Famous people born in 1875

The best-known people born in 1875, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
June 6 · d. 1955
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
July 26 · d. 1961
Photo: Unbekannt, PDM-owner
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
December 4 · d. 1926
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
January 14 · d. 1965
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Maurice Ravel
French composer (1875–1937)
March 7 · d. 1937
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author The image holder, the Bibliothèque nationale de France has not identif, Public domain
Syngman Rhee
President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
March 26 · d. 1965
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Edgar Rice Burroughs
American writer (1875–1950)
September 1 · d. 1950
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
October 31 · d. 1950
Photo: Government of India work, Public domain
D. W. Griffith
American filmmaker (1875–1948)
January 22 · d. 1948
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
October 12 · d. 1947
Photo: Aleister Crowley, Public domain
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
Soviet politician (1875–1946)
November 19 · d. 1946
Photo: Grigory Vayl, Public domain
Jeanne Calment
French supercentenarian, person with the longest confirmed lifespan (1875–1997)
February 21 · d. 1997
Photo: Gustave Ouvière, Public domain
Albert I of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875–1934)
April 8 · d. 1934
Photo: Studio of Eugène Pirou, Public domain
Antonio Machado
Spanish poet and essayist (1875–1939)
July 26 · d. 1939
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
December 19 · d. 1948
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Gilbert N. Lewis
American physical chemist
October 23 · d. 1946
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Russian Soviet revolutionary, politician and writer (1875–1933)
November 23 · d. 1933
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
September 3 · d. 1951
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Gerd von Rundstedt
German Field Marshal during World War II (1875-1953)
December 12 · d. 1953
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Edgar Wallace
British crime writer, journalist and playwright (1875–1932)
April 1 · d. 1932
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Henry Hallett Dale
English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (1875–1968)
June 9 · d. 1968
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Henri Lebesgue
French mathematician (1875–1941)
June 28 · d. 1941
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Hiram Bingham III
American academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician (1875–1956)
November 19 · d. 1956
Giovanni Gentile
Italian philosopher, educator, fascist theoretician and politician (1875-1944)
May 29 · d. 1944
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
John Buchan
Scottish author and politician (1875–1940)
August 26 · d. 1940
Photo: Bassano Ltd, Public domain
Marie of Romania
last Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938; r. 1914-1927)
October 29 · d. 1938
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Lithuanian painter, composer and writer (1875-1911)
September 22 · d. 1911
Vesto Slipher
American astronomer (1875–1969)
November 11 · d. 1969
Qiu Jin
Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer (1875-1907)
November 8 · d. 1907
Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)
February 2 · d. 1962

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Month by month

January

January 5 · J. Stuart Blackton, American film producer (1875–1941)
January 7 · Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (1875-1945)
January 11 · Reinhold Glière, Soviet Ukrainian composer (1875–1956)
January 11 · Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (1875-1941)
January 14 · Felix Hamrin, Swedish 20th century prime minister (1875-1937)
January 15 · Thomas Burke, American sprinter

February

February 4 · Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (1875-1953)
February 5 · Františka Plamínková, Czechoslovak politician, feminist and publicist (1875-1942)
February 10 · Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Spanish general (1875-1951)
February 16 · Anna Tumarkin, Swiss professor (1875-1951)
February 17 · Princess Louise of Denmark, Danish princess (1875–1906)
February 20 · Marie Marvingt, French athlete and aviator (1875-1963)

March

March 4 · Mihály Károlyi, Hungarian politician, president, prime minister of Hungary and ambassador to France (1875–1955)
March 8 · Franco Alfano, Italian composer and pianist (1875-1954)
March 12 · Charles D. B. King, President of Liberia (1875-1961)
March 26 · Max Abraham, German physicist (1875-1922)
March 27 · Albert Marquet, French painter (1875–1947)
March 30 · Thomas Xenakis, Greek gymnast (1875–1942)

