What Happened in January 1872

Historical Events

Jan 4 Edmund Rumpler, Austrian automotive and airplane builder (1st Tatra car), born in Vienna (d. 1940)
Jan 6 Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (Prometheus) and pianist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1915)
Jan 11 George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
Jan 11 Paul Graener, German Romantic composer, born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1944)

Jan 11 British tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), born in Bromley, England

Jan 15 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer, born in Terek Oblast (d. 1944)
Jan 16 Edward Gordon Craig, British modernist actor, director and theorist (On the art of theatre), born in Stevenage Hertfordshire, England (d. 1966)
Jan 16 Henri-Paul Büsser, French composer and conductor, born in Toulouse, France (d. 1973)
Jan 18 Paul Léautaud [Maurice Boissard], French writer and theatre critic (Petit ami), born in Paris, France (d. 1956)
Jan 20 Julia Morgan, American architect (Hearst Castle, and other Hearst properties), first female degreed by Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and first licensed in California, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1957) [1]
Jan 23 Eugene Sullivan, American chemist and inventor (PYREX® Glass), born in Elgin, Illinois (d. 1962) [1]
Jan 23 Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 1957)
Jan 23 Paul Langevin, French physicist, born in Paris, France (d. 1946)
Jan 24 Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
Jan 24 Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
Jan 27 Learned Hand, American Chief Judge of US Court of Appeals, born in Albany, New York (d. 1961)
Jan 31 Zane Grey, American western novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1939)

Jan 19 Physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (26) weds Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Jan 7 James Fisk, American financier “Barnum of Wall Street”, dies at 38
Jan 14 Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye-Terrier who spent 14 years guarding the grave of his owner John Gray, dies at 16
Jan 21 Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81
Jan 21 Thomas Bragg, American politician, 34th Governor of North Carolina (1859-61), dies at 61
Jan 25 Richard S. Ewell, US Army officer and Confederate General (Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House), dies at 54