page_title: 1873
section_title: October–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1873 / Births / October–December
caption_attribution_description: English: Frederic Thompson was an amusement park designer and manager at the turn of the 20th century with partner Elmer “Skip” Dundy
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: October 2 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (d. 1924)
  October 3 – Emily Post, American etiquette expert (d. 1960)
  October 8 – Ma Barker, American criminal (d. 1935)
  October 9
  Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American businessman (d. 1939)
  Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist, astronomer (d. 1916)
  October 13 – Georgios Kafantaris, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1946)
  October 14 – Ray Ewry, American athlete (d. 1937)
  October 18
  Ivanoe Bonomi, 2-time Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
  Harris Laning, American admiral (d. 1941)
  October 19
  Jaap Eden, Dutch skater, cyclist (d. 1925)
  John Barton King, American cricketer (d. 1965)
  October 26
  Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
  A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (d. 1962)
  October 30
  Dave Gallaher, New Zealand rugby union football player (d. 1917)
  Francisco I. Madero, 33rd President of Mexico (d. 1913)
  October 31 – Frederic Thompson, architect and showman, built Coney Islands Luna Park and the New York Hippodrome (d. 1919)
  November 9 – Fritz Thyssen, German industrialist (d. 1951)
  November 16 – W. C. Handy, American blues composer (d. 1958)
  November 20 – Ramón Castillo, Argentinian politician, 25th President of Argentina (d. 1944)
  November 22 – Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1930)
  November 28 – Frank Phillips, American oil executive (d. 1950)
  November 30 – William Boyle, British admiral (d. 1967)
  December 7 – Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947)
  December 11 – Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)
  December 17 – Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
  December 20 – Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (d. 1948)
  December 21 – Captain Bertram Dickson, Scottish soldier, explorer and pioneer aviator; involved in the world's first mid-air collision (d. 1913)
  December 26 – Thomas Wass, Nottinghamshire bowler (d. 1953)
  December 30 – Al Smith,  American politician, Democratic presidential candidate (d. 1944)
caption: Frederic Thompson
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