April

April 2 · Walter Percy Chrysler Sr., (1875-1940) American automotive industry executive
April 3 · Mistinguett, French actress and singer
April 6 · Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Russia (1875–1960); fourth child and elder daughter of Alexander III of Russia and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
April 7 · Marmaduke Pickthall, British Islamic scholar, an English translator of the Qur'an into English (1875–1936)
April 27 · Maurice de Broglie, French physicist (1875-1960)
April 29 · Rafael Sabatini, Italian–English writer (1875–1950)

May

May 6 · William D. Leahy, United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff (1875–1959)
May 7 · William Hoyt, American pole vaulter (1875–1954)
May 11 · Harriet Quimby, American aviator, screenwriter (1875-1912)
May 12 · Charles Holden, English architect (1875-1960)
May 14 · José Santos Chocano, Peruvian activist and poet (1875-1934)
May 23 · Alfred P. Sloan, American businessman (1875–1966)

June

June 1 · Paul Landowski, French sculptor (1875–1961)
June 13 · Paul Neumann, Austrian Swimmer (1875-1932)
June 13 · Miriam A. Ferguson, American politician (1875-1961)
June 20 · Othenio Abel, Austrian botanist, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (1875–1946)
June 23 · Norman Pritchard, Indian athlete and the first Olympic medal winner from India (1877-1929)
June 23 · Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (1875–1955)

July

July 3 · Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (1875-1951)
July 10 · Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and civil rights leader (1875-1955)
July 15 · Adolfo Díaz, President of Nicaragua (1875-1964)
July 19 · Alice Dunbar Nelson, American writer, activist (1875-1935)
July 25 · Jim Corbett, British hunter, tracker, naturalist and author (1875-1955)
July 31 · Jacques Villon, French painter (1875-1963)

August

August 8 · Artur Bernardes, Brazilian politician (1875–1955)
August 14 · Eusebio Ayala, President of Paraguay (1875-1942)
August 15 · Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer and conductor (1875–1912)
August 16 · Juho Sunila, Prime Minister of Finland (1875-1936)
August 20 · Shaul Tchernichovsky, Russian-born Hebrew poet (1875 – 1943)
August 29 · Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist and music educator (1875–1962)

September

September 4 · Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (1875-1946)
September 7 · Oleksandr Murashko, Ukrainian painter (1875–1919)
September 20 · Matthias Erzberger, German politician (1875–1921)
September 22 · Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, was daughter of Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe and consort of the last reigning Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Ernst II
September 27 · Cléo de Mérode, French dancer (1875-1966)
September 29 · Henrik Lund, Greenlandic Lutheran pastor, poet, painter, and author of Greenland's national anthem (1875-1948)

October

October 8 · Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (1875-1919)
October 10 · Prince Franz of Bavaria, Bavarian Royal and Military General (1875–1957)
October 24 · Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (1875-1958)
October 26 · H. B. Warner, English film and theatre actor (1876–1958)
October 26 · Svetozar Pribićević, Croatian Serb politician (1875–1936)
October 30 · Avetik Isahakyan, Soviet Armenian poet (1875-1957)

November

November 9 · Rudolf von Sebottendorf, German antisemite, freemason and founder of the Thule Society (1875-1945)
November 15 · Birsa Munda, Indian tribal freedom fighter (1875–1900)
November 20 · Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa (1875–1944)
November 24 · Nobuyuki Abe, Japanese general and politician (1875–1953)
November 27 · Franz Xaver Schwarz, politician from Germany (1875-1947)
November 30 · Otto Strandman, Estonian politician (1875–1941)

December

December 6 · Hashim al-Atassi, Syrian statesman, thrice president (1875–1960)
December 7 · Fatali Khan Khoyski, Azerbaijani politician and jurist (1875-1920)
December 20 · Henri Callot, French fencer (1875-1956)
December 22 · Alexandros Diomidis, Greek politician (1875-1950)
December 24 · Otto Ender, Austrian chancellor, politician and lawyer (1875-1960)
December 27 · Sisowath Monivong, Cambodian king (1875–1941)

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