ON THIS DAY
Born in 1848
355 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz
painter, illustrator
- Victor Maurel
opera singer
- Emil Carlsen
painter
- Édouard Joseph Dantan
illustrator, printmaker
- Richard F. Pettigrew
lawyer, jurist
- Henry Jenner
Bible translator, translator
- Jørgen Løvland
statesperson, politician
- Georges Ohnet
journalist, novelist
- Otto Bütschli
botanist, entomologist
- María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras
religious, nun
- Karl Emil Franzos
editing staff, opinion journalist
- Maryana Marrash
poet, salonnière
- Maria Bernarda Bütler
missionary, matron
- Laurent Marqueste
sculptor, painter
- Claude Reignier Conder
army officer, engineer
- Adelsteen Normann
painter
- Joseph Lyman Silsbee
architect
- Jorge Holguín
diplomat, military personnel
- Paul Pau
military personnel, soldier
- Karl Nobiling
assassin, politician
- William J. Stone
lawyer, politician
- Huang Zunxian
poet, pedagogue
- Masuda Takashi
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Helene Lange
teacher, social worker
- Adolf Albin
non-fiction writer, chess player
- Amos Burn
chess player
- Robert Planquette
singer, pianist
- Stephen Mallory II
lawyer, politician
- Caroline Still Anderson
activist, physician
- Ludvig Schytte
pianist, composer
- Diederik Korteweg
mathematician, university teacher
- Friedrich Ernst Dorn
university teacher, physicist
- Henry Edward Armstrong
university teacher, educator
- Hermann Schubert
mathematician
- Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan
presbyter
- Jovita Feitosa
military personnel
- Josef Václav Myslbek
sculptor, teacher
- Marquis Johann von Pallavicini
diplomat, politician
- Zamfir Arbore
librarian, historian
- Victoire Rasoamanarivo
missionary, philanthropist
- Heinrich Bruns
university teacher, astronomer
- Fernand Pelez
painter
- Johannes Volkelt
university teacher, philosopher
- Marguerite Charpentier
painter, art collector
- Amélie Beaury-Saurel
painter, pastellist
- Henry Lerolle
printmaker, painter
- David Sarajishvili
philanthropist, entrepreneur
- Filippo Smaldone
presbyter
- Ferdinand Tiemann
editing staff, chemist
- Georges Izambard
teacher
- William Jacob Holland
zoologist, theologian
- Friedrich Soennecken
entrepreneur, inventor
- Emma Paterson
feminist, editor
- John E. Kenna
lawyer, politician
- Marie Huot
non-fiction writer, poet
- Si Mohand
poet, philosopher
- Jean Aicard
playwright, novelist
- Raimundo Fernández Villaverde
minister, politician
- John Churton Collins
essayist, literary critic
- Johann Heinrich Hübschmann
armenologist, university teacher
- Marcos Morínigo
politician
- Luigi Mancinelli
conductor, composer
- Ludwig Geiger
historian, art historian
- Pierre-Georges Jeanniot
printmaker, designer
- Nils Gustaf Ekholm
meteorologist, physicist
- Jules Richard
entrepreneur, inventor
- Damian I of Jerusalem
Christian minister
- Alexandre Bisson
novelist, writer
- Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas
architect
- Gustav Adolf Fischer
ornithologist, botanical collector
- Paul Groussac
philologist, historian
- Marie Luplau
women's rights activist, painter
- Arturo Graf
poet, literary critic
- Edward O. Wolcott
lawyer, politician
- Irene Morales Infante
soldier, vivandière
- Jules Tannery
mathematician, university teacher
- Hermann Strack
orientalist, university teacher
- Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones
translator, philosopher
- Adolf Weil
pathologist, university teacher
- Hermann Kretzschmar
musicographer, musicologist
- Carlo Emery
university teacher, entomologist
- Marcellus Emants
writer
- Gabriel von Seidl
architect
- Paul Charles Dubois
neuropathologist, neurologist
- Eduard Müller
judge, jurist
- Benjamin Baillaud
university teacher, meteorologist
- María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña
philanthropist, founder
- Emma Cooke
archer
- Ekaterina Vazem
dancer, ballet dancer
- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
writer, novelist
- Ignatius Ephrem II Rahmani
archbishop, Catholic bishop
- William Courtright
actor, writer
- Olga Fialka
painter
- William Frederick Denning
astronomer
- John Brockbank
cricketer, association football player
- Ignatz Urban
botanist, botanical collector
- Oskar Lenz
mineralogist, explorer
- Lafayette Young
politician
- Harry Bresslau
historian, university teacher
- Justin de Selves
official, politician
- Sebastiano Martinelli
diplomat, cardinal of the Roman Curia
- Théophile Homolle
classical archaeologist, epigrapher
- Hans von Wolzogen
poet, editor
- Archibald Ross Colquhoun
colonial administrator, writer
- Max O'Rell
journalist, writer
- George Edward Dobson
physician, photographer
- Mekertich Portukalian
politician, editing staff
- Filipp Fortunatov
linguist, philologist
- Sun Yirang
philosopher, linguist
- Victor Brochard
philosophy historian, philosopher
- Karl Kraepelin
biologist, curator
- Robert Wiedersheim
anatomist, physician
- Jules Coutan
sculptor
- Bruno Piglhein
artist, university teacher
- Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang
bacteriologist, physician
- Eugène Turpin
chemist
- Otto Malling
conductor, music educator
- Carlos Baliño
politician, poet
- William Thompson
archer
- James Owen Dorsey
meteorological observer, anthropologist
- Bertha Müller
painter
- Max Erdmannsdörfer
pianist, musician
- Rudolf Dührkoop
photographer
- Nikolay Veselovsky
university teacher, orientalist
- Henry Houssaye
literary critic, journalist
- Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse
ceramicist, painter
- Julius Karl Scriba
botanist, professor
- Wacław Święcicki
poet, writer
- Adele Zay
teacher, feminist
- Adolf Láng
engineer, architect
- Vsevolod Miller
orientalist, linguist
- Charles Thomas Bingham
ornithologist, entomologist
- William Keith Brooks
malacologist, university teacher
- Filippo Camassei
theologian, Catholic bishop
- Waldemar Rosenberger
engineer, linguist
- Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin
stage actor, writer
- Adhémar Esmein
historian, jurist
- Elia Millosevich
astronomer
- Ludwig Dill
painter
- Arvid Genetz
Bible translator, linguist