Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1872
Birthdays
- January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- January 11 - George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
- January 15 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
- January 16 - Edward Gordon Craig, English actor
- January 16 - Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
- January 23 - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans
- January 23 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
- January 23 - Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
- January 24 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
- January 24 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
- January 31 - Zane Grey, American Western writer (d. 1939)
- February 1 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
- February 1 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
- February 3 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
- February 4 - Gotse Delchev, a great Macedonian revolutionary
- March 7 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
- March 8 - Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
- March 18 - Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
- March 31 - Alexandra Kollontai, Russian ambassador to Norway (d.1952)
- March 31 - Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (Ballets Russes) (d. 1929)
- April 5 - Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
- April 9 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (d. 1950)
- April 13 - Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
- April 14 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
- April 22 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
- April 23 - Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
- April 29 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
- May 1 - Sidónio Pais, Portuguese military and politician (d. 1918)
- May 6 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (d. 1934)
- May 10 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
- May 14 - Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)
- May 18 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
- May 28 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
- May 31 - Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (d. 1944)
- June 6 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia, (d. 1918)
- June 20 - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
- July 1 - Louis Blériot, French aviator (d. 1936)
- July 4 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
- July 5 - Edouard Herriot, French politician (d. 1957)
- July 16 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
- July 28 - Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
- July 29 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
- July 30 - Princess Clémentine of Belgium, (d. 1955)
- August 2 - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
- August 3 - King Haakon VII of Norway, (d. 1957)
- August 5 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
- August 9 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
- August 11 - Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
- August 12 - Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, (d. 1956)
- August 13 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist
- August 15 - Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher (d. 1950)
- August 21 - Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)
- August 24 - Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
- September 20 - Maurice Gamelin, French army general (d. 1958)
- October 6 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
- October 11 - Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
- October 12 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958)
- October 15 - Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president (d. 1956)
- October 24 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957)
- November 1 - Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (d. 1946)
- November 9 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
- November 11 - David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
- November 30 - Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician and soldier (d. 1918)
- December 5 - Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player (d. 1906)
- December 6 - Arthur Henry Adams, Australian writer (d. 1936)
- December 6 - William S. Hart, American actor (d. 1946)
- December 16 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
- December 21 - Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (d. 1922)
- December 21 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
- December 21 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (d. 1942)
- December 22 - Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)
- December 26 - Norman Angell, British politician
Deaths
- January 7 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
- January 21 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
- March 4 - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
- March 8 - Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (b. 1815)
- March 10 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)
- March 12 - Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
- April 1 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
- April 1 - William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer (b. 1843)
- April 2 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American painter and inventor of the telegraph (b. 1791)
- April 9 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
- April 12 - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
- May 24 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (b. 1794)
- June 1 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr.
- June 4 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
- June 16 - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
- July 18 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
- September 2 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
- September 13 - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)
- September 18 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway, (b. 1826)
- September 22 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
- October 10 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
- October 21 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (b. 1794)
- October 23 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
- November 7 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
- November 14 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
- November 28 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
- December 11 - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)
- December 24 - William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820)
- December 28 - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
- December 31 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (b. 1834)
Events
- January 2 - Brigham Young is arrested on charges of bigamy for having 25 wives.
- January 12 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- February 20 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
- March 1 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
- March 5 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
- March 11 - Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
- March 11 - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
- March 16 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
- May 10 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
- May 22 - Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
- June 14 - Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
- September 18 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- September 26 - The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
- November 5 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
- November 9 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
- November 29 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
- November 30 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- December 4 - The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).
- December 9 - In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
- December 11 - P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first black member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- December 21 - Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.
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