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1869 births

  • Mahatma GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula. His father Karamchand Uttamchand…
  • Louis de La Vallée-PoussinLouis de La Vallée-Poussin was born on the 1st of January 1869 in Liège. He began his university studies at the University of Liège in 1884.
  • Henri MatisseOn New Year's Eve in 1869, Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was born into a wealthy grain merchant family in Le Cateau-Cambrésis.
  • Neville ChamberlainArthur Neville Chamberlain entered the world on the 18th of March 1869 at a house called Southbourne in the Edgbaston district of Birmingham.
  • André GideAndré Paul Guillaume Gide was born in Paris on the 22nd of November 1869 into a middle-class Protestant family. His father Jean Paul Guillaume Gide served as…
  • Kasturba GandhiKasturba Gokuldas Kapadia entered the world on the 11th of April 1869 in the coastal town of Porbandar. Her family belonged to the Modh Bania caste, a group…