Birth year 1857 celebrities

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Birth year 1857

Joe Hornung Facts

Michael Joseph Hornung (June 12, 1857 – October 30, 1931) was an American baseball player and one of the greatest fielders of the 19th century. Michael Joseph Hornung was born in Carthage, New York in 1857.

Herman Bang Facts

Herman Joachim Bang (20 April 1857 – 29 January 1912) was a Danish author, one of the men of the Modern Breakthrough.

Ida M. Tarbell Facts

Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was one of the leading “muckrakers” of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered inves

Jane Toppan Facts

Jane Toppan (1857–1938), born Honora Kelley, was an American serial killer. She confessed to 31 murders in 1901. She is quoted as saying that her ambition was “to have killed more people — helpless people — than any other man or woman who ever

John William Evans Facts

John William Evans (27 July 1857 – 16 November 1930) was a British geologist. Evans was president of the Geological Society of London 1924–26. He received its Murchison Medal in 1922.

Jack Lynch Facts

John H. Lynch (February 5, 1857 – April 20, 1923) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1881 to 1890. He played for the Buffalo Bisons, New York Metropolitans, and Brooklyn Gladiators.

Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont Facts

Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont (Georgine Henriette Marie; 23 May 1857 – 30 April 1882) was the third daughter of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife, Princess Helena of Nassau, younger half-sister of Adolphe, Grand Duke

Fred Bloom Facts

Frederick Vroom was born on November 11, 1857 in Clement, Nova Scotia, Canada as Frederic William Vroom. He was an actor and director, known for The General (1926), The Navigator (1924) and Romance and Duty (1913). He was married to Florence. He died

Aluísio Azevedo Facts

Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo (14 April 1857 — 21 January 1913) was a Brazilian novelist, caricaturist, diplomat, playwright and short story writer. Initially a Romantic writer, he would later adhere to the Naturalist movement. He introdu

Gotō Shinpei Facts

Count Gotō Shinpei (後藤 新平, 24 July 1857 – 13 April 1929) was a statesman and cabinet minister in the Taishō and early Shōwa period Empire of Japan. He served as the head of civilian affairs of Taiwan under Japanese rule, the first direct

Ned Hanlon Facts

Edward Hugh “Ned” Hanlon (August 22, 1857 – April 14, 1937), also known as “Foxy Ned”, and sometimes referred to as “The Father of Modern Baseball,” was an American professional baseball player and manager whose career spanned from 1876 to 1914. He

Vladimir Bekhterev Facts

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (also Bechterev; Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Бе́хт