1889 is the crossroads where the descendants, living persons and ancestors of previous, current and future influencers meet on the chronological timeline of earth’s history.

1889: A Year That Changed Art, Faith, And The World | A List Of Events In 1889.

In the last several articles I highlighted Notable People Alive In 1889. And now we come to the actually people who were born in 1889.

Including the birth of

The 20th century’s most infamous mass murder.
One of his many victims.
One of films earliest comedian superstars.
The wife of one of the best fantasy series of all time.
The Grandfather of one Rock’s best recording artist of all time
The director for two of 1939’s best pictures of the year

It is a good resource for

Time Travelers looking for info on a good year to visit and sightsee.
An aspiring author who wants info for that great historical novel you want to write.
History and Trivia buffs.
A list of people to pray for who might possibly be in need of prayers either before they died or after they died.

Note: All Descriptions are taken from Wikipedia.

Exciting New Discoveries may be added.

We start off with the

Arrivals in 1889

January 1889

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper’s Mother

Ada Tiger (1889-1970)
was the mother of

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper
(April 27, 1923 – January 14, 2011) (Seminole)

She was the first and so far the only female chairperson of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. A nurse, she co-founded the tribe’s first newspaper in 1956, the Seminole News, later replaced by The Seminole Tribune, for which she served as editor, winning a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native American Journalists Association. In 2001 she published her memoir, entitled A Seminole Legend.

Sister Ignatia
(January 1, 1889 – April 1, 1966)

She was an Irish-born American Religious Sister, better known as Sister Ignatia, belonging to the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, who served as a nurse. In the course of her work she became involved in the care of those suffering from alcoholism, working with Bob Smith, a co-founder of what became Alcoholics Anonymous. In this work she became known as the alcoholic’s “Angel of Hope”

Saints and other Catholics Alive and Well in 1889

Walter Baldwin
(January 2, 1889 − January 27, 1977)
(Wedding Anniversary – My Birthday)

He was an American character actor whose career spanned five decades and 150 film and television roles, and numerous stage performances. Born on the date of my wedding anniversary in 1889 and died on my birthday in 1977.

He was probably best known for playing the father of the disabled sailor in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). He was the first actor to portray the town character “Floyd the Barber” on The Andy Griffith Show starring Andy Griffith and Don Knotts.on television, 1960 to 1968.

Walter Baldwin in the film The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Actors on Stage, Screen and Radio Alive in 1889

Maisie Ward
(January 4, 1889 – 28 January 1975)

She was a writer, speaker, and publisher. In 1926 Maisie’s brother Leo Ward was invited to be co-founder of the publishing house Sheed and Ward, but he proved ill-suited to the work. Maisie took his place when Leo left to become a priest. The company archives of the New York office from 1933 to 1977 are kept at the University of Notre Dame.

Edwin Perkins (inventor)
(January 8, 1889 – July 3, 1961)

He born in Lewis, Iowa, United States, invented the powdered drink mix Kool-Aid in 1927 in Hastings, Nebraska, after his family had moved to Hendley, Nebraska from Iowa in 1893.

The Kool-Aid Man making his trademark entrance in a 1978 Kool-Aid commercial saying his catchphrase

Bread and Staple Makers Alive in 1889

Allan Lockheed’s Mother

Flora Haines Loughead
(1855–1943)

She was an American writer, farmer, and miner from Wisconsin. She became the “Opal Queen” of Virgin Valley.

She is the mother of

Allan Lockheed
(January 20, 1889 – May 26, 1969)

He was the founder of American aerospace company the Lockheed Corporation.American miner; mother of Allan Lockheed, founder of Lockheed aerospace company.

Stock certificate of the Lockheed Aircraft Company for 100 shares, issued June 10, 1929, signed in original by company founder Allan H. Loughead as Vice President

Edith Bratt Tolkien
(January 21, 1889 – November 29, 1971)

She the wife of middle-earth creator J. R. R. Tolkien. She was the inspiration for his fictional Middle-earth characters Lúthien Tinúviel and Arwen Undómiel.

Charles Boardman Hawes
(January 24, 1889 – July 16, 1923)

He was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner of the annual Newbery Medal, recognizing his third novel The Dark Frigate (1923) as the year’s best American children’s book. Reviewing the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest in 1925, The New York Times observed that “his adventure stories of the sea caused him to be compared with Stevenson, Dana and Melville“.

The Write People In 1889
A List Of Authors Who Were Alive In 1889

Ella Cara Deloria
(January 31, 1889 – February 12, 1971)

Also called Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ (Beautiful Day Woman), was a Yankton Dakota (Sioux) educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist. She recorded Native American oral history and contributed to the study of Native American languages. According to Cotera (2008), Deloria was “a pre-eminent expert on Dakota/Lakota/Nakota cultural religious, and linguistic practices.” In the 1940s, Deloria wrote the novel Waterlily, which was published in 1988 and republished in 2009.

Cowboys and Outlaws Alive in 1889

February 1889

Larry Semon
(February 9, 1889– October 8, 1928)

He was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent film era. In his day, Semon was considered a major movie comedian, but he is now remembered mainly for working with both Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they started working together. He directed and appeared in the 1925 silent film The Wizard of Oz, which had a slight influence on the better-known 1939 talkie The Wizard of Oz released by MGM. The film was included in the 2005 three-disc DVD version of the 1939 film, along with other silent Oz movies.

Ernest Tyldesley
(February 5, 1889 – May 5, 1962)

He was an English cricketer. The younger brother of Johnny Tyldesley and the leading batsman for Lancashire. He remains Lancashire’s most prolific run-getter of all time, and is one of only a few batsmen to have scored 100 centuries in the first-class game.

In Test cricket, Tyldesley went on the 1928/29 Ashes Tour, where he played in one Test. He also played in four Ashes matches in England, out of his 14 Tests overall, which included three centuries.

