ON THIS DAY
Born in 1842
300 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Abdul Hamid II
sovereign
- William James
philosopher, university teacher
- Peter Kropotkin
activist, philosopher
- Ambrose Bierce
horror writer, writer
- Okita Sōji
samurai
- Catherine Eddowes
farmworker, prostitute
- Arthur Sullivan
music educator, organist
- Karl May
children's writer, composer
- Vasily Vereshchagin
writer, military personnel
- Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria
politician, aristocrat
- Stéphane Mallarmé
literary critic, librettist
- Giovanni Giolitti
politician, statesperson
- Alfred Marshall
philosopher, university teacher
- Mary MacKillop
religious sister, founder of Catholic religious community
- Alferd Packer
serial killer, criminal
- Jules Massenet
music educator, composer
- Paul Lafargue
writer, essayist
- John William Strutt
politician, physicist
- David Herold
politician, pharmacist
- Mahadev Govind Ranade
judge, politician
- Sophus Lie
mathematician, university teacher
- Camille Flammarion
balloonist, science fiction writer
- Georg Ritter von Schönerer
politician, writer
- Osman Hamdi Bey
archaeologist, art historian
- Ōyama Iwao
military personnel, military officer
- Sidney Lanier
flautist, prose writer
- James Dewar
physicist, inventor
- Josef Breuer
physiologist, psychoanalyst
- Pîhtokahanapiwiyin
traditional leader or chief
- Adna Chaffee
military officer
- Giovanni Boldini
painter, visual artist
- Carl von Linde
entrepreneur, physicist
- Phoebe Hearst
socialite, feminist
- Satyendranath Tagore
magistrate, writer
- Charlotte Mason
educator, pedagogue
- Osborne Reynolds
engineer, physicist
- Daniel Paul Schreber
opinion journalist, judge
- Rabih az-Zubayr
slave trader, warlord
- Georg Brandes
university teacher, literary historian
- Prince Gaston, Count of Eu
marshal, military personnel
- Eduard von Hartmann
philosopher, writer
- Ellen Swallow Richards
environmentalist, chemist
- Johannes Zukertort
chess player, journalist
- Maria Konopnicka
literary critic, children's rights activist
- Clarence King
writer, journalist
- Arrigo Boito
librettist, writer
- Hermann Cohen
philosopher, university teacher
- Eloy Alfaro
politician, merchant
- Yuxian
politician
- Mykola Lysenko
classical composer, composer
- Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre
writer, poet
- Édouard Lucas
university teacher, mathematician
- Calixa Lavallée
music teacher, pianist
- Princess Alexandrine of Prussia
aristocrat
- Jean Gaston Darboux
university teacher, mathematician
- August Thyssen
entrepreneur, industrialist
- Charles W. Alcock
journalist, association football player
- Alexandre Ribot
lawyer, member of parliament
- Henry Hyndman
journalist, translator
- Infante João, Duke of Beja
politician
- John H. Bankhead
lawyer, politician
- Carl Jacobsen
entrepreneur, brewer
- Charles Cros
poet, writer
- Rafael Guastavino
architect, inventor
- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
writer, suffragist
- Antonio Fogazzaro
poet, politician
- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
pediatrician, writer
- John Fiske
historian, philosopher
- Ida Lewis
lighthouse keeper
- Nikolaos Gyzis
teacher, university teacher
- Thorsten Nordenfelt
business executive, businessperson
- José-Maria de Heredia
translator, writer
- William D. Coleman
politician
- Antero de Quental
translator, poet
- Georg Friedrich Knapp
university teacher, statistician
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
suffragist, journalist
- Abdullah Muhammad Shah II of Perak
sovereign
- François Coppée
novelist, playwright
- John Murphy Farley
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Khuda Bakhsh
jurist, historian
- Ernest Lavisse
historian, university teacher
- Benoît-Constant Coquelin
actor, film actor
- Robert B. Elliott
politician, lawyer
- Jakob Meckel
military personnel, military advisor
- Wu Ting-fang
jurist, diplomat
- Joseph Valentin Boussinesq
school teacher, mathematician
- Pyotr Durnovo
military personnel, politician
- John Gerrard Keulemans
painter, artist
- Emil Jakob Schindler
art educator, visual artist
- Maurice Rouvier
journalist, politician
- Vilhelm Thomsen
Turkologist, writer
- Elliott Coues
physician, meteorological observer
- Eugen Bracht
university teacher, graphic artist
- Agnes Mary Clerke
writer, astronomer
- William Blake Richmond
medalist, painter
- Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar
lawyer, poet
- Jan Puzyna
bishop, politician
- Rikard Nordraak
composer, academic musician
- Alexander Mantashev
businessperson, philanthropist
- Erik Gustaf Boström
politician, estate owner
- Nikolay Mikhaylovsky
opinion journalist, philosopher
- Charles Otis Whitman
zoologist, ethologist
- Leandro N. Alem
statesperson, politician
- Theodore Ayrault Dodge
historian, writer
- Frank D. Baldwin
military personnel
- Ferdinand Keller
illustrator, painter
- Wilhelm Jordan
engineer, geodesist
- Heinrich Martin Weber
mathematician, university teacher
- James Lillywhite
cricket umpire, cricketer
- Teoberto Maler
archaeologist, inventor
- Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham
cricketer, politician
- Nikolay Benardos
engineer, inventor
- Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein
military personnel, politician
- Alfred-Amédée Dodds
military officer, military personnel
- Stojan Novaković
heraldist, politician
- Zheng Guanying
thinker, journalist
- Felice Cavallotti
poet, writer
- Lat Dior
sovereign
- François Hennebique
editor, engineer
- John W. Daniel
politician, lawyer
- Stefanos Dragoumis
diplomat, lawyer
- Berthold Delbrück
teacher, historical linguist
- Luigi Guanella
Catholic priest
- Christoph Blumhardt
pastor, politician
- Albert Sorel
historian, diplomat
- Alexander von Brill
mathematician, university teacher
- Franz Xavier Wernz
university teacher, canon law jurist
- Heinrich Quincke
university teacher, physician
- Charles Stebbins Fairchild
businessperson, lawyer
- Charles Lapworth
mineralogist, paleontologist
- Gustaf Retzius
scientific collector, anthropologist
- Peretz Smolenskin
opinion journalist, journalist
- Gaudenzio Marconi
photographer
- William Gosse
scientific collector, botanical collector
- William E. Cameron
editor, governor
- Josef Labor
music educator, pianist
- Emil Christian Hansen
mycologist, autobiographer
- Carl Rosa
musician, opera director
- Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ
sculptor, painter
- Agustín Stahl
biologist, botanist
- Nikolai Yadrintsev
explorer, archaeologist
- Józef Sebastian Pelczar
Catholic priest, university teacher
- Vladimir Kovalevsky
geologist, university teacher
- Hugo Schuchardt
romanist, philologist