page_title: 1868
section_title: October–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1868 / Births / October–December
caption_attribution_description: Chemist Fritz Haber
context_page_description: 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1868th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 868th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1868, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: October 4 – Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (d. 1942)
  October 10 – Anne Hazen McFarland, American physician and medical journal editor (unknown year of death)
  October 18 – Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (d. 1931)
  October 21 – Ernest Swinton, British Army general (d. 1951)
  October 23 – William Rylands, English businessman and baronet (d. 1948)
  October 24 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer (d. 1969)
  November 7 – Delfim Moreira, Brazilian president (d. 1920)
  November 8 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
  November 9 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
  November 14 – Arthur Hoey Davis, Australian author (d. 1935)
  November 17 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
  November 22 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967)
  November 23 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American portrait painter (d. 1953)
  November 30 –  Ernest Newman, English music critic (d. 1959)
  December 5 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German theoretical physicist (d. 1951)
  December 9
  Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
  Ivan Regen, Slovenian biologist (d. 1947)
  December 19 – Eleanor Hodgman Porter, American novelist (d. 1920)
  December 20 – Arturo Alessandri, Chilean statesman, 3-Time President of Chile (d. 1950)
  December 21 – George W. Fuller, American sanitation engineer (d. 1934)
  December 22 – Jaan Tõnisson, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941?)
  December 25 – Eugenie Besserer, American silent film actress (d. 1934)
caption: Fritz Haber
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