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In 1851, the tycoon André Oscar Wallenberg founded the Company for Swedish Canal Steamboat Transit Traffic to carry goods from England to Russia via the canal.
Jakob Persson Wallberg ( 1699 1758 ) was the great-grandfather to André Oscar Wallenberg, who in 1856 founded the Stockholms Enskilda Bank, the predecessor of today's Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken.
André Oscar Wallenberg's son Knut Agathon Wallenberg took over as CEO of Stockholms Enskilda Bank in 1886.
* André Oscar Wallenberg ( 1816 1886 ), son of Marcus Wallenberg, naval officer, newspaper tycoon, banker and politician.
* Knut Agathon Wallenberg ( 1853 1938 ), son of André Oscar Wallenberg, banker and politician.
* Gustaf Wallenberg ( 1863 1937 ), son of André Oscar Wallenberg, diplomat.
* Marcus Wallenberg ( senior ) (" Häradshövdingen ") ( 1864 1943 ), son of André Oscar Wallenberg, banker, industrialist and politician.
* Axel Wallenberg ( 1874 1963 ), son of André Oscar Wallenberg, industrialist and diplomat.
* Victor Wallenberg ( 1875 1970 ), son of André Oscar Wallenberg, sports shooter.
* Raoul Oscar Wallenberg ( 1888 1912 ), son of Gustaf Wallenberg, naval officer.
* Carol Wallenberg ( 1904 1985 ), son of Oscar Wallenberg, businessman.
* Raoul Wallenberg ( 1912 c. 1947 ), son of Raoul Oscar Wallenberg, diplomat.

Oscar and 1872
* 1872 King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
* 1872 1907: Oscar II
* 1872 1905: Oscar II
King Oscar II ruled the United Kingdoms of Norway and Sweden from 1872 until 1905, when he granted Norway its independence.
The economic condition of Sweden, owing to the progress in material prosperity which had taken place in the country as the result of the Franco-Prussian War, was at the accession of Oscar II to the throne on September 18, 1872 fairly satisfactory.
* King Oscar II of Sweden, who succeeded his brother Charles XV in 1872
* Prince Oscar ( as of 1829 ; King from 1872 )
In 1872 the new king, Oscar II, decided that Norway, in its precarious situation with the Council mostly convening in the capital, Christiania ( presently Oslo ), while the king mostly lived in Sweden's capital Stockholm needed two Prime Ministers, one in each capital.
** ( 1. 1. 3 ) Prince Oscar, Duke of Östergötland, born 21 January 1829 ; succeeded 18 September 1872 as Oscar II of Sweden
Darré was born in Belgrano, a Buenos Aires neighbourhood, in Argentina to Richard Oscar Darré, a German with Huguenot ancestry, ( born 10 March 1854, Berlin ; died 20 February 1929, Wiesbaden ) and the half-Swedish / half-German Emilia Berta Eleonore, née Lagergren ( born 23 July 1872, Buenos Aires ; died 20 July 1936, Bad Pyrmont ).
Early works that contained LGBT themes and showed the gay characters to be morally impure include the first lesbian vampire story " Carmilla " ( 1872 ) by Sheridan Le Fanu and The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ) by Oscar Wilde, which shocked contemporary readers with its sensuality and overtly homosexual characters.
Thereafter, up until 1872 ( when Oscar II was the last Swedish monarch to be ceremonially crowned ), Stockholm's Cathedral Storkyrkan was the official coronation church.
In 1898, the ranch was bought by Oscar Ralphs, whose brother, George, had already begun a business in Los Angeles ( in 1872 ) that eventually became the Ralphs supermarket chain.
He was promoted to commander and made aide-de-camp of Crown Prince Oscar, the Duke of Östergötland, in 1872 and remained so after the prince's accession to the throne as Oscar II in 1873.
Since the administration of Dr. Webster, Claflin has been served by seven presidents: Dr. Edward Cooke ( 1872 1884 ); Dr. Lewis M. Dunton ( 1884 1922 ); Dr. Joseph B. Randolph ( 1922 1944 ); Dr. John J. Seabrook ( 1945 1955 ); Dr. Hubert V. Manning ( 1956 1984 ); Dr. Oscar A. Rogers, Jr. ( 1984 1994 ); and Dr. Henry N. Tisdale ( 1994 present ).

Oscar and
* 1895 Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
* 1925 Oscar Peterson, Canadian pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )
* 1958 Oscar Collodo, Swiss-Italian rugby player and coach
* 2000 The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
* 1876 Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower ( d. 1938 )
* 1954 Oscar Larrauri, Argentine race car driver
He taught at the Universidade de São Paulo, 1945 47, where he worked with Oscar Zariski.
* 1895 Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, ( September 8, 801 February 3, 865, in Bremen ) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen.
* 1899 Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician ( d. 1986 )
* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 1900 ), author and playwright ( educated in Portora Royal School )
* 1907 Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
* 1906 Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer and actor ( d. 1972 )
Some of the most influential contemporary classical double bass players are known as much for their contributions to pedagogy as for their performing skills, such as US bassist Oscar G. Zimmerman ( 1910 1987 ), known for his teaching at the Eastman School of Music and, for 44 summers at the Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan and French bassist François Rabbath ( b. 1931 ) who developed a new bass method that divided the entire fingerboard into six positions.
Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.
In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.
* 1949 Oscar Gamble, American baseball player
* 1911 Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
* 1929 Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
* 1920 Oscar Brand, Canadian folk musicologist
* 1911 Oscar Heidenstam, English bodybuilding champion ( d. 1991 )
* 1958 Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player
* 1907 Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter ( d. 2008 )

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