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Born in 1839
289 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- William J. McConnell
politician
- Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg
politician
- Vladimir Meshchersky
journalist, opinion journalist
- James Ryder Randall
journalist, poet
- Karl Alfred von Zittel
malacologist, scientific collector
- Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
translator, journalist
- Frederick Ward Putnam
naturalist, archaeologist
- Matthijs Maris
graphic artist, watercolorist
- Laura Netzel
composer, pianist
- Addison Emery Verrill
zoological collector, geologist
- Júlio Dinis
physician writer, poet
- Kume Kunitake
writer, historian
- Augustus Octavius Bacon
politician
- Francisco Giner de los Ríos
writer, jurist
- Rodolphe Julian
teacher, painter
- Tage Reedtz-Thott
diplomat, politician
- Alpheus Spring Packard
university teacher, paleontologist
- John Aitken
physicist, meteorologist
- Charles Hermans
painter, visual artist
- Louis-Honoré Fréchette
lawyer, politician
- Marianne Hainisch
writer, suffragette
- Dudley Buck
organist, composer
- August W. Eichler
botanist, university teacher
- Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic
painter, archaeologist
- Karl, Freiherr von Prel
parapsychologist, occultist
- Louis Émile Javal
writer, Esperantist
- Otto Pfleiderer
university teacher, Protestant theologian
- Alfred Barye
sculptor
- Oscar de Négrier
military officer, military personnel
- Julius Bernstein
university teacher, neuroscientist
- Mary Anna Draper
astronomer, photographer
- Rayko Zhinzifov
teacher, translator
- Elisabeth Järnefelt
salonnière
- Paule Mink
communard, activist
- James Geikie
geographer, writer
- Francesco Barzaghi
artist, sculptor
- Francis Planté
pianist, musician
- Emma Miller
suffragist, suffragette
- Juan García y Margallo
military personnel
- James Kimbrough Jones
politician, lawyer
- Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen
historian of science, editor
- Thomas M. Patterson
publisher, politician
- Nicolae Teclu
university teacher, chemist
- Gerasimus of Jerusalem
Christian minister
- Wolfgang Helbig
classical archaeologist, anthropologist
- Jules-Clément Chaplain
lithographer, sculptor
- Lucjan Malinowski
slavist, professor
- George Mary Searle
Catholic priest, discoverer of asteroids
- Julius Friedrich Cohnheim
pathologist, university teacher
- Grigory Sergeyevich Golitsyn
military personnel
- Tobias Barreto
university teacher, literary critic
- Daniel Webster Jones
politician, jurist
- Gustav Mützel
scientific illustrator, animal painter
- John J. Keane
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem
university teacher, botanist
- Paul Georges Dieulafoy
physician, pathologist
- Terencio Sierra
head of government, politician
- Jeanne Merkus
social activist, deacon
- Robert Henry Thurston
inventor, university teacher
- Jules Lermina
translator, science fiction writer
- Wilhelm von Diez
illustrator, university teacher
- Isabelle Gatti de Gamond
women's rights activist, editor
- Robert Hartig
mycologist, forestry scientist
- Auguste Sabatier
university teacher, Protestant theologian
- Adolf Dygasiński
philosopher, journalist
- Modest Urgell
writer, painter
- Thomas Jonathan Burrill
botanist
- Pierre-Henri Dorie
missionary, Catholic priest
- Joseph Maria von Radowitz
civil servant, politician
- Gilbert A. Pierce
politician, writer
- Bernhard Naunyn
university teacher, pathologist
- Emilio Praga
writer, literary scholar
- Paul Lindau
theatre manager, dramaturge
- Dmitry Chernov
university teacher, inventor
- Otto Erelman
draftsperson, lithographer
- Victor Schröter
architect, university teacher
- Julius Oscar Brefeld
botanist, biologist
- Thomas C. Power
politician
- Johannes Conrad
economist, university teacher
- Franz Martin Hilgendorf
zoologist, scientific collector
- Abdallah Marrash
intellectual, literary scholar
- John Gould Veitch
botanist, horticulturist
- Dawid Abrahamowicz
politician
- Albert de Lapparent
mineralogist, university teacher
- Carl Otto Løvenskiold
politician, land owner
- Victorin de Joncières
critic, composer
- Lazar Komarčić
war correspondent, writer
- Hugo Kronecker
physiologist, university teacher
- Wilhelm Körner
university teacher, chemist
- Francisco León Franco
politician
- Otto Willmann
teacher, philosopher
- Nikolay Kashkin
music critic, composer
- Nils Christoffer Dunér
university teacher, astrophysicist
- Yitshak Yoel Linetski
translator, writer
- Marie-Adolphe Carnot
physicist, geologist
- Leopold Pfaundler
chemist, university teacher
- Frederik Collett
painter
- Hermann Munk
physiologist, university teacher
- Georg Lunge
chemist, university teacher
- Enrico Castelnuovo
writer
- Franz Michael Felder
farmer, writer
- Ernst Ludwig Krause
writer, naturalist
- Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz
art historian, archaeologist
- François-Désiré Mathieu
Catholic bishop, archbishop
- Émile Gebhart
historian, literary critic
- Tadeusz Korzon
librarian, historian
- Hagbard Berner
journalist, politician
- William Philip Hiern
botanical collector, mathematician
- Karl Dilthey
anthropologist, classical archaeologist
- Gustav von Schönberg
politician, state political scientist
- Fredrik Adam Smitt
scientific collector, ichthyologist
- Francesco Siacci
university teacher, mathematician
- Agostino Gaetano Riboldi
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Ludwig Wittmack
agronomist, curator
- Alphonse Dubois
ornithologist, zoologist
- Vasily Avenarius
writer, children's writer
- Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck
geophysicist, military officer
- Otto Kersten
botanist, geographer
- Johannes Otzen
engineer, university teacher
- Max Britzelmayr
teacher, lichenologist
- Eduard Rappoldi
concertmaster, violinist
- Alexandr Alexandrovich Fischer von Waldheim
university teacher, botanist
- Élie Marchal
mycologist, lichenologist
- Émile Jean-Fontaine
sailor, skipper
- Hippolyte Sebert
Esperantist, military officer
- Emilio Levier
scientific collector, botanical collector
- Bernardino Zendrini
librettist, translator