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Le Prince was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion picture camera born in Metz, France. His father was a major of artillery in the French Army and an officer of the Légion d'honneur. When growing up, he reportedly spent time in the studio of his father's friend, the pioneer of photography Louis Daguerre, from whom he may have received some lessons on photography and chemistry before he was 10 years old. His education went on to include the study of painting in Paris and post-graduate chemistry at Leipzig University. He then moved to Leeds, England in 1866, after being invited to join John Whitley, a friend from college, in Whitley Partners of Hunslet, a firm of brass founders making valves and components. In 1869, he married Elizabeth Whitley, John's sister and a talented artist, and the two of them started a school of applied art, the Leeds Technical School of Art, and became well renowned for their work in fixing coloured photographs on to metal and pottery. In 1881, Le Prince went to the United States with his family where he began experiments relating to the production of 'moving' photographs, designing a camera that utilised sixteen lenses, which was the first invention he patented. After his return to Leeds in May 1887, he built a single-lens camera in mid-late 1888 used to shoot his motion-picture films. It was first used on 14 October 1888 to shoot what would become known as Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) and Accordion Player (1888). He later used it to film Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888). In September 1890, he was preparing for a trip to the United States, supposedly to publicly premiere his work and join his wife and children. Before this journey, he decided to return to France to visit his brother in Dijon. Then, on 16 September, he took a train to Paris but, having taken a later train than planned, his friends missed him in Paris. He was never seen again by his family or friends. The last person to see Le Prince at the Dijon station was his brother. The French police, Scotland Yard and the family undertook exhaustive searches, but never found him. Le Prince was officially declared dead on 16 September 1897.- Maren Pedersen was born on 9 March 1842 in Gærum, Sejlstrup, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Häxan (1922) and A Sacrilege of Witches. She was married to Carl Frederik Pedersen. She died on 22 December 1920 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Karl May was born on 25 February 1842 in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Kingdom of Saxony [now Saxony, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (1920), Caravan of Death (1920) and Durch die Wüste (1936). He was married to Klara Plöhn and Emma Pollmer. He died on 30 March 1912 in Radebeul, Kingdom of Saxony [now Saxony], Germany.
- Ambrose Bierce was born on 24 June 1842 in Meigs County, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for The Damned Thing is of Such a Color! (2020), The Twilight Zone (1959) and 11 O'Clock: a Sense of Imminent Calamity (2023). He was married to Mary Ellen "Mollie" Day. He died in 1914 in Mexico.
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Arthur Sullivan was a composer, born in London in 1842 and died in 1900. His father was a military bandmaster, and Arthur composed his first anthem at the age of eight. He studied at London's Royal Academy of Music after being awarded the inaugural Mendelssohn Scholarship at 14 years of age.
Sullivan was one half of Gilbert & Sullivan, the partnership responsible for works such as The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance.- Music Department
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Jules Massenet was born on 12 May 1842 in Saint-Etienne, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France. He is known for Marathon Man (1976), Tau (2018) and Transamerica (2005). He was married to Louise-Constance de Gressy. He died on 13 August 1912 in Paris, France.- Composer
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Rikard Nordraak was born on 12 June 1842 in Christiania, Norway. He was a composer, known for The Moon Is Down (1943), Rikard Nordraak (1945) and Mot nya tider (1939). He died on 20 March 1866 in Berlin, Germany.- Soundtrack
Alphons Czibulka was born on 14 May 1842 in Kirchdrauf/Szepeváralja, Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Spisské Podhradie, Slovak Republic]. Alphons died on 27 October 1894 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria].- Italian novelist Antonio Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1842. His parents were opposed to the Austrian occupation of northern Italy, and their political activities came to the attention of the occupation authorities, forcing the family to flee into exile to southern Italy. As a young man he studied at the University of Padua and the University of Turin--where, after graduating, he practiced law--and after his father brought the family back from exile, he moved to Milan. Fogazzaro followed in his father's footsteps and continued his political activity, but when he got into trouble it wasn't with the Austrians but with the Catholic Church--in 1905 he published his novel "Il Santo" ("The Saint"), which was termed "heretical" by the church and ran into censorship problems across the country.
