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States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).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.

* 1791 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer ( d. 1872 )

* 1872 – Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president ( d. 1956 )

* January 15 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer ( d. 1872 )

** Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( b. 1872 )

There are multiple local tennis stadiums, including the Arena im Aufeld, the tennis centre Allround, the tennis courts by the local ice sport association 1872, the courts in St. Georgen, the courts at the Ratzersdorfer Pond, the courts in the Lower Austrian state sports school and the courts of the leisure park Megafun.

The social functions of the Austrian metropolis became wearisome, and Jhering gladly exchanged its for the repose of Göttingen, where he became professor in 1872.

* June 28-Frida Uhl, Austrian writer and translator ( born 1872 )

* January 15-Franz Grillparzer, Austrian dramatist ( died 1872 )

Alexander Roda Roda ( born Sándor Friedrich Rosenfeld ; April 13, 1872 – August 20, 1945 ) was Jewish Austrian writer who spent most of his life working and living in Osijek and Slavonia.

In 1872, long before women were admitted to Austrian universities, he met Henriette von Aigentler, an aspiring teacher of mathematics and physics in Graz.

A few years later, in 1872, at the age of 24, Palisa became the director of the Austrian Naval Observatory in Pula.

Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer ( 15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872 ) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas.

Honors were heaped upon him ; he was made a member of the Academy of Sciences ; Heinrich Laube, as director of the Burgtheater, reinstated his plays into the repertory ; in 1861, he was elected to the Austrian Herrenhaus ; his eightieth birthday was a national festival, and when he died in Vienna, on the January 21, 1872, the mourning of the Austrian people was universal.

Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch ( 25 February 1806 – 20 October 1872 ) was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola discovered the plant Welwitschia mirabilis.

Heinrich Graf von Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe ( 22 May 1872 – 25 July 1928 ) was an Austrian landowner who until 1919 held hereditary titles from two different countries: he was a Count ( Graf ) in the Holy Roman Empire and a viscount in the Peerage of Ireland.

* Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer ( 1872 – 1919 )

* Eduard Bloch ( 1872 – 1945 ), Austrian physician and family doctor of Adolf Hitler from 1903 to 1907

* Nerven, a 1919 film by the Austrian director and novelist Robert Reinert ( 1872 – 1928 )

Avram Iancu (; 1824 – September 10, 1872 ) was a Transylvanian Romanian lawyer who played an important role in the local chapter of the Austrian Empire Revolutions of 1848 – 1849.

He advanced quickly through the ranks ( corporal in 1872, lieutenant in 1875 ) and became a commander in the Croatian Home Guard, an equivalent to the Hungarian Honvéd and the Austrian Landwehr, defensive troops of parts of the Danube Monarchy, in times of peace not belonging to the Imperial & Royal Army.

The first Austrian cog railway was built to Kahlenberg in 1872 and 1873 and opened in 1874.

Felix Adolf Schmal ( 18 August 1872, Dortmund – 28 August 1919, Salzburg ) was an Austrian fencer and racing cyclist.