Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1867
Birthdays
- January 8 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist
- January 11 - Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927)
- January 17 - Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
- January 18 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan Journalist
- January 20 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
- January 21 - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
- January 21 - Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
- January 29 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
- February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)
- February 20 - Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)
- February 21 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (d. 1934)
- March 5 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
- March 15 - Lionel Johnson, British poet (d. 1902)
- March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor
- March 29 - Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
- April 2 - Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925)
- April 7 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
- April 9 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
- April 10 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935)
- April 11 - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)
- April 16 - Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
- April 23 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist
- May 3 - J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
- May 7 - Władysław Reymont, Polish writer
- May 12 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (d. 1938)
- May 14 - Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
- May 26 - Mary of Teck, wife of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
- May 27 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
- June 4 - C.G.E. Mannerheim, Marshal
- June 6 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (d. 1931)
- June 8 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
- June 11 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (d. 1945)
- June 17 - John Robert Gregg, inventor of shorthand system (d. 1948)
- June 17 - Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)
- June 28 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer
- July 8 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (d. 1945)
- July 10 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
- July 18 - Margaret Brown, American activist
- July 24 - Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (d. 1940)
- July 24 - Fred Tate, England cricketer (d. 1943)
- July 24 - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. the same day 1908)
- July 25 - Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
- July 25 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
- July 27 - Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
- July 28 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
- July 31 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
- August 3 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947)
- August 4 - Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
- August 7 - Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
- August 12 - Edith Hamilton, German classicist (d. 1963)
- August 14 - John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933)
- August 14 - Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
- August 22 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
- August 25 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
- August 28 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
- September 5 - Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
- September 7 - Albert Bassermann, German actor (d. 1952)
- September 14 - Charles Dana Gibson, American artist (d. 1944)
- September 15 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920)
- September 25 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
- September 28 - Hiranuma Kiichirō, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
- October 25 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d.1937)
- November 7 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist
- November 27 - Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
- December 5 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman (d. 1935)
- December 5 - Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist (d. February 2
- December 13 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917)
- December 16 - Amy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur
- December 23 - Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (d. 1919)
- December 24 - Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
Deaths
- January 11 - Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
- January 14 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
- January 30 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan, (b. 1831)
- May 12 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
- June 19 - Maximilian I, Mexican Emperor (b. 1832)
- July 26 - King Otto of Greece, (b. 1815)
- August 3 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
- August 23 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
- August 25 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
- August 31 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
- September 5 - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
- September 10 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
- September 25 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
- October 3 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
- October 4 - Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest, (b. 1819)
- November 13 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
- December 6 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
- December 22 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (b. 1788)
Events
- January 8 - African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- January 11 - Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again.
- January 31 - Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
- February 3 - Emperor Meiji becomes the 122nd emperor of Japan.
- February 8 - The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
- February 17 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
- March 1 - Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
- March 2 - The United States Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act
- March 11 - The first performance of Don Carlos written by Verdi.
- March 16 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
- March 29 - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
- March 30 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.
- April 1 - Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
- April 9 - Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
- April 23 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
- May 3 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
- May 11 - Luxembourg gains its independence.
- May 29 - The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
- June 15 - Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
- June 19 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
- June 27 - The Bank of California is created.
- July 1 - The British North America Act, 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.
- July 9 - An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young sets out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish missionary and explorer).
- August 28 - The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Island.
- September 2 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she's called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
- September 28 - Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- September 28 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
- October 14 - The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan.
- October 18 - United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
- October 21 - Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty
- October 22 - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
- October 23 - 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
- November 9 - Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
- November 23 - The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail.
- November 25 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
- December 2 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
- December 4 - Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
- December 28 - United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
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