His most famous work was the "trilogy" of novels written about the "Risorgimento", or the struggle against the Austrians in northern Italy known as the "War of Liberation". He died on March 7, 1911, from complications resulting from an operation. He was 69 years old. - Music Department
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George Leybourne was born on 17 March 1842 in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England, UK. George is known for George of the Jungle (1997), Going in Style (2017) and Chaplin (1992). George died on 15 September 1884 in Islington, London, England, UK.- Music Department
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Karl Millöcker was born on 29 April 1842 in Vienna, Austria. He was a composer, known for Der Bettelstudent (1936), The Beggar Student (1956) and Kaiserwalzer (1933). He was married to Charlotte Kling and Karoline Hofer. He died on 31 December 1899 in Baden, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary.- Adelaide Ober was born on 29 November 1842 in New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Professor Optimo (1912) and Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912). She was married to George Ober and Thomas Peabody Power. She died on 8 February 1922 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA.
- Camille Flammarion was born on 26 February 1842 in Montigny-le-Roi, Haute Marne, France. He was a writer, known for La fin du monde (1931). He was married to Gabrielle Renaudot and Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo. He died on 3 June 1925 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, France.
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Arrigo Boito was born on 24 February 1842 in Padua, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Veneto, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Match Point (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and Faust and the Devil (1949). He died on 10 June 1918 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Bronson Howard was born on 7 October 1842 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a writer, known for The Saphead (1920), Aristocracy (1914) and One of Our Girls (1914). He was married to Alice Culverwell. He died on 4 August 1908 in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey, USA.
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Carl Zeller was born on 19 June 1842 in St. Peter in der Au, Austria. He was a composer and writer, known for Der Vogelhändler (1953), Der Vogelhändler (1962) and Rosen in Tirol (1940). He was married to Anna Maria Schwetz. He died on 17 August 1898 in Baden, Austria.- Catherine Eddowes was born in Graisley Green, Wolverhampton (West Midlands) on 14 April 1842. Her parents, tinplate worker George Eddowes and his wife Catherine (née Evans), had been married since 1832, and had 11 other children, 5 older that Catherine (Alfred, Harriet, Emma, Eliza and Elizabeth), and 6 younger than her (Thomas, George, John, Sarah, Mary and William). In 1855, when Catherine was around 13, her mother Catherine died. The same year, Catherine's education at St John's Charity School, Patters Field, Tooley Street, ended. Most of her siblings entered Bermondsey Workhouse and Industrial School. In the early 1860s Catherine eventually returned to finish her education at Dowgate Charity School and to care for her aunt in Biston Street, Wolverhampton and to work as a tinplate stamper.
Around 1861, when she was 19, Catherine left home to be with ex-soldier Thomas Conway. She was known as Kate Conway by that time, using her common-law husband's surname even if they weren't legally married. On 1864 they lived together in Wolverhampton and earned a living by selling chapbooks, written by Conway, in Birmingham and in the Midlands. They also wrote and sold gallows ballads. Catherine claimed that they were legally married and she had his initials 'TC' tattooed in blue ink on her arm. Around 1865, Annie, Catherine and Conway's first child and only daughter, was born. Three years later, they had their second child, a son named George. On February 3rd 1877 their son Frederick William was born.
