ON THIS DAY
Born in 1847
309 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Nabin Chandra Sen
poet, writer
- Gabriel Ferrier
painter, teacher
- Thomas S. Martin
lawyer, politician
- Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol
writer, philosopher
- Cesare Arzelà
university teacher, mathematician
- Friedrich von Payer
vice-chancellor, author
- Emil Kirdorf
entrepreneur, industrialist
- Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson
composer, pianist
- Stephanus Jacobus du Toit
Bible translator, Christian minister
- Otto Blehr
jurist, politician
- Julia Lermontova
chemist
- Warington Baden-Powell
military personnel
- Nishi Tokujirō
diplomat
- Rose Scott
social reformer, suffragette
- Eliška Krásnohorská
women's rights activist, translator
- William Kenyon-Slaney
politician, association football player
- Karl Heinrich Barth
piano teacher, music educator
- Ignacio Cervantes
composer, musician
- Borden Parker Bowne
theologian, philosopher
- Charles Renard
aircraft pilot, balloonist
- Ibrahim al-Yaziji
philologist, philosopher
- Oswald von Richthofen
politician
- Vincentia Maria López y Vicuña
religious sister, founder of Catholic religious community
- Sarah Frances Whiting
astronomer, physicist
- Gina Krog
editor, politician
- Mary Watson Whitney
astronomer, university teacher
- Edvard Brandes
writer, orientalist
- Pedro José Escalón
politician
- John D. Works
politician, judge
- Godefroid Kurth
medievalist, director
- Franz, Prince of Thun and Hohenstein
politician
- António Soares dos Reis
sculptor, university teacher
- Paul Emil Flechsig
neuroscientist, anatomist
- Dimitar Grekov
politician, judge
- Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem
literary critic, teacher
- Vilma Hugonnai
physician, midwife
- Geltrude Comensoli
founder of Catholic religious community, nun
- James Taliaferro
politician
- Bernhard Duhm
theologian, Hebrew Bible scholar
- Roger Wolcott
governor, jurist
- Ferdinand Fellner
architect
- Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
politician
- Ettore Marchiafava
politician, pathologist
- Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
horticulturist, botanist
- Domenico Ferrata
diplomat, Catholic priest
- John Faithfull Fleet
historian, Indologist
- Máximo Santos
soldier, politician
- Alfred George Greenhill
university teacher, scientist
- Anton Reichenow
ornithologist, zoologist
- Paul Alexis
journalist, writer
- Wilson S. Bissell
politician, jurist
- Gerardus Gul
presbyter, Old Catholic priest
- Edwin J. Houston
civil engineer, inventor
- Martin Pierre Marsick
music educator, composer
- Bithia Mary Croker
writer
- Aníbal Zañartu
politician, businessperson
- Frank W. Clarke
chemist, geologist
- Hermann Osthoff
linguist, university teacher
- Anton Marty
university teacher, pedagogue
- Joseph Achille Le Bel
chemist
- Victor Vignon
printmaker, painter
- John Joseph Frederick Otto Zardetti
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Hermann Winkelmann
musician, composer
- James Sykes Gamble
botanist, botanical collector
- Ivan Tsvetaev
historian, archaeologist
- John Marshall Hamilton
lawyer, governor
- Sima Lozanić
diplomat, chemist
- Count Erich Kielmansegg
politician
- Wilhelm Haarmann
chemist
- Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina
politician, historian
- Salomon Eberhard Henschen
neurologist, physician
- Jules Nicholas Crevaux
explorer, physician
- Agnes Zimmermann
pianist, composer
- Ormond Stone
mathematician, astronomer
- Marie Duval
caricaturist, cartoonist
- Johann Georg Hagen
philosopher, Catholic priest
- Frantz Jourdain
writer, art critic
- Maddalena Caterina Morano
Christian nun, pedagogue
- Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský
lawyer, journalist
- Heinrich Gelzer
Byzantinist, philologist
- Sara Yorke Stevenson
suffragette, anthropologist
- Giacomo Bresadola
mycologist, botanist
- Hermann de Pourtalès
sailor
- Antonín Chittussi
landscape painter, painter
- Gustavus Augustus Eisen
naturalist, botanist
- Gavriil Musicescu
conductor, music educator
- Antonio Vico
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Frédéric Masson
politician, historian
- Cesareo Guillermo
politician, lawyer
- Ōtsuki Fumihiko
linguist, lexicographer
- Joshua Millner
sport shooter
- Marie Müller
painter
- Marcel Bertrand
professor, geologist
- Émile Senart
translator, Indologist
- Robert Comtesse
jurist, lawyer
- Marceli Nencki
chemist, physician
- Karl Oskar Medin
pediatrician, physician
- Gustav Hirschfeld
anthropologist, art historian
- Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev
university teacher, mathematician
- Flora Wambaugh Patterson
botanical collector, mycologist
- Ellen Harding Baker
quiltmaker, astronomer
- Agneta Matthes
entrepreneur
- Paul Dognin
lepidopterist
- Mathilde Mallinger
music educator, voice teacher
- Paul Sintenis
pharmacist, scientific collector
- George V of Armenia
presbyter
- Joseph Loth
professor, lexicographer
- Nathan Zuntz
physiologist, physician
- Jac Ahrenberg
painter, architect
- Enrique Almaraz y Santos
politician, Catholic bishop
- Agnes Dean Abbatt
watercolorist, painter
- Enrico Butti
painter, sculptor
- Wilhelm Rein
pedagogue, university teacher
- Alexander Georg Supan
geographer, university teacher
- Wilhelm Ritter
architect, university teacher
- August Michaelis
chemist, university teacher
- Heinrich Obersteiner
neurologist, psychiatrist
- Johannes Haarklou
composer, organist
- W. H. Gaskell
physiologist
- James Henry Emerton
scientific illustrator, zoologist
- Nikolai Aristov
historian, anthropologist
- Georgi Stranski
politician, physician
- Anna Nordgren
painter, draftsperson
- Helen Cordelia Angell
painter
- Emma Irene Åström
feminist, teacher
- Władysław Bełza
literary scholar, poet
- Lipót Schulhof
astronomer
- Ottilie Baader
women's rights activist, socialist
- Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen
scientific collector, ornithologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin
Oberlehrer, botanical collector
- Julius Heinrich Franz
university teacher, astronomer
- Francisco Adolfo Coelho
philologist, romanist
- Fernand Lataste
zoologist, herpetologist
- Ebbe Hertzberg
historian, professor
- Otakar Hostinský
teacher, music critic
- Dmitry Sadovnikov
ethnographer, poet
- Géza Horváth
lepidopterist, scientific collector
- Eduard Richter
mountaineer, geographer
- Georg Dieck
dendrologist, zoologist
- Pio Rajna
romanist, philologist
- Hermann Vöchting
university teacher, botanist
- Aleksandr Pavlovich Lensky
actor, pedagogue