Good Sports Alive in 1889

Seraphim Rose”s Parents

Frank Archie Rose (1889-1968)
+ Esther Elvina Holbeck Rose (1901-1990)

= Seraphim Rose
(August 13, 1934 – September 2, 1982)

Also known as Seraphim of Platina, he was an American priest and hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who co-founded the Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California. He translated Eastern Orthodox Christian texts and authored several works. His writings have been credited with helping to spread Eastern Orthodox Christianity throughout the West; his popularity equally extended to Russia itself, where his works were secretly reproduced and distributed by samizdat during the Communist era, remaining popular today.

Rose’s opposition to Eastern Orthodox participation in the ecumenical movement and his advocacy of the contentious “toll house teaching“, led him into conflict with some notable figures in 20th-century Orthodoxy and he remains controversial in some quarters even after his sudden death from an undiagnosed intestinal disorder in 1982. Though he has not been formally canonized by any synod, many Eastern Orthodox Christians hold him in high esteem, venerating him in iconography, liturgy and prayer.

Rose’s monastery is currently affiliated with the Serbian Orthodox Church and continues to carry on his work of publishing and Eastern Orthodox missionary activity.

Андрей Николаевич Миронов (A.N. Mironov) – Own work, Andrey Mironov

19th Century Culturally Religious Influencers in 1889

Terry Gilliam’s Family Tree

Cleveland Howard Gilliam ( February 07, 1889 -June 04, 1967) was the father of
+ James Hall Gilliam (January 29, 1911 -October 24, 1982) was the father of

Terry Gilliam
(born November 22, 1940)

is an American-British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator, and actor. He gained stardom as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe alongside John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman. Together they collaborated on the sketch series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–1974) and the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, also co-directed), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983). In 1988, they received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. In 2009, Gilliam received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.

Gilliam transitioned to directing serious films with themes exploring imagination and oppositions to bureaucracy and authoritarianism. His films are sometimes set in dystopian worlds and involve black comedy and tragicomedic elements. He has directed 13 feature films, gaining acclaim for Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). He later directed The Brothers Grimm (2005), Tideland (2005), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), The Zero Theorem (2013), and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018).

Gilliam at an IFC Center event on 4 October 2006

Hawthorne C. Gray
(February 16, 1889 – November 4, 1927)

He was a captain in the United States Army Air Corps. On May 4, 1927, he succeeded in setting a new altitude record in a silk, rubberized, and aluminum-coated balloon launched from Scott Field near Belleville, Illinois, reaching a human world altitude record of 42,470 ft (12.94 km). This record was not recognized by the FAI because Gray parachuted out of the balloon and did not land with his vehicle as per FAI rules. On November 4, 1927, Gray broke his own record by reaching more than 43,000 ft (13.1 km), but died during his descent after his oxygen supply became depleted. The record was recognized by the National Aeronautical Association, but not by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale because the dead aeronaut “was not in personal possession of his instruments.” Gray was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his three ascents on March 9, May 4 and November 4.

Gray (center) prior to his final altitude record attempt.

Explorers, Inventors and Discoverers Alive in 1889

H.L. Hunt
(February 17, 1889 – November 29, 1974)

He was an American oil tycoon. By trading poker winnings for oil rights according to legend, but more likely through money he gained from successful speculation in oil leases, he ultimately secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the world’s largest oil deposits. He acquired rights to East Texas oil lands initially through a $30,000 land purchase from oil speculator Dad Joiner, and founded Hunt Oil in 1936. From it and his other acquisitions, which included diverse interests in publishing, cosmetics, pecan farming, and health food producers, he accrued a fortune that was among the world’s largest. In the 1950s, his Facts Forum Foundation supported highly conservative newspaper columns and radio programs, some of which he authored and produced himself, and for which he became known. At his death, he was reputed to have one of the highest net worths of any individual in the world, a fortune estimated between $2–3 billion dollars.

From print ad for Hunt’s 1965 book Hunt for Truth: A Timely Collection of the Stimulating Daily Newspaper Columns of H. L. Hunt.

Olave St Clair Baden-Powell,
Baroness Baden-Powell GBE
(February 22, 1889 – June 25, 1977)

She was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (the founder of Scouting and co-founder of Girl Guides). She outlived her husband, who was 32 years her senior, by over 35 years.

Lady Baden-Powell became Chief Guide for Britain in 1918. Later the same year, at the Swanwick conference for Commissioners in October, she was presented with a gold Silver Fish,^[1] one of only two ever made. She was elected World Chief Guide in 1930. As well as making a major contribution to the development of the Guide/Girl Scout movements, she visited 111 countries during her life, attending Jamborees and national Guide and Scout associations. In 1932, she was created a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire by King George V.

Designers And Founders Alive In 1889

Victor Fleming,
(February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949)

He was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and The Wizard of Oz (both 1939). Fleming has those same two films listed in the top 10 of the American Film Institute‘s 2007 AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies list. He also directed

Adventure (1925)
Treasure Island (1934)
Captains Courageous (1937)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Adventure (1945)
Joan of Arc (1948) (final film)

On set of Gone with the Wind (1939). Left to right: Director Victor Fleming, Olivia de Havilland, and Louis Jean Heydt

March 1889

William Bridges-Adams
( March 1, 1889 – August 17, 1965)

He was an English theatre director and designer, associated closely with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, from 1919 until 1934.

Set design for Act II of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, 1921

Franciszek Czarnecki
(March 4, 1889 – March 18, 1942)

My name is Franciszek Czarnecki
a carpenter from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.
I was born on March 4,1889 in Częstochowa.
I was murdered by #Germans in their #Death camp #Auschwitz on March 18, 1942 at the age of 53 only because I was a #Pole.I survived 261 days.
#NeverForget me!

Jackie Robinson’s Parents

Jerry Robinson ( March 05, 1889-d.)
+ Mallie Robinson (McGriff) ( September 02, 1889-May 21, 1968 )

=Jackie Robinson
(January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972)

He was an American professional baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers signing Robinson heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.

