Birth year 1851 celebrities

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Birth year 1851

Martinus Beijerinck Facts

Martinus Willem Beijerinck (16 March 1851 – 1 January 1931) was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist.

Edgardo Mortara Facts

Edgardo Levi Mortara (Bologna, Papal States, August 27, 1851 – Liège, Belgium, March 11, 1940) was born as an Italian Jew and became the center of an international controversy when he was abducted from his parents by authorities of the Papal State

Charles A. Stevenson Facts

Charles A. Stevenson was born on November 6, 1851 in Dublin, Ireland as Charles Alexander Stevenson. He was an actor, known for Shore Acres (1914), The Bolted Door (1923) and Whispering Shadows (1921). He was married to Frances Riley and Kate Claxton

Emilia Pardo Bazán Facts

Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 – 12 May 1921) was a Galician (Spanish) novelist, journalist, essayist, critic and scholar from Galicia.

Henry Festing Jones Facts

Henry Festing Jones (1851–1928) was the friend and posthumous biographer of Samuel Butler. His biography of Butler, entitled Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835–1902) — A Memoir, won the inaugural James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biograph

Albert Lynch Facts

Albert Lynch (1851–1912) was a Peruvian painter.

Barney Barnato Facts

Barney Barnato (21 February 1851 – 14 June 1897), born Barnet Isaacs, was a British Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from the 1870s. He is perhaps best remembered as bei

Domingos Olímpio Facts

Domingos Olímpio Braga Cavalcanti (September 18, 1851 – October 7, 1906) was a Brazilian novelist, journalist and playwright, famous for his Naturalist novel Luzia-Homem.

Sílvio Romero Facts

Sílvio Vasconcelos da Silveira Ramos Romero (April 21, 1851 – June 18, 1914) was a Brazilian “Condorist” poet, essayist, literary critic, professor, journalist, historian and politician.

W. S. Penley Facts

William Sydney Penley (19 November 1851 – 11 November 1912) was an English actor, singer and comedian who had an early success in the small role of the Foreman in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury. He later achieved wider fame as producer and st

Alois Jirásek Facts

Alois Jirásek (August 23, 1851, Hronov, Kingdom of Bohemia – March 12, 1930, Prague) was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a secondary-school teacher until his retirement in 1909. He wrote a series of historical n

Francis Bell Facts

Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell GCMG KC (31 March 1851 – 13 March 1936) was the first New Zealand-born Prime Minister of New Zealand. Bell is one three New Zealand Prime Ministers of Jewish extraction, the others being Julius Vogel and current Prime