ON THIS DAY
Born in 1847
309 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Thomas Edison
screenwriter, film director
- Alexander Graham Bell
electrical engineer, inventor
- Paul von Hindenburg
soldier, lord of the manor
- Jesse James
cowboy
- Bram Stoker
writer, novelist
- Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
nurse, aristocrat
- Annie Besant
author, writer
- Joseph Pulitzer
newspaper proprietor, journalist
- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
writer, politician
- Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia
architect, military personnel
- Georges Sorel
trade unionist, social reformer
- Wong Fei-hung
physician, martial artist
- Ellen Terry
theatre manager, stage actor
- Ida Saxton McKinley
politician, president
- Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
military personnel, spy
- Kate Sheppard
politician, suffragist
- Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria
aristocrat
- John Chard
military officer, engineer
- Jacob Schiff
patron of the arts, financier
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
feminist, women's rights activist
- Bolesław Prus
short story writer, opinion journalist
- Benjamin Tillman
politician
- Jean Casimir-Perier
politician, diplomat
- Max Liebermann
printmaker, collector
- Albert Pinkham Ryder
painter
- Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird
association football player, banker
- Maria Pia of Savoy
politician, photographer
- Camille Doncieux
model, art model
- Koos de la Rey
military personnel, politician
- Sergey Nechayev
militant, writer
- Catherine Dolgorukov
lady-in-waiting
- Nakano Takeko
onna-musha
- Princess Leopoldina of Brazil
politician
- Radomir Putnik
military commander, general field marshal
- Oscar Swahn
sport shooter, senior accountant
- Frits Thaulow
landscape painter, painter
- Philip, Prince of Eulenburg
composer, writer
- Milena of Montenegro
consort
- Sidney Sonnino
head of government, member of parliament
- Afonso Pena
banker, professor
- Ricciotti Garibaldi
condottiero, politician
- William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie
entrepreneur, politician
- Two Moon
traditional leader or chief
- Karl Wittgenstein
entrepreneur, patron of the arts
- James O'Neill
actor, stage actor
- Jens Peter Jacobsen
botanist, librettist
- Princess Margherita of Parma
aristocrat
- Ralph Albert Blakelock
painter
- George Grossmith
composer, actor
- Miura Gorō
military personnel, politician
- John Forrest
discoverer, scientific collector
- Alula Engida
military personnel, politician
- Anna Howard Shaw
theologian, physician
- Margarete Steiff
entrepreneur, tailor
- Nikolay Zhukovsky
aerospace engineer, military flight engineer
- John Peter Altgeld
prosecutor, lawyer
- John Roy Lynch
lawyer, photographer
- John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute
bibliophile, politician
- Vinnie Ream
artist, sculptor
- Solomon Schechter
theologian, rabbi
- Denis Kearney
drayman
- Lotta Crabtree
stage actor, actor
- Wilgelm Vitgeft
admiral, military personnel
- Paul Langerhans
physiologist, physician
- William O'Connell Bradley
politician, lawyer
- Idriz Seferi
politician
- Hans Gross
criminologist, opinion journalist
- Galileo Ferraris
inventor, electrotechnician
- Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria
travel writer, politician
- John Bates Clark
university teacher, writer
- Chiquinha Gonzaga
conductor, activist
- Augusta Holmès
poet, composer
- Kuno von Moltke
military personnel, composer
- Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves
poet, writer
- Phan Dinh Phung
revolutionary, poet
- Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa
military personnel, politician
- Infante Augusto, Duke of Coimbra
aristocrat
- Otto Wallach
chemist, university teacher
- Stéphen Sauvestre
architect
- Wilhelm Killing
mathematician, university teacher
- Lord Francis Douglas
mountain guide
- Kobayashi Kiyochika
printmaker, mangaka
- Eugen Maximilianovich, Duke of Leuchtenberg
military personnel
- Charles Follen McKim
architect
- Samuel Fielden
anarchist
- Robert Fuchs
music teacher, composer
- Giuseppe Giacosa
poet, writer
- Alice Meynell
writer, essayist
- Oku Yasukata
military personnel, military officer
- James Hannington
Anglican priest, botanical collector
- Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart
sculptor, poet
- Ray Lankester
biologist, zoologist
- Hiệp Hòa
monarch
- Kálmán Mikszáth
newspaper editor, writer
- Christine Ladd-Franklin
mathematician, logician
- Emma Albani
opera singer, composer
- Frederick Arthur Bridgman
painter, musician
- Émile Faguet
theatre critic, journalist
- Remus von Woyrsch
soldier, military personnel
- Mori Arinori
thinker, diplomat
- Agathe Backer Grøndahl
composer, organist
- Michel-Joseph Maunoury
military officer
- Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin
military personnel
- William Edward Ayrton
electrotechnician, inventor
- Pavel Yablochkov
inventor, engineer
- Auguste Pavie
explorer, diplomat
- Lady Adela
aristocrat
- Carl Josef Bayer
chemist
- Alexander Lodygin
inventor, entrepreneur
- Morton Betts
association football player, cricketer
- Bertha Wegmann
painter, portrait painter
- Flora Annie Steel
writer, historian
- Charles Gide
economist, professor
- Josip Belušić
teacher, inventor
- Richard Bowdler Sharpe
librarian, zoologist
- Emil Bessels
arctic explorer, zoologist
- Niko I Dadiani, Prince of Megrelia
military personnel
- Clelia Barbieri
nun, founder of Catholic religious community
- Thomas Brock
sculptor
- Wilhelmina Drucker
journalist, writer
- Alexander Mackenzie
music educator, university teacher
- František Křižík
scientist, entrepreneur
- Mohammad Vali Khan Tonekaboni
politician
- Emil Holub
ethnographer, physician
- May French Sheldon
translator, explorer
- Adolf von Hildebrand
architect, university teacher
- Wordsworth Donisthorpe
film director, inventor
- Victor Gilbert
painter, watercolorist
- Édouard Debat-Ponsan
painter
- Robert Barker
engineer, association football player
- Milovan Glišić
linguist, literary historian
- Alajos Hauszmann
university teacher, architect
- A. N. Hornby
cricketer, rugby union player
- Alexander Karpinsky
professor, mining engineer
- Louis Henri Boussenard
journalist, explorer
- August Klughardt
composer, conductor
- Roman Rosen
diplomat, politician
- Joachim Andersen
conductor, flautist
- Nakae Chōmin
politician, philosopher
- William Heise
cinematographer, director
- Joseph Davilmar Théodore
politician
- Philipp Scharwenka
music educator, musician
- Eduardo López de Romaña
engineer, businessperson
- Paul Georg von Möllendorff
linguist, diplomat
- Marijan Varešanin
military officer, politician
- Karl Bücher
economic historian, university teacher
- Carlo Alberto Castigliano
mathematician, executive