Born in Antwerp, he was the son of Maurice Blitz and nephew of Gérard Blitz, both members of the Belgian water polo national team who won Olympic medals.

As a lieutenant-commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Maurice Griffiths was awarded the George Medal for bravery in recognition of his work trawling for mines in the North Sea as well as deactivating parachute mines dropped on the London Docks during the Blitz and also his command of a group of divers clearing mines from the Suez Canal.

Born in Amsterdam, he was the younger brother of Maurice Blitz, also a waterpolo player, and uncle of Gérard Blitz who founded Club Med in 1950.

Maurice Blitz ( 28 July 1891 – 2 February 1975 ) was a Belgian Olympic water polo player during 1920s.

Maurice Blitz and his brother Gérard were both member of the Belgian water polo national team who won silver in two consecutive olympic events, in 1920 and 1924.

Maurice Blitz, who was Jewish, did not leave the water polo scene once he retired from competitions.

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; 1891: Victoria and Albert's last grandchild, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, is born.

* Maurice Rostand ( 1891 – 1968 ), playwright

Maurice Maeterlinck, also a symbolist playwright, wrote The Blind ( 1890 ), The Intruder ( 1890 ), Interior ( 1891 ), Pelléas and Mélisande ( 1892 ), and The Blue Bird ( 1908 ).

) so that it is called for in, for example, Jules Massenet's Esclarmonde ( 1889 ), Visions ( 1891 ) and Suite parnassienne ( 1912 ); Maurice Ravel's Shéhérazade overture ( 1898 ), Rapsodie espagnole ( 1907 ) and L ' heure espagnole ( 1907 – 09 ); Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Symphony in B minor " Polonia " ( 1903-08 ; 3 sarrusophones are called for ); Frederick Delius's Requiem ( 1913-16 ); and Arrigo Boito's Nerone ( 1924 ).

* Talleyrand, Charled Maurice ( 1891 ).

Italian opera returned to the Met in 1891 in a glittering season of stars organized by the returning Henry E. Abbey along with co-manager Maurice Grau.

* Prince Maurice of Battenberg ( 1891 – 1914 ), grandson of Queen Victoria was a student at Lockers Park School.

The House of Aaron, formerly the Aaronic Order, is a Christian sect founded in 1942 by Maurice L. Glendenning ( February 15, 1891 Randolph, Kansas – October 5, 1969 in Utah ).

* Maurice de Saxe et le marquis d ' Argenson ( 1891 )

He resigned after a financially unsuccessful first season, but was re-hired in 1891, along with John B. Schoeffel and Maurice Grau.

*** Prince Maurice of Battenberg ( 1891 – 1914 )

* Maurice Rostand ( 1891 – 21 February 1968 ) was a French playwright, the son of the noted poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand and the poet Rosemonde Gérard, and brother of the biologist Jean Rostand.

* Maurice Sugar ( 1891 – 1974 ), American political activist and labor attorney

Maurice Vincent Buckley VC, DCM ( 13 April 1891 – 27 January 1921 ) was an Australian soldier serving under the pseudonym Gerald Sexton who was awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War.

In the 1891 election he was elected as the MP for Rimouski, and in 1896 as the MP for Three Rivers and St. Maurice.

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

* 1932 – Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist

* 1696 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( d. 1755 )

* 1897 – Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer ( d. 1981 )

* 1925 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director ( d. 2003 )

* Maurice Agis ( 1931 – 2009 ), a British sculptor and artist

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

* 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1949 )

* 1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-American physicist ( d. 2011 )

* 1986 – Maurice Edu, American soccer player

* 2009 – Maurice Druon, French novelist ( b. 1918 )

* 1842 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman ( d. 1911 )

Wiles is the son of Maurice Frank Wiles ( 1923 – 2005 ), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Patricia Wiles ( née Mowll ).

* 1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2000 )

* 1898 – Maurice Wilson, English soldier, mystic, mountaineer, and aviator ( d. 1934 )

* Sir Maurice de Bunsen ( 1852 – 1932 ), British diplomat

It was Maurice Fréchet who, in 1906, had distilled the essence of the Bolzano – Weierstrass property and coined the term compactness to refer to this general phenomenon.

Reopened at Trent on 1 May 1551 by convocation of Pope Julius III ( 1550 – 5 ), it was broken up by the sudden victory of Maurice, Elector of Saxony over the Emperor Charles V and his march into surrounding state of Tirol on 28 April 1552.

* 1916 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2004 )

* 1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

* 1755 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( b. 1696 )

* 1883 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist ( d. 1955 )

* 1896 – Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist ( d. 1952 )

* 1925 – Maurice Bambier, French politician ( d. 1994 )