ON THIS DAY
Born in 1839
289 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- John D. Rockefeller
philanthropist, entrepreneur
- George Armstrong Custer
soldier, military officer
- Paul Cézanne
lithographer, draftsperson
- Jamsetji Tata
entrepreneur
- Caroline Ingalls
autobiographer, teacher
- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
pianist, librettist
- Henry George
editor, journalist
- Charles Sanders Peirce
philosopher, linguist
- Carol I of Romania
military personnel, monarch
- Robert Smalls
businessperson, military officer
- William T. Anderson
gangster, military personnel
- Laura Spelman Rockefeller
philanthropist, school teacher
- Ellen Ternan
actor
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
mathematician, statistical physicist
- Sarah Winchester
heiress, architect
- Machado de Assis
translator, linguist
- Alfred Sisley
lithographer, etcher
- General Nelson A. Miles
lieutenant general, politician
- Josephine Cochrane
businessperson, inventor
- Walter Pater
art historian, novelist
- Jane Morris
art model, model
- Sully Prudhomme
writer, diarist
- Nikolay Przhevalsky
botanical collector, naturalist
- William A. Clark
banker, politician
- Kate Perugini
artist, painter
- Yoshitoshi
xylographer, ukiyo-e artist
- Princess Cecilie of Baden
aristocrat
- Takasugi Shinsaku
samurai
- Ali Rıza Efendi
civil servant
- Ouida
novelist, writer
- Redvers Buller
military personnel
- Frances Willard
temperance worker, suffragist
- Feodora zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg
aristocrat
- Christian Griepenkerl
painter, teacher
- Floriano Peixoto
politician
- Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria
physician, ophthalmologist
- Nagakura Shinpachi
samurai, Japanese swordmaster
- Ivan Goremykin
politician
- Konstantin Makovsky
painter
- Eugenio María de Hostos y Boñilla
pedagogue, writer
- Nikolay Bobrikov
politician, diplomat
- Thomas Brackett Reed
jurist, politician
- Dabulamanzi kaMpande
war chief
- Luigi Capuana
writer, science fiction writer
- Ferdinand James von Rothschild
politician
- Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria
military officer, politician
- Josef Rheinberger
music teacher, composer
- John Butler Yeats
painter
- George Cadbury
businessperson
- Almon Brown Strowger
inventor
- Gustavus Franklin Swift
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Hans Thoma
printmaker, painter
- Dong Fuxiang
military leader
- Leo Mechelin
politician, entrepreneur
- Emil Škoda
technician, university teacher
- Gregorio Luperón
politician, military personnel
- John Nevil Maskelyne
illusionist, debunker
- Calixto García
military personnel, politician
- Bernardino Caballero
politician
- Abdyl Frashëri
politician, diplomat
- Cyrus Teed
physician, false messiah
- Imre Steindl
architect, restorer
- Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte
military personnel
- William De Morgan
painter, novelist
- Luigi Pelloux
politician
- John Ballance
journalist, politician
- Pōmare V
monarch
- Charles Longuet
journalist, editing staff
- Nikolai Linevich
military personnel
- Antonio Starabba di Rudinì
politician, diplomat
- Nicolás de Piérola
politician
- Francis Garnier
explorer, military personnel
- Franz, Count of Meran
historian, politician
- Maria Swanenburg
serial killer
- Michael Augustine Corrigan
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Ludwig Mond
businessperson, chemist
- Francis Pharcellus Church
editor, journalist
- Gustave Trouvé
inventor, physicist
- Carlo Pellegrini
politician, lithographer
- Théodule-Armand Ribot
psychologist, university teacher
- Joseph Oller
businessperson
- Henry Holiday
painter, illustrator
- Muhammad Kazim Khurasani
marji', writer
- Hermann Hankel
mathematician, historian of mathematics
- Pascual Cervera y Topete
sailor, naval officer
- John Knowles Paine
organist, composer
- Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
founder of Catholic religious community, Catholic deacon
- Carl Humann
art historian, architect
- Ida Ferenczy
lady-in-waiting
- Hamengkubuwono VII
politician
- Ignacio Andrade
military personnel, politician
- Gottfried Lindauer
painter, gardener
- Alice Mary Smith
composer
- Hermann Levi
composer, general music director
- Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato
jurist, art collector
- August Kundt
university teacher, physicist
- Patricio Montojo
military officer
- Julius Wilbrand
teacher at a Gymnasium, Oberlehrer
- Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi
poet, politician
- William Arrol
civil engineer, engineer
- Isaac Jacob Reines
opinion journalist, rabbi
- Baron Raimund von Stillfried
world traveler, painter
- John Francis Bentley
architect
- Gaston Paris
philologist, medievalist
- Ali Suavi
writer, journalist
- Henry Kendall
writer, poet
- Adolphe-Basile Routhier
teacher, novelist
- Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre
military officer, major general
- Béni Kállay
politician, economist
- Yaqub Sanu
writer, journal editor
- John Pentland Mahaffy
university teacher, literary scholar
- Marie Festetics von Tolna
writer, lady-in-waiting
- Eugène Varlin
communard, bookbinder
- Daniel Ridgway Knight
painter
- Gustav Roch
mathematician
- Eduard Nápravník
music educator, composer
- Pavlo Chubynskyi
anthropologist, jurist
- Julius Petersen
mathematician, scientist
- James Crafts
chemist, university teacher
- Friedrich Gernsheim
conductor, composer
- Otto Bache
artist, illustrator
- Élie-Miriam Delaborde
pianist, composer
- George Miller Beard
physician, neurologist
- Aleksandr Stoletov
physicist, university teacher
- Zeng Jize
journalist, politician
- Harry Govier Seeley
paleontologist, geographer
- Jakob Hurt
linguist, ethnologist
- Walburga, Lady Paget
lady-in-waiting, diarist
- Adolf Daens
teacher, theologian
- Georges Leclanché
chemist, engineer
- Hélène Marie de Chappotin de Neuville
founder of Catholic religious community, missionary
- George Clement Perkins
businessperson, politician
- Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch
ethnologist, explorer
- Léon Benett
illustrator, colonial administrator
- Zadoc Kahn
rabbi
- Nicolaas Pierson
politician, political economist
- Mihail Cerchez
military personnel
- Arthur Pue Gorman
politician, baseball player
- Ellen Franz
pianist, stage actor
- Peadar Ua Laoghaire
Catholic priest, translator
- Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak
mayor, politician
- Julius von Hann
physicist, geographer
- Albert Bernhard Frank
botanist, university teacher
- Norman Selfe
inventor, civil engineer
- Georges Rayet
astronomer
- Hilaire de Chardonnet
textile scientist, engineer
- Amalie Joachim
singer, voice teacher
- Alfonso Maria Fusco
presbyter
- Francesco Satolli
Catholic bishop, diplomat