page_title: 1873
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1873 / Births / January–March
caption_attribution_description: English: Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936
context_page_description: 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1873rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 873rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1873, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 2 – Thérèse of Lisieux, Catholic saint, mystic (d. 1897)
  January 4 – Blanche Walsh, American stage, screen actress (d. 1915)
  January 7 – Adolph Zukor, Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. 1976)
  January 8
  Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
  Grace Van Studdiford, American stage actress, opera singer (d. 1927)
  January 9 – Thomas Curtis, American athlete (d. 1944)
  January 10 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
  January 12 – Spyridon Louis, Greek runner (d. 1940)
  January 20 – Johannes V. Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
  January 28 – Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
  January 29 – Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian mountaineer, explorer and admiral (d. 1933)
  January 30 – Vassily Balabanov, administrator, Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia (d. 1947)
  January 31 – Melitta Bentz, German entrepreneur who invented the coffee filter in 1908 (d. 1950)
  February 2 – Maurice Tourneur, French film director (d. 1961)
  February 3
  Hugh Trenchard, British military aviation pioneer (d. 1956)
  Karl Jatho, German aviation pioneer (d. 1933)
  February 4
  Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)
  Joel R. P. Pringle, American admiral (d. 1932)
  February 7 – Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder (d. 1912)
  February 13
  Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass opera singer (d. 1938)
  Red Wing, Native American silent film actress (d. 1974)
  February 15 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
  February 19 – Louis Feuillade, French film director (d. 1925)
  February 22 – Carrie Langston Hughes, African-American writer and actress (d. 1938)
  February 25 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
  February 28 – William McMaster Murdoch, Officer of Titanic (d. 1912)
  March 3 – William Green, American labor leader (d. 1952)
  March 8 – Anna Held, French actress (d. 1918)
  March 11 – David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
  March 13 – Léon Delagrange, French sculptor, pioneer aviator (d. 1910)
  March 19 –  Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)
  March 29 – Billy Quirk, American actor (d. 1926)
caption: Otto Loewi
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