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Born in 1845

298 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Alexander III of Russia

    art collector, monarch

    1845–1894 · aged 49

    March 10 · 1845

    Source: EB-11 / Alexander III. (tsar)

  2. George I of Greece

    monarch

    1845–1913 · aged 67

    December 24 · 1845

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  3. Ludwig II of Bavaria

    art collector, monarch

    1845–1886 · aged 40

    August 25 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  4. Wilhelm Röntgen

    physicist, engineer

    1845–1923 · aged 77

    March 27 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  5. Georg Cantor

    philosopher, mathematician

    1845–1918 · aged 72

    March 3 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  6. Ludwig III of Bavaria

    military personnel

    1845–1921 · aged 76

    January 7 · 1845

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  7. Quanah Parker*

    merchant, rancher

    Date disputed

    1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  8. Isidor Straus

    politician, businessperson

    1845–1912 · aged 67

    February 6 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  9. Gabriel Fauré

    music educator, university teacher

    1845–1924 · aged 79

    May 12 · 1845

    Source: Roglo

  10. Amadeo I of Spain

    sovereign, military personnel

    1845–1890 · aged 44

    May 30 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  11. Mary Ann Nichols

    domestic worker, prostitute

    1845–1888 · aged 43

    August 26 · 1845

    Source: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

  12. Ernst August, Crown Prince of Hanover

    politician, pretender

    1845–1923 · aged 78

    September 21 · 1845

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  13. Elihu Root

    jurist, politician

    1845–1937 · aged 91

    February 15 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  14. Arthur MacArthur Jr.

    army officer, politician

    1845–1912 · aged 67

    June 2 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  15. Edmond James de Rothschild

    philanthropist, art collector

    1845–1934 · aged 89

    August 19 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  16. Laura Marx

    translator, writer

    1845–1911

    September 26 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  17. Daniel David Palmer

    chiropractor

    1845–1913 · aged 68

    March 7 · 1845

    Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa

  18. Élie Metchnikoff*

    chemist, biologist

    Date disputed

    May 15 · 1845

    Source: Krugosvet

  19. John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll*

    governor-general, aristocrat

    Date disputed

    August 6 · 1845

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  20. Ahmet Tevfik Okday

    grand vizier, statesperson

    1845–1936 · aged 91

    February 10 · 1845

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  21. André Bessette

    religious, lay brother

    1845–1937 · aged 91

    August 9 · 1845

    Source: GCatholic.org

  22. Edward Douglass White Jr.

    judge, lawyer

    1845–1921 · aged 75

    November 3 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  23. Nikola Pašić*

    diplomat, head of government

    Date disputed

    December 18 · 1845

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  24. Gabriel Lippmann

    photographer, professor

    1845–1921 · aged 75

    August 16 · 1845

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  25. George Howard Darwin

    mathematician, astronomer

    1845–1912 · aged 67

    July 9 · 1845

    Source: KNAW Past Members

  26. Thomas Custer

    military officer

    1845–1876 · aged 31

    March 15 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  27. John Sparrow David Thompson*

    lawyer, lecturer

    Date disputed

    November 10 · 1845

    Source: Library of Parliament

  28. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

    governor, politician

    1845–1927 · aged 82

    January 14 · 1845

    No external source identified

  29. Abay Kunanbaiuly

    writer, composer

    1845–1904 · aged 58

    August 10 · 1845

    Source: Pedagogues and Psychologists of the World

  30. Thomas John Barnardo

    philanthropist, photographer

    1845–1905 · aged 60

    July 4 · 1845

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  31. Walter Crane

    designer, visual artist

    1845–1915 · aged 69

    August 15 · 1845

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  32. José Maria de Eça de Queirós

    diplomat, journalist

    1845–1900 · aged 54

    November 25 · 1845

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  33. William Kingdon Clifford

    university teacher, mathematician

    1845–1879 · aged 33

    May 4 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  34. George Reid

    politician, diplomat

    1845–1918 · aged 73

    February 25 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  35. Infanta Antónia of Portugal

    draftsperson

    1845–1913 · aged 68

    February 17 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  36. Pherozeshah Mehta

    politician

    1845–1915 · aged 70

    August 4 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  37. Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

    salonnière

    1845–1912

    November 17 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  38. Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto

