1872
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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years: 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 - 1872 - 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877
[edit] 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 logician (d. 1970)
- May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 1944)
- 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 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)
- Charles Greely Abbot, American astrophysicist
