ON THIS DAY
Born in 1840
317 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Sava Grujić
military personnel, diplomat
- Oswald Durand
journalist, teacher
- Luis Candido Lopez
painter
- Lars Fredrik Nilson
chemist
- John Brashear
engineer, astronomer
- Ferdinand Sarrien
lawyer, politician
- Stefan Karadzha
revolutionary
- Franz Mertens
mathematician, university teacher
- Otto Wilhelm Thomé
head teacher, painter
- Gustave Achille Guillaumet
engraver, painter
- August Leskien
slavist, university teacher
- Austin Dobson
essayist, poet
- Francišak Bahuševič
opinion journalist, criminal investigator
- Anton Dohrn
zoologist, marine biologist
- Ayesha Al-Taymuriyya
writer, novelist
- Antonio Muñoz Degrain
painter
- Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse
astronomer
- Heinrich Ehrhardt
inventor, engineer
- Robert Stawell Ball
astronomer, mathematician
- Adolf Bernhard Meyer
zoological collector, ornithologist
- Édouard André
botanist, non-fiction writer
- George Gray
lawyer, politician
- Wilhelm Heinrich Erb
university teacher, neurologist
- William H. H. Miller
politician, lawyer
- Marie de Castellane
salonnière
- Eduard von Knorr
Marineoffizier, admiral
- Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
meteorological observer, ethnologist
- Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein
collector, politician
- Jeanna Bauck
teacher, painter
- Jakub Arbes
writer, science fiction writer
- Franco Faccio
conductor, composer
- Helen Blanchard
engineer, inventor
- Arsène Arnaud Claretie
historian, playwright
- Carl Johannes Thomae
mathematician, university teacher
- Henri Duveyrier
Africanist, explorer
- Monroe Hayward
lawyer, politician
- Theodor Philipsen
painter, ceramicist
- Enrique de Ossó y Cervelló
Catholic priest
- Giulio Ricordi
businessperson, painter
- Roberto Sacasa
politician
- Joseph W. Fifer
jurist, lawyer
- Mustafa Fahmi Paşa
politician
- Henri Leopold Levy
painter
- Ren Bonian
painter
- August Mau
art historian, anthropologist
- Milan Miloš Milojević Borovin
writer, historian
- George King
botanical collector, botanist
- Kazimierz Alchimowicz
painter, sculptor
- Louis Lartet
anthropologist, paleontologist
- Wilhelm Dittenberger
epigrapher, classical philologist
- Ghazaros Aghayan
writer, teacher
- Wilhelm Junker
traveler, explorer
- Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf
pianist, composer
- Angelo de Gubernatis
literary historian, poet
- Eliza Frances Andrews
novelist, teacher
- Louis-Nazaire Bégin
writer, university teacher
- Georg von der Gabelentz
university teacher, sinologist
- Mosè Bianchi
painter
- Paul Meyer
university teacher, philologist
- David Sharp
physician, zoologist
- Srpouhi Dussap
writer, opinion journalist
- Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray
musician, musicologist
- Custódio José de Melo
soldier, politician
- Emilia, Lady Dilke
editor, activist
- Henri Didon
friar, Catholic military chaplain
- Otto Liebmann
university teacher, philosopher
- Eliza Pollock
archer
- Camille Alphonse Faure
physicist, inventor
- Vsevolod Krestovsky
poet, translator
- Émile Duclaux
microbiologist, university teacher
- Heinrich Brunner
jurist, university teacher
- Ernst Rudorff
environmentalist, music educator
- Pavel Brullov
architect, painter
- Gustaaf Schlegel
sinologist, linguist
- Robert Swain Gifford
landscape painter, etcher
- Garegin Srvandztiants
ethnologist, folklorist
- Viktor Knorre
astronomer, chess player
- Ramsay Traquair
naturalist, paleontologist
- Charles George Herbermann
librarian, university teacher
- Giacomo Doria
Marquess, scientific collector
- Albert Eulenburg
physician, university teacher
- Rudolf Baumbach
poet, traveler
- Theodor Leber
university teacher, ophthalmologist
- Franz Xaver Kraus
church historian, Catholic theologian
- Hermann Wagner
statistician, cartographer
- Ralph Tate
botanist, botanical collector
- Anton Hubert Fischer
archbishop, Catholic bishop
- Praskovya Uvarova
archaeologist, historian
- Anton Christian Bang
bishop, writer
- George Ernest Shelley
ornithologist, geologist
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall
lawyer, judge
- William Warner
lawyer, politician
- Franz Eilhard Schulze
zoologist, university teacher
- Siegmund l'Allemand
artist, draftsperson
- Franz Xaver Haberl
writer, Catholic priest
- George Henry Horn
botanical collector, military physician
- Josef Schulz
restorer, teacher
- William N. Roach
politician
- Woldemar Kernig
physician, neurologist
- Ivan Minayev
Indologist
- Charles Lenepveu
theorist, composer
- Lajos Abafi
entomologist, literary historian
- Alfred Holder
linguist, classical philologist
- Wilhelm Exner
politician, engineer
- Lorenz Franz Kielhorn
orientalist, university teacher
- Matilde Bajer
women's rights activist
- Eugène Trutat
photographer, naturalist
- Maria Raevska-Ivanova
art educator, painter
- Károly Hornig
Catholic deacon, Catholic priest
- Smbat Shahaziz
poet
- João Zeferino da Costa
draftsperson, decorator
- Gumersindo de Azcárate
jurist, writer
- Galen Spencer
archer
- Roland Trimen
lepidopterist, naturalist
- Ersilia Caetani-Lovatelli
art historian, cultural historian
- Samuel de Lange
composer, university teacher
- Theodor Becker
civil engineer, zoological collector
- Ferdinand Hamer
linguist, Catholic bishop
- Anton Rehmann
scientific collector, university teacher
- Arthur Fitger
painter, writer
- Charles Jacobus
sports journalist
- Paul Viollet
librarian, historian
- Draga Dejanović
poet, journalist
- James Carpenter
astronomer
- Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg
mathematician, university teacher
- Olaus Henrici
mathematician, university teacher
- Alexander W. von Götte
university teacher, physician
- Giovanni Arcangeli
botanist
- Paul Krüger
writer, jurist
- Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya
journalist, writer
- Dezső Szilágyi
jurist, politician
- Tovmas Terzian
playwright, translator
- Wilhelm Kobelt
physician, local historian
- Arvède Barine
art historian, translator