Death year 1883 celebrities

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Death year 1883

Francis Leon Facts

Francis Leon (born Francis Patrick Glassey; 21 Nov 1844 – after 1883) was a blackface minstrel performer best known for his work as a female impersonator. He was largely responsible for making the prima donna a fixture of blackface minstrelsy.

Qorpo Santo Facts

José Joaquim de Campos Leão, also known as Qorpo-Santo (Triunfo, April 19, 1829 – Porto Alegre May 1, 1883) was a Brazilian journalist and playwright. He is known to have written the very first absurdist theatre plays, long time before the term The

Clara Harris Facts

Clara Hamilton Harris (September 4, 1834 – December 23, 1883) was an American socialite. Harris and her fiancé, Major Henry Rathbone, were the guests of President Lincoln and First Lady Mary Lincoln when John Wilkes Booth fatally shot the Preside

Friedrich von Flotow Facts

Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow (27 April 1812 – 24 January 1883) was a German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular in the 19th century and the early part of the 20th.

Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov Facts

Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov (alias Andrey Pechersky, Russian: Па́вел Ива́нович Ме́льников (Андре́й Пече́рский), 1818, Nizhny Novgorod—1883, ibidem) was a Russian writer, best known for his novels In the Forest

Auguste Clésinger Facts

Auguste Clésinger (Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger; 22 October 1814 – 5 January 1883) was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter.

Sojourner Truth Facts

Sojourner Truth (/sɵˈdʒɜrnər ˈtruːθ/; born Isabella (“Bell”) Baumfree; c.– November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped

Samuel Mudd Facts

Samuel Alexander Mudd (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Jimmy Elliott Facts

Jimmy Elliot (born 1838 in Athlone, Ireland – March 1, 1883) was an Irish-American boxer who was Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1865 to 1868. On December 12, 1870 Elliott was arrested and convicted of highway robbery and assault with intent

Harriet Bishop Facts

Harriet E. Bishop (January 1, 1817 – August 8, 1883) was an American educator, writer, suffragist, and temperance activist. Born in Panton, Vermont, she moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1847. There she started the first public school in the Minnes

Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. Facts

Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. (December 22, 1821 – September 16, 1883) was an American actor and theatre manager.

Duchess Therese Petrovna of Oldenburg Facts

Duchess Therese Petrovna of Oldenburg (30 March 1852 – 19 April 1883) was the youngest daughter of Duke Peter Georgievich of Oldenburg and his wife Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg.