Death year 1897 celebrities

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Death year 1897

Johannes Brahms Facts

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. In his lifetime, Brahms’s popularity and influence were considerab

Marian Aguiló Facts

Marià Aguiló (1825–1897) was a Spanish poet and linguist.

Marshall Newell Facts

Marshall “Ma” Newell (April 2, 1871 – December 24, 1897) was an American football player and coach. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1957.

Princess Florestine of Monaco Facts

Princess Florestine Gabrielle Antoinette of Monaco (Full French name: Florestine Gabrielle Antoinette, Princesse de Monaco) (22 October 1833 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Kingdom of the French – 4 April 1897 in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg) was the

Sam Moran Facts

Samuel Moran (September 16, 1870 – August 27, 1897) was a professional baseball player. He was a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League in August and September 1895.

Alphonse Daudet Facts

Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.

Dave Anderson Facts

David S. Anderson (October 10, 1868 – March 22, 1897), was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 1889 and 1890 with the Philadelphia Quakers/Phillies and the Pittsburgh Alleghenys.

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

Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria Facts

Duchess Sophie Charlotte Augustine in Bavaria (23 February 1847 – 4 May 1897) was a granddaughter-in-law of King Louis-Philippe of France, the favourite sister of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and fiancée of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Harriet Ann Jacobs Facts

Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs wrote an autobiographical novel, Incidents in the Life of a

William James Linton Facts

William James Linton (December 7, 1812 – December 29, 1897) was an English-born American wood-engraver, landscape painter, political reformer and author of memoirs, novels, poetry and non-fiction.Birth and early years Born in Mile End, east London,

Stanislas de Guaita Facts

Stanislas de Guaita (6 April 1861, Tarquimpol, Moselle – 19 December 1897, Tarquimpol) was a French poet based in Paris, an expert on esotericism and European mysticism, and an active member of the Rosicrucian Order. He was very celebrated and succ