January 4, 1872 Edmund Rumpler, Austria, auto/airplane builder
January 6, 1872 Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus)
January 11, 1872 Paul Graener, composer
January 16, 1872 Edward G Craig, actor/director (On the art of theatre)
January 16, 1872 Henri-Paul Busser, composer
January 18, 1872 Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami)
January 21, 1872 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
January 21, 1872 Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
January 27, 1872 Learned Hand, Albany NY, Chief judge (U.S. Court of Appeals)
January 31, 1872 Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
February 1, 1872 Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
February 10, 1872 Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
February 24, 1872 John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
March 3, 1872 Wee Willie Keeler, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 1897
March 7, 1872 Piet Mondriaan, Holland, abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
March 7, 1872 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
March 8, 1872 Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
March 10, 1872 Felix Borowski, composer
March 11, 1872 Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector
March 13, 1872 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
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