ON THIS DAY
Born in 1840
317 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
autobiographer, composer
- Claude Monet
painter, graphic artist
- Émile Zola
playwright, novelist
- Thomas Hardy
screenwriter, poet
- Victoria, Princess Royal
draftsperson, painter
- Auguste Rodin
painter, sculptor
- Charlotte of Belgium
consort
- Li Ching-Yuen
herbalist, physician
- Murad V
sultan, ruler
- Father Damien
missionary, Father
- Odilon Redon
painter, printmaker
- Chief Joseph
traditional leader or chief
- Alfred Thayer Maan
writer, political scientist
- Thomas Nast
illustrator, consul general
- Hiram Stevens Maxim
businessperson, gunsmith
- Isabella Stewart Gardner
curator, museum founder
- Alphonse Daudet
novelist, prose writer
- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
banker, politician
- August Bebel
writer, social democrat
- Edward Drinker Cope
explorer, herpetologist
- John Boyd Dunlop
inventor, entrepreneur
- George Smith
orientalist, archaeologist
- Carl Menger
economist, professor
- William, Prince of Orange
crown prince
- Richard von Krafft-Ebing
physician, university teacher
- Gall
traditional leader or chief
- Shibusawa Eiichi
politician, banker
- Edward Whymper
traveler, mountaineer
- Ernst Abbe
entrepreneur, donor
- Thomas B. Catron
politician
- John Philip Holland
submariner, inventor
- Emin Paşa
zoologist, explorer
- Yixuan, Prince Chun
politician
- Briton Rivière
painter
- Giovanni Verga
prose writer, screenwriter
- Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres
military personnel
- Kuroda Kiyotaka
Staatsrat, samurai
- José Manuel Balmaceda
diplomat, foreign minister
- Abigail May Alcott Nieriker
artist, writer
- Nâmık Kemâl
journalist, writer
- Simeon Solomon
painter
- Helena Modjeska
actor, stage actor
- William Graham Sumner
political theorist, sociologist
- Charles Warren
police officer, engineer
- John Addington Symonds
translator, writer
- Clay Allison
cowboy
- Marie Bracquemond
ceramicist, printmaker
- Lozen
shaman, warrior
- Hans Makart
architectural drafter, teacher
- Ranald Slidell Mackenzie
military officer
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
diplomat, writer
- Gabriel von Max
knight, pedagogue
- Manuel de Arriaga
writer, lawyer
- Charles Booth
sociologist, statistician
- Brother Walfrid
Catholic priest
- Menotti Garibaldi
politician
- American Horse
traditional leader or chief
- Fanny Stevenson
writer, magazine writer
- Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana
spiritual medium
- Jacob H. Smith
soldier
- Henry Huttleston Rogers
entrepreneur, publisher
- Polina Suslova
writer
- Sophia Jex-Blake
teacher, writer
- Edward Hobart Seymour
military officer, admiral
- Timothy H. O'Sullivan
war photographer, photographer
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner
orientalist, photographer
- Harada Sanosuke
samurai
- Ira D. Sankey
composer, hymnwriter
- Dmitry Pisarev
essayist, journalist
- John Stainer
musicologist, organist
- Arsenios the Cappadocian
monk, Eastern Orthodox monk
- Xuyun
Buddhist monk
- Titu Maiorescu
diplomat, philologist
- Dmitry Karakozov
political activist
- Shimazu Tadayoshi
samurai, politician
- Dwijendranath Tagore
vocal composer, translator
- Constance Fenimore Woolson
novelist, writer
- William Thomas Sampson
military officer, Konteradmiral
- Johan Svendsen
musicologist, composer
- Hilarión Daza
politician
- Francis Amasa Walker
political scientist, writer
- Benjamin Baker
engineer, civil engineer
- José María Velasco Gómez Obregón
university teacher, traveler
- Akaki Tsereteli
public figure, opinion journalist
- Eugene Schuyler
writer, diplomat
- Cesare Maccari
printmaker, sculptor
- Kusaka Genzui
hanshi
- John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey
judge, politician
- William Henry Conley
politician, businessperson
- Ded Gjo Luli
politician
- Samuel Baldwin Marks Young
military officer
- William Wilson Hunter
beamter, biographer
- Per Teodor Cleve
scientific collector, zoologist
- Kigeli IV of Rwanda
king, Mwami of Rwanda
- Mekatilili wa Menza
independence activist
- Jackson Haines
dancer, figure skating coach
- George Wilbur Peck
editor, politician
- Teuku Umar
resistance fighter
- Mirza Nasrullah Khan
politician
- Abraham Goldfaden
translator, playwright
- Nozu Michitsura
politician, samurai
- Eugenius Warming
botanical collector, university teacher
- Henry Arthur Blake
governor, politician
- Victorino de la Plaza
diplomat, military personnel
- José Gabriel Brochero
presbyter
- Bai Bureh
warrior
- Émile Lemoine
university teacher, violinist
- Heinrich von Angeli
painter, university teacher
- Charles Edward Barber
engraver
- Honoré Mercier
journalist, newspaper editor
- Juan Bautista Gill
politician
- T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
barrister, book printer
- Marie-Léonie Paradis
master of novices
- Rhoda Broughton
writer, novelist
- Mykhailo Starytskyi
writer, actor
- Jehan Georges Vibert
playwright, marksman
- Blanche d'Antigny
actor, singer
- Mirambo
politician
- Friedrich Kohlrausch
chemist, university teacher
- Mark Antokolski
sculptor
- Franklin Leonard Pope
inventor, engineer
- Alfred Percy Sinnett
theosophist, editing staff
- André Gill
communard, graphic artist
- Zakarine
monarch
- Benjamin Altman
art collector, entrepreneur
- Edward Henry Palmer
writer, academic
- Jules Cotard
physician, psychiatrist
- Hippolyte Bernheim
university teacher, hypnotist
- Palmer Cox
writer, poet
- Samuel Ullman
writer, poet
- Hadzhi Dimitar
revolutionary
- Basilio Augustín
military personnel
- Simeon Eben Baldwin
politician, jurist
- Ma Xiangbo
Catholic priest, translator
- Edward S. Ellis
writer, novelist
- Henry Markham
governor, jurist
- Zygmunt Mineyko
military personnel, politician
- Hermann Goetz
pianist, composer
- Marko Kropyvnytskyi
stage actor, writer
- Michael Logue
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Édouard Vaillant
communard, writer
- Thomas Hovenden
painter
- Henri Cazalis
librettist, poet
- William Freeman Vilas
lawyer, politician
- Louis-Émile Bertin
engineer, inventor
- John Lancaster Spalding
writer, biographer
- Iakob Gogebashvili
writer, pedagogue