Ina Boyle
(March 8, 1889 – 10 March 10, 1967)

She was an Irish composer. Her compositions encompass a broad spectrum of genres and include choral, chamber and orchestral works as well as opera, ballet and vocal music. While a number of her works, including The Magic Harp (1919), Colin Clout (1921), Gaelic Hymns (1923–24), Glencree (1924-27) and Wildgeese (1942), received acknowledgement and first performances, the majority of her compositions remained unpublished and unperformed during her lifetime.

The Sound of Music in 1889

Prince Waldemar of Prussia
(March 20, 1889 –May 2, 1945)

He was the eldest son of Prince Henry of Prussia (grandson of Queen Victoria) and Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine.

April 1889

Chaplin/Hitler

Charlie Chaplin,
(April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977)

He was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry’s most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both accolade and controversy.

Adolf Hitler
(April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945)

He was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party,^[c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. His invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the start of the Second World War. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.

He is baptized as a Catholic. in the same year he was born, 1889.

For six months, the family lived opposite a Benedictine Monastery at Lambach, and on some afternoons, Hitler attended the choir school there. Hitler later wrote in Mein Kampf that at this time he dreamed of one day taking holy orders. Silent film star Charlie Chaplin who would later go on to spoof Hitler in the Great Dictator (1940) was born 4 days earlier on April 16. He died on April 30, 1945.Hitler’s Religion?

Leaders and Soldiers Alive in 1889

Ludwig Wittgenstein
(April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951)

He was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. The first and best-known of this posthumous series is the 1953 book Philosophical Investigations. A 1999 survey among American university and college teachers ranked the Investigations as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy, standing out as “the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations”.

Thinkers And Business People Alive In 1889 |
A List Of Philosophers, Scientists, And Business People Alive In 1889.

Venerable Alfredo Obviar
(August 29, 1889 – October 1, 1978)

Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and Servant of God (d. 1978) Obviar died at the age of 89, in Lucena, Quezon, on 1 October 1978, on the feast of his patron saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus.

Fritz Pfeffer
(April 30, 1889 – December 20, 1944)

He was a German dentist and Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family and the Van Pels family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. He perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp in Northern Germany. Pfeffer was given the pseudonym Albert Dussel in Frank’s diary, and remains known as such in many editions and adaptations of the publication.

May 1889

Cardinal Spellman,
(May 4, 1889 – December 2, 1967)

He was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1939 until his death in 1967. Spellman previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston from 1932 to 1939. He was created a cardinal in 1946.

Otto Frank,
(May 12, 1889 – August 19, 1980)

He was the father of Anne and Margot Frank and husband of Edith Frank, and was the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He inherited Anne’s manuscripts after her death, arranged for the publication of her diary as “Het Achterhuis” in 1947 (known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl), and oversaw its adaptation to both theater and film.

Anne Frank Huis geopend. Tijdens toespraak .*1 mei 1961

Otto Frank (May 12, 1889 – August 19, 1980)
+ Edith Frank (January 16, 1900 – January 6, 1945)

= Anne Frank
(June 2, 1929 – c. February or March 1945)

She was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family’s hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. ’the back house’; English: The Secret Annex), which documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. It is one of the world’s best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.

Anne’s Step sister wrote a less famous book about her experiences . Eva’s Story (1997) by Evelyn Julia Kent and Eva Schloss

Frank Lentini
(May 18, 1889 − September 21, 1966)

He was an Italian-American sideshow performer who toured with numerous circuses. Born with a conjoined twin, Lentini had three legs.

Extraordinary Out of the Ordinary People Alive in 1889

Carlo Braga,
(May 23, 1889 – January 3, 1971)

He was a Salesian religious priest. He is also sometimes known as “the little Don Bosco of China” for his missionary works towards the children in China. He died in the Philippines in 1971. Filipino Roman Catholic priest, archbishop and servant of God (d. 1971)

Father Ted’s Parents

John Stokes (May 23, 1889 – June, 1946)
+Hilda Mary (Stokes) Ring (November 4, 1920-November 2, 1991)

=Dermot Morgan
(March 31, 1952 – February 28, 1998)

He was an Irish comedian and actor, best known for his role as Father Ted Crilly on the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.

Mabel Walker Willebrandt
(May 23, 1889 – April 6, 1963)

Popularly known to her contemporaries as the First Lady of Law, she was an American lawyer who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General from 1921 to 1929, handling cases concerning violations of the Volstead Act, federal taxation, and the Bureau of Federal Prisons during the Prohibition era. For enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, the prohibition against the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, she also earned herself a nickname “Prohibition Portia”.

Igor Sikorsky
(May 25, 1889 – 26 October 1972)

He was a Russian–American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition and F.A.I. pilot’s license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, and in the fall of that year the aircraft won first prize for its young designer, builder and pilot in the military competition at Saint Petersburg. In 1913, the Sikorsky-designed Russky Vityaz (S-21) became the first successful four-engine aircraft to take flight. He also designed and built the Ilya Muromets (S-22 – S-27) family of four-engine aircraft, an airliner which he redesigned to be the world’s first four-engine bomber when World War I broke out.

After immigrating to the United States in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution, Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in 1923, and developed the first of Pan American Airways‘ ocean-crossing flying boats in the 1930s, including the Sikorsky S-42 “Flying Clipper”.

In 1939, Sikorsky designed and flew the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, the first viable American helicopter, which pioneered the single main rotor and a single antitorque tail rotor configuration used by most helicopters today. Sikorsky modified the design into the Sikorsky R-4, which became the world’s first mass-produced helicopter in 1942.