In 1880 Conway and Catherine separated. Catherine took Annie and Conway had custody of the boys. The following year, 1881, Catherine met John Kelly, an Irish jobbing market porter, frequently working for a fruit salesman, Lander. They eventually moved in together at Cooney's common lodging-house at 55 Flower and Dean Street, Spitalfields. By that time Catherine took her common-law husband's surname as was known as Kate Kelly. Every year, during the season, Kelly and Eddowes went hop picking. In the summer of 1888, Catherine and John, with their friend Emily Birrell, a vagrant, and her common-law husband, went hop-picking to Hunton-near-Maidstone, in Kent. At harvest's end they returned to London and quickly went through their pay, although it wasn't a good season, having poor crops. Birrell gave Catherine a London pawn broker's ticket for a man's shirt, because Catherine and John were going to London while she and her man were going to Cheltenham. On Thursday September 27th, Catherine and John arrived to London and split their last sixpence between them; he took four-pence to pay for a bed in the Cooney's common lodging-house, and she took twopence, just enough for her to stay a night at Mile End Casual Ward in the neighboring parish. - Music Department
Victor Langer was born on 14 December 1842 in Pest, Hungary [now Budapest, Hungary]. He is known for Die Liebe der Brüder Rott (1929). He died in 1902 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary].- Music Department
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Carl David af Wirsén was born on 9 December 1842 in Vallentuna, Stockholms län, Sweden. Carl David af is known for The Hunters (1996), Miraklet i Viskan (2015) and Suddenly (2006). Carl David af died on 12 June 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden.- István Szentgyörgyi was born on 20 February 1842 in Diósjenõ, Hungary. He was an actor, known for A vén bakancsos és fia, a huszár (1918), A peleskei nótárius (1916) and A tanítónö (1917). He died on 20 October 1931 in Cluj, Romania.
- Ferenc Csepreghy was born on 15 August 1842 in Szalka, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Sárga csikó (1914), A piros bugyelláris (1917) and A piros bugyelláris (1921). He died on 6 February 1880 in Görbersdorf, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Sokolowsko, Dolnoslaskie, Poland].
- Louis Bouwmeester was born on 5 September 1842 in Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Koning Oedipus (1912), The Grip (1913) and Fatum (1915). He died on 28 April 1925 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Joseph Spillman was born on 22 April 1842 in Zug, Switzerland. Joseph was a writer, known for The Victim (1920) and Die Tat des Abbé Montmoulin (1922). Joseph died on 20 February 1905 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
- Octavius L. Pruden was born on 29 March 1842. He died on 19 April 1902.
- Steele MacKaye was born on 6 June 1842 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Hazel Kirke (1916), Hazel Kirke (1912) and The Miller's Daughter (1905). He was married to Mary Ellen Keith Medbury and Jeannie Spring. He died on 25 February 1894 in Timpas, Colorado, USA.
- Gergely Csiky was born on 8 December 1842 in Pankota, Hungary [now Pancota, Romania]. He was a writer, known for A Nagymama (1916), A nagymama (1935) and A nagymama (1986). He died on 19 November 1891 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Giorgi Tsereteli was born on 26 May 1842 in Gorisa, Georgia, Russian Empire. He was a writer, known for Sami sitsotskhle (1924) and Mamluqi (1958). He died on 24 January 1900 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia].- Peter Jerndorff was born on 24 November 1842 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Once Upon a Time (1922). He died on 23 December 1926.
- Frank D. Baldwin was born on 26 June 1842 in Manchester, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Indian Wars (1914) and The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (1917). He died on 22 April 1923 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Georg Brandes was born on 4 February 1842 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was married to Johanne Louise Henriette Strodtmann. He died on 19 February 1927 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Stéphane Mallarmé was born on 18 March 1842 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974), Dream (2008) and Cher Mallarmé (1993). He was married to Marie Gerhard. He died on 9 September 1898 in Paris, France.
- Alfred Hennequin was born on 13 January 1842 in Liege, Belgium. Alfred was a writer, known for Lili (1918). Alfred died on 7 August 1887 in Lpinay-sur-Seine, France.
