ON THIS DAY
Born in 1831
258 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- James A. Garfield
military personnel, lawyer
- Sitting Bull
traditional leader or chief, medicine man
- James Clerk Maxwell
university teacher, teacher
- Frederick III, German Emperor
politician
- Helena Blavatsky
writer, occultist
- Savitribai Phule
poet, writer
- Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
monarch, poet
- Emperor Kōmei
ruler
- Philip Sheridan
lieutenant general, army officer
- Xianfeng Emperor
emperor
- John Pemberton
pharmaceutical industry, businessperson
- John Bell Hood
military personnel
- Anna Leonowens
educator, writer
- Cheoljong of Joseon
politician
- Ivan Shishkin
visual artist, graphic artist
- Leo von Caprivi
military personnel, politician
- Richard Dedekind
university teacher, philosopher
- Jacob W. Davis
entrepreneur, tailor
- Theodore Roosevelt Sr.
philanthropist, entrepreneur
- Lucy Webb Hayes
missionary, politician
- George Pullman
inventor, factory owner
- Ilya Ulyanov
teacher, pedagogue
- Isabella Bird
geographer, botanical collector
- Othniel Charles Marsh
zoologist, paleontologist
- John Morrissey
politician, boxer
- John Schofield
soldier, military officer
- Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
politician
- Joseph Joachim
concertmaster, musicologist
- Rebecca Lee Crumpler
physician, medical author
- Nikolai Leskov
playwright, novelist
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
writer, politician
- Nadezhda von Meck
patron of the arts
- Romualdo Pacheco
governor, ambassador
- George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
territorial lord
- Fatima Sheikh
social worker, school teacher
- Ebenezer Cobb Morley
association football player, lawyer
- Ludvig Nobel
engineer, philanthropist
- Frederick Townsend Ward
military personnel
- Avantibai
activist, politician
- Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
lawyer, suffragist
- Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria
politician
- Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
politician, archaeologist
- Maurice de Hirsch
banker, philanthropist
- Grenville M. Dodge
military officer, explorer
- Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
politician, editor
- Amelia Edwards
anthropologist, illustrator
- Victorien Sardou
writer, librettist
- William Meade Fishback
governor, politician
- Nikolai Ge
university teacher, painter
- John Aaron Rawlins
lawyer, Brigadegeneral
- Eduard Suess
politician, writer
- Peter Nicolai Arbo
painter
- Subh-i-Azal
religious leader, writer
- Kawanabe Kyōsai
graphic artist, ukiyo-e artist
- Princess Charlotte Frederica of Prussia
composer, pianist
- Ankō Itosu
karateka
- Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antón
judge, military personnel
- Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia
military personnel, aristocrat
- Prince August, Duke of Dalarna
aristocrat, composer
- Heinrich Anton de Bary
entomologist, university teacher
- Daagh Dehlvi
poet, writer
- Mary Mapes Dodge
poet, children's writer
- Paul Durand-Ruel
art collector, art dealer
- Peter Guthrie Tait
physicist, mathematician
- Juan María Santamaría Rodríguez
military personnel, soldier
- Shi Dakai
military leader, poet
- Isabel Burton
writer, discoverer
- David Edward Hughes
engineer, musician
- Richard Norman Shaw
architect
- Konstantin Leontiev
diplomat, philosopher
- Johann Martin Schleyer
interlinguist, writer
- Emily Stowe
teacher, physician
- Albert Anker
pottery painter, painter
- Jem Mace
boxer
- Daniel Coit Gilman
writer, journalist
- Edward Routh
mathematician
- Mélanie Calvat
nun, secretary
- Siegfried Marcus
automotive engineer, engineer
- Eugène Poubelle
diplomat, university teacher
- Daniel Comboni
politician, Catholic deacon
- Philip Webb
furniture designer, architect
- Theodor Aman
sculptor, copper engraver
- Henry Labouchère
diplomat, journalist
- Paolo Mantegazza
anthropologist, physiologist
- Helen Taylor
suffragist, stage actor
- Constantin Meunier
painter, visual artist
- Henry Vandyke Carter
surgeon, illustrator
- Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola
lawyer, jurist
- Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
writer, poet
- Henri Meilhac
lyricist, playwright
- George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
diplomat, statistician
- Ippolito Nievo
poet, science fiction writer
- Fernando Primo de Rivera y Sobremonte
politician, soldier
- Hedwig Dohm
women's rights activist, opinion journalist
- Wilhelm Raabe
painter, writer
- Harry Atkinson
politician
- Frederic Farrar
canon, writer
- George B. Anderson
military personnel
- James Starley
inventor, engineer
- Mary Louise Booth
historian, writer
- George Nares
naval officer, explorer
- Maʾ al-ʿAynayn
mystic, writer
- José Evaristo Uriburu
lawyer, diplomat
- Redfield Proctor
lawyer, politician
- John Brett
painter
- Myra Bradwell
lawyer
- Oliver Ames
businessperson, financier
- Myeongheon
consort
- Júlia Hunyady de Kéthely
lord of the manor, aristocrat
- Wojciech Gerson
lithographer, art historian
- William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch
politician, archer
- Rebecca Harding Davis
novelist, essayist
- Daniel Manning
politician, finance minister
- Jovan Ristić
writer, politician
- William Henry Flower
surgeon, mammalogist
- Botho zu Eulenburg
politician
- Hendrik Willem Mesdag
watercolorist, panoramist
- Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
soldier, aristocrat
- Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
politician, writer
- Frederic Harrison
writer, autobiographer
- Ludwig Nohl
music historian, composer
- Alexandre Falguière
sculptor, painter
- James Graham Fair
politician, explorer
- Paul du Bois-Reymond
mathematician, university teacher
- Halil Şerif Pasha
politician, diplomat
- José Casado del Alisal
painter
- Álvares de Azevedo
playwright, poet
- Dorothea Beale
mathematician, author
- Salomon Jadassohn
pianist, music teacher
- Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris
military officer, politician
- James Ronald Chalmers
politician, lawyer
- Yicong
politician
- Alexander Hilferding
folklorist, writer
- Wilhelm His
anatomist, university teacher
- Heinrich von Stephan
beamter
- Kosta Protić
minister, military personnel
- Joanna Mary Boyce
painter
- Adolf von Becker
painter
- Christian David Ginsburg
biblical scholar, independent scholar
- Edward C. Walthall
politician
- Paul von Hatzfeldt
diplomat, politician
- Fran Levstik
linguist, cultural policymaker
- Tomás Guardia Gutierrez
politician