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Famous People Born in 1875
Born in 1875? Meet the well-known people who share your birth year, from the biggest names to the ones you might not expect, month by month.
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The 1870s
The most famous people born in 187522
1875–1955Thomas Mann
German novelist of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
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1875–1961Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology and introduced the ideas of introverts, extroverts, archetypes and the collective unconscious
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1875–1926Rainer Maria Rilke
Bohemian-Austrian poet of the Duino Elegies, the Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet
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1875–1965Albert Schweitzer
Alsatian theologian, organist and doctor who ran a hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, and won the Nobel Peace Prize
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1875–1937Maurice Ravel
French composer of Boléro, Daphnis and Chloé and the much-played orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
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1875–1965Syngman Rhee
First president of South Korea and anti-communist politician
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1875–1950Edgar Rice Burroughs
American author who created the jungle hero Tarzan
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1875–1948D. W. Griffith
Pioneering American director of silent films and cinematic epics
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Born in 1875, month by month
- January
- Albert Schweitzer (January 14) · Alsatian theologian, organist and doctor who ran a hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, and won the Nobel Peace Prize
- D. W. Griffith (January 22) · Pioneering American director of silent films and cinematic epics
- February
- Jeanne Calment (February 21) · French woman who became the oldest person in recorded history
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (February 23) · American author who created the jungle hero Tarzan
- March
- Maurice Ravel (March 7) · French composer of Boléro, Daphnis and Chloé and the much-played orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
- Syngman Rhee (March 26) · First president of South Korea and anti-communist politician
- April
- Edgar Wallace (April 1) · Prolific British crime writer and co-creator of the original King Kong
- Albert I of Belgium (April 8) · King of the Belgians who led his army during World War I
- June
- Thomas Mann (June 6) · German novelist of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Henry Hallett Dale (June 9) · Nobel Prize-winning scientist who identified chemical nerve transmission
- July
- Carl Jung (July 26) · Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology and introduced the ideas of introverts, extroverts, archetypes and the collective unconscious
- Antonio Machado (July 26) · Influential Spanish poet and member of the Generation of '98
- September
- Ferdinand Porsche (September 3) · Automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company
- Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (September 10) · Lithuanian composer and painter associated with the Symbolist movement
- October
- Aleister Crowley (October 12) · Influential English occultist, ceremonial magician and writer
- Gilbert N. Lewis (October 23) · Chemist who discovered the covalent bond and Lewis structures
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (October 31) · First Deputy Prime Minister of India who unified the country
- November
- Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (November 7) · First formal head of state of the Soviet Union
- Anatoly Lunacharsky (November 11) · First Soviet People's Commissar of Education
- December
- Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4) · Bohemian-Austrian poet of the Duino Elegies, the Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet
- Gerd von Rundstedt (December 12) · Senior German Field Marshal during the Second World War
- Mileva Marić (December 19) · Serbian mathematician and the first wife of physicist Albert Einstein