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Born in 1827
239 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Ellen G. White
writer, missionary
- Jyotirao Phule
intellectual, philosopher
- Joseph Lister
politician, botanical collector
- Lew Wallace
writer, ambassador
- Mangal Pandey
soldier, freedom fighter
- Arnold Böcklin
sculptor, draftsperson
- Cynthia Ann Parker
homemaker
- William Holman Hunt
artist, architectural drafter
- Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
military personnel, monarch
- Johanna Spyri
writer, novelist
- Hiram Rhodes Revels
politician, religious leader
- Deodoro da Fonseca
military personnel, politician
- Sandford Fleming
engineer, postage stamp designer
- Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford
soldier, military officer
- Richard Morris Hunt
architect, sculptor
- George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
diplomat, politician
- Nakahama Manjirō
diplomat, translator
- Kusumoto Ine
midwife, physician
- Konstantin Pobedonostsev
opinion journalist, politician
- Marcellin Berthelot
physicist, chemist
- William Burges
jeweler, jewelry designer
- Joseph Strauss
composer, conductor
- Jules Breton
poet, painter
- Lizzie Burns
public figure
- Alphonse James de Rothschild
art collector, financier
- John Gibbon
military officer
- William Windom
lawyer, politician
- Mary Ward
author, microscopist
- Ramón Emeterio Betances
ophthalmologist, physician
- Wilhelm von Tegetthoff
politician, naval officer
- Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland
composer
- Augustus Pitt Rivers
prehistorian, weapon historian
- Mihály Zichy
illustrator, graphic artist
- Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano
architect, librarian
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
printmaker, painter
- Pierre Cuypers
architectural drafter, decorative artist
- Henry Warner Slocum Sr.
politician, lawyer
- Goffredo Mameli
writer, poet
- Paul de Lagarde
armenologist, philosopher
- Barbara Bodichon
pedagogue, economist
- Mehmed Ali Pasha
military officer, writer
- Alfred Terry
army officer
- Edmund J. Davis
lawyer, soldier
- Asaf Jah V of Hyderabad
sovereign
- George Q. Cannon
politician
- Joseph Gayetty
inventor, entrepreneur
- Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley
translator, historian
- Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
geographer, art collector
- John G. Downey
politician, governor
- Charles Eliot Norton
linguist, translator
- Walter Deverell
painter
- Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria
politician, military personnel
- Lydia Becker
suffragist, astronomer
- Hugh Childers
politician
- Martin Tovar y Tovar
painter
- Maria Francesca Rossetti
writer, literary critic
- Duke Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
military officer
- Milton Latham
jurist, governor
- William Dwight Whitney
university teacher, linguist
- Valentine Baker
explorer, military personnel
- William Vernon Harcourt
journalist, jurist
- Amédée Courbet
admiral, military personnel
- John C. Brown
military officer, lawyer
- Frederic George Stephens
painter, art critic
- Catherine Winkworth
translator
- Henry W. Corbett
clerk, politician
- Anna Bartlett Warner
short story writer, writer
- José Manuel Marroquín
politician, writer
- Elisha Baxter
jurist, mayor
- Candace Wheeler
architect, artist
- Oswald Achenbach
university teacher, painter
- Marian Langiewicz
military officer
- Orville H. Platt
politician, lawyer
- St. George Jackson Mivart
historian of science, biologist
- Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
librarian, anthropologist
- George Frederick Bodley
architect
- Petko Slaveykov
politician, poet
- Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
entomologist, visual artist
- Gisela von Arnim
writer, salonnière
- Mary Walton
engineer, inventor
- Aaron A. Sargent
journalist, suffragist
- Kostandin Kristoforidhi
lexicographer, translator
- Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov
diplomat, military officer
- Ankō Azato
karateka
- Maria Susanna Cummins
novelist, writer
- William Morris Stewart
politician, prosecutor
- Thomas W. Ferry
politician
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees
writer, peace activist
- Élie Reclus
geographer, ethnologist
- Yamauchi Toyoshige
samurai
- Raffaele Monaco La Valletta
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Henri Rivière
naval officer, sailor
- Frederick Abel
inventor, chemist
- Heinrich Karl Brugsch
university teacher, anthropologist
- Nikolay Orlov
diplomat, writer
- James Augustus Grant
botanical collector, military personnel
- Quintino Sella
physicist, chemist
- William Irwin
politician, governor
- Halil Rifat Pasha
political writer, statesperson
- Bhudev Mukhopadhyay
writer, editor
- John Hall Gladstone
chemist, physicist
- Martin Haug
university teacher, iranologist
- Alfred Moore Scales
politician, army officer
- Emily Howland
peace activist, suffragist
- John Owen
chess player
- Pierre Tirard
politician, engineer
- Joseph Halévy
traveler, university teacher
- John George Wood
zoologist, writer
- Giuseppe Fanelli
trade unionist, politician
- Timothy Daniel Sullivan
journalist, poet
- Karl Maximovich
biologist, scientific collector
- John Ferguson McLennan
anthropologist, social anthropologist
- Michel Rodange
writer, poet
- Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke, military personnel
- Knud Bergslien
painter
- David Johnson
painter
- Louis Brière de L'Isle
military officer, colonial administrator
- Nükhetsezâ Hanım
aristocrat
- Henri Ernest Baillon
botanist, physician
- Tommaso Martinelli
university teacher, Catholic priest
- Guðbrandur Vigfússon
philologist, jurist
- Patriarch Anthimus VII of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Zygmunt Sierakowski
military personnel, military officer
- Johannes Steen
politician
- Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque
military personnel, politician
- Pierre-Lambert Goossens
Catholic bishop, theologian
- Octave Crémazie
bookseller, poet
- Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce
politician
- Antonio Borrero
politician, lawyer
- Ferdinand Meldahl
politician, architect
- Prince Francis, Count of Trapani
aristocrat
- Henry Fletcher Hance
botanical collector, diplomat
- Jacques-Louis Soret
physicist, chemist
- Nikolay Beketov
university teacher, chemist
- Josiah P. Cooke
writer, chemist
- Gustav Merkel
composer