ON THIS DAY
Born in 1834
252 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Dmitri Mendeleev
chemist, university teacher
- William Morris
artist, architect
- Edgar Degas
photographer, lithographer
- Charles Spurgeon
hymnwriter, theologian
- James McNeill Whistler
etcher, lithographer
- Ernst Haeckel
zoologist, philosopher
- Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
sculptor, painter
- Gottlieb Daimler
engineer, entrepreneur
- Duchess Helene in Bavaria
aristocrat
- John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
lord, pedagogue
- Hetty Green
financier
- John Wesley Powell
explorer, linguist
- Kamehameha IV
king
- Julia Pastrana
circus performer
- Kondō Isami
samurai
- Sabine Baring-Gould
librettist, Anglican priest
- Kawakami Gensai
samurai
- John Venn
mathematician, Anglican theologian
- William Chester Minor
military physician, surgeon
- George du Maurier
caricaturist, novelist
- Marcus Reno
military officer
- Samuel Langley
aerospace engineer, aircraft pilot
- Carl Bloch
printmaker, painter
- Marshall Field
merchant, entrepreneur
- Frederick Benteen
military personnel, soldier
- Léon Walras
political economist, university teacher
- Vasily Perov
painter
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
politician, anthropologist
- Fanny Cochrane Smith
community leader
- Chauncey Depew
writer, politician
- Amilcare Ponchielli
conductor, music educator
- Heinrich von Treitschke
historian of Modern Age, opinion journalist
- Aleksis Kivi
novelist, writer
- August Weismann
evolutionary biologist, geneticist
- Charles William Eliot
writer, university teacher
- Kapiolani
lady-in-waiting
- Thomas Sutherland
entrepreneur, politician
- Piet Joubert
military officer, politician
- Kawaji Toshiyoshi
police officer, politician
- Jan Neruda
translator, playwright
- James Gibbons
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann
dog breeder
- Johann Philipp Reis
physicist, inventor
- Viktor Hartmann
designer, architect
- Debsirindra
consort
- Albert Niemann
pediatrician, chemist
- Gustav Hermann Nachtigal
botanist, writer
- Miguel Grau
sailor, soldier
- Francis Channing Barlow
politician, military officer
- José Hernández
writer, politician
- Christopher Dresser
designer, botanist
- Charles Lennox Richardson
businessperson
- Infanta Amalia of Spain
painter
- Ludovic Halévy
screenwriter, writer
- Grigoriy Myasoyedov
painter, sculptor
- Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
botanical collector, geologist
- Adrien Proust
university teacher, physician
- Ferdynand Radziwiłł
politician
- Henry Spencer Ashbee
author, hispanist
- John G. Carlisle
lawyer, politician
- Prince Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe
large estate owner, politician
- Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn
rabbi, Rebbe
- Frank R. Stockton
journalist, novelist
- Adolf Lüderitz
merchant, settler
- Hermann Snellen
university teacher, ophthalmologist
- Todor Burmov
minister, politician
- Maurice Raynaud
docent, physician
- Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
Bible translator, translator
- Francis T. Nicholls
governor, politician
- William John Wills
explorer
- Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
teacher, poet
- Thomas François Burgers
politician, Christian minister
- George D. Robinson
governor, lawyer
- Lev Ivanov
librettist, choreographer
- Gaston Planté
inventor, physicist
- Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest, patriarch
- Samuel Bourne
photographer
- John Robert Seeley
essayist, historian
- Abigail Scott Duniway
suffragist, newspaper proprietor
- Heinrich Caro
chemist
- Ewald Hering
physiologist, pedagogue
- Wilhelm Mauser
engineer, inventor
- Prentice Mulford
philosopher, writer
- Felix Dahn
playwright, poet
- John Pope Hennessy
politician, barrister
- Lyuben Karavelov
poet, journalist
- Edwin Klebs
bacteriologist, physician
- Teresa Stolz
opera singer, singer
- Julius Reubke
pianist, composer
- William Des Vœux
politician, colonial administrator
- Augustus Hare
biographer, writer
- Ernst Georg Ravenstein
cartographer, statistician
- Rufus Bullock
politician, businessperson
- Hermann Usener
university teacher, philologist
- Joseph Edgar Boehm
painter, medalist
- James Hector
geologist, ichthyologist
- James Thomson
writer, critic
- Nawab Faizunnesa
writer
- Camille Silvy
photographer, diplomat
- Francis Cockrell
Brigadegeneral, politician
- Etō Shinpei
politician
- Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner
physicist, parapsychologist
- Franz Steindachner
herpetologist, scientific collector
- Carl Lange
neurologist, psychologist
- Valtazar Bogišić
minister, writer
- Aleksey Suvorin
playwright, opinion journalist
- Edmond Laguerre
military officer, scientist
- Girolamo Maria Gotti
Catholic priest, diplomat
- Hugo Schiff
university teacher, chemist
- Fidelia Bridges
painter, artist
- Bezmiara Kadin
aristocrat
- Majid bin Said Al Busaidi
politician
- Manuel Pardo
politician, economist
- Serafino Vannutelli
Catholic deacon, Catholic bishop
- Rafael Zaldívar
politician, physician
- Francisco García Calderón
diplomat, military personnel
- Hilary A. Herbert
jurisprudence, politician
- Étienne Laspeyres
statistician, university teacher
- Georg Hermann Quincke
physicist, chemist
- Benjamin F. Jonas
politician, lawyer
- Charles, 6th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
politician, Catholic priest
- Kuzman Shapkarev
judge, writer
- Peter Benoit
composer, musicologist
- Charles Augustus Young
physicist, astronomer
- Jacob Volhard
chemist, university teacher
- Alfred Webb
politician
- Volodymyr Antonovych
historian, ethnologist
- Antonio Gisbert
painter
- Friedrich Goltz
physician, university teacher
- William Henry Preece
engineer, inventor
- John Gilbert Baker
ecologist, scientific collector
- José Luciano de Castro
journalist, politician
- Carl Schorlemmer
university teacher, chemist
- Frederick DuCane Godman
lepidopterist, zoological collector
- Julie Hart Beers
painter
- Hermann Wilhelm Vogel
university teacher, chemist
- Alexandru Odobescu
politician, anthropologist
- Ivan Durnovo
military personnel, politician
- Édouard Pailleron
playwright, lawyer
- Charles Farrar Browne
comedian, journalist
- Giorgio Sommer
artist, photographer
- Eulogio Despujol
politician, military personnel
- James E. Boyd
politician, mayor