ON THIS DAY
Born in 1838
280 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- John Wilkes Booth
stage actor, writer
- Liliʻuokalani
monarch, writer
- Bass Reeves
detective, farmer
- John Muir
philosopher, botanical collector
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
essayist, novelist
- Georges Bizet
conductor, classical composer
- Duleep Singh I
sovereign
- Victoria Woodhull
women's rights activist, journalist
- Ernst Mach
politician, university teacher
- Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
writer, politician
- Henry Adams
historian of Modern Age, art historian
- General Tom Thumb
stage actor, circus performer
- Heinrich Ernst Göring
Reichskommissar, politician
- Henry Irving
actor-manager, director
- Jan Matejko
painter, university teacher
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin
military officer, aircraft pilot
- Eli Lilly
military personnel, pharmacist
- Luís I of Portugal
photographer, king
- Yamagata Aritomo
military personnel, politician
- John Hay
jurist, historian
- William Henry Perkin
chemist, businessperson
- Annie Edson Taylor
teacher, stunt performer
- Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
philosopher, journal editor
- Joseph F. Smith
prophet, politician
- Max Bruch
conductor, teacher
- Léon Gambetta
lawyer, politician
- Émile Loubet
politician, lawyer
- Franz Brentano
university teacher, psychologist
- Jules Brunet
military personnel, military officer
- Ōkuma Shigenobu
diplomat, military personnel
- John Wanamaker
politician, art collector
- Dalai Lama 11 Khedrub Gyatso
Buddhist monk, writer
- Princess Louise of Prussia
politician
- Isaac Parker
politician, lawyer
- James J. Hill
entrepreneur, railway worker
- Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
member of Roman Catholic religious orders and societies
- Margaret E. Knight
inventor, entrepreneur
- Marianne Cope
Christian nun, missionary
- Henry Sidgwick
writer, philosopher
- Yikuang, Prince Qing
painter, politician
- Baba Anujka
witch doctor, herbalist
- Lucien Olivier
inventor, chef
- Camille Jordan
engineer, mathematician
- Henry Hobson Richardson
architect
- Keshub Chunder Sen
thinker, social reformer
- Thomas Blake Glover
merchant, businessperson
- Mubarak Al-Sabah
politician, military leader
- Ernest Solvay
philanthropist, industrialist
- Valeriano Weyler
politician, military personnel
- Octavia Hill
writer, social reformer
- Herculine Barbin
teacher, governess
- James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
writer, barrister
- Edwin Abbott Abbott
head teacher, writer
- Konstanty Kalinowski
opinion journalist, writer
- Philip Bliss
singer, hymnwriter
- Paul Mauser
entrepreneur, politician
- Okada Izō
samurai
- James B. McCreary
lawyer, politician
- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
philosopher, playwright
- José Ruiz Blasco
teacher, painter
- Kirino Toshiaki
military personnel
- Shah Jahan I of Bhopal
Nawab, writer
- Anton Mauve
painter, visual artist
- Lawrence Sullivan Ross
politician
- Yisrael Meir Kagan
rosh yeshiva, rabbi
- John Morley
journalist, politician
- Fredrik Idestam
engineer, entrepreneur
- Duke Philipp of Württemberg
photographer
- James Maybrick
merchant, entrepreneur
- Nicolae Grigorescu
painter
- Jean-Paul Laurens
painter, sculptor
- Evelyn Wood
soldier, general field marshal
- Paolo Boselli
politician
- Mehmed Said Paşa
writer, politician
- Kedarnath Dutta
writer
- Vladimir Markovnikov
chemist
- James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn
politician
- Prince Louis, Count of Trani
aristocrat
- Jules Léotard
acrobat, trapeze artist
- Yasuda Zenjirō
banker, businessperson
- Mariano Fortuny Marsal
graphic artist, painter
- John Ireland
theologian, Catholic priest
- Toyohara Chikanobu
graphic artist, ukiyo-e artist
- Edward W. Morley
physicist, chemist
- Jules Méline
lawyer, politician
- Tobias Asser
university teacher, lawyer
- Emil Rathenau
photographer, entrepreneur
- Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
chemist, physicist
- Gustav von Schmoller
social scientist, university teacher
- John Davis Long
writer, politician
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher
anthropologist, archaeologist
- Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg
politician
- Jules Dalou
sculptor, artist
- Muhammad bin Sabah Al-Sabah
Amir, politician
- Elwell Stephen Otis
military officer
- Franz Hartmann
writer, translator
- Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet
politician, historian
- William Robinson
horticulturist, botanist
- Nicolás Salmerón
writer, philosopher
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
philosopher, politician
- August Šenoa
writer, literary critic
- Theodore M. Davis
art collector, necropolis scholar
- Valentine Cameron Prinsep
portrait painter, novelist
- William Winwood Reade
historian, philosopher
- Prince Heinrich of Hesse and by Rhine
military personnel
- Ludwig Gumplowicz
sociologist, professor
- Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
romanist, historian
- Oskar Gripenberg
military personnel, military officer
- Edward S. Morse
orientalist, malacologist
- Auberon Herbert
writer, philosopher
- William Francis Butler
biographer, writer
- Şayeste Hanım
aristocrat
- Clemens Winkler
chemist, university teacher
- William Painter
inventor, designer
- Karl Davydov
cellist, opera singer
- Siegfried Bing
publisher, art collector
- Camilo de Polavieja
politician, military personnel
- Joel Asaph Allen
ornithologist, zoologist
- Lydia Thompson
actor-manager, actor
- William Keith
painter, printmaker
- Shōjirō Gotō
politician, samurai
- George William Hill
mathematician, astronomer
- John Rutter Brooke
major general, politician
- Emil Frey
diplomat, politician
- Cleveland Abbe
globe maker, mathematician
- Eugen Richter
politician, legal counselor
- Angelo Mariani
inventor, pharmacy technician
- Adam Asnyk
politician, playwright
- George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
military personnel
- Suleyman Husnu Pasha
soldier, writer
- Vasa Pelagić
historian, physician
- Wilma Neruda
violinist
- Frances Anne Hopkins
painter
- Oswald Schmiedeberg
pharmacologist, chemist
- Carl Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Weyprecht
military officer, geophysicist
- Warner Miller
politician
- Jacques Berthieu
Catholic priest
- John Shaw Billings
librarian, physician
- Szymon Winawer
chess player
- Eduard von Gebhardt
painter, exlibrist
- Josef Popper-Lynkeus
philosopher, writer
- Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray
journalist, lecturer
- John Rankin Rogers
politician
- Florence Crauford Grove
mountaineer
- James Craig Watson
university teacher, astronomer
- Alpheus Hyatt
biologist, marine biologist
- Vatroslav Jagić
slavist, classical philologist
- Reftârıdil Kadınefendi
aristocrat
- Augustin Daly
writer, theatre manager