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1875
1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
Events
January - April
May - August
September - December
Unknown date
Births
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January 5 - James Stuart Blackton, American film producer of the Silent Era
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January 7 - Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner
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January 9 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, socialite (d. 1942)
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January 14 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, philosopher, and musician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952 (d. 1965)
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January 15 - Tom Burke, American runner
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January 22 - D. W. Griffith, director
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February 2 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962)
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February 11 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter , composer
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February 21 - Jeanne Calment, oldest documented human being of all time (d. 1997)
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February 26 - Hans Böckler , unionist and politician (d. 1951)
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March 1- Although later deemed Unconstitutional, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 allows blacks equal rights on jury duty and at public events
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March 7 - Maurice Ravel, composer (d. 1937)
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March 26 - Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
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March 30 - Jonathan Campbell, Film pioneer (d. 1942)
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April 1 - Edgar Wallace, writer (d. 1932)
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April 2 - Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
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April 4 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964)
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April 5 - Mistinguett, French cabaret singer
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April 8 - Albert I of Belgium
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April 15 - James J. Jeffries, world heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1953)
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May 11 - Harriet Quimby, first licensed female pilot in the United States (d. 1912)
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June 12 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1953)
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June 24 - Diedrich Westermann, German linguist (d. 1956)
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June 28 - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (d. 1941)
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July 26 - Carl Jung, psychologist
- July 26 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
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August 18 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (d. 1912)
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August 21 - Winnifred Eaton, author (d. 1954)
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August 27 - Katharine McCormick, U.S. women's rights activist
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September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
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October 1 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter
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October 12 - Aleister Crowley, British occultist (d. 1947)
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October 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist
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December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet (d. 1926)
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December 5 - Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader (d. 1933)
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December 25 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna from 1932-1955
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Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya
- Abd al-Hafiz , sultan of Morocco (uncertain date)
Deaths
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January 23 - Charles Kingsley, English writer
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February 22 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist
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March 1 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
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May 17 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States
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June 3 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1836)
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June 4 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
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July 31 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
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August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer
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August 10 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
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August 17 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist
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September 22 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur.
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October 10 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer
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November 22 - Henry Wilson, United States Vice President
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November 24 - William Backhouse Astor, Sr., American business tycoon
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