1869 Facts for Kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s – 1860s – 1870s 1880s 1890s
Years:	1866 1867 1868 – 1869 – 1870 1871 1872

Events
Births
Deaths
Hit songs
Images for kids
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Events

The Periodic table was developed.

Births

January 1 – Sigma Nu, First Anti-Hazing Honor/Social Fraternity
January 4 – Tommy Corcoran, baseball player
January 10 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic
January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect
February 11 – Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts
February 14 – Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 3 – Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop
March 12 – George William Forbes, New Zealand Prime Minister and first leader of the New Zealand National Party
March 14 – Algernon Blackwood, English writer
March 18 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
April 2 – Hughie Jennings, baseball player
April 5,6 – Tom Adam, Named number one in the world
April 11 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor
April 27 – May Moss, Activist
May 5 – Hans Pfitzner, German composer
May 20 – John Stone Stone, American physicist and inventor
June 27 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 10 – Lawrence Binyon, English poet and scholar
September 3 – Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 17 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, won the Nobel Peace Prize
September 21 - Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner
September 23 – Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary"
October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation
October 25 – John Heisman, American football coach
November 11 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, King)
November 25 – Herbert Greenfield, Premier of Alberta, Canada
December 16 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace
December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet
December 30 – Stephen Leacock, British-Canadian writer and economist
December 31 – Henri Matisse, French painter

Deaths

July 18 – Laurent Clerc, co-founder of the first American school for the deaf.
January 1 – Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1786)
January 30 – William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
February 15 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu (b. 1796).
March 8 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
March 24 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
April 20 – Carl Loewe, German composer (b. 1796)
June 16 – Charles Sturt, Australian explorer (b. 1795)
June 20 – Hijikata Toshizou, Japanese military commander (b. 1835)
August 31 – Mary Ward (scientist), first car accident victim
September 12 – Peter Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)
October 13 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
October 23 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
December 18 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (b. 1829)