    military personnel, diplomat

    1845–1914 · aged 68

    July 9 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  39. Richard Seddon

    head of government, politician

    1845–1906 · aged 60

    June 22 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  40. Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil

    aristocrat

    1845–1847 · aged 2

    February 23 · 1845

    No external source identified

  41. Vasudev Balwant Phadke

    revolutionary

    1845–1883 · aged 37

    November 4 · 1845

    No external source identified

  42. Leopold Auer

    conductor, musician

    1845–1930 · aged 85

    June 7 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  43. Antonio Maceo

    military personnel, politician

    1845–1896 · aged 51

    June 14 · 1845

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  44. Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary*

    military personnel

    Date disputed

    August 8 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  45. Ulises Heureaux

    military personnel, politician

    1845–1899 · aged 53

    October 21 · 1845

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  46. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

    bacteriologist, botanist

    1845–1922 · aged 76

    June 18 · 1845

    Source: Base biographique

  47. Princess Sophie of Saxony

    aristocrat

    1845–1867 · aged 21

    March 15 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  48. Khwaja Ghulam Farid*

    literary scholar, poet

    Date disputed

    December 30 · 1845

    Source: islamansiklopedisi.org.tr

  49. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

    statistician, mathematician

    1845–1926 · aged 81

    February 8 · 1845

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  50. Carl Spitteler

    theologian, writer

    1845–1924 · aged 79

    April 24 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  51. Herbert Giles

    university teacher, sinologist

    1845–1935 · aged 89

    December 8 · 1845

    Source: Oxford English Dictionary

  52. Jules Guesde

    journalist, writer

    1845–1922 · aged 76

    November 11 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  53. Paul Vidal de La Blache

    cartographer, geographer

    1845–1918 · aged 73

    January 22 · 1845

    Source: Léonore database

  54. Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg

    aristocrat

    1845–1925 · aged 80

    April 1 · 1845

    No external source identified

  55. Niijima Yae

    nurse

    1845–1932 · aged 86

    December 1 · 1845

    No external source identified

  56. Nina Grieg

    opera singer, pianist

    1845–1935 · aged 90

    November 24 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  57. Birjis Qadir

    revolutionary

    1845–1893 · aged 47

    August 20 · 1845

    No external source identified

  58. Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria

    aristocrat

    1845–1927 · aged 82

    July 15 · 1845

    Source: Habsburg, Maria Theresia (Erzherzogin von Oesterreich) (BLKÖ)

  59. Gustaf de Laval

    inventor, businessperson

    1845–1913 · aged 67

    May 9 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  60. Eugène Grasset*

    jewelry designer, sculptor

    Date disputed

    May 25 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  61. William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton

    politician

    1845–1895 · aged 50

    March 12 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  62. Émile Baudot

    engineer, inventor

    1845–1903 · aged 57

    September 11 · 1845

    Source: Léonore database

  63. Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond

    aristocrat, politician

    1845–1928 · aged 82

    December 27 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  64. Jan Baudouin de Courtenay*

    slavist, professor

    Date disputed

    March 13 · 1845

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  65. Hasan Tahsin Pasha

    anatomist, politician

    1845–1918

    1845

    No external source identified

  66. Alexa Wilding

    painter, art model

    1845–1884

    1845

    No external source identified

  67. Salim bin Thuwaini Al Busaidi

    king

    1845–1873

    1845

    No external source identified

  68. Albert Chmielowski*

    religious, painter

    Date disputed

    August 20 · 1845

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  69. Henry Sweet

    scholar of English, linguist

    1845–1912 · aged 66

    September 15 · 1845

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  70. Lord Ronald Gower

    biographer, sculptor

    1845–1916 · aged 70

    August 2 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  71. Jacint Verdaguer

    poet, writer

    1845–1902 · aged 57

    May 17 · 1845

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  72. Prince Louis, Prince of Condé

