchants interested in African markets. Downing became involved in Pan-African activities (he would eventually support Marcus Garvey and his "Back to Africa" movement) and began a prolific output of writings, including nine plays, two novels, a number of essays and short stories and several works on Liberia.
- Anton Ohorn was born on 22 July 1846 in Theresienstadt, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Terezin, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Die Einödpfarre (1915), In dunkler Tiefe (1918) and Hinter Klostermauern (1928). He died on 30 June 1924 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany.
- Peter Carl Fabergé was born on 30 May 1846 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was married to Augusta Julia Jacobs. He died on 24 September 1920 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Isodore Lucien Ducasse was born on 4 April 1846 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Isodore Lucien was a writer, known for Maldoror (2001). Isodore Lucien died on 24 November 1870 in Paris, France.
- Lizzie Conway was born on 10 April 1846 in Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Lena Rivers (1914), When the Men Left Town (1914) and A Story of Crime (1914). She was married to George W. Conway (actor, manager). She died on 4 May 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Richard Henry Savage was born on 12 June, 1846, at Utica, New York, the son of Richard (1817-1903) and Jane Moorhead Savage (née Ewart). His father was a lawyer who became famous as one of the discoverers of the Comstock Lode in Nevada. During the Civil War he served in the Lincoln administration as Internal Revenue Collector and Federal Assessor. Savage's father is also remembered as one of the founders of the Californian Republican Party.
As a young boy growing up in San Francisco, Savage was among the first students there to be able to attend public school. At the age of twenty-two he graduated toward the top of his class at West Point Military Academy and soon saw service in the American West on the staffs of former Civil War generals, Henry Halleck (1815-1872), Edward Ord (1818-1883), George Thomas (1816-1870) and John Schofield (1831-1906). Between 1871 and 1872 he served as a Major in the Egyptian Army as Military Secretary to former American General Charles Pomeroy Stone (1824 -1887), who at that time was Chief of Staff and General aide-de-camp to Isma'il Pasha (1830-1895), Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. Later Savage served as American Vice-Counsel in Marseilles and Rome and was appointed to a commission investigating a border dispute between the United States and Mexico. After his retirement from government service in 1884, Savage traveled extensively carrying out geographical studies in Japan, China, Korea, Russia, Turkey, the Mid East, and Honduras. Some have suggested that the 1930s and 1940s pulp hero, Doc Savage, was at least in part based on the eventful life of Richard Henry Savage.
In civilian life Savage was a lawyer, but eventually writing became his chief occupation. Of the over 40 books he wrote, "My Official Wife", Delilah of Harlem", "The Mask of Venus", "Our Mysterious Passenger and Other Stories" and "In the Shadow of the Pyramids", a biography of Isma'il Pasha were among his most popular. Savage published some thirty volumes of prose and poetry along with several more volumes of essays and speeches culled from his many speaking engagements.
On 2 January, 1873, Savage married Mme. Anna Josephine Schible (1843-1910), a recently widowed German aristocrat. The wedding took place at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., where Baron Schlozer, the German Ambassador, was the witness of honor for the bride. Their only child, a daughter, later married Anatol de Carriere, the Russian Imperial Councilor of State.
Savage volunteered during the American war with Spain and served with distinction in Cuba as senior Captain of the 27th U.S. Volunteer Infantry. After the war he was appointed Brigadier General and Chief Engineer of Spanish War Veterans.
Richard Henry Savage died on 11 October, 1903, eight days after a horse and wagon ran over him at the corner of 6th Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City. Ironically his 86 year old father passed away in San Francisco on the same day his son was fatally struck down. - Marcus Clarke was born on 24 April 1846 in Kensington, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for For the Term of His Natural Life (1927), The Convict Hero (1911) and For the Term of His Natural Life (1908). He was married to Marion Dunn. He died on 2 August 1881 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Helena of Schleswig-Holstein was born on 25 May 1846 in Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, UK. She was married to Prince Christian. She died on 9 June 1923 in London, England, UK.
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Albert Vanloo was born on 10 September 1846 in Ixelles, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Véronique (1950), Airs de France (1955) and The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955). He died on 4 March 1920 in Paris, France.- Axel Jacobsson was born on 2 July 1846. He is known for Hennes lilla majestät (1925).
