* 1876 – Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower ( d. 1938 )

Meiosis was discovered and described for the first time in sea urchin eggs in 1876 by the German biologist Oscar Hertwig.

# Princess Joséphine Maximiliane Eugénie Napoléonne de Beauharnais ( 1807 – 1876 ) became the Queen Consort to King Oscar I of Sweden, himself the son of Napoleon's old love, Désirée Clary.

* William Wilde ( 1815 – 1876 ), Irish eye and ear surgeon, writer on medicine, archaeology and folklore, father of Oscar Wilde

Now managed by Dublin City Council, it contains a statue of Oscar Wilde, who resided in No. 1, Merrion Square from 1855 to 1876, many other sculptures and a collection of old Dublin lamp standards.

It was expanded to its current size between 1874 and 1876, after crown prince Oscar had been crowned king Oscar II of Sweden and Norway.

For his services as medical director of the United States Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876, he was made Knight Commander of Saint Olaf by King Oscar II of Sweden.

Joséphine of Leuchtenberg ( Joséphine Maximilienne Eugénie Napoléone ) ( 14 March 1807 – 7 June 1876 ) was Queen consort of Sweden and Norway as the wife of King Oscar I.

Farnum came to Deadwood from Wisconsin and opened his store in 1876, acquired other Main Street properties, and invested in some of the mining operations such as the Laura Mine and the Prince Oscar Lode ; he also partnered with other camp entrepreneurs to have the Deadwood to Centennial Toll Road constructed to ease the flow of supplies to their businesses.

* 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.

* 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 )

* 1943 – Oscar D ' León, Venezuelan bass player ( Dimensión Latina )

Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".

She was selected to play " Pilar " in the 1943 film For Whom the Bell Tolls, winning an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress-Motion Picture.

* 1871 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader ( d. 1943 )

* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).

Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet ( orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett ) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Even though she had not made a picture in five years, Arthur accepted the part at the request of George Stevens with whom she had worked in two earlier films, The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ) and The More the Merrier ( 1943 ) for which she received her only Oscar nomination.

In 1943, he was awarded an Honorary Oscar Certificate for " progressive cultural achievement " in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference ( certificate ).

Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE ( born Krishna Pandit Bhanji ; Gujarati: ક ૃ ષ ્ ણ ા પ ં ડ િ ત ભ ા ણજ ી; 31 December 1943 ) is an English actor who has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career.

* 1943: Oscar winner for 49th Parallel as Best Writing, Original Story

* 1943: Oscar nominated for 49th Parallel as Best Writing, Screenplay.

* 1943: Oscar nominated for One of Our Aircraft Is Missing for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.

She started a fashion business in 1943 with notable designers like Charles James and Oscar de la Renta on staff.

* Oscar Tingelstad ( 1928 – 1943 )

She received one Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, for the 1943 film So Proudly We Hail !, but did not win.

* 1943 – Oscar Niemeyer completes his Pampulha project in Brazil.

* I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night nominated for an Oscar for Best Song, also featured in the 1943 film Higher and Higher, sung by Frank Sinatra

She then returned to the West End ( briefly returning to the Old Vic to play Emilia in their 1938 Othello ), notably playing Edith Gunter in Dodie Smith's Autumn Crocus ( Lyric, 1931 ), the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well ( Arts, 1932 ), Lady Strawholme in Ivor Novello's Fresh Fields ( Criterion, 1933 ), Liz Frobisher in John Van Druten's The Distaff Side ( Apollo, 1933 ), Barbara Dawe in Clemence Dane's Moonlight is Silver ( Queen's, 1934 ), Theodora in Elmer Rice's Not for Children ( Fortune, 1935 ), Masha in Chekhov's The Seagull ( New Theatre, 1936 ), the Mother in an English-language version of Garcia Lorca's Bodas de sangre entitled Marriage of Blood ( Savoy, 1939 ), Léonie in Jean Cocteau's Les Parents terribles ( Gate, 1940 ), Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( Westminster, 1943 ), and Cornelia in John Webster's The White Devil ( Duchess, 1947 ).

In 1943 he was commissioned to create the title painting for Albert Lewin's film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

* Marcus Wallenberg ( senior ) (" Häradshövdingen ") ( 1864 – 1943 ), son of André Oscar Wallenberg, banker, industrialist and politician.

In the following decade, he appeared in such films as The Buccaneer ( 1938 ), The Great McGinty ( 1940 ), The Corsican Brothers ( 1941 ), Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ), Five Graves to Cairo ( 1943 ), His Butler's Sister ( 1943 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ), for which he received another Oscar nomination, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 ).

* Oklahoma !, 1943 Broadway, 1947 London, m Richard Rodgers, lb Oscar Hammerstein II, ( 2, 212, the longest-running Broadway show in history, until My Fair Lady )