1869

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s – 1860s – 1870s 1880s 1890s
Years:	1866 1867 1868 – 1869 – 1870 1871 1872

1869 was a common year.

Events

The Periodic table was developed.

Births

January 1 – Sigma Nu, First Anti-Hazing Honor/Social Fraternity
January 4 – Tommy Corcoran, baseball player
January 10 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic
January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect
February 11 – Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts
February 14 – Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 3 – Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop
March 12 – George William Forbes, New Zealand Prime Minister and first leader of the New Zealand National Party
March 14 – Algernon Blackwood, English writer
March 18 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
April 2 – Hughie Jennings, baseball player
April 5,6 – Tom Adam, Named number one in the world
April 11 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor
April 27 – May Moss, Activist
May 5 – Hans Pfitzner, German composer
May 20 – John Stone Stone, American physicist and inventor
June 27 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 10 – Lawrence Binyon, English poet and scholar
September 3 – Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 17 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, won the Nobel Peace Prize
September 21 - Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner
September 23 – Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary"
October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation
October 25 – John Heisman, American football coach
November 11 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, King)
November 25 – Herbert Greenfield, Premier of Alberta, Canada
December 16 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace
December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet
December 30 – Stephen Leacock, British-Canadian writer and economist
December 31 – Henri Matisse, French painter

Deaths

July 18 – Laurent Clerc, co-founder of the first American school for the deaf.
January 1 – Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1786)
January 30 – William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
February 15 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu (b. 1796).
March 8 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
March 24 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
April 20 – Carl Loewe, German composer (b. 1796)
June 16 – Charles Sturt, Australian explorer (b. 1795)
June 20 – Hijikata Toshizou, Japanese military commander (b. 1835)
August 31 – Mary Ward (scientist), first car accident victim
September 12 – Peter Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)
October 13 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
October 23 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
December 18 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (b. 1829)

Hit songs

"Little Brown Jug" by R.E. Eastburn
"Now the Day is Over" by Joseph Barnby
"Shoo, Fly! Don't Bother Me!" by T. Bringham Bishop
"Sweet Genevieve" by Henry Tucker