June 1889

Frank Duff
(June 7, 1889 – November 7, 1980)

He was an Irish lay Catholic and author known for bringing attention to the role of the Catholic Laity during the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Duff had previously founded the Legion of Mary in his native city of Dublin, Ireland.was an Irish lay Catholic and author known for bringing attention to the role of the Catholic Laity during the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Duff had previously founded the Legion of Mary in his native city of Dublin, Ireland. (d. 1980)

Louis Zamperini’s Parents

Anthony Zamperini (June 09, 1889 -May 05, 1975)
+ Louise Dossi ( February 04, 1898 -July 23, 1993)

= Louis Silvie Zamperini
(January 26, 1917 – July 2, 2014)

He was an American World War II veteran, an Olympic distance runner and a Christian evangelist. He took up running in high school and qualified for the United States in the 5,000 m race for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing 8th while setting a new lap record in the process.

Zamperini was commissioned in the United States Army Air Forces as a lieutenant. He served as a bombardier on B-24 Liberators in the Pacific. On a search and rescue mission, his plane experienced mechanical difficulties and crashed into the ocean. After drifting at sea on a life raft for 47 days, with two other crewmates, Zamperini landed on the then Japanese Marshall Islands and was captured.

He was taken to a total of four different prisoner-of-war camps in Japan, where he was tortured and beaten by Japanese military personnel—specifically including Mutsuhiro Watanabe—because of Zamperini’s status as a famous Olympic runner. He was later taken to a new prison camp at a coal factory, and after much hardship, he was finally released. Following the war he initially struggled to overcome his ordeal, afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism.

He later became a Christian evangelist with a strong belief in forgiveness. From 1952 onwards, he devoted himself to at-risk youth. Zamperini is the subject of three biographical films: Unbroken (2014), its sequel Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018), and Captured by Grace (2015).

Zamperini examines a hole in his B-24D Liberator Super Man made by a 20 mm shell over Nauru.

Phantom Creator’s Father

Eleanor A. Epstein (June 12, 1889- May 17, 1973) was the mother of

Lee Falk
(April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999)

He was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day. Falk also wrote short stories, and he contributed to a series of paperback novels about The Phantom.

A playwright and theatrical director/producer, Falk directed actors such as Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Chico Marx and Ethel Waters

Billy Franey
(June 23, 1889 – December 6, 1940)

Franey appeared in more than 400 films between 1914 and 1941, mostly playing comedic roles. He was an actor of disheveled appearance and fuzzy mustache, usually in a suit a couple of sizes too big. His late career included numerous uncredited appearances in classics like Bringing Up Baby, and he also appeared as the father-in-law of Edgar Kennedy in several of his series of short comedies.

July 1889

Joe Young
(July 4, 1889 – April 21, 1939)

He was an American lyricist, born in New York as Joseph Judewitz to immigrant Jewish parents. In 1911, he began his career as a singer and song-plugger for various music publishers. During World War I, he entertained U.S. troops and sang across europe. Young’s last work was the pop standard “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter“, written with Fred Ahlert in 1935. He died in New York in 1939 and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Some of his songs include

“In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town“
“Lullaby of the Leaves“
“Snuggled On Your Shoulder, Cuddled In Your Arms“
“Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)“

Noble Lee Sissle
(July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975)

He was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921), and its hit song “I’m Just Wild About Harry“.

Hasbro Brothers

Three Polish-Jewish brothers
Herman Hassenfeld (August 26, 1882–May 19, 1947),
Hillel Hassenfeld ( July 29, 1885–March 3, 1943),
Henry Hassenfeld (July 15, 1889– August 4, 1960)

They founded Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island, in late 1923, a company selling textile remnants. Over the next two decades, the company expanded to produce pencil cases and school supplies. On January 8, 1926, Hassenfeld Brothers was incorporated in Rhode Island; Hillel left for another textile business while Henry took charge of the corporation. They began making their own pencils after their pencil supplier began making pencil cases as well.

Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Author’s Family Tree

Bernice Athene Twitchell Tilton (July 19, 1889-October 14, 1961)
+ Leon Herman Tilton (1895-1984)
= Merlon Porter Tilton (1928-2013)

Merlon Porter Tilton married
Patricia “Pat” Fendler Faunce (1930-2016)
Her brother was

Donn Fendler
(August 29, 1926 – October 10, 2016)

He was an American author and public speaker from Rye, New York. In July 1939 at the age of 12, he got separated from his family and became lost on Maine‘s Mount Katahdin. His disappearance launched a manhunt which became front page news throughout the nation and involved hundreds of volunteers. Donn survived for nine days without food or proper clothing, before following a stream and telephone line out of the woods near Stacyville, Maine. Fendler was dehydrated, covered with insect bites, and 16 pounds lighter than at the beginning of his odyssey, but otherwise unharmed. He credited his experience as a Boy Scout in helping him survive the ordeal.

Yo-Yo Creator’s Wife’s Parents

Daphne May Stevenson Myers (1889-1971)
+ Arthur Norris “Nick” Myers (1886-1968)
= Edria Beatrice Myers Bainter (1908-2002) who is the wife of

Pedro Flores (inventor)
(April 26, 1896 – January 3, 1964)

He was a Filipino businessman and yo-yo maker who has been credited with popularizing yo-yos in the United States. He patented an innovation to yo-yos that used a loop instead of a knot around the axle, allowing for new tricks such as the ability to “sleep”

August 1889

Irene Steer
(August 10, 1889 – April 18, 1977)

She was a Welsh freestyle swimmer. She is one of only six Welsh women who have won Olympic gold medals, the others being Nicole Cooke (cycling, 2008), Jade Jones (taekwondo, 2012, 2016), Hannah Mills (sailing 2016, 2020), Elinor Barker (cycling, 2016) and Lauren Price (boxing, 2020). In 1912, Steer won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay and failed to reach the final of the individual 100 m race. (d. 1977)

Steer started as a breaststroke swimmer, but in 1908–1909 changed to crawl. After retiring from competitions she married William Nicholson, director and chairman of Cardiff City F.C. They had three daughters and one son.

Charles Darrow
(August 10, 1889 – August 28, 1967)

He was an American board game designer who is credited as the inventor of the board game Monopoly by Parker Brothers, the game’s publisher.

