This Day In History

Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler (d. 1951)

William Michaels, American boxer (d. 1934)

John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman (d. 1912)

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1947)

Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author (d. 1929)

Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (d. 1918)

Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (d. 1889)

Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general (d. 1877)

Alexandra Feodorovna, German-Russian wife of Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1860)