ON THIS DAY
Born in 1836
246 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Sai Baba of Shirdi
ascetic, guru
- Ramakrishna
philosopher
- Charles Ingalls
farmer, carpenter
- Sakamoto Ryōma
politician, entrepreneur
- Jay Gould
speculator, business magnate
- Winslow Homer
painter, photographer
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
historian, university teacher
- Kalākaua
monarch, composer
- Joseph Chamberlain
politician
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
politician, diplomat
- Wilhelm Steinitz
chess player, chess theoretician
- James Tissot
caricaturist, printmaker
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema
watercolorist, muralist
- W. S. Gilbert
playwright, poet
- Thomas Crapper
plumber, patent inventor
- Marie Henriette of Austria
consort
- John Atkinson Grimshaw
painter
- Bret Harte
typesetter, prose writer
- Sophia of Nassau
monarch
- Léo Delibes
organist, composer
- Ferdinand Cheval
general contractor, architect
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
politician, writer
- Joseph Wheeler
army officer, politician
- Enomoto Takeaki
samurai, politician
- Isabella Beeton
editor, writer
- Emma of Hawaii
aristocrat
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
painter, playwright
- Hassan I of Morocco
politician
- Henri Fantin-Latour
graphic artist, visual artist
- Jarosław Dąbrowski
communard, military personnel
- Cora Pearl
actor, courtesan
- Matsudaira Katamori
military leader
- Joseph Gurney Cannon
lawyer, politician
- Nicholas of Japan
Eastern Orthodox priest, theologian
- Milton Bradley
publisher, businessperson
- Princess Anna of Prussia
aristocrat
- Máximo Gómez Báez
politician, military officer
- Tekle Giyorgis II
politician, head of state
- Edward Poynter
university teacher, art historian
- Jules Lefebvre
painter
- John Watson Foster
diplomat, politician
- Thomas Hill Green
writer, philosopher
- Ronglu
politician, military personnel
- Henri Delassus
Catholic priest, writer
- Pauline von Metternich
patron of the arts, socialite
- Ellen Browning Scripps
publisher, businessperson
- Jules Chéret
artist, lithographer
- Piet Cronjé
soldier, politician
- Wesley Merritt
politician, military officer
- Daniel Peter
chocolatier, entrepreneur
- Frances Ridley Havergal
hymnwriter, librettist
- Norman Lockyer
astronomer, physicist
- Russell Alexander Alger
military officer, politician
- Lord Frederick Cavendish
politician
- Theodor Nöldeke
translator, academic
- Inoue Kaoru
diplomat, politician
- Nakayama Yoshiko
lady-in-waiting
- Ding Ruchang
admiral, military personnel
- Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
military officer, diplomat
- Nakaoka Shintarō
samurai
- Franz von Lenbach
painter, photographer
- Mendele Mocher Sforim
novelist, rabbi
- Elihu Vedder
painter, poet
- Antônio Carlos Gomes
composer, pianist
- Evander M. Law
writer
- Greene Vardiman Black
university teacher, dentist
- Nikolay Dobrolyubov
writer, philosopher
- Maria Beasley
dressmaker, inventor
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
poet, writer
- Kawamura Sumiyoshi
military personnel
- Lewis Waterman
inventor, engineer
- Walter Besant
writer, novelist
- Nie Shicheng
military personnel
- Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg
composer, aristocrat
- Thomas L. Rosser
civil engineer
- Jan Gotlib Bloch
economist, banker
- Matthew Butler
politician
- Liu Mingchuan
politician
- Yamaoka Tesshū
warrior, swordfighter
- George Gordon
politician, lawyer
- Leonidas Drosis
sculptor, university teacher
- Lucy Walker
mountaineer, explorer
- Robert Swinhoe
scientific collector, botanist
- Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa
opera singer
- Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto
finance minister, politician
- Adoniram Judson Gordon
theologian, missionary
- Benjamin Constant
military personnel, military officer
- Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey
governor, barrister
- Munshi Nawal Kishore
editor, publisher
- Ernst von Bergmann
surgeon, politician
- Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
histologist, editor-in-chief
- Francis Marrash
physician, writer
- Michael Foster
politician, physician
- Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld
opera singer, composer
- Nao Deguchi
founder of religion
- Camillo Boito
writer, architect
- Emil Hartmann
organist, composer
- John Wolfe-Barry
civil engineer, architect
- J. Warren Keifer
lawyer, politician
- Shirley Waldemar Baker
missionary, politician
- Lyman J. Gage
banker, finance minister
- Utagawa Yoshitora
illustrator, painter
- George L. Shoup
politician
- Georg August Schweinfurth
zoologist, naturalist
- Juliette Adam
editor, essayist
- Ahmadu Tall
sovereign
- Cirilo Antonio Rivarola Acosta
lawyer, politician
- Eugene Hale
jurist, lawyer
- Giuseppe Abbati
painter, garibaldino
- Sara Plummer Lemmon
botanical illustrator, scientific illustrator
- Joseph Smit
ornithologist, artist
- Daniel Owen
novelist, writer
- Michael Jan de Goeje
librarian, university teacher
- Jefferson F. Long
politician
- Sultan Ahmad al-Muadzam Shah
sovereign
- Cato Maximilian Guldberg
university teacher, mathematician
- Hem Chandra Barua
writer
- Emmanuel Rhoides
journalist, translator
- Susie M. Barstow
painter, visual artist
- Suzannah Ibsen
writer, playwright
- William D. Hoard
governor, journalist
- José White Lafitte
violinist, composer
- Michał Elwiro Andriolli
painter, architect
- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
jurist, captain
- August Toepler
university teacher, chemist
- Remigio Morales Bermúdez
politician, military personnel
- Robert John Lechmere Guppy
zoologist, naturalist
- Vincenzo Vannutelli
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Alfred Grandidier
naturalist, entomologist
- Thomas Clifford Allbutt
physician, university teacher
- George E. Spencer
politician, lawyer
- Mitrofan Belyayev
businessperson, musician
- Djoumbé Fatima
politician
- Nikolay Sklifosovsky
university teacher, surgeon
- Josep Tapiró Baró
watercolorist, painter
- Casimir de Candolle
plant physiologist, botanist
- Frederick Wollaston Hutton
malacologist, carcinologist
- Adèle d'Affry
sculptor, painter
- Ramalho Ortigão
translator, poet
- F. C. Burnand
writer, librettist
- Matilda Betham-Edwards
poet, novelist
- Jean-Baptiste Clément
chansonnier, writer
- Eduardo Rosales
painter
- Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler
military officer, politician
- Wilhelm Ebstein
internist, scientist
- Pablo Arosemena
lawyer, journalist