Zerna Addas Sharp
(August 12, 1889 – June 17, 1981)

Zerna was an American educator and book editor who is best known as the creator of the Dick and Jane series of beginning readers for elementary school-aged children. Published by Scott, Foresman and Company of Chicago, Illinois, the readers, which described the activities of her fictional siblings, “Dick,” “Jane,” “Sally,” and other characters, were widely used in schools in the United States and many other English-speaking countries for nearly forty years. The series, which included such titles as We Look and See, We Come and Go, We Work and Play, and Fun with Dick and Jane, among others, was marketed until 1973 and used the look-say method of teaching reading.

Patrick J. Holland
(Aug. 15, 1889 to Feb. 23, 1943)

Patrick J. Holland was born in Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland. He was the youngest of 13 children. At the age of fourteen, he crossed the Atlantic to work for his brother, Philip, who was a contractor in Lawrence, Mass. Pat worked hard and had the skills of his vocation. Later, Pat married Rina and they moved to Colorado where Pat took a job with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. After Pat suffered severe leg injuries in a railroad accident, they moved back to Massachusetts. Pat went on to become Directing Head of the Continental Construction Company and built miles of concrete roads in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. To this day, these roads remain a monument of Pat’s ability as a contractor. Many cement sidewalks that either Pat or Philip built in Lawrence still remain. When they finished a sidewalk, they would anchor a cast in bronze or brass of raised letters that read – P.J. Holland, Contractor. Pat was always concerned about his employees’ welfare. If Pat had to let an employee go, he would first give him a severance pay. Pat was a World War I Veteran and his favorite song was Danny Boy.

Opened in 1902, Canobie Lake Park was patterned after other amusement areas of the time. The parks were built by railroads and trolley lines as recreational destinations to increase ridership on the trains and trolleys, especially on Sundays and holidays. Canobie was an instant success. It became a mecca for thousands of people seeking refreshment and entertainment. After many successful years, times changed and ridership on the trolleys began to drop. The new mode of transportation was the automobile. The operators lost on their investments and when all electric lines discontinued in southern New Hampshire, the park closed on St. Patrick’s Day in 1929.THE HOLLANDS (canobieballroom.com)

Marthe Richard
(August 15, 1889 – February 9, 1982)

She was a French prostitute and spy. She later became a politician, and worked towards the closing of brothels in France in 1946.

Patsy Cline’s Parents

Private Samuel Lawrence Hensley, I ( August 16, 1889 – December 11,1956)
+ Hilda Virginia Hensley (Patterson) (1916-1998)

= Patsy Cline
September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963)

She was an American singer, songwriter, pianist and composer from the state of Virginia. She is considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century and was one of the first country music artists to cross over into pop music. Cline had several major hits during her eight-year recording career, including two number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country and Western Sides chart.

Cline’s first professional performances began at local radio station WINC when she was fifteen. In the early 1950s, Cline began appearing in a local band led by performer Bill Peer. Various local appearances led to featured performances on Connie B. Gay‘s Town and Country television broadcasts. She signed her first recording contract with the Four Star label in 1954, and had minor success with her earliest Four Star singles including “A Church, a Courtroom, Then Goodbye” (1955) and “I’ve Loved and Lost Again” (1956). In 1957 Cline made her first national television appearance on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts. After performing “Walkin’ After Midnight“, the single became her first major hit on both the country and pop charts.

Cline’s further singles with Four Star Records were unsuccessful, although she continued performing and recording. After marrying in 1957 and giving birth in 1958, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to further her career. Working with new manager Randy Hughes, Cline became a member of the Grand Ole Opry and then moved to Decca Records in 1960. Under the direction of producer Owen Bradley, her musical sound shifted and she achieved consistent success. The 1961 single “I Fall to Pieces” became her first to top the Billboard country chart. As the song became a hit, Cline was severely injured in an automobile accident, which caused her to spend a month in the hospital. After she recovered, her next single “Crazy” also became a major hit.

During 1962 and 1963, Cline had hits with “She’s Got You“, “When I Get Through with You“, “So Wrong” and “Leavin’ on Your Mind“. She also toured and headlined shows with more frequency.

On March 5, 1963, she was killed in a plane crash along with country musicians Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and manager Randy Hughes, during a flight from Kansas City, Missouri, back to Nashville.

Since her death, Cline has been cited as one of the most celebrated, respected, and influential performers of the 20th century. Her music has influenced performers of various styles and genres. She has also been seen as a forerunner for women in country music, being among the first to sell records and headline concerts. In 1973, she became the first female performer to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In the 1980s, Cline’s posthumous successes continued in the mass media. She was portrayed twice in major motion pictures, including the 1985 biopic Sweet Dreams starring Jessica Lange. Several documentaries and stage shows about her have been made, including the 1988 musical Always…Patsy Cline. A 1991 box set of her recordings received critical acclaim. Her greatest hits album sold over 10 million copies in 2005. In 2011, Cline’s childhood home in Winchester was restored as a museum for visitors and fans to tour.

Alfredo Obviar
(August 29, 1889 – 1 October 1978)

He was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Catechists of Saint Thérèse of the Infant Jesus. He was Bishop of Lucena until his death. His beatification process was opened in 2001 and Obviar was declared venerable by Pope Francis in 2018.

September 1889

Yul Brynner’s Father

Борис Юльевич (Бринер) Briner (1889-1948) was the father of
Yuliy Borisovich (Briner) Brynner (1920-1985) was the father of

Yul Brynner
July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985)

He was a Russian-born actor. He was known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I (1951), for which he won two Tony Awards, and later an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1956 film adaptation. He played the role 4,625 times on stage and became known for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for The King and I.

Considered one of the first Russian-American film stars, he was honored with a ceremony to put his handprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 1956. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

In 1956, Brynner received the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Rameses II in the Cecil B. DeMille epic The Ten Commandments and General Bounine in Anastasia. He was also well known as the gunman Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and its first sequel Return of the Seven (1966). He had roles as the android “The Gunslinger” in Westworld (1973), and its sequel, Futureworld (1976).^[2]

In addition to his film credits, he worked as a model and photographer. He also wrote several books.

