ON THIS DAY
Born in 1848
355 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Wyatt Earp
hunter, politician
- Paul Gauguin
ceramicist, draftsperson
- Raja Ravi Varma
creator, painter
- Arthur Balfour
head of government, writer
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
sculptor, artist
- Gottlob Frege
mathematician, analytic philosopher
- Belle Starr
outlaw
- Vilfredo Pareto
university teacher, mathematician
- Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
author, anthroposophist
- Tōgō Heihachirō
politician, samurai
- Otto, King of Bavaria
politician
- Lewis Howard Latimer
teacher, inventor
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
jewelry designer, glass artist
- Gustave Caillebotte
marine architect, engineer
- Victor Noir
journalist
- W. G. Grace
cricketer, athlete
- Anselm J. McLaurin
lawyer, politician
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
writer, novelist
- Otto Lilienthal
theatre manager, actor
- Viktor Vasnetsov
graphic artist, mosaicist
- Joel Chandler Harris
writer, children's writer
- Wilhelm II of Württemberg
monarch
- William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor
lawyer, businessperson
- Surendranath Banerjee
university teacher, scholar of English
- Guido von List
journalist, anthropologist
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
sculptor
- Zinovy Rozhestvensky
admiral, military personnel
- Octave Mirbeau
journalist, novelist
- Lothar von Trotha
colonial administrator, military commander
- Mary Mitchell Slessor
missionary, explorer
- Thomas Lipton
merchant, athlete
- Katsura Tarō
politician, military personnel
- Hubert Parry
university teacher, musicologist
- Matthew Webb
swimmer, stunt performer
- Alexei Kuropatkin
minister, military personnel
- Hristo Botev
writer, poet
- Nathan Straus
philanthropist, industrialist
- Jules Bastien-Lepage
painter, graphic artist
- Edward Henry Harriman
railway worker, manager
- Vasily Surikov
artist, painter
- Princess María Isabel of Orléans
politician
- Hugo de Vries
geneticist, university teacher
- Hermann von Eichhorn
soldier, military personnel
- Hans Delbrück
military historian, politician
- Brooks Adams
writer, jurist
- Albert Parsons
journalist, typesetter
- Francis Darwin
botanist
- Pratap Singh I of Kashmir
monarch
- Oscar Hammerstein I
composer, entrepreneur
- Romesh Chunder Dutt
writer, historian
- Alice James
writer, diarist
- William Jay Gaynor
politician, mayor
- Kandukuri Vireshalingam
writer, social reformer
- Loránd Eötvös
politician, engineer
- Ferdinand Mannlicher
engineer, inventor
- William Wynn Westcott
translator, writer
- Pedro, Prince Imperial of Brazil
aristocrat
- Anatoly Stessel
military officer
- Anna Boch
painter
- Carl Wernicke
university teacher, psychiatrist
- Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
classical philologist, politician
- Randall Davidson
politician, archbishop
- Richard Jefferies
journalist, writer
- Orison Swett Marden
physician writer, psychologist
- Nazim Pasha
politician, military personnel
- Vladimir Sukhomlinov
politician, military officer
- Arturo Prat
sailor, military personnel
- Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
politician
- Pavle Jurišić Šturm
military personnel
- Thomas Power O'Connor
politician, journalist
- Kamal-ol-molk
painter
- Li Lianying
politician
- Maximilian von Prittwitz
military officer, commander-in-chief
- Carl Stumpf
psychologist, musicologist
- Édouard Detaille
graphic artist, painter
- Isa I of Bahrain
sovereign
- Ezequiel Moreno
Catholic priest, missionary
- Grant Allen
anthropologist, naturalist
- Lilla Cabot Perry
painter, poet
- Wilhelm Windelband
university teacher, historian
- Pierre De Geyter
composer
- Valtesse de la Bigne
stage actor, writer
- Henri Duparc
composer, musician
- Sándor Wekerle
jurist, economist
- Auguste Forel
university teacher, scientific collector
- Bernard Bosanquet
philosopher
- Helen Allingham
illustrator, painter
- LaMarcus Adna Thompson
inventor
- Giovanni Battista Alberto Pirelli
engineer, politician
- Louisa Lawson
journalist, feminist
- Viktor Meyer
author, university teacher
- Ioan Slavici
philologist, journalist
- Harmon Northrop Morse
chemist
- Frank Duveneck
university teacher, painter
- Albert Robida
artist, painter
- Vincent Arthur Smith
university teacher, historian
- Ulrich Wille
military personnel, university teacher
- Johann Palisa
military officer, university teacher
- Lise Tréhot
model, muse
- B. B. Comer
politician
- Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
public figure, rabbi
- Albert Bartholomé
draftsperson, sculptor
- Melchior de Vogüé
diplomat, travel writer
- Caroline Alice Elgar
novelist, writer
- Justo Sierra
teacher, sociologist
- Fritz von Uhde
history painter, genre painter
- Lilli Lehmann
autobiographer, opera singer
- Alexander Kazbegi
writer, actor
- Otto von Emmich
military officer
- William Harnett
painter
- Louis Schmeisser
inventor
- Robert I, Duke of Parma
aristocrat
- Eugène Simon
naturalist, zoologist
- Hermann Diels
philosophy historian, secondary school teacher
- Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova
composer, music arranger
- Henry Augustus Rowland
physicist, university teacher
- Boris Stürmer
politician, diplomat
- Uzun-Hajji
cleric, imam
- George John Romanes
poet, philosopher
- Hubertine Auclert
editor, suffragette
- Enrico Forlanini
businessperson, aircraft pilot
- Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky)
religious leader, metropolitan
- Albert I, Prince of Monaco
politician, oceanographer
- Gunnar Knudsen
politician, businessperson
- José Manuel Pando
politician
- Henri Biva
naturalist, painter
- Jennie Lee
actor, film actor
- Mary Thomas
labor leader, laborer
- Kurd Lasswitz
philosopher, teacher
- Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi
Islamic jurist, muhaddith
- Friedrich Seitz
violinist, composer
- James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
scientist, university teacher
- James Ford Rhodes
historian, writer
- Sarah Purser
stained-glass artist, painter
- Gustav Bauernfeind
illustrator, architect
- Djemaleddin Efendi
judge, mufti
- Brandon Thomas
actor, author
- Liborius Ritter von Frank
military officer
- Luigi Manini
decorator, theatre designer
- Franz von Soxhlet
university teacher, chemist
- Vladimir de Pachmann
classical pianist
- L. M. Shaw
jurist, finance minister
- Ellis Rowan
botanical illustrator, painter
- Margaret Lindsay Huggins
writer, photographer