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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1869 1870 1871 - 1872 - 1873 1874 1875
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1850s 1860s - 1870s ''' - 1880s 1890s 1900s
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| align="center" | - 19th Century ''' - 20th Century
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1872 (''' MDCCCLXXII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar or a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian Calendar .
Events
January - April
May - August
September - December
Unknown date
Births
- January 6 - Alexander Scriabin , Russian composer (d. 1915 )
- January 23 - Goce Delchev , Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903 )
- January 31 - Zane Grey , American writer (d. 1939 )
- March 7 - Piet Mondrian , Dutch painter (d. 1944 )
- April 29 - Harry Payne Whitney , businessman, horse breeder (d. 1930 )
- May 18 - Bertrand Russell , English philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Literature (d. 1970 )
- May 31 - Heath Robinson , British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 1944 )
- June 20 - George Carpenter , the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948 )
- June 27 - Paul Laurence Dunbar , American poet and publisher (d. 1906 )
- July 1 - Louis Blériot , French aviation pioneer (d. 1936 )
- July 4 - Calvin Coolidge , President Of The United States (d. 1933 )
- July 16 - Roald Amundsen , Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1928 )
- August 3 - King Haakon VII Of Norway (d. 1957 )
- August 9 - Archduke Joseph August Of Austria , Austrian field marshal (d. 1962 )
- August 10 - Bill Johnson , American jazz musician (d. 1972 )
- August 13 - Richard Willstätter , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942 )
- August 15 - Sri Aurobindo , Indian nationalist, writer, and mystic (d. 1950 )
- August 21 - Aubrey Beardsley , British artist (d. 1898 )
- October 11 - Harlan F. Stone , Chief Justice Of The United States (d. 1946 )
- November 30 - John McCrae , Canadian soldier and poet (d. 1918 )
- December 21 - Don Lorenzo Perosi , Italian composer (d. 1956 )
- December 24 - Benjamin Rockaway, writer (d. 1897 )
- December 26 - Norman Angell , British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1967 )
- Charles Greely Abbot , American astrophysicist (d. 1973 )
Deaths
- January 7 - Big Jim Fisk , American financier (b. 1834 )
- January 21 - Franz Grillparzer , Austrian writer (b. 1791 )
- March 20 - William Charles Wentworth , Australian explorer (b. 1790 )
- April 1 - Frederick Maurice , English theologian (b. 1805 )
- April 2 - Samuel Morse , American inventor (b. 1791 )
- June 4 - Stanisław Moniuszko , Polish composer (b. 1819 )
- June 4 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke , Dutch politician (b. 1798 )
- June 20 - Elie Frédéric Forey , Marshal of France (b. 1804 )
- July 18 - Benito Juárez , President Of Mexico (b. 1806 )
- August 19 - Charles XV , King of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826 )
- September 13 - Ludwig Feuerbach , German philosopher (b. 1804 )
- October 23 - Théophile Gautier , French writer (b. 1811 )
- November 28 - Mary Somerville , British mathematician (b. 1780 )
- December 15 - Lady Beaconsfield , wife of Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1792 )
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