Brynner as Ramesses II in The Ten Commandments (1956)

Mercédès Jellinek
(September 16, 1889 – February 23, 1929)

She was the daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek and his first wife Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert. She was born in Vienna. She is best known for her father having Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft‘s line of Mercedes cars named after her, beginning with the Mercedes 35 hp model of 1901.

Seán Keating (born John Keating,
(September 28, 1889 – December 21, 1977)

He was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the Irish War of Independence and of the early industrialization of Ireland. He spent two weeks or so each year during the late summer on the Aran Islands and his many portraits of island people depicted them as rugged heroic figures.

Picture These Artists in 1889

October 1889

Carl von Ossietzky – Wikipedia
(October 3, 1889 – May 4, 1938)

He was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament.

As editor-in-chief of the magazine Die Weltbühne, Ossietzky published a series of exposés in the late 1920s, detailing Germany’s violation of the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding an air force (the predecessor of the Luftwaffe) and training pilots in the Soviet Union. He was convicted of treason and espionage in 1931 and sentenced to eighteen months in prison but was granted amnesty in December 1932.

Ossietzky continued to be a vocal critic against German militarism after the Nazis’ rise to power.

Those Who Shaped The World Who Were Alive In 1889 |
A Look At Different People Alive In 1889 Who Helped Shape The World.

Grace Kelly’s Dad

John Brendan Kelly Sr.
(October 4, 1889 – June 20, 1960)

He was an American triple Olympic champion, the first in the sport of rowing. The Philadelphia-based Kelly also was a multimillionaire in the bricklaying and construction industry. He also was involved in politics, serving as Pennsylvania secretary of revenue and running unsuccessfully for mayor of Philadelphia in the 1935 Philadelphia mayoral election.

Kelly was the maternal grandfather of Albert II, Prince of Monaco), and of Jack Kelly Jr., an accomplished rower who served as president of the U.S. Olympic Committee.

He was the father of actress

Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco
(November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982),

Also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she achieved stardom in several significant Hollywood films in the early to mid-1950s. She received an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was ranked 13th on the American Film Institute‘s 25 Greatest Female Stars list.

Kelly in High Noon (1952), her first major film role

Kermit Roosevelt Sr. MC
(October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943)

He was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. A son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit graduated from Harvard College, served in both World Wars (with both the British and U.S. Armies), and explored two continents with his father. He fought a lifelong battle with depression and died by suicide while serving in the US Army in Alaska during World War II.

Ancestors of Popes and Presidents Alive in 1889

Dietrich von Hildebrand
(October 12, 1889 – 26 January 1977)

He was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and religious writer.

Hildebrand was called “the twentieth-century Doctor of the Church” by Pope Pius XII. He was a leading philosopher in the realist phenomenological and personalist movements, producing works in every major field of philosophy, including ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology, social philosophy, and aesthetics. Pope John Paul II greatly admired the philosophical work of Hildebrand, remarking once to his widow, Alice von Hildebrand, “Your husband is one of the great ethicists of the twentieth century.” Benedict XVI also had a particular admiration and regard for Hildebrand, who knew Ratzinger as a young priest in Munich: “When the intellectual history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century is written, the name of Dietrich von Hildebrand will be most prominent among the figures of our time.”

Hildebrand is known for his consistent, public opposition to Nazism before and during World War II.

Howard Cosell’s Dad

Isidore Martin Cohen (October 12, 1889-August 14, 1957) was the father of

Howard Cosell
March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995)

He was an American sports journalist, broadcaster and author. Cosell became prominent and influential during his tenure with ABC Sports from 1953 until 1985.

President James Garfield’s Grandson

James A. Garfield
(November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881)

He was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot two months earlier. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before his candidacy for the presidency, he had been elected to the U.S. Senate by the Ohio General Assembly—a position he declined when he became president-elect.

He was the father of

Harry Augustus Garfield
(October 11, 1863 – December 12, 1942)

He was an American lawyer, academic, and public official. He was president of Williams College and supervised the United States Fuel Administration during World War I.

He was the father of

James Garfield III
(October 28, 1889- February 22, 1976)

Descendants of Popes and Presidents Alive in 1889

November 1889

Philip Noel-Baker
(November 1, 1889 – October 8, 1982)

He was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a silver medal for the 1500m at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.

Noel-Baker is the only person to have won an Olympic medal and received a Nobel Prize. He was a Labour Member of Parliament (UK) for 36 years, serving from 1929 to 1931 and again from 1936 to 1970, serving in several ministerial offices and the cabinet. He was created a life peer in 1977.

NPG x2679; Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

Snub Pollard
(November 9, 1889 – January 19, 1962)

He was an Australian-born vaudevillian who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s.

Claude Rains,
(November 10, 1889 – May 30, 1967)

He was a British-American actor whose career spanned almost seven decades. After his American film debut as Dr. Jack Griffin in The Invisible Man (1933), he appeared in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Wolf Man (1941), Casablanca (1942), Kings Row (1942), Notorious (1946), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).

He was a Tony Award–winning actor and a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Rains was one of the screen’s great character stars who played cultured villains.

Billy Joel’s Family Tree

Karl Amson Joel
(November 20, 1889 – November 4, 1982)

‘He was a German textile merchant and manufacturer with Joel Macht Fabrik. He was the grandfather of American musician Billy Joel and British conductor Alexander Joel, who are half-brothers.was a German textile merchant and manufacturer with Joel Macht Fabrik. He was the grandfather British conductor Alexander Joel and his half brother American musician.

Billy Joel
(born May 9, 1949)

is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Commonly nicknamed the “Piano Man” after his signature 1973 song of the same name, Joel has had a successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s. From 1971 to 1993, he released 12 studio albums spanning the genres of pop and rock, and in 2001 released a one-off studio album of classical compositions. Joel is one of the world’s best-selling music artists and the fourth-best-selling solo artist in the United States, with over 160 million records sold worldwide. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II, is one of the best-selling albums in the United States.