    1845–1866 · aged 20

    November 15 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  73. Rashbihari Ghosh

    politician, freedom fighter

    1845–1921 · aged 75

    December 23 · 1845

    No external source identified

  74. Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant

    painter, biographer

    1845–1902

    June 10 · 1845

    Source: GeneaStar

  75. Tristan Corbière

    poet, writer

    1845–1875 · aged 29

    July 18 · 1845

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  76. Prince Wilhelm, 5th Prince of Wied

    military officer, politician

    1845–1907 · aged 62

    August 22 · 1845

    Source: RKDartists

  77. Fernand Cormon

    lithographer, painter

    1845–1924 · aged 78

    December 24 · 1845

    Source: KulturNav

  78. Žemaitė

    writer

    1845–1921 · aged 76

    June 4 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  79. Paul Deussen

    university teacher, philosopher

    1845–1919 · aged 74

    January 7 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  80. Zhao Erfeng

    politician

    1845–1911

    1845

    No external source identified

  81. George Saintsbury

    literary critic, philologist

    1845–1933 · aged 87

    October 23 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  82. George Kennan

    explorer, writer

    1845–1924 · aged 79

    February 16 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  83. Ödön Lechner

    architect

    1845–1914 · aged 68

    August 27 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  84. Ivan Puliui

    Bible translator, physicist

    1845–1918 · aged 72

    February 2 · 1845

    Source: resource.history.org.ua

  85. Judith Gautier

    novelist, poet

    1845–1917 · aged 72

    August 25 · 1845

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  86. Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen

    military personnel, general field marshal

    1845–1932 · aged 87

    September 1 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  87. Ioan Ivanovici

    military officer, composer

    1845–1902 · aged 57

    January 28 · 1845

    Source: YouTube

  88. Harriet Backer

    painter

    1845–1932 · aged 87

    January 21 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  89. Archibald Sayce*

    archaeologist, assyriologist

    Date disputed

    September 25 · 1845

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  90. Georges Nagelmackers

    entrepreneur, equestrian

    1845–1905 · aged 60

    June 24 · 1845

    Source: Roglo

  91. Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner

    jurist, politician

    1845–1932 · aged 87

    June 3 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  92. William Healey Dall

    explorer, geologist

    1845–1927 · aged 81

    August 21 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  93. José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior

    jurist, diplomat

    1845–1912 · aged 66

    April 20 · 1845

    No external source identified

  94. Erwin Rohde

    university teacher, classical philologist

    1845–1898 · aged 52

    October 9 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  95. Rogier Verbeek

    geologist, volcanologist

    1845–1926 · aged 81

    April 7 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  96. Jules Cambon

    diplomat, lawyer

    1845–1935 · aged 90

    April 5 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  97. Ulisse Dini

    politician, university teacher

    1845–1918 · aged 72

    November 14 · 1845

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  98. Abdol Majid Mirza

    politician

    1845–1927

    1845

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  99. Friedrich Martens

    diplomat, historian

    1845–1909 · aged 63

    August 27 · 1845

    Source: National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File

  100. Émile Boutroux

    historian, university teacher

    1845–1921 · aged 76

    July 28 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  101. Jorge Montt

    military officer, mayor

    1845–1922 · aged 77

    April 26 · 1845

    Source: Memoria Chilena

  102. Lord George Hamilton

    politician, cricketer

    1845–1927 · aged 81

    December 17 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  103. Àngel Guimerà*

    playwright, screenwriter

    Date disputed

    May 6 · 1845

    Source: filmportal.de

  104. Candida Maria of Jesus

    nun

    1845–1912 · aged 67

    May 31 · 1845

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  105. Wilhelm von Bode

    museologist, art collector

    1845–1929 · aged 83

    December 10 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  106. Pál Szinyei Merse

    politician, painter

    1845–1920 · aged 74

    July 4 · 1845

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  107. Francis Montague Holl

    painter

    1845–1888 · aged 43

    July 4 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  108. August Wilhelmj

    composer, university teacher

    1845–1908 · aged 62

    September 21 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  109. Sámuel Teleki

    geographer, explorer

    1845–1916 · aged 70

    November 1 · 1845

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  110. William Richard Gowers

    neurologist, physician

    1845–1915 · aged 70

    March 20 · 1845

    Source: Munk's Roll

  111. Muhammad Rahim Bahadur Khan II

    poet

    1845–1910

    1845

    No external source identified

  112. Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey

    politician, banker

    1845–1915 · aged 70

    March 20 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  113. Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet*

    jurist, legal scholar

    Date disputed

    December 10 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  114. Nikodim Milaš

