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Buffalo Bill Cody was born on 26 February 1846 in Scott County, Iowa, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Fighting with Buffalo Bill (1926), Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931) and The Indians Are Coming (1930). He was married to Louise Maude Frederici. He died on 10 January 1917 in Denver, Colorado, USA.- Anna Swan was born on 6 August 1846 in Mill Brook, New Annan, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was married to Captain Bates. She died on 5 August 1888.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz was born on 5 May 1846 in Wola Okrzejska, Poland, Russian Empire [now Wola Okrzejska, Lubelskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Quo Vadis (1951), Na jasnym brzegu (1921) and Invasion 1700 (1962). He was married to Maria Babska, Maria Romanowska and Maria Emilia Kazimiera Szetkiewicz. He died on 15 November 1916 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.
- People's recollections of Carrie Nation range from a female evangelical prophetess, to raving lunatic. Carry Amelia Moore was born into a family that operated a sharecropping plantation, that was in central Kentucky, on November 25, 1846. As a young woman she was unusually tall and not very pretty. She married a young man who, she discovered, was a free mason, a smoker, and an alcoholic. He left her at the age of twenty-one, and from then on she vowed to fight the demon liquor that had taken her man from her. She re-married, with several other women in her community, helped to form the Wormen's Christian Temperance Union, which is still in existence today. Yet Nation now took her crusade a step further, beginning a campaign of "hatchetation". Over the course of ten years, she led groups of women into saloons, wielding an ax, and smashed each place to bits. She made headlines all over the country, and was even the subject of at least four short films, where she was often portrayed in a comic light, by a male actor in women's clothes. Her fame soon got the better of her and she soon drifted into obscurity. She died in a mental health facility on Friday, June 9th, 1911, never living to see the result of her cause: the 18th Ammendment. Several years after the enactment of Prohibition, it was reported that an illegal liquor still has been discovered, on the grounds of Carry Nation's birthplace.
- Herbert Standing was born on 13 November 1846 in Peckham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for An International Marriage (1916), David Garrick (1916) and Peer Gynt (1915). He was married to Janet Grace Dalghesh Riddell and Emily Clementina Brown. He died on 5 December 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Julian Hawthorne, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born in Boston, MA, in 1846. The family moved to Liverpool, England, where his father was American consul, when Julian was seven. In 1863 he returned to the US, enrolling in the Lowell Scientific School at Harvard University, after which he returned to Europe to do postgraduate work at a polytechnic school in Dresden, Germany. In 1870 he returned to the US and took a position as a hydrographic engineer for the city of New York's Docks Department. Four years later, however, he left the US again, this time to take a position as a staff writer on "The Spectator" magazine in London, where he spent seven years.
He began writing novels, but found it difficult to escape comparisons to his famous father, and soon acquired a reputation for being capricious and irritable, seeking to shock critics with the subject matters of his works. He averaged writing three to four books a year and one of them, "A Fool of Nature"--written using the pseudonym "Judith Hollinshed"--won a $10,000 prize offered by the New York Herald, which then hired him as an investigative reporter and sent him to India to cover a famine and plague devastating the country.
By 1900 he had decided to give up writing fiction, and concentrated on history, short stories and syndicated columns and articles. He also wrote several books based on the experiences of Inspector Byrnes, a renowned New York City detective. In 1913 he was sentenced to one year in prison for his involvement in a scheme that sold stock in worthless gold mines. He entered the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on March 26, but served only several months before he was released, after which he left for California. He was hired by the Pasadena (CA) Star-News, where he spent 17 years as the editor of the Book page.
He died in 1934 in San Francisco, CA. - Soundtrack
Luigi Denza was born on 24 February 1846 in Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy. He died on 26 January 1922 in London, England, UK.- Verner Clarges, born in Bath, Somerset in 1846, began on stage in England then America from the 1870's. fine British bald gentleman who starred and supported in many American drama films under the direction of D.W. Griffith at the Biograph Film Company from 1909, the first was 'Was Justice Served? starring James Kirkwood and Gladys Egan, he died before the release of his last film 'The Punishment' starring Blanche Sweet
- Lew Hart was born on 7 December 1846 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Stolen Paradise (1917), The Deacon's Son (1914) and The Unbeliever (1918). He was married to Louise Generva Plunkett and Evalyn Patterson. He died on 9 January 1920 in Staten Island, New York, USA.