Edwin Hubble
(November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953)

He was an American astronomer and played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology.American astronomer (d. 1953) Hubble E.P., The Observational Approach to Cosmology (Oxford, 1937.) His observations, made in 1924, proved conclusively that these nebulae were much too distant to be part of the Milky Way and were, in fact, entire galaxies outside our own, thus today they are no longer considered nebula.

This was first hypothesized as early as 1755 when Immanuel Kant‘s General History of Nature and Theory of the Heavens appeared. This hypothesis was opposed by many in the astronomy establishment of the time, in particular by Harvard University-based Harlow Shapley. Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on November 23, 1924, then presented them to other astronomers at the January 1, 1925, meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Hubble’s results for Andromeda were not formally published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal until 1929.

Hubble’s identity card in the American Expeditionary Forces.

Don Hutson’s Parents

Roy Basil Hutson (1886-1943)
+ Mabel Ann Hutson (Clarke) ( November 21, 1889 – December 05, 1972)

= Don Hutson
(January 31, 1913 – June 26, 1997),

Nicknamed “the Alabama Antelope“, He was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). In the era of the one-platoon football, he played as an end and spent his entire 11-year career with the Green Bay Packers. Under head coach Curly Lambeau, Hutson led the Packers to four NFL Championship Games, winning three in 1936, 1939, and 1944. Hutson is considered to have been the first modern wide receiver, and is credited with creating many of the modern pass routes used in the NFL today. He was the dominant receiver of his day, and is widely considered one of the greatest receivers in NFL history.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] Hutson was the first 1,000-yard receiver in the NFL. He held almost all major receiving records at the time of his retirement, including career receptions, yards, and touchdowns.

DeWitt Wallace
(November 12, 1889 – March 30, 1981)

Publishing as DeWitt Wallace, he was an American magazine publisher. Wallace co-founded Reader’s Digest publishing the first issue in 1922.with his wife with his wife Lila Bell Wallace.

Clifton Webb
(November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966)

He was an American actor, singer, and dancer. He worked extensively and was known for his stage appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, including Blithe Spirit, as well as appearances on Broadway in a number of successful musical revues. As a film actor, he was nominated for three Academy Awards – Best Supporting Actor for Laura (1944) and The Razor’s Edge (1946), and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sitting Pretty (1948).

December 1889

.Mabel Stark
(December 10, 1889 – April 20, 1968)

Her real name was Mary Ann Haynie, was a renowned tiger trainer of the 1920s. She was referred to as one of the world’s first women tiger trainers/tamers. In its belated obituary, The New York Times lauded Stark as “one of the most celebrated animal trainers in a field dominated by men.”

Walter Knott
(December 11, 1889 – December 3, 1981)

He was an American farmer and businessman who founded the Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park in Buena Park, California, introduced and mass-marketed the boysenberry, and founded the Knott’s Berry Farm food brand.

Alexander MacRae
(December 25, 1889 – November 30, 1938)

He was a sports entrepreneur and clothing manufacturer. Born in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia where, in 1914, he founded the company that became the swimwear giant Speedo.

Lila Bell Wallace,
(December 25, 1889 – May 8, 1984)

She was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist. She co-founded Reader’s Digest with her husband Dewitt Wallace, publishing the first issue in 1922.

First issue of the Reader’s Digest, February 1922

Mr. Wizard’s Parents

Herbert G. Kemske (1889-1961)
+ Lydia Poeppel Kemske (1893-1981)

= Don Herbert
(July 10, 1917 – June 12, 2007)

Better known as Mr. Wizard, he was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard (1951–65, 1971–72) and Mr. Wizard’s World (1983–90), which were educational television programs for children devoted to science and technology. He also produced many short video programs about science and authored several popular books about science for children. It was said that no fictional hero was able to rival the popularity and longevity of “the friendly, neighborly scientist”. ¹⁷³ In Herbert’s obituary, Bill Nye wrote, “Herbert’s techniques and performances helped create the United States’ first generation of homegrown rocket scientists just in time to respond to Sputnik. He sent us to the moon. He changed the world.” Herbert is credited with turning “a generation of youth” in the 1950s and early 1960s on to “the promise and perils of science”

Departures in 1889

Levi Ruggles
1824–1889)

Known as the “Father of Florence, Arizona” He was a soldier and pioneer who founded the town of Florence, Arizona.

Carl Offterdinger
(January 8, 1829, in Stuttgart – January 12, 1889)

He was a German figure and genre painter and illustrator. (b. 1829)

Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday

Belle Starr,
(February 5, 1848 – February 3, 1889)

Belle was an American outlaw who gained national notoriety after her violent death.

She associated with the James–Younger Gang and other outlaws. She was convicted of horse theft in 1883. She was fatally shot in 1889 in a case that is still officially unsolved. Her story was popularized by Richard Kyle Fox and she later became a popular character in television and films.

Learn more… Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West (2015) by Chris Enss

Mary Louise Booth
(April 19, 1831 – March 5, 1889)

She was an American editor, translator, and writer. She was the first editor-in-chief of the women’s fashion magazine, Harper’s Bazaar.

Works by Mary Louise Booth at Project Gutenberg /Internet Archive

Father Damien
(January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889)

He was a Belgian-born American Catholic and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He ministered to a leper colony in Molokaʻi, Kingdom of Hawaii, from 1873 until his death in 1889.

During this time, he taught the Catholic faith to the people of Hawaii. Father Damien also cared for the patients and established leaders within the community to build houses, schools, roads, hospitals, and churches. He dressed residents’ ulcers, built a reservoir, made coffins, dug graves, shared pipes, and ate poi with them, providing both medical and emotional support.

After 11 years caring for the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of those in the leper colony, Father Damien contracted leprosy. He continued with his work despite the infection but finally succumbed to the disease on 15 April 1889. Father Damien also had tuberculosis, which worsened his condition, but some believe the reason he volunteered in the first place was due to tuberculosis.

