Year 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1869 [edit] January–March [edit] April–June [edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 4 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960)
- January 10 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (d. 1916)
- January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (d. 1907)
- February 11 – Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (d. 1939)
- February 14 – Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 1959)
- February 26 – Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian Marxist revolutionary and Vladimir Lenin's wife (d.1939)
- March 3
- March 12 – George William Forbes, New Zealand Prime Minister and first leader of the New Zealand National Party (d. 1947)
- March 14 – Algernon Blackwood, English writer (d. 1951)
- March 18 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
- March 21 – Florenz Ziegfeld, American theatrical producer (d. 1932)
- March 22 – Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
- April 2 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player (d. 1928)
- April 4 – Mary Colter, American architect (d. 1958)
- April 8 – Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (d. 1939)
- April 11 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
- April 27 – May Moss, Australian women's rights activist (d. 1948)
- May 5 – Hans Pfitzner, German composer (d. 1949)
- May 20 – John Stone Stone, American physicist and inventor (d. 1943)
- June 17 – Flora Finch, English-born comedian (d. 1940)
- June 27 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
[edit] July–December - July 11 – Pio Valenzuela, Filipino doctor and patriot
- August 10 – Lawrence Binyon, English poet and scholar (d. 1943)
- September 3 – Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
- September 17 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
- September 23 – Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary" (d. 1938)
- October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)
- October 25 – John Heisman, American football coach (d. 1936)
- October 27 – Viola Allen, actress (d. 1948)
- November 10 – Wayne Wheeler, American temperance movement leader (d. 1927)
- November 11 – Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (d. 1947)
- November 20 – Herbert Tudor Buckland, seminal British Arts and crafts architect (d.1951)
- November 22 – André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
- November 25 – Herbert Greenfield, Premier of Alberta, Canada (d. 1949)
- November 30 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
- December 5 – Ellis Parker Butler, American humorist (d. 1937)
- December 16 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace
- December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935)
- December 22 – Nathan Paine, American lumber baron (d. 1947)
- December 30 – Stephen Leacock, British-Canadian author and economist (d. 1944)
- December 31 – Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June [edit] July–December - July 18 – Laurent Clerc, American advocate for the deaf (b. 1785)
- July 22 – John A. Roebling, American bridge engineer (b. 1806)
- August 31 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist and the first car accident victim (b. 1827)
- September 4 – John Pascoe Fawkner, Australian pioneer, settler and politician, Melbourne, Victoria (b. 1792)
- September 12 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)
- October 8 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
- 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 8 – Narcisa de Jesús Martillo, an Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
- December 18 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (b. 1829)
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