ON THIS DAY
Born in 1837
288 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Grover Cleveland
sheriff, mayor
- Empress Elisabeth of Austria
monarch, courtier
- J. P. Morgan
entrepreneur, art collector
- Alois Hitler
beekeeper, customs officer
- Wild Bill Hickok
hunter, gunfighter
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu
politician, photographer
- Robert Gould Shaw
military personnel, colonel
- Paul Morphy
chess theoretician, chess player
- Prince Franz, 1st Duke of Teck
military officer
- Tippu Tip
slave trader, merchant
- William Quantrill
military personnel, criminal
- Cosima Wagner
composer, director
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
literary critic, poet
- Dwight Lyman Moody
shoe salesman, evangelist
- Amelia Dyer
nurse, serial killer
- Yohannes IV
military personnel
- Olive Oatman
explorer
- George Dewey
writer, admiral
- Sadi Carnot
civil engineer, politician
- Vasil Levski
cleric, political activist
- Henry Rathbone
lawyer, diplomat
- Pedro V of Portugal
politician
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals
mathematician, chemist
- Georges Ernest Boulanger
military personnel, politician
- Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
pianist, conductor
- Joseph Bell
surgeon, physician
- Mark Hanna
screenwriter, politician
- Ivan Kramskoi
art critic, painter
- Empress Dowager Ci'an
politician
- Abraham Kuyper
journalist, jurist
- James Murray
writer, philologist
- P. B. S. Pinchback
politician, governor
- William Boyd Dawkins
paleontologist, archaeologist
- Washington Roebling
businessperson, engineer
- Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione
photographer, spy
- William Dean Howells
children's writer, literary critic
- Cheol-in
consort
- Robert Augustus Chesebrough
inventor, chemist
- Ilia Chavchavadze
poet, publisher
- Adam Opel
industrialist, machinist
- John Burroughs
essayist, journalist
- Thomas Moran
explorer, lithographer
- Anne Blunt
writer, horse breeder
- Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
children's writer, botanist
- John Lockwood Kipling
architect, visual artist
- Itagaki Taisuke
politician
- Rosalía de Castro
writer, novelist
- Prince Albert of Prussia
military officer, composer
- Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau
aristocrat
- Thomas Henry Ismay
ship-owner
- Queen Stephanie of Portugal
consort
- Kabayama Sukenori
military personnel, politician
- Zhang Zhidong
politician
- John Alexander Reina Newlands
chemist, chemistry teacher
- Charles Yerkes
businessperson, art collector
- Ion Creangă
short story writer, poet
- Liu Yongfu
politician, military personnel
- Mary Ann Brown Patten
sailor
- Carolus-Duran
painter
- Harriet Powers
artist, quilter
- Altaf Hussain Hali
literary critic, essayist
- José Burgos
writer, Catholic priest
- Yap Ah Loy
politician
- Kintpuash
traditional leader or chief
- Émile Waldteufel
composer, musician
- Arnold Janssen
Catholic priest, Catholic theologian
- Joaquin Miller
journalist, writer
- Pierre Auguste Cot
painter
- Sanjō Sanetomi
politician
- Gabriel Dumont
politician
- Whitelaw Reid
politician, writer
- Muteesa I of Buganda
monarch
- Elizabeth Jane Gardner
artist, painter
- Charlotte Forten Grimké
diarist, suffragist
- Louis Jacolliot
Indologist, translator
- Maria Mazzarello
religious sister
- Nicolás Avellaneda
lawyer, politician
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
politician
- Shōzō Kawasaki
ship-owner, politician
- James H. Wilson
military engineer, army officer
- Théodore Dubois
music arranger, music educator
- John Thomson
photographer, photojournalist
- Khama III
traditional leader or chief
- Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar
author, orientalist
- Alexandre Guilmant
organ teacher, editor
- African Spir
philosopher, writer
- John Wesley Hyatt
entrepreneur, inventor
- Ethelbert William Bullinger
biblical scholar, Christian minister
- Jorge Isaacs
soldier, poet
- William Williams Keen
medical author, neurosurgeon
- Henry Draper
astronomer, physicist
- Émile Bayard
illustrator, visual artist
- Célestine Galli-Marié
opera singer, singer
- Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau
aristocrat
- Paul Gordan
mathematician, university teacher
- Osman Digna
businessperson, military personnel
- Georg Ebers
university teacher, Egyptologist
- Ernst Ziller
art historian, archaeologist
- Mór Kaposi
physician, professor
- Richard Maurice Bucke
psychiatrist, writer
- Alphonse Legros
etcher, printmaker
- Morgan Bulkeley
businessperson, governor
- David Josiah Brewer
writer, jurist
- Princess Leopoldine of Baden
consort
- Hilary R. W. Johnson
politician
- William Chatterton Dix
librettist, hymnwriter
- Friedrich von Holstein
diplomat, politician
- Sarah Williams
novelist, poet
- Vasily Radlov
anthropologist, linguist
- Fredrik Bajer
peace activist, writer
- Tony Robert-Fleury
painter
- Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov
politician, military officer
- Theodore Nicholas Gill
ichthyologist, non-fiction writer
- Ernest Hoschedé
art collector, merchant
- Franz Overbeck
Protestant theologian, New Testament scholar
- Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein
philanthropist, aristocrat
- Anna Filosofova
feminist, women's rights activist
- Petre P. Carp
diplomat, literary critic
- Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
novelist, amanuensis
- Georg Bühler
librarian, Indologist
- Charles Ammi Cutter
librarian
- Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
military officer
- Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn
politician
- Ernest Guiraud
university teacher, choreographer
- Francis Wayland Parker
school superintendent, educator
- Amos Dolbear
inventor, physicist
- Otto of Stolberg-Wernigerode
politician, military personnel
- Victoria, Lady Welby
painter, musician
- Artur Grottger
painter
- Nikolai Bugaev
mathematician, university teacher
- Vanchinbalyn Injinash
historian, writer
- Alexander Skene
gynecologist, physician
- Wilhelm Kühne
chemist, physiologist
- Édouard Stephan
astronomer
- Michael Rua
Catholic priest
- Hans von Marées
painter, fresco painter
- Edward Eggleston
children's writer, novelist
- Michael Anagnos
educator, writer
- Tomioka Tessai
calligrapher, painter
- Horace Parnell Tuttle
astronomer
- G. S. Carr
university teacher, mathematician
- Karl Mauch
geographer, archaeologist
- Georg Ossian Sars
illustrator, university teacher
- John Richard Green
librarian, historian
- Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann
historian of mathematics, university teacher
- José Jiménez Aranda
painter
- Jacob Maris
draftsperson, watercolorist