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1870
1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January - April
May - August
September - December
Unknown date
Births
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January 8 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
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January 15 - Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
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February 7 - Alfred Adler, psychologist
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March 5 - Frank Norris, writer (d. 1902)
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March 17 - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (d. 1951)
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March 20 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)
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April 22 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
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April 30 - Franz Lehár, composer (d. 1948)
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May 19 - Albert Fish, serial killer
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June 13 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist
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July 3 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada
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July 12 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
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July 29 - George Dixon, Black Canadian boxer, first Black world boxing champion in any weight class.
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August 11 - Tom Richardson greatest fast bowler of 1890s and record-breaking wicket-taker for Surrey between 1893 and 1897 (d. 1912).
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August 31 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (d. 1952)
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September 26 - King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
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November 21 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official
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November 27 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, former Prime Minister and President of Finland (d. 1956)
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December 5 - Vitezslav Novák, composer (d. 1949)
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December 18 - Saki, writer (d. 1918)
Deaths
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January 29 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
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February 11 - Jacob M. de Kempenaer , Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-1849?).
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February 11 - Leopold Eugen Mechura , composer
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February 19 - Nathaniel de Rothschild, French wine grower (b. 1812)
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March 28 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
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May 6 - Sir James Young Simpson, discoverer of the anaesthetic properties of chloroform
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June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist (b. 1812)
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July 20 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, French writer and publisher (b. 1822)
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September 12 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author and explorer (b. 1836)
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September 23 - Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b. 1803)
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October 12 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate general (b. 1807)
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November 24 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer (b. 1846)
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November 28 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
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December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, pčre, French author (b. 1802)
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December 27 - General Prim, Spanish dictator (b. 1814)
- Henry Rowe , architect
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