ON THIS DAY
Born in 1844
326 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Friedrich Nietzsche
poet, pedagogue
- Alexandra of Denmark
aristocrat, photographer
- Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
aristocrat, philatelist
- Bernadette Soubirous
Christian nun, mystic
- Carl Benz
inventor, engineer
- Umberto I of Italy
sovereign, monarch
- Ludwig Boltzmann
thermodynamicist, chemist
- Mehmed V
ruler, writer
- Ilya Repin
painter, sculptor
- Mary Cassatt
photographer, painter
- Paul Verlaine
essayist, translator
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
music theorist, musicologist
- Menilek II
politician
- Henri Rousseau
artist, painter
- Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallah
ulema, military leader
- Peter I of Serbia
military officer
- Anatole France
writer, poet
- Henry J. Heinz
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Garret Hobart
politician, lawyer
- ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
philosopher of religion, Baháʼí
- Sophia Tolstaya
photographer, autobiographer
- Sanford B. Dole
judge, governor
- Thomas Eakins
art educator, photographer
- John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
politician, boxer
- Lewis Powell
military personnel
- Jenny Longuet
socialist, politician
- Edward Carpenter
writer, philosopher
- Karl Lueger
social politician, mayor
- Cole Younger
moon walker, preacher
- Andrew Lang
essayist, journalist
- Ismail Kemal
revolutionary, statesperson
- Saitō Hajime
military personnel, samurai
- Joshua Slocum
explorer, writer
- Elijah McCoy
engineer, firefighter
- Adam Worth
art thief
- Pablo de Sarasate
composer, violinist
- George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough
politician, aristocrat
- G. Stanley Hall
psychologist, writer
- Anthony Comstock
political writer
- Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
barrister, politician
- Charles-Marie Widor
university teacher, organist
- Badruddin Tyabji
jurist, barrister
- Édouard Drumont
writer, politician
- Victorine Meurent
painter, art model
- Caroline Weldon
artist
- Friedrich Miescher
biochemist, physiologist
- Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
painter, lithographer
- Friedrich Ratzel
geopolitical analyst, journalist
- Prince Philipp, 4th Prince of Koháry
writer, aristocrat
- Cathay Williams
slavery, tailor
- Sarah Winnemucca
writer, teacher
- William Archibald Spooner
college head, Anglican priest
- Julius Wellhausen
university teacher, biblical scholar
- Alice Hoschedé
model, art model
- Richard D'Oyly Carte
impresario, businessperson
- Belle Boyd
stage actor, spy
- Eduard Strasburger
botanist, university teacher
- Robert Bridges
poet, writer
- Béhanzin
monarch
- Emily Ruete
writer, teacher
- Minna Canth
journalist, short story writer
- Adolphus Greely
polar explorer, explorer
- Marie Spartali Stillman
model, painter
- Luke Fildes
caricaturist, illustrator
- John Boyle O'Reilly
writer, poet
- Carl Hagenbeck
scientific collector, animal trainer
- Harvey Washington Wiley
writer, chemist
- Émile Reynaud
photographer, painter
- John J. Loud
inventor
- George W. De Long
explorer, military officer
- Vasily Polenov
painter
- Girish Chandra Ghosh
writer, actor
- Charlotte Despard
politician, suffragist
- Catherine Breshkovsky
politician, aristocrat
- Ludwig von Falkenhausen
military writer, military officer
- Nagai Nagayoshi
university teacher, chemist
- Konstantin Savitsky
head teacher, illustrator
- Max Noether
historian of mathematics, mathematician
- Kuroki Tamemoto
military personnel
- Patrick Manson
physician, parasitologist
- Uchida Kuichi
photographer
- Tennessee Claflin
suffragist, stockbroker
- Charles Romley Alder Wright
physicist, chemist
- Ada Cambridge
poet, novelist
- Tōdō Heisuke
samurai
- George Washington Cable
writer, novelist
- Francis E. Warren
politician
- Muhammed Mehdi Senusi
writer, cleric
- Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg
military officer, politician
- Dankmar Adler
architect, engineer
- George Leslie Mackay
priest, missionary
- Dimitrios Rallis
lawyer, politician
- Francis William Reitz
journalist, writer
- Pyotr Tkachev
writer, journalist
- Hugo Borchardt
inventor, engineer
- Alexander Herrmann
illusionist, magician
- Josip Frank
jurist, lawyer
- Wilhelm Leibl
draftsperson, graphic artist
- Anna Lea Merritt
etcher, graphic artist
- Albert Salomon von Rothschild
art collector, banker
- Gyula Benczúr
artist, painter
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
herpetologist, poet
- Duke Elimar of Oldenburg
writer, composer
- Amalie Materna
opera singer
- Adolf Engler
editor, taxonomist
- Emil Schürer
historian, theologian
- An Dehai
politician
- Tivadar Puskás
technician, engineer
- Mutsu Munemitsu
politician, samurai
- James Guillaume
writer, pedagogue
- Lala Deen Dayal
photographer, architectural photographer
- Philip Henry Wicksteed
historian, university teacher
- James Henry Greathead
inventor, engineer
- Georg Ratzinger
politician, journalist
- Friedrich Trendelenburg
surgeon, university teacher
- Édouard Branly
university teacher, physicist
- Moritz von Bissing
military personnel, politician
- Annie Swynnerton
artist, painter
- Wilbur Olin Atwater
chemist, nutritionist
- Lujo Brentano
university teacher, economist
- Carl von Thieme
banker
- Georgios Theotokis
lawyer, politician
- Zaynab Fawwaz
salonnière, women's rights activist
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson
politician, opinion journalist
- L. T. Meade
editor, children's writer
- Cícero Romão Batista
Catholic priest, politician
- Joseph Marello
Catholic bishop, Catholic deacon
- John Burgess
university teacher, political scientist
- Amédée Bollée
inventor, bell founder
- Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland
historian, writer
- Sheng Xuanhuai
politician, industrialist
- Robert Stout
lawyer, surveyor
- Eugène Gigout
university teacher, organist
- Agnes Salm-Salm
writer, socialite
- Paul Taffanel
music educator, composer
- Manuel González Prada
writer, journalist
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
novelist, writer
- Olga Wisinger-Florian
landscape painter, painter