- Alfred Perceval Graves was born on 22 July 1846 in Ireland. Alfred Perceval was a writer, known for The Post-Bag (1938). Alfred Perceval died on 27 December 1931.
- Lotten Almlöf was born on 24 December 1846 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for A Modern Robinson (1920). She died on 24 June 1945 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Svatopluk Cech was born on 21 February 1846 in Ostredek, Bohemia, Austria [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Lesetínský kovár (1925), Jestrab kontra Hrdlicka (1953) and Jestráb kontra Hrdlicka (1952). He died on 23 February 1908 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic].
- Jan Karafiát was born on 4 January 1846 in Jimramov, Moravia, Austria. Jan was a writer, known for Broucci (1967) and Broucci (1995). Jan died on 31 January 1929 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
- Jakub Seifert was born on 9 January 1846 in Prague, Cechy, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for The Cathedral Builder (1920). He died on 20 October 1919 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Neera was born on 7 May 1846 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Neera was a writer, known for Il marito dell'amica (1919). Neera died on 13 July 1918 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Sophus Neumann was born on 18 June 1846. He was an actor, known for Sophus Neumann fortæller Eventyret om 'Sommerfuglen' (1906). He died on 6 June 1912.
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Holger Drachmann was born on 9 October 1846 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a writer and actor, known for Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai (1983), Once Upon a Time (1922) and Once Upon a Time There Was (1907). He was married to Vilhelmine Erichsen, Emmy and Polly. He died on 14 January 1908 in Hornbæk, Seeland, Denmark.- Hilda Forsslund was born on 11 July 1846 in Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924), Patriks äventyr (1915) and En lyckoriddare (1921). She died in 1931.
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Paavo Cajander was born on 24 December 1846 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Paavo was a writer, known for Portraits of Women (1970), Mother of Mine (2005) and See You Some Bloody Day (2016). Paavo died on 14 June 1913 in Helsinki, Finland.- Justus van Maurik was born on 16 August 1846 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was a writer, known for Krates (1913). He died on 18 November 1904.
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Born (July 5 [July 17] 1846, Yazykovo-Rozhdestvenskoe, Novgorodskaya guberniya, Russian Empire, died April 2 [April 14] 1888, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) - Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and traveler studying the indigenous population of the South - East Asia, Australia and Oceania, including the Papuans of the northeastern coast of New Guinea, called the Maclay Coast. Educated in Germany. In 1864-1869, 1870-1882 and 1883-1886 he lived outside of Russia, never staying at home for more than a year. He is the author of about 160 scientific papers, mainly articles and notes, which during his lifetime were published most often in German and English. Also known as the defender of the indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia and Oceania, he actively opposed the slave trade. As a scientist, he consistently adhered to the principle of the unity of the human race; He rejected the popular theories that black races, including the Australian aborigines and Papuans, were a transitional biological species from monkeys to Homo sapiens. At the same time, he considered the northeastern coast of New Guinea as an "ethnographic reserve", which he claimed to possess alone. This pushed him on the path of political adventures, in particular - calls for the Russian colonization of the Maclay Coast, with the simultaneous creation of the Papuan Union - an independent state, whose head he sought to become. After the Russian government rejected this project, he made a simultaneous proposal to establish a protectorate for the governments of Great Britain and the German Empire (at the same time, in an appeal to Bismarck, Miklouho-Maclay called on Germany to guarantee that New Guinea would not be colonized). As a result, the Maclay Coast was turned into a German colony in 1884. Miklouho-Maclay's birthday is unofficially celebrated as a professional holiday for ethnographers.- Amalie Skram was born on 22 August 1846 in Bergen, Norway. She was a writer, known for Formynderne (1978), Lucie (1979) and Else Kant (1978). She was married to Erik Skram and Bernt Ulrik August Müller. She died on 15 March 1905 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- León Bloy was born on 11 July 1846 in Périgueux, Dordogne, France. He was a writer, known for Directo al corazón (1992). He was married to Johanne Molbech. He died on 3 November 1917 in Bourg-la-Reine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Zikmund Winter was born on 27 December 1846 in Prague-Staré Mesto, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. Zikmund was a writer, known for Wildschütz Jennerwein. Herzen in Not (1930), Nezbedný bakalár (1946) and Rozina, the Love Child (1945). Zikmund died on 12 June 1912 in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany.