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Victor Koning was born on 4 April 1842 in Belleville, Paris, France. Victor was a writer, known for Airs de France (1955), La fille de Madame Angot (1935) and Jacquot of Nantes (1991). Victor was married to Raphaële Sisos and Jane Hading. Victor died on 1 October 1894 in Suresnes, France.- Franklin Távora was born on 13 January 1842 in Baturité, Ceará, Brazil. He was a writer, known for O Cabeleira (1963). He died on 18 August 1888 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Pyotr Kropotkin was born on 9 December 1842 in Moscow, Russia. He is known for Unrest (2022). He died on 8 February 1921 in Dmitrov, Russia.- Adna R. Chaffee was born on 14 April 1842 in Orwell, Ohio, USA. He died on 1 November 1914.
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Charles Cros was born on 1 October 1842 in Fabrezan, Aude, France. He was a writer, known for A Very Private Affair (1962), Felicity Lott in Recital (1995) and Banda sonora (2007). He was married to Maria Hjardemaal. He died on 9 August 1888 in Paris, France.- Daniel M. Ransdell was born on 15 June 1842. He died on 28 November 1912.
- Nathan Bay Scott was born on 18 December 1842 in Guernsey County, Ohio, USA. He died on 2 January 1924.
- George K. Nash was born on 14 August 1842 in York township, Medina County, Ohio, USA. He died in 1904.
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Calixa Lavallée was born on 28 December 1842 in Verchères, Quebec, Canada. Calixa died on 21 January 1891 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.- Adolf Stoltze was born on 10 June 1842 in Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Alt Frankfurt (1977) and Rendezvous im Palmengarten (1987). He was married to Luise Mannberger. He died on 19 April 1933 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- Jenõ Rákosi was born on 12 November 1842 in Acsád, Hungary. Jenõ is known for Tévedések vígjátéka, avagy Tévedések víg játéka (1988). Jenõ died on 8 February 1929 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Eugen Gura was born on 8 November 1842 in Pressern bei Saaz, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Nové Sedlo, Louny, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Ein Fest auf Haderslevhuus. Drama in einem Vorspiel und vier Akten (1921) and Der gelbe Würger (1921). He died on 26 August 1906 in Aufkirchen, Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany.
- Rev. John M. Snyder was a Unitarian minister, author and playwright. After graduating with honors from the Meadville Theological School in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Rev. Snyder was ordained a pastor in 1870 at the Hingham Unitarian Church in Hingham, Massachusetts. Three years later he became pastor at the Messiah Church in St. Louis, Missouri, a post he would hold for the next 26 years. In 1899 he returned to Massachusetts to become pastor at the Wellesley Hills Unitarian Church. It was at this posting that in 1904 he wrote the play "As Ye Sow", in an attempt to reach a larger audience than he could preaching from his pulpit. The following year "As Ye Sow" was produced on stage at Boston and in 1914 released as a motion picture. Rev. John M. Snyder died on 12 August, 1914, at Nantucket, Massachusetts, after a year long battle with throat cancer. At the time of his death Rev. Snyder had been pastor of the Nantucket Unitarian Church for five years
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Maria Konopnicka was born on 23 May 1842 in Suwalki, Poland, Russian Empire [now Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland]. She was a writer, known for Television Theater (1953), Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004) and Panna z mokra glowa (1995). She was married to Jaroslaw Konopnicki. She died on 8 October 1910 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine].- Signe Wilhelmi was born on 3 April 1842 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Himlens Straf (1910). She died on 28 April 1914.
- Gustaf Callmén was born on 3 January 1842 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Stormfågeln (1914), Gatans barn (1914) and Sonad skuld (1915). He died on 3 December 1915 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- August Warberg was born on 5 May 1842 in Glava, Arvika, Värmlands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Ålderdom och dårskap (1916), Sonad skuld (1915) and The Ships That Meet (1916). He died on 16 October 1915 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Phoebe Hearst was born on 3 December 1842 in Whitmire, Missouri, USA. She was married to George Hearst. She died on 13 April 1919 in Pleasanton, California, USA.