1878 was the year Dempsey & Carroll was founded in New York, but it was also the year that these things happened too!

Here’s a list of some incredibly impressive people who were born in 1878…

January 6 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)

January 22 – Constance Collier, stage & screen actress (d. 1955)

April 24 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)

May 26 – Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)

June 5 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)

June 12 – James Oliver Curwood, American writer and conservationist (d. 1927)

July 4 – George M. Cohan, American singer, dancer, composer, actor, and writer (d. 1942)

September 20 – Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)

October 9 – Robert Warwick, American stage & screen actor (d. 1964)

November 14 – Julie Manet, French painter (d. 1966)