- George Westinghouse was born on 6 October 1846 in Central Bridge, New York, USA. He was married to Marguerite Erskine Walker. He died on 12 March 1914 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Julian Hawthorne, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born in Boston, MA, in 1846. The family moved to Liverpool, England, where his father was American consul, when Julian was seven. In 1863 he returned to the US, enrolling in the Lowell Scientific School at Harvard University, after which he returned to Europe to do postgraduate work at a polytechnic school in Dresden, Germany. In 1870 he returned to the US and took a position as a hydrographic engineer for the city of New York's Docks Department. Four years later, however, he left the US again, this time to take a position as a staff writer on "The Spectator" magazine in London, where he spent seven years.
He began writing novels, but found it difficult to escape comparisons to his famous father, and soon acquired a reputation for being capricious and irritable, seeking to shock critics with the subject matters of his works. He averaged writing three to four books a year and one of them, "A Fool of Nature"--written using the pseudonym "Judith Hollinshed"--won a $10,000 prize offered by the New York Herald, which then hired him as an investigative reporter and sent him to India to cover a famine and plague devastating the country.
By 1900 he had decided to give up writing fiction, and concentrated on history, short stories and syndicated columns and articles. He also wrote several books based on the experiences of Inspector Byrnes, a renowned New York City detective. In 1913 he was sentenced to one year in prison for his involvement in a scheme that sold stock in worthless gold mines. He entered the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on March 26, but served only several months before he was released, after which he left for California. He was hired by the Pasadena (CA) Star-News, where he spent 17 years as the editor of the Book page.
He died in 1934 in San Francisco, CA. - Prince Leopold of Bavaria was born on 9 February 1846 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]. He was married to Archduchess Gisela of Austria. He died on 28 September 1930 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Gallé grew up in middle-class circumstances as the son of a ceramics and crystal dealer. After finishing school with a high school diploma, he studied philosophy, zoology, botany and mineralogy in Weimar from 1862. Emile Gallé stayed in Germany until 1866. Through his studies of mineralogy he came into contact with glass production. He then learned the art of glassblowing. He then visited London, where, among other things, he represented his father's company at the "Art de France" exhibition. He returns to Nancy via Paris. Gallé began to work with experiments and new glassblowing techniques. He developed new forms of representation, particularly in artistic decorations. These included marbling, reflections and bubble formation as well as melting of gold and silver foil.
In 1874, Emile Gallé took over management of his father's business. In 1875 he married the pastor's daughter Henriette Grimm. He then opened the studio "La Garenne" in Nancy. In 1878 he took part in the World Exhibition in Paris. Here his work was awarded four gold medals. After successful years, the studio was significantly expanded in 1883 to include workshops for glass, ceramics and wood products. At the Paris exhibition "La Pierre, la Terre, le Verre" he was again awarded gold. In 1885 he traveled to Berlin to study the collection of Chinese glass art at the Museum of Decorative Arts. In addition to his workshop in Nancy, Emile Gallé opened his first shop in Paris in 1885. Frankfurt followed in 1887 and London in 1889. Meanwhile, Emile Gallé became one of the most famous glass artists in Europe.
By the end of the 1880s he employed more than 300 people. In 1889 he was appointed officer of the French Legion of Honor. In 1900 he was awarded two Grand Prix and a gold medal at the World Exhibition. He was also appointed Commander of the Legion of Honor. In 1901 he founded the glass art school "Ecole de Nancy" with his brothers Augustin and Antonin Daum as well as René Lalique and Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, of which he became the first rector. In 1893 he took part again in the World's Fair in Chicago. In 1901 Gallé showed his works in Dresden and in 1902 in Turin. Gallé left the art world with crucial innovations in glass processing that had a profound influence on future glassblowing artists.
Emile Gallé died of leukemia in Nancy on September 23, 1904. - Lew Hart was born on 7 December 1846 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Stolen Paradise (1917), The Deacon's Son (1914) and The Unbeliever (1918). He was married to Louise Generva Plunkett and Evalyn Patterson. He died on 9 January 1920 in Staten Island, New York, USA.