page_title: 1872
section_title: July–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1872 / Births / July–December
caption_attribution_description: English: Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts
context_page_description: 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1872nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 872nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1872, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: July 1 – Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (d. 1936)
  July 2 – Horace Short, British aircraft designer (d. 1917)
  July 4 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
  July 5 – Édouard Herriot, 3-time Prime Minister of France (d. 1957)
  July 12 – Emil Hácha, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1945)
  July 16 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1928)
  July 25 – Herbert Stanley, Governor of Northern Rhodesia, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia (d. 1955)
  July 28 – Albert Sarraut, 2-time Prime Minister of France (d. 1962)
  August 2 – George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
  August 3 – King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
  August 4 – Ruth Ward Kahn, American lecturer and writer (unknown year of death)
  August 9 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
  August 10 – Bill Johnson, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
  August 13 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
  August 15 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, writer and mystic (d. 1950)
  August 21 – Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (d. 1898)
  August 26 – Joseph Taylor Robinson, American politician (d. 1937)
  September 8 – James William McCarthy, American judge (d. 1939)
  September 13 – Kijūrō Shidehara, 31st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
  September 20 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (d. 1958)
  September 28
  David Unaipon, Australian author, inventor (d. 1967)
  Charles F. Watkins, American physician (d. 1936)
  October 4 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral (d. 1945)
  October 6 – Carl Gustaf Ekman, 2-time Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1945)
  October 11 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
  October 12 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958)
  October 15
  Wilhelm Miklas, 3rd President of Austria (d. 1956)
  Edith Wilson, First Lady of the United States (d. 1961)
  October 30 – Louisa Martindale, British physician, writer, magistrate and prison commissioner (d. 1966)
  November 1 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (d. 1946)
  November 4 – Barbu Știrbey, 30th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946)
  November 11 – Maude Adams, American stage actress (d. 1953)
  November 30 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier, surgeon and poet (d. 1918)
  December 3 – William Haselden, Spanish cartoonist (d. 1953)
  December 8 – Mace Greenleaf, American actor (d. 1912)
  December 11 – René Bull, British illustrator, photographer (d. 1942)
  December 14 – John Smith Archibald, Canadian architect (d. 1934)
  December 16 – Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Imperial Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1947)
  December 21 – Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
  December 26 – Norman Angell, English politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1967)
caption: Calvin Coolidge
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