ON THIS DAY
Born in 1825
261 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Pedro II of Brazil
politician, monarch
- Johann Strauss II
composer, conductor
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
engineer, writer
- Paul Kruger
politician
- Thomas Henry Huxley
physiologist, translator
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
painter, architectural drafter
- Dadabhai Naoroji
economist, politician
- Ferdinand Lassalle
economist, philosopher
- George Pickett
military personnel, soldier
- Jean-Martin Charcot
neurologist, psychologist
- Roy Bean
justice of the peace, judge
- Ambrose Powell Hill
soldier, military officer
- Angus MacAskill
farmer
- William McGonagall
stage actor, weaver
- Julia, Princess of Battenberg
lady-in-waiting
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
writer, journalist
- Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani
politician
- Master Juba
dancer, actor
- Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
aristocrat, politician
- Charles Frederick Worth
designer, fashion designer
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
short story writer, suffragist
- Sher Ali Khan
military personnel
- Marie of Prussia
consort, aristocrat
- John Hunt Morgan
military personnel
- Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
civil engineer, engineer
- George Inness
painter, visual artist
- Victorio
traditional leader or chief
- George H. Pendleton
lawyer, politician
- Henry Heth
military personnel
- Charles Garnier
architect, architectural theoretician
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
writer, lecturer
- Big Bear
politician
- Mór Jókai
politician, journalist
- Paschal Beverly Randolph
author, writer
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee
journalist, editor
- Friedrich Bayer
entrepreneur, chemist
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
judge, lawyer
- Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin of Brunei
politician
- Eduard Hanslick
composer, writer
- Catherine Spence
suffragette, autobiographer
- Daniel B. Wesson
design engineer, entrepreneur
- Mswati II
monarch
- Robert Michael Ballantyne
travel writer, novelist
- Carter Harrison III
lawyer, mayor
- Émile Ollivier
politician, jurist
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore
novelist, gardener
- Camilo Castelo Branco
historian, playwright
- Henry Walter Bates
scientific collector, botanist
- Iwakura Tomomi
politician, diplomat
- Francis James Child
university teacher, philologist
- Edward Frankland
chemist
- Henry Ponsonby
military personnel
- Nubar Pasha
merchant, diplomat
- Orélie-Antoine de Tounens
adventurer, lawyer
- Hans Gude
university teacher, painter
- Henry Cornelius Burnett
politician, lawyer
- Charlotte de Rothschild
socialite, painter
- Ferdinand von Mueller
explorer, bryologist
- Bayard Taylor
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, editing staff
- Emil Erlenmeyer
chemist, university teacher
- Rafael Núñez
jurist, journalist
- James Collinson
painter
- Quincy Adams Gillmore
army officer, civil engineer
- Adelaide Anne Procter
activist, philanthropist
- Charles Bargue
painter, draftsperson
- Alexander Mozhaysky
military flight engineer, inventor
- Henri Giffard
balloonist, inventor
- Thomas Woolner
poet, writer
- Brooke Westcott
Anglican priest, Anglican theologian
- Augustus Le Plongeon
historian, archaeologist
- Vaso Pasha
translator, politician
- Camila O'Gorman
socialite
- Sondre Norheim
skier, Nordic combined skier
- Aníbal Pinto
politician, lawyer
- Archduchess Maria Karoline of Austria
aristocrat
- Newton Booth
politician, writer
- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
poet, writer
- William Stubbs
medievalist, Anglican theologian
- Johann Jakob Balmer
physicist, university teacher
- Charles Lavigerie
Catholic archbishop, Catholic missionary
- Giovanni Fattori
painter, etcher
- Mårten Eskil Winge
history painter, draftsperson
- Ranodip Singh Kunwar
politician
- James Skivring Smith
politician
- Harriet E. Wilson
novelist, writer
- Domingo Santa María
teacher, historian
- Eugen Kvaternik
politician, revolutionary
- Henry Charles Lea
writer, historian
- Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
military personnel, military officer
- Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
art collector, military personnel
- Benedetto Cairoli
politician, diplomat
- Frederick James Furnivall
man of letters, grammarian
- Elena Cuza
politician
- Jean-Baptiste Arban
conductor, trumpeter
- J. Neely Johnson
jurist, governor
- Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup
land owner, politician
- Charles Joshua Chaplin
graphic artist, printmaker
- Mehmed Raşid pašša
civil servant, politician
- James W. Throckmorton
governor, lawyer
- István Türr
freedom fighter, soldier
- August Beer
physicist, chemist
- Francesco Faà di Bruno
theologian, mathematician
- John Lawrence LeConte
zoologist, military physician
- Đuro Daničić
university teacher, Bible translator
- Elisha P. Ferry
politician
- Henry Browne Blackwell
women's rights activist, opinion journalist
- William Holbrook Beard
painter
- Henry Huntly Haight
governor, jurist
- Joseph R. Davis
politician, insurance broker
- Bernhard Plockhorst
university teacher, lithographer
- Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz
diplomat, jurist
- Marshall Jewell
governor, ambassador
- Thomas Wilson Barnes
chess player
- Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
politician, lawyer
- Karl Möbius
university teacher, botanist
- Jerome B. Chaffee
politician
- Felix Hoppe-Seyler
chemist, physician
- Bernardo Guimarães
novelist, journalist
- John MacGregor
canoeist, naturalist
- Samuel B. Maxey
politician, lawyer
- Jules Barbier
lyricist, choreographer
- Elise Christiani
traveler, cellist
- Theodor Bilharz
biologist, physician
- Antonio Beato
architectural photographer, photographer
- Aleksey Pleshcheyev
theatre critic, writer
- Cyrus Thomas
cultural anthropologist, university teacher
- Nikolaus Friedreich
therapist, physician
- Julius Oppert
university teacher, assyriologist
- Hervé
writer, librettist
- Francisco Linares Alcántara
politician
- Maria Firmina dos Reis
poet, teacher
- Friedrich von Schmidt
sculptor, architect
- Augustin Mouchot
mathematician, inventor
- Krišjānis Valdemārs
political economist, lexicographer
- Benjamin Mountfort
architect, photographer
- Joseph Carter Abbott
editor, politician
- William Spottiswoode
physicist, mathematician
- Meta Brevoort
mountaineer
- A. J. Mundella
politician
- Eugenie Marlitt
novelist, singer
- Malvina Garrigues
singer, opera singer