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Ottomar Anschütz was a German inventor, photographer, and chronophotographer. Between 1864 and 1868, he studied photography under some of the well-known photographers of the time. He received recognition for his photograph of John of Saxony on horseback in 1867, and then took over his father's company in Lissa, mainly working as a portrait photographer and as a decorative painter. In 1881, he made his first instantaneous photographs. In 1882, he developed his portable camera and made a name for himself with sharp photographs of imperial military demonstrations in Breslau the same year, and gained more fame with pictures of flying white storks in 1884 - the first photographs of birds on the wild. In 1885, he made his first chronophotographs of horses. The quality of his pictures was generally regarded to be much higher than that of the chronophotography works of Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey. In 1886, he developed the Electrotachyscope, an early device that displayed short motion picture loops with 24 glass plate photographs on a 1.5 meter wide rotating wheel that was hand-cranked to the speed of circa 30 frames per second. Each image was illuminated by a sparking spiral Geissler tube and displayed on a small opal glass window in a wall in a darkened room for up to seven spectators. Different versions were developed and shown at many international exhibitions, fairs, conventions and arcades from 1887 until at least 1894, and probably inspired many other pioneers in the history of film technology.- Henry Youngman was born on 7 November 1846 in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Humanity (1916), Slippery Slim, the Mortgage and Sophie (1914) and Slippery Slim and the Impersonator (1914). He died on 24 December 1940 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Edmondo De Amicis was born on 21 October 1846 in Oneglia, Kingdom of Sardinia [now Imperia, Liguria, Italy]. He was a writer, known for The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918), Times Gone By (1952) and Dulce madre mía (1943). He died on 12 March 1908 in Bordighera, Liguria, Italy.
- Augusto Mastripietri was born on 16 June 1846 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Malombra (1917), Christus (1916) and After Six Days (1920). He died on 8 July 1930 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Born on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village, Henry Francis Downing was a member of a prominent African American family of New York City. After serving in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, Henry Downing traveled the world, stopping in the West African country of Liberia for several years. After returning to New York, he became involved in local politics. In 1886, he was appointed U.S. Consul to Loanda, Angola, in Portuguese East Africa, where he served until his resignation in 1888. He would later move to Great Britain, where he would serve as a commercial agent representing Liberian businessmen and for European merchants interested in African markets. Downing became involved in Pan-African activities (he would eventually support Marcus Garvey and his "Back to Africa" movement) and began a prolific output of writings, including nine plays, two novels, a number of essays and short stories and several works on Liberia.
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Holger Drachmann was born on 9 October 1846 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a writer and actor, known for Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai (1983), Once Upon a Time (1922) and Once Upon a Time There Was (1907). He was married to Vilhelmine Erichsen, Emmy and Polly. He died on 14 January 1908 in Hornbæk, Seeland, Denmark.- Edward Noyes Wescott was an American banker who began writing "David Harum" while he was recuperating from tuberculosis. He finished his book late in 1896, but failed to live to see its publication in 1898. "David Harum" went on to sell over a million copies during the decades before the Second World War and spawn two films.
- The Count of Lautreamont Isidore Ducasse was born on 4 April 1846 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The was a writer, known for Maldoror (1977), Watson and the Shark (2006) and Correspondances (1953). The died on 24 November 1870 in Paris, France.
- George Westinghouse was born on 6 October 1846 in Central Bridge, New York, USA. He was married to Marguerite Erskine Walker. He died on 12 March 1914 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Wilson Barrett was born on 18 February 1846 in Essex, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Sign of the Cross (1932), Hoodman Blind (1913) and A Man of Sorrow (1916). He was married to Caroline Heath and Caroline Heath (actress). He died on 22 July 1904 in London, England, UK.
- American novelist Anna Katharine Green, often called "the mother of the American detective novel", was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1846. She graduated from Ripley Female College in Vermont at 20 years of age. She intended to be a poet, a career choice no doubt enhanced by her meeting renowned poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, but her first published work turned out to be something entirely different: a detective thriller called "The Leavenworth Case" (1878), which was critically praised for its clever, well-constructed plot and an obvious grounding in criminal law (her father was a lawyer). The book was a resounding success, selling more than 150,000 copies. More successful detective thrillers followed, many featuring her character of detective Ebenezer Gryce. She finally tried her hand at poetry, turning out two volumes, but they were not successful, and she decided to devote her talents full-time to her detective novels.
She died in 1935 in Buffalo, NY. - Lotten Almlöf was born on 24 December 1846 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for A Modern Robinson (1920). She died on 24 June 1945 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Doc Crane was born on 22 April 1846 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Lord John's Journal (1915), Lord John in New York (1915) and The College Orphan (1915). He died on 17 April 1920 in California, USA.
- Lizzie Conway was born on 10 April 1846 in Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Lena Rivers (1914), When the Men Left Town (1914) and A Story of Crime (1914). She was married to George W. Conway (actor, manager). She died on 4 May 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Prince Leopold of Bavaria was born on 9 February 1846 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]. He was married to Archduchess Gisela of Austria. He died on 28 September 1930 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Hilda Forsslund was born on 11 July 1846 in Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924), Patriks äventyr (1915) and En lyckoriddare (1921). She died in 1931.