ON THIS DAY
Born in 1835
267 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Mark Twain
teacher, journalist
- Leopold II of Belgium
monarch
- Andrew Carnegie
economist, factory owner
- Empress Dowager Cixi
monarch, politician
- Pius X
transitional deacon, Catholic priest
- Camille Saint-Saëns
music critic, composer
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
religious leader, theologian
- Adlai Stevenson I
jurist, prosecutor
- Samuel Butler
photographer, satirical novelist
- Rebecca Latimer Felton
social activist, politician
- Cesare Lombroso
psychiatrist, anthropologist
- Hijikata Toshizō
samurai, hatamoto
- Fukuzawa Yukichi
opinion journalist, translator
- Lunalilo
composer
- Prince Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern
politician
- Maria Ulyanova
pedagogue, teacher
- Elisha Gray
inventor, engineer
- William Stanley Jevons
philosopher, statistician
- Simon Newcomb
astronomer, science fiction writer
- Giosuè Carducci
literary historian, philologist
- Adolf von Baeyer
university teacher, chemist
- Giovanni Schiaparelli
politician, astronomer
- George Atzerodt
criminal
- Iwasaki Yatarō
entrepreneur, factory owner
- César Cui
composer, critic
- Cudjoe Lewis
historian
- Fitzhugh Lee
military officer, diplomat
- Philip Morris
tobacconist
- Henri Wieniawski
music educator, musician
- Adelbert Ames
politician, military officer
- Adah Isaacs Menken
poet, painter
- Tomás Estrada Palma
politician, military personnel
- Nikolai Rubinstein
composer, music teacher
- Eliza Lynch
politician
- Thomas Burberry
fashion designer, entrepreneur
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
writer, editor
- Edward Porter Alexander
engineer, author
- Charles Francis Adams Jr.
historian, military officer
- A. V. Dicey
university teacher, barrister
- Dimitrios Vikelas
scholar, historian
- James Fisk
stockbroker
- Josef Stefan
writer, mathematician
- Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
politician, military personnel
- Matsukata Masayoshi
head of government, finance minister
- John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
politician, art collector
- Phillips Brooks
theologian, Anglican priest
- Eduard Strauss
composer, conductor
- Rain-in-the-Face
artist, traditional leader or chief
- Tom Wills
cricketer, cricket umpire
- John La Farge
writer, stained-glass artist
- Shoqan Walikhanov
historian, ethnologist
- Benjamin Briggs
sailor
- William E. Chandler
politician, lawyer
- Fanny Cornforth
painter, art model
- Raffi
opinion journalist, public figure
- Jacinto Zamora
Catholic priest, writer
- Alfred Austin
poet, journalist
- Richard Olney
politician, jurist
- Julius Vogel
writer, novelist
- William Frederick Yeames
history painter, painter
- Alphonse de Neuville
writer, painter
- John Young Brown
politician, lawyer
- Justo Rufino Barrios
lawyer, politician
- Paul du Chaillu
explorer, anthropologist
- Eishō
ruler
- Émile Combes
politician, physician
- Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
school superintendent, oceanographer
- Marie Souvestre
educator, pedagogue
- Elena Guerra
religious sister
- Fanny Eaton
domestic worker, art model
- Henri Brisson
politician, journalist
- Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet
diplomat, politician
- George White
military officer, general field marshal
- Eugenio Beltrami
surveyor, mathematician
- Celia Thaxter
artist, poet
- Adolf Stoecker
parson, court chaplain
- Manuel Quintana
jurist, politician
- Désirée Artôt
music educator, composer
- Arthur Sewall
businessperson, politician
- Raphael Kalinowski
presbyter, military personnel
- Patriarch Germanus V of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest, patriarch
- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
children's writer, writer
- Roman Nose
military leader
- Tirésias Simon Sam
politician
- Adolph Wagner
editor, political economist
- Auguste Kerckhoffs
cryptographer, mathematician
- John Hughlings Jackson
physiologist, neuroscientist
- Christian Otto Mohr
mathematician, civil engineer
- Archibald Geikie
volcanologist, biographer
- Walter William Skeat
linguist, writer
- Henry Maudsley
psychiatrist, university teacher
- Pere Borrell del Caso
painter, printmaker
- Maximin Giraud
shepherd
- Amanda Jones
poet, writer
- Ernest Giles
botanical collector, explorer
- Matthias Joseph Scheeben
writer, theologian
- Theodore Thomas
violinist, conductor
- Alexine Tinne
explorer, amateur photographer
- Krišjānis Barons
ethnologist, writer
- Bertalan Székely
painter, history painter
- Émile Boutmy
jurist, sociologist
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards
botanist, zoologist
- Richard P. Bland
lawyer, politician
- Grigory Potanin
explorer, naturalist
- Franz von Defregger
professor, teacher
- Roswell Pettibone Flower
politician
- Ramón Barros Luco
lawyer, finance minister
- Hashimoto Gahō
painter, Nihonga painter
- Telemaco Signorini
etcher, painter
- Felix Draeseke
composer, music teacher
- Andrew L. Harris
military officer, lawyer
- Olympia Brown
suffragist, women's rights activist
- Robert Kennicott
naturalist, biologist
- Stanisław Chlebowski
painter
- Sydney Ringer
physician, clinician
- Antanas Baranauskas
Catholic deacon, bishop
- Lyman Abbott
clergyman, theologian
- Toyohara Kunichika
printmaker, ukiyo-e artist
- Davorin Jenko
composer, chapelmaster
- Richard Garnett
editor, poet
- William Torrey Harris
teacher, writer
- George W. McCrary
lawyer, judge
- Ebenezer Prout
music educator, musicologist
- Matthías Jochumsson
pastor, journalist
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus
carcinologist, botanist
- Elâru Mevhibe Başkadınefendi
aristocrat
- Alexander Potebnja
slavist, writer
- Maria Trubnikova
women's rights activist, writer
- Louis-Antoine Ranvier
anatomist, physiologist
- Julius Krohn
hymnwriter, ethnologist
- George Dunlop Leslie
painter, writer
- Edward Caird
philosopher, ethicist
- Émile Léonard Mathieu
mathematician
- Daniel Giraud Elliot
ornithologist, naturalist
- Henry James Byron
Theaterintendant, writer
- William Stanley Haseltine
painter
- Alexander Litovchenko
painter
- Constanze von Ruttenstein
actor, composer
- Ottó Herman
archaeologist, anthropologist
- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
screenwriter, writer
- Johannes Wislicenus
university teacher, chemist
- Osbert Salvin
herpetologist, ornithologist
- Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns
jurist, politician