1872: Year
1872 was a leap year in the 19th century.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1840s 1850s 1860s – 1870s – 1880s 1890s 1900s |
| Years: | 1869 1870 1871 – 1872 – 1873 1874 1875 |
Events
- Levi Strauss invents jeans.
- American department store Montgomery Ward opens for business.
- Huntington's disease is defined for the first time.
- University of Toledo founded in Toledo, Ohio
Births
- January 6 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- May 18 – Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and logician (d. 1970)
- July 4 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
- June 6 – Alexandra Fyodorovna, Empress of Russia, wife of Nicholas II (d. 1918)
- July 16 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1928)
- August 21 – Aubrey Beardsley, English artist (d. 1898)
- October 12 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958)
- October 15 – Edith Bolling Wilson, American First Lady, wife of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1961)
- November 30 – John McCrae, Canadian poet and soldier in World War I
- December 28 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (d. 1956)
Deaths
- January 21 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer and poet (b. 1791)
- April 27 – Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Romanian writer and politician (b. 1802)
- June 4 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
- November 29 – Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor and politician (b. 1811)
- December 23 - George Catlin, American painter (b. 1796)
- Date unknown
- Karolina Bock, Swedish dancer, actress and singer (b. 1792)
- Petros Duryan, Armenian poet (b. 1851)
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