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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.
- 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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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.- 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.
- 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.
- Soundtrack
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.- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- 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.
- Joseph R. Grismer was born on 4 November 1848 in Albany, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Way Down East (1920), The New South (1916) and Way Down East (1908). He was married to Olive E. Harper Chamberlaine and Phoebe Davies (actress). He died on 5 March 1922 in New York City, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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.- 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.
- 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.
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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.- 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.
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Miguel Echegaray was born on 29 September 1848 in Quintanar de la Orden, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was a writer, known for Gigantes y cabezudos (1926), De Madrid al cielo (1952) and TNC Digital: L'Emperadriu del Paral·lel (2021). He died in 1927 in Madrid, Spain.- He was born into the feudal royal family of Travancore (now part of the state of Kerala in South India). Varma's contribution to iconography and lithographs in Indian painting is significant. He apprenticed under the court painter Ramaswamy Naicker and even studied under the tutelage of the Dutch painter Theodore Jensen. Varma was very popular among the British authorities in having him do their portraits. He is more well known today for his paintings of scenes from Indian mythology that have an 'academic' style. In 1894 he mass produced his olegraphs at Lonavala. His paintings had a significant impact on Indian theatre. The Sangeet Natnak used his style of rendering for their stage backdrops that was quickly imitated by others. The poet and novelist Kerala Varma (1845-1914) has written extensively about him.
- 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.
- Ion (or Ioan) Slavici was born in the year of European liberal revolution of 1848. Learns in Arad and Timisoara and in 1868 starts studying at the University of Budapest, Hungary, (Then Transylvania was part of the Austro - Hungarian Imperium). In 1869 moves to study Law at the University of Wien, Austria. Fluent in German and Hungarian, is stimulated by his friend Mihail Eminescu (great Romanian poet), being also student in Wien in the same period, to write in Romanian. In 1874 he settles down in Bucharest, and publishes short stories for children; in 1881 writes his masterpiece "Moara cu noroc" (the Lucky Mill). During the WWI, because of his pro German attitude, (Romania being on the Allied side against Germany), is arrested in 1919 and convicted to 5 years in prison, but is released the same year. Tiered by his agitated life, retires to the vineyard home of one of his 6 children, and dies there in 1925.
- 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.
- 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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- Composer
Robert Planquette was born on 31 July 1848 in Paris, France. He was a writer and composer, known for Ford v Ferrari (2019), Maytime (1937) and Les cloches de Corneville (1917). He died on 28 January 1903 in Paris, France.- 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.- Robert Kiljander was born on 15 August 1848 in Lapinlahti, Finland. He was a writer, known for Skandaali tyttökoulussa (1960) and Kumarrusmatka (1965). He was married to Olga Dunajev. He died on 14 November 1924.
- Vincent F. Reardon was born on 2 October 1848. He died on 24 December 1920.
- 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. - 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.- 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.
- 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.
- King William II of Württemberg was born on 25 February 1848 in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]. He was married to Charlotte zu Schaumburg-Lippe and Georgine Henriette Marie Prinzessin zu Waldeck und Pyrmont. He died on 2 October 1921 in Bebenhausen, Württemberg [now Baden-Württemberg], Germany.
- Aleksandre Kazbegi was born on 20 January 1848 in Stepantsminda, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire [now Republic of Georgia]. He was a writer, known for Mamis mkvleli (1923), Modzgvari (1922) and Caucasian Love (1928). He died on 22 December 1893 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia].
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Karel Klostermann was born on 13 February 1848 in Haag am Hausruck, Upper Austria, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was a writer, known for Pozdní láska (1935), Ze sveta lesních samot (1933) and Mist on the Moors (1944). He was married to Betty Dostal and Marie Carmine. He died on 16 July 1923 in Steken, Czechoslovakia [now Steken, Czech Republic].
- 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.
- Enrico Golisciani was born on 25 December 1848 in Naples, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Secret of Susanna (1961). He died on 6 February 1919 in Naples, Italy.
- Vladimir Sukhomlinov was born on 4 August 1848 in Kovno, Russian Empire [now Kaunas, Lithuania]. He died on 1 February 1926.
- Fred Weatherley was born on 4 October 1848 in Portishead, Somerset, England, UK. Fred was a writer, known for The Surgeon's Child (1912). Fred was married to Miriam Davies Bryan. Fred died on 9 September 1929 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK.
- 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.
- 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.
- William J. Gaynor was born on 2 February 1848 in Oriskany, New York, USA. He was married to Augusta C. Mayer. He died on 10 September 1913 in aboard RMS Baltic.
- William J. Stone was born on 7 May 1848 in Madison County, Kentucky, USA. He died on 14 April 1918 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- 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.
- 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.