Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )

* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )

* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1872 – Frederick Maurice, English theologian ( b. 1805 )

* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )

* 1872 – Haakon VII of Norway ( d. 1957 )

* 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1872 )

* 1872 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher ( d. 1950 )

* 1872 – Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein ( d. 1956 )

* 1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author ( d. 1898 )

In 1872 he ran for election to fill Tennessee's new at – large seat in the House of Representatives.

* 1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian ( d. 1872 )

* 1872 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-Islamic scholar and translator ( d. 1953 )

* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

* 1872 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician, 44th Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 1951 )

* Rangers First Centenary 1872 – 1972: 1

* 1872 – Bill Johnson, American bassist ( d. 1972 )

* 1915 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer ( b. 1872 )

* Alexandra Feodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) ( 1872 – 1918 ), wife of Nicholas II of Russia

* Alexandra Kollontai ( 1872 – 1952 ), Russian politician

He married thirdly in 1872 to Circassian HH Gevherin Nedaxe Kadın Efendi ( Caucasus, 8 July 1856 – Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Constantinople, 20 September 1894 ), and had one child.

* Haakon VII of Norway ( 1872 – 1957 ), King of Norway ( 1905 – 1957 )

It includes Japan's annexation of the Okinawan island group in 1872, the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ), the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ), the annexation of Korea, and the rise of Japanese militarism ( 1905 – 1945 ).

Haakon VII ( Prince Carl of Denmark and Iceland, born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel ) ( 3 August 1872 21 September 1957 ), known as Prince Carl of Denmark until 1905, was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden.

* 3 August 1872 – 18 November 1905: His Royal Highness Prince Carl of Denmark

It was incorporated as the Village of Alma in 1872 and became a city in 1905.

Since 1837, ten municipalities have separated from the original Egg Harbor Township, including Atlantic City ( 1854 ), Absecon ( 1872 ), South Atlantic City ( now Margate ) ( 1885 ), Somers Point ( 1886 ), Pleasantville ( 1888 ), Linwood ( 1889 ), Longport ( 1898 ), Brigantine ( 1903 ), Ventnor ( 1903 ) and Northfield ( 1905 ).

After becoming part of the newly formed Atlantic County in 1837, portions of the township were taken to create Mullica Township ( March 13, 1838 ), Egg Harbor City ( June 14, 1858 ), Absecon town ( February 29, 1872 ), Brigantine Beach borough ( now Brigantine city ; June 14, 1890 ) and Port Republic ( March 1, 1905 ).

* 18 September 1872 – 26 October 1905: Her Majesty The Queen of Sweden and Norway

King Oscar II ruled the United Kingdoms of Norway and Sweden from 1872 until 1905, when he granted Norway its independence.

In a recent study based on mitochondrial DNA analysis of subspecies by Perktaş, Barrowclough and Groth it has been proposed to split this species to three distinct species: P. viridis ( Linnaeus, 1758 ), P. sharpei ( Saunders, 1872 ) and P. innominatus ( Sarudny & Loudon, 1905 ).

Ford worked as a managing editor and editorial writer from 1872 to 1905, at six different newspapers in three cities ( Baltimore, New York and Pittsburgh ).

His father, João César de Oliveira ( 1872 – 1905 ), who died when Juscelino was two years old, was a traveling salesman.

In the midst of these polemics, Brandes began to issue the most ambitious of his works, Main Currents in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century, of which four volumes appeared between 1872 and 1875 ( English translation, 1901 – 1905 ).

* Haakon VII of Norway ( 1872 – 1957, reigned 1905 – 57 )

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

A new economic lifting of the city was connected with a steamship movement across the Sukhona River and with the building of a new railroad line connecting Vologda with Yaroslavl and Moscow ( 1872 ), with Arkhangelsk ( 1898 ), with St. Petersburg and Vyatka ( 1905 ).

Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia ( 9 August 1872 – 6 July 1962 ) was for a short period head of state of Hungary, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the eldest son of Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria ( 1833 – 1905 ) and his wife Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( 1846 – 1927 ).

* Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz ( 1872 – 1905 ), philosopher, sociologist, born in Szczebrzeszyn

* Henry C. Allen ( 1872 – 1942 ), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1905 to 1907.

Whilst the iron industry had only 350 workers in 1872, by 1905 there were as many as 4, 400.

In 1928 he married Lady Kathleen Crichton ( 1905 – 1990 ), a daughter of Henry Crichton, Viscount Crichton ( 1872 – 1914, son of the 4th and father of the 5th Earl of Erne ) and Lady Mary Cavendish Grosvenor ( 1883 – 1959, daughter of the 1st Duke of Westminster ).

* William Thomas Clark ( 1831 – 1905 ), American soldier and Congressman from Texas, 1869 – 1872