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Wyatt Earp was a lawman, gambler, businessman, saloon owner and gunfighter of great repute in the American West. He had been a police officer in Wichita, KS, and later in Dodge City, KS, during the mid-1870s, after which he became a shotgun rider with Wells Fargo. In Tombstone, AZ, in the wake of a stagecoach robbery, Earp (who had been running for sheriff) became involved in the notorious gunfight at the OK Corral of October 26, 1881, which resulted in the death of suspects Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton and the wounding of Earp's brothers Morgan and Virgil and his friend "Doc" Holliday. The gunfight only caused more trouble, setting into motion a series of events that included the assassination of town marshal Morgan Earp and murder charges being filed against Wyatt and others for the shooting deaths of two suspects in that crime. Wyatt left for Colorado and points west, eventually retiring to San Francisco and later Los Angeles, CA, where he occasionally worked as a consultant on various early silent-era westerns (in the days before accurate credits were maintained, so it's not known exactly what films he worked on). He was close friends with another western icon, William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, and later with cowboy actors William S. Hart and Tom Mix and, according to some accounts, he met and befriended a young John Wayne on the set of a silent western on which Wayne was an unbilled extra.
Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929, at age 80. Hart and Mix were pallbearers at his funeral.- Jennie Lee was born on 4 September 1848 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Birth of a Nation (1915), Hearts of Oak (1924) and The Children Pay (1916). She was married to William Courtright. She died on 5 August 1925 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin was born on June 7, 1848, in Paris, France. His father, Clovis Gaughin, was a Republican editor who died on his way to Peru while escaping from Louis Napoleon. His widowed mother was a Peruvian Creole daughter of writer Flora Tristan. Young Gauguin spent early childhood in Lima, Peru, until 1855, then studied in Orleans, France. He joined the Merchant Marine in 1865 and spent the next six years sailing between France and South America, then spent a hitch in the French navy. In 1871 he returned to France, settled in Paris and became a stockbroker.
In 1874 Gauguin saw the first Impressionist exhibition, which gave him his desire to become an artist. Enchanted with art, he spent some 17,000 francs on paintings by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other impressionists. Gauguin discovered art as a way to escape from the pressures of civilization. He met Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne in 1874, and joined them for painting on weekends and holidays. His debut in the Salon took place in 1876. He also participated in the Impressionist exhibitions in 1879, 1880 and 1882. By 1884 he became a full-time artist, partly because the bank that employed him had difficulties. Paris became too expensive and Gauguin moved with his wife and five children to Rouen, then to Copenhagen, Denmark, and then back to Paris. In 1885 he and his wife separated and she took the children with her to her family. Gauguin went into depression and at one time attempted suicide.
He met Vincent van Gogh in Paris in 1886 and they became friends. Van Gogh's brother Theo was also Gauguin's art dealer. In 1888 he received an invitation from Vincent and joined him in October of that year in Arles. There Van Gogh presented him several paintings of sunflowers, but their cooperation lasted only for two months. Their arguments about art and life were exacerbated by drinking and rivalry for prostitutes. Van Gogh's mental state was alternating between fits of depression and lucidity. At times his madness led to aggressive actions. In December of 1888 Van Gogh attacked Gauguin with an open razor, was stopped, but eventually cut part of his own ear off and gave it to a prostitute. Gauguin sent a note to Van Gogh's brother Theo and left forever.
In 1891 Gauguin organized an exhibition to finance his project of living and working in places where he could "live with ecstasy, calmness and art." His paintings were bought by Edgar Degas and others, and the proceeds amounted to 10,000 francs. He started his flight from the trappings of civilization by becoming a full-time artist and this time he sailed to the tropics for good. Gauguin left behind "everything that is artificial and conventional." He settled in Tahiti and later in the Marquesas Islands. There he was accepted by the native community and adopted their traditional lifestyle. He fathered a son by his Tahitian model Pau'ura and a daughter with his Tahitian model Vaa'oho. From 1893 to 1895 he made farewell visits to Paris and Copenhagen. There he brought some of his Polynesian-inspired works to show.
Gauguin gradually parted from Impressionism. He discovered the primitive art of Polynesia and was influenced by it. He was calling his new style "synthetic symbolism." Gauguin transformed his art to radical simplifications of composition by giving his paintings an ornamental character. His "Arearea" (Joyousness 1892), "Nave", "Nave Moe" (Miraculous Source 1894) and other paintings made in Tahiti are sincere depictions of an untamed nature with people being an organic part of it. His largest work was painted in Tahiti, the philosophical and highly decorative "D'ou venons nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?" (Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897), now in the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Art.
Paul Gauguin moved around several islands of Polynesia and finally settled in Atuona, Marqueses. He was fined by the colonial administration, had problems with the Catholic church and was sentenced to three months in prison. Before he could begin his sentence, however, he died on May 8, 1903, and was laid to rest in Calvary Cemetery, Atuona, Hiva'Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.- Gertrude Norman was born on 19 May 1848 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Greene Murder Case (1929), Molly Make-Believe (1916) and The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915). She died on 20 July 1943 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Sam Lucas was an African-American actor, comedian, singer and songwriter born to free black parents in 1848. A former barber, he was once described as the "Grand Old Man of the Negro Stage". As a youngster he showed talent for guitar and singing. He started as a black-face minstrelsy on riverboats around 1858, later became a more serious drama actor with roles in 'The Creole Show' and 'A Trip to Coontown', his best known performances was in 'Out of Bondage' in 1875 and became the first actor to portray the role of Uncle Tom on stage and later starred in the movie version of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' for the Peerless Film Company in 1914, during the filming he became sick and died two years later on January 5, 1916.
- Bracy started her career on the London stage in 1891. Married to concert tenor Henry Bracy, she produced operettas in Australia before going to the U.S. in 1910 to work under Charles Frohman. Bracy is known as one of the earliest film actresses and worked with Biograph and Kinemacolor Pictures.
- W.G. Grace was born on 18 July 1848 in Downend, Bristol, England, UK. He was married to Agness Nicholls Day. He died on 23 October 1915 in Mottingham, Kent, England, UK.
- William Courtright was born on 10 March 1848 in New Milford, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Kit Carson (1928), Some Pun'kins (1925) and Hands Across the Border (1926). He was married to Jennie Lee. He died on 6 March 1933 in Ione, California, USA.
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Composer of the rousing ragtime classic "A Hot Time in the Old Town", which became the theme song of the Spanish-American War in 1898. (Theodore Roosevelt once conducted the tune and commented that he was "proud to shake the hand of the man who wrote the song that stirred a nation.") Metz maintained a desk at the Marks Music Corporation offices in New York and, with his frock coat and flowing tie, dressed like an "oldtime German music master" as Time Magazine described him in 1935.- Joel Chandler Harris was born on 9 December 1848 in Eatonton, Georgia, USA. Joel Chandler was a writer, known for Song of the South (1946), Splash Mountain (1989) and Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby (1991). Joel Chandler was married to Esther LaRose. Joel Chandler died on 3 July 1908 in West End, Georgia, USA.
- Brandon Thomas was born on 24 December 1848 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Charley's Aunt (1930), Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940) and Charley's Aunt (1941). He was married to Marguerite Blanche Leverson. He died on 19 June 1914 in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, UK.
- Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry was born on 27 February 1848 in Bournemouth, England, UK. He died on 7 October 1918 in Knight's Croft, Rustington, Sussex, England, UK.
- Otto Lilienthal was born on 23 May 1848 in Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He was married to Agnes Fischer. He died on 10 August 1896 in Berlin, Germany.
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Samuel A. Ward was born on 28 December 1848 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is known for Rollerball (2002), Fighting (2009) and Live Free or Die Hard (2007). He died on 28 September 1903 in Newark, New Jersey, USA.- Actress
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Clara Morris was born on 17 March 1848 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress and writer, known for Mystic Faces (1918), My Lady Friends (1921) and A Pasteboard Crown (1922). She was married to Frederick C. Harriot. She died on 19 November 1925 in New Canaan, Connecticut, USA.- Actor
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George Osborne was born on 16 December 1848 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was an actor and director, known for The Social Ghost (1914), The Vigil (1914) and Love's Sacrifice (1914). He was married to Helen Mason and Emma Louisa O'Brien. He died on 11 August 1916 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Duchess of Argyll Princess Louise was born on 18 March 1848 in London, England, UK. She was married to John Campbell. She died on 3 December 1939 in London, England, UK.
- Joris-Karl Huysmans was the only son of a French mother and a Dutch father. At 20 he began a long career in the Ministry of the Interior, writing many of his novels on official time. His early work, influenced by contemporary naturalist novelists. His major novels epitomize successive phases of the aesthetic, spiritual, and intellectual life of late 19th-century France. Huysmans' work is considered remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, large vocabulary, descriptions, satirical wit and far-ranging erudition. First considered part of Naturalism, he became associated with the decadent movement with his publication of "À rebours" (1884). His work expressed his deep pessimism, which had led him to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
- Jean Aicard was born on 4 February 1848 in Toulon, Var, France. Jean was a writer, known for Notre Dame d'amour (1923), Notre-Dame d'amour (1936) and Le diamant noir (1922). Jean died on 13 May 1921 in Paris, France.
- Frazer Coulter was born on 20 August 1848 in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Prisoner of Zenda (1913), The Governor's Lady (1923) and The Heart Raider (1923). He was married to Grace Thorne. He died on 26 January 1937 in East Islip, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Arthur J. Balfour was born on 25 July 1848 in Wittinghame, Scotland, UK. He died on 19 March 1930 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK.
- Prince Albert Ier de Monaco was born on 13 November 1848 in Paris, France. He was married to Princess of Monaco and Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton. He died on 26 June 1922 in Paris, France.
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Pierre Degeyter was born on 8 October 1848 in Gent, Flanders, Belgium. He is known for Air Force One (1997), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). He died on 27 September 1932 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Georges Ohnet (Paris, April 3, 1848 - May 5, 1918) was a French novelist of great success in the second half of the nineteenth century, the best-selling of his time, even over Emile Zola and Daudet. One of the most prolific playwrights and French novelists of the nineteenth century, he was born into a wealthy bourgeois family. He studied at the Collège Sainte-Barbe and the Lycée Napoleon, in Paris, and later studied laws. For some time he worked as a lawyer, but soon began his career in journalism becoming known in this way in the Parisian literary world. After the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he became a columnist for "Le Pays" and later "Le Constitutionnel", where Ohnet was responsible for the political section and serial drama.
Ohnet was a great reader of public taste. It was this astute understanding of his readership that helped him devise the passionate style he became famous for. He disdained the romantic melodrama motif, choosing instead to explore complex passion. His literary genius lay in being able to introduce originality into a genre so deeply archetypal as the romantic melodrama. It was this quality that made him one of most widely read writers of his time. - Edwin Harley was born on 17 July 1848 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Blackbirds (1915), Treasure Island (1917) and The Wayward Son (1915). He died on 29 October 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Gennaro Pantalena was born on 13 October 1848 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor, known for La fuga del gatto (1914). He died on 23 May 1915 in Naples, Campania, Italy.
- Eben E. Rexford was born on 16 July 1848 in Johnsburgh, New York, USA. He was married to Harriet Bauman Harsh. He died on 18 October 1916 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA.
- California Truman was born on 22 November 1848 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for Who Cares? (1919). He died on 5 April 1922 in California, USA.
- Félicien Trewey was born on 23 May 1848 in Angoulême, Charente, France. He was an actor, known for La transformation d'un chapeau (1897), Danseuses des rues (1896) and Écriture à l'envers (1896). He died on 2 December 1920 in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Victor Maurel was born on 17 June 1848 in Marseille, France. He was an actor, known for Falstaff (1900) and Don Juan (1900). He was married to Frédérique De Grésac. He died on 22 October 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.
- James Otis Kaler was born on 19 March 1848 in Winterport, Maine, USA. James Otis was a writer, known for Circus Days (1923), Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). James Otis was married to Amy L. Scamman. James Otis died on 11 December 1912 in Portland, Maine, USA.
- Henry Pettitt was born on 7 April 1848 in Smethwick, Sandwell, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Harbour Lights (1914), In the Ranks (1914) and The Harbour Lights (1923). He was married to Annette Eliza Read (first) and Elizabeth Ann Finch. He died on 24 December 1893 in London, England, UK.
- Albert Robida was born on 14 March 1848 in Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France. He was a writer, known for The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913) and Saturnino Farandola (1977). He died on 11 October 1926 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France.
- Konstantin Varlamov was born on 11 May 1848. He was an actor, known for Gde Matilda (1913) and Roman Russkoy baleriny (1913). He died on 2 August 1915.
- Marie Isabelle d'Orléans was born on 21 September 1848 in Seville, Spain. She was married to Prince Philippe of Orléans. She died on 23 April 1919 in Villamanrique de la Condesa, Spain.
- David Jenkins was born on 30 December 1848 in Trecastle, Breconshire, Wales, UK. David was a composer, known for Distant Trumpet (1952). David died on 10 December 1915 in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK.
- Edward E. Kidder was born on 15 September 1848 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Peaceful Valley (1920), Shannon of the Sixth (1914) and A Poor Relation (1921). He was married to Mary Augusta Raymond. He died on 16 November 1927 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Sol Smith Russell was the son of a Missouri preacher and the nephew of renowned actor, Sol Smith (1801-1869). Shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War his family moved to Cairo, Illinois, where at the age of 14 Russell found work at a local theater as a bit actor, singer and drummer. Russell had been a drummer boy for a Cairo juvenile military organization and for a brief time served as a drummer boy for the 10 Illinois Infantry. Before he had turned eighteen, Russell joined a traveling theater group that would ultimately lead him to the theaters of New York. In 1874 he began a working relationship with the great Broadway producer Augustin Daly. Russell eventually formed his own acting company and became successful performing such plays as: "Edgewood Folks", "Felix McCusick", "A Poor Relation" and "Peaceful Valley".
In an 1894 interview, Russell revealed that his grandfather had been a drummer boy at the Battle of Bunker Hill and that another relative had served as a drummer boy aboard the frigate USS Constitution.
In 1876 Russell married Alice Adams (1856-1923), the daughter of author William Taylor Adams (1822-1897), who as Oliver Optic, became a successful writer of juvenile fiction.
On the morning of 26 February, 1891, one of the two office buildings he owned in Minneapolis burned to the ground. Upon receiving the news he refused to let it affect his comedic performance in that night's showing of "A Poor Relation". Sol Smith Russell was not only one of the greatest comic actors of his day, he was also one of the shrewdest. With an estate worth between two and three million dollars he had managed to become at the relatively young age of 54, one of the wealthiest entertainers in American. This success came despite the fact that, even though he was very popular throughout America, he never achieved a major success on the New York stage.
Sol Smith Russell died on 28 April, 1902 while staying at the Richmond Hotel in Washington, D.C. In December of the previous year he was forced to retire from the stage after being diagnosed with the disease Locomotor ataxia. His first symptoms appeared in 1899 when he broke down during a performance in Chicago and was unable to go on. Russell was survived by his wife Alice, daughter Alice and son, Robert. Both Russell and his wife are interned at the Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. After his death, the city of Brunswick, Missouri renamed a city auditorium, the Russell Opera House (later the Russell Theater), in his honor. - Alfred Bishop was born on 7 February 1848 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Brass Bottle (1914), The Lifeguardsman (1916) and His Last Defence (1919). He was married to Rose Egan (actress). He died on 22 May 1928 in London, England, UK.
- Imre Halmai was born on 29 October 1848 in Pest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Leánybecsület (1923), A kis gézengúz (1917) and Székelyvér (1922). He died on 24 January 1940 in Vál, Hungary.
- Charles Unthan was born on 5 April 1848 in Kremmen-Sommerfeld, Prussia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Mann ohne Arm (1914), Atlantis (1913) and Mister Unthan, das armlose Wunder (1906). He was married to Antonie Beschta. He died on 19 November 1929 in Berlin, Germany.
- Robert V. Ferguson was born on 2 April 1848 in Dumbarton, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Robespierre (1913), Kathleen Mavourneen (1913) and Secret Service Sam (1913). He died on 21 April 1913 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Rodrigues Alves was born in 1867, in Guaratinguetá, São Paulo. Lawyer; councilman of D. Pedro II during the empire's regency; governor of São Paulo in several occasions; senator and later the fifth president of Brazil. During his term the Vaccine Revolt broke out, turning into the most memorable moments in politics in Brazil. Due to poor and inadequate health system at the nation's capital (then located in Rio de Janeiro), the outbreak of many diseases like typhus, tuberculosis, measles and leprosy were very common. Alves allowed the chief public health officials of the state to enforce any law to prevent more outbreaks, forcing down vaccines into the public. The event was successful despite the controversy. Alves was regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian presidents and with such great popularity, he managed to get a new term a few years later, in 1918 - re-election wasn't available back in the early years of the Republic. However, he wasn't able to assume his new presidency due to being affected by the Spanish influenza around the time of inauguration day. Delfim Moreira took as a vice hoping the president would recover but on January 1919, Alves died.
- Wiktor Gomulicki was born on 17 October 1848 in Ostroleka, Warsaw Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire [now Ostroleka, Mazowieckie, Poland]. Wiktor was married to Maria Humiecka. Wiktor died on 14 February 1919 in Warsaw, Warszawskie, Second Polish Republic [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland].
- Sydney Grundy was born on 23 March 1848 in Manchester, England, UK. Sydney was a writer, known for Sowing the Wind (1916), A Bunch of Violets (1916) and A Pair of Spectacles (1916). Sydney died on 4 July 1914 in London, England, UK.
- Youngest of 7 children of General Fidel von Baur-Breitenfeld, who at the time of her birth was Governor of the city Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg and later became deputy Minister of War of Württemberg from 1870 to 1871.
Her mother Karoline Friederike, born Freiin von Kerner was a niece of the author Justinus Kerner.
Moved to Stuttgart after her marriage to the 17 year older Karl Friedrich Schumacher, and began writing children's literature around the age of 40.
She returned to her birth town of Ludwigsburg at the age of 75 years. At here 80st birthday in 1928 in a street in Ludwigsburg was designated after her. - Vincent F. Reardon was born on 2 October 1848. He died on 24 December 1920.
- Thomas Canning was born on 18 August 1848 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Home Sweet Home (1917), The Cost of a Kiss (1917) and The Will of the People (1917). He died in 1925 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.
- Alexandre Bisson was born on 9 April 1848 in Briouze, Orne, France. He was a writer, known for Madame X (1966), Madame X (1937) and Madame X (1929). He died on 27 January 1912 in Paris, France.
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Daniel James was born on 23 January 1848 in Treboeth, Swansea, Wales, UK. Daniel was married to Gwenllian (Morgan) Parry and Ann Hopkins. Daniel died on 11 March 1920 in Tanylan, Morriston, Swansea, Wales, UK.