Father Damien has been described as a “martyr of charity“. Damien De Veuster is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. In the Anglican Communion and other Christian denominations, Damien is considered the spiritual patron for leprosy and outcasts. Father Damien Day, 15 April, the day of his death, is also a minor statewide holiday in Hawaii. Father Damien is the patron saint of the Diocese of Honolulu and of Hawaii.

Father Damien was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on 11 October 2009. Libert H. Boeynaems, writing in the Catholic Encyclopedia, calls him “the Apostle of the Lepers.” Damien De Veuster’s feast day is 10 May.

50th Anniversary of Pär Aron Borg‘s Death.
(July 4, 1776 – April 22, 1839)

He was a Swedish educator and a pioneer in the education for the blind and deaf.

25th Anniversary of Stephen Foster ‘s Death
(July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864)

He is known as “the father of American music”, was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, including “Oh! Susanna“, “Hard Times Come Again No More“, “Camptown Races“, “Old Folks at Home” (“Swanee River”), “My Old Kentucky Home“, “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair“, “Old Black Joe“, and “Beautiful Dreamer“. Many of his compositions remain popular today.

Samuel Brannan
March 2, 1819 – May 5, 1889)

He was an American settler, businessman, journalist, and prominent Mormon who founded the California Star, the first newspaper in San Francisco, California. He is also considered the first to publicize the California Gold Rush and was California’s first millionaire. He used the profits from his stores to buy large tracts of real estate. He helped form the first vigilance committee in San Francisco and was disfellowshiped from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) because of his actions within the vigilance committee. Brannan’s wife divorced him and he was forced to liquidate much of his real estate to pay her one-half of their assets. He died poor and in relative obscurity.

Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889)

He was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846, he married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861, he had published the collection Men and Women (1855). His Dramatis Personae (1864) and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868–1869) made him a leading poet. By his death in 1889, he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Societies for studying his work survived in Britain and the US into the 20th century.

Browning is now popularly known for such poems as Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, and The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and also for certain famous lines: “Grow old along with me!” (Rabbi Ben Ezra), “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp” and “Less is more” (Andrea Del Sarto), “It was roses, roses all the way” (The Patriot), and “God’s in His heaven—All’s right with the world!” (Pippa Passes).

The Pied Piper leads the children out of Hamelin. Illustration by Kate Greenaway to the Robert Browning version of the tale.

Antonine Barada’s Wife

Antonine Barada
(August 22, 1807 – March 30, 1885)

He was an American folk hero in the state of Nebraska; son of an Omaha mother, he was also called Mo shi-no pazhi in the tribal language. While Barada was a historic man, contemporary accounts of his prodigious strength helped establish him as a regional legend, in the mold of Paul Bunyan and Febold Feboldson. Barada’s exploits have been counted as fakelore by historians.

Antoine Barada and wife, Elizabeth Robidoux; Mary Kihega, Lena Kihega

His wife was
Marcellite Josephine Vien Barada
(March 18, 1818-May 8, 1889)

John Cadbury
(August 12, 1801 – May 11, 1889)

He was an English Quaker and proprietor, tea and coffee trader and founder of Cadbury, the chocolate business based in Birmingham, England.

Robert Walter Weir
(June 18, 1803 – May 1, 1889)

He was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States Military Academy. His best-known work is Embarkation of the Pilgrims in the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. More than 450 of his works are known, and he created many unsigned paintings that may never be attributed to him.

Clement Clark Moore Jr.

Clement Clarke Moore
July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863)

was an American writer, scholar and real estate developer. He is best known as author of the Christmas poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas“, which first named each of Santa Claus’s reindeer.

One of his children was

Clement Clarke Moore (January 3, 1821-May 13,1889)

Descendants Of Some Famous People Not Alive In1889
A Look At The Descendents Of Famous People Alive In 1889.

Gerard Manley Hopkins,
(July 28, 1844 – June 8, 1889)

was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among the leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature.

Only after his death did Robert Bridges publish a few of Hopkins’s mature poems in anthologies, hoping to prepare for wider acceptance of his style. By 1930 Hopkins’s work was seen as one of the most original literary advances of his century. It intrigued such leading 20th-century poets as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.

J. A. Folger
(June 17, 1835 – June 26, 1889)

He was an American businessman and the founder of the Folgers Coffee Company.

Lucy Webb Hayes
(August 28, 1831 – June 25, 1889)

She was the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes and served as first lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881.

Hayes was the first First Lady to have a college degree. She was also a more egalitarian hostess than previous First Ladies. An advocate for African Americans both before and after the American Civil War, she invited the first African-American professional musician to appear at the White House. She was a Past Grand of Lincoln Rebekah Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, together with her husband.

Historians have christened her “Lemonade Lucy” due to her staunch support of the temperance movement; however, contrary to popular belief, she was never referred to by that nickname while living. It was her husband who banned alcohol from the White House.

Julia Gardiner Tyler
(May 4, 1820 – July 10, 1889)

She was the first lady of the United States from June 26, 1844, to March 4, 1845, as the second wife of President John Tyler.

Wilkie Collins
(January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889)

He was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.

Jefferson Davis,
(June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889)

He was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War. He was the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857.

75th Anniversary of Philip Astley‘s Death
(January 8, 1742 – October 20, 1814)

Son of Mary Shelley

(August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851)

She was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.^[2] She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Shelley was the mother of

Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet
(November 12, 1819 – December 5, 1889)

He was the only child of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to live beyond infancy.

Bob Younger
(October 29, 1853 – September 16, 1889)

He was an American criminal and outlaw, the younger brother of Cole, Jim and John Younger. He was a member of the James–Younger Gang. He stood six feet, two inches tall and had deep blue eyes, muscular arms, and a thick neck.

Johnny Appleseed’s Niece

Johnny Appleseed
(September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845)

He was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance that he attributed to apples. He was the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio.