British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of poetry, and a number of works for the stage.

Born

1859

May 22

Died

1930

Era

1850s

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1930 Died

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The world in 1930

When Arthur departed

april 18 A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services.
april 2 After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
april 22 The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
april 28 The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.

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Al Simmons 1902–1956 American baseball player and coach (died 1956) George Best 1946–2005 Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2005) George S. Hammond 1921– American scientist (died 2005) Gérard de Nerval 1808–1855 French poet and translator (born 1808) Giacomo Matteotti 1885–1924 Italian lawyer and politician (born 1885) Hergé 1907–1983 Belgian author and illustrator (born 1907) Lucie Brock-Broido 1956– American poet (died 2018) Maggie Q 1979– American actress Marisol Escobar 1930– French-American sculptor (died 2016)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1859

A. E. Housman 1859–1936 English poet and scholar (born 1859) Alexandre Millerand 1859–1943 French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (born 1859) Alfred Dreyfus 1859–1935 French colonel (born 1859) Cass Gilbert 1859–1934 American architect (born 1859) Fanny Bullock Workman 1859–1925 American geographer and mountain climber (born 1859) George Giffen 1859–1927 Australian cricketer and footballer (died 1927) Hendrik Wortman 1859–1939 Dutch civil engineer (died 1939) John Jellicoe 1859–1935 1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral and politician, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1935) Venustiano Carranza 1859–1920 Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico (died 1920)

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