    Eastern Orthodox priest, church historian

    1845–1915 · aged 69

    April 4 · 1845

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  115. Gustaf Cederström

    university teacher, painter

    1845–1933 · aged 88

    April 12 · 1845

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  116. Enrico Hillyer Giglioli

    ornithologist, naturalist

    1845–1909 · aged 64

    June 13 · 1845

    Source: NMVW-collection website

  117. Carlo Caneva

    politician, military officer

    1845–1922 · aged 77

    April 22 · 1845

    No external source identified

  118. Horatio Frederick Phillips

    engineer, aircraft pilot

    1845–1926 · aged 81

    February 2 · 1845

    Source: Find a Grave

  119. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick

    mathematician, teacher

    1845–1936 · aged 90

    March 11 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  120. Joseph M. Carey

    politician, lawyer

    1845–1924 · aged 79

    January 19 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  121. Ernesto Nathan*

    politician

    Date disputed

    October 5 · 1845

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  122. Antonin Mercié*

    teacher, painter

    Date disputed

    October 29 · 1845

    Source: Léonore database

  123. Tina Blau

    painter

    1845–1916 · aged 70

    November 15 · 1845

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  124. Ettore Ferrari

    politician, sculptor

    1845–1929 · aged 84

    March 25 · 1845

    Source: Catalog of the German National Library

  125. Wilhelm Pfeffer

    university teacher, biologist

    1845–1920 · aged 74

    March 9 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  126. Wang Yirong

    oracle bones scholar, anthropologist

    1845–1900

    1845

    Source: mutualart.com

  127. Madeleine Lemaire

    salonnière, illustrator

    1845–1928 · aged 82

    May 24 · 1845

    Source: CLARA

  128. Eduard Sachau

    orientalist, university teacher

    1845–1930 · aged 85

    July 20 · 1845

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  129. Ernst von Wildenbruch

    diplomat, reserve officer

    1845–1909 · aged 63

    February 3 · 1845

    Source: filmportal.de

  130. Richard Assmann

    meteorologist, physician

    1845–1918 · aged 73

    April 13 · 1845

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  131. Vladimir Lamsdorf

    diplomat, politician

    1845–1907 · aged 62

    January 6 · 1845

    No external source identified

  132. Timothy Richard

    missionary

    1845–1919 · aged 73

    October 10 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  133. Princess Marie, Princess Consort of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

    1845–1930 · aged 85

    June 28 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  134. William Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson

    military personnel, engineer

    1845–1918 · aged 73

    March 2 · 1845

    Source: The Peerage

  135. Edadil Kadın

    aristocrat

    1845–1875

    1845

    No external source identified

  136. Douglas William Freshfield

    geographer, historian

    1845–1934 · aged 88

    April 27 · 1845

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  137. Fyodor Uspensky

    anthropologist, philosopher

    1845–1928 · aged 83

    February 19 · 1845

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  138. Hermann Bollé

    architect

    1845–1926 · aged 80

    October 18 · 1845

    Source: casopis-gradjevinar.hr

  139. Edith Pechey

    feminist, suffragette

    1845–1908 · aged 62

    October 7 · 1845

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  140. Zygmunt Wróblewski

    chemist, physicist

    1845–1888 · aged 42

    October 28 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  141. Zygmunt Gorazdowski

    presbyter

    1845–1920 · aged 74

    November 1 · 1845

    Source: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon

  142. Jan Czerski

    geographer, entomologist

    1845–1892 · aged 47

    May 15 · 1845

    No external source identified

  143. Rodolfo Lanciani*

    politician, art historian

    Date disputed

    January 2 · 1845

    Source: LONSEA

  144. José Pedro Varela

    journalist, politician

    1845–1879 · aged 34

    March 19 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  145. Facundo Machaín

    politician, lawyer

    1845–1877 · aged 31

    November 26 · 1845

    No external source identified

  146. Mikhail Muravyov

    politician, diplomat

    1845–1900 · aged 55

    April 19 · 1845

    No external source identified

  147. Louis Rousselet

    photographer, geographer

    1845–1929

    May 15 · 1845

    Source: BnF authorities

  148. Henry Bradley

    philologist, lexicographer

    1845–1923 · aged 77

    December 3 · 1845

    Source: SNAC

  149. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr*

    politician, journalist

    Date disputed

    July 4 · 1845

    Source: britannica.com

  150. Inoue Yoshika

    military personnel

    1845–1929 · aged 83

    December 1 · 1845

    No external source identified

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