ON THIS DAY
Born in 1849
332 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Crazy Horse
traditional leader or chief, politician
- Ivan Pavlov
neurologist, chemist
- Édouard-Henri Avril
illustrator, painter
- Lord Randolph Churchill
aristocrat, politician
- John William Waterhouse
painter, architectural drafter
- August von Mackensen
author, general field marshal
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
novelist, children's writer
- August Strindberg
artist, autobiographer
- Henry Clay Frick
entrepreneur, patron of the arts
- Sergei Witte
politician, diplomat
- Emma Lazarus
writer, journalist
- Bertha Benz
inventor, racing automobile driver
- Jack Daniel
businessperson, distiller
- Seth Bullock
sheriff, politician
- William Osler
writer, physician
- Edmund Barton
politician, head of government
- Jacob Riis
journalist, sociologist
- Ida Straus
businessperson
- William Kissam Vanderbilt I
horse breeder, businessperson
- William Ernest Henley
journalist, editor
- Alfred von Tirpitz
essayist, naval officer
- Bernhard von Bülow
author, statesperson
- Wilhelm Voigt
impostor, cabaret performer
- Luther Burbank
non-fiction writer, inventor
- Muhammad Abduh
politician, theologian
- Felix Klein
university teacher, physicist
- Basil Zaharoff
arms trader, entrepreneur
- Herbert von Bismarck
secretary of state, member of parliament
- Nogi Maresuke
soldier, politician
- George Washington Williams
soldier, politician
- Empress Shōken
empress consort
- William Thomas Stead
writer, Esperantist
- Max Nordau
playwright, theatre manager
- Maurice Barrymore
stage actor, actor
- Hong Tianguifu
king
- Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife
diplomat, politician
- Saionji Kinmochi
diplomat, politician
- William Knox D'Arcy
businessperson
- William R. Day
diplomat, politician
- Stepan Makarov
admiral, oceanographer
- Martha Tabram
street vendor, prostitute
- Vera Zasulich
opinion journalist, writer
- Georg Luger
entrepreneur, technician
- James Whitcomb Riley
poet, writer
- Sarah Orne Jewett
novelist, poet
- John Ambrose Fleming
university teacher, inventor
- William Merritt Chase
painter, photographer
- Edward Aveling
writer, physician
- Joseph Gallieni
politician, military personnel
- Armand Peugeot
entrepreneur, racing automobile driver
- Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington
politician
- Ellen Key
feminist, writer
- Paul Rée
writer, philosopher
- Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
university teacher, mathematician
- Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria
politician, member of parliament
- Edmund Gosse
poet, art historian
- Queen Maria Theresa of Bavaria
consort, painter
- Archduchess Mathilda of Austria
aristocrat
- Mohammad Yaqub Khan
politician
- Eva Gonzalès
artist, art model
- Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
politician
- Benjamin Holt
businessperson, inventor
- Dersu Uzala
explorer, hunter
- Jyotirindranath Tagore
biographer, musician
- Bertha Palmer
entrepreneur, art collector
- Jean Béraud
graphic artist, painter
- Robert Anderson Van Wyck
judge, politician
- Sam Steele
military personnel
- Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
gunsmith, engineer
- White Bull
traditional leader or chief
- Michael Ancher
painter
- Alfonso Carlos de Borbón
military personnel
- Nikolai Nebogatov
Konteradmiral, military personnel
- Alfred Kleiner
university teacher, physicist
- George Bird Grinnell
anthropologist, journalist
- Syed Ameer Ali
writer, lawyer
- Princess Marie of Hanover
politician
- Ruy Barbosa
translator, opinion journalist
- Abbott Handerson Thayer
naturalist, painter
- Alexander Kielland
writer, author
- Józef Chełmoński
painter, animal breeder
- Edwin Lord Weeks
painter, illustrator
- Richard Lydekker
naturalist, geologist
- Hugo Riemann
conductor, musicologist
- Hubert von Herkomer
poet, sculptor
- Eugène Carrière
draftsperson, painter
- Charles Francis Brush
patent inventor, philanthropist
- Princess Alice of Parma
aristocrat
- Kamimura Hikonojō
military personnel, admiral
- Harry Kellar
magician
- Oscar Hertwig
physician, philosopher
- Aston Webb
architect, painter
- Károly Khuen-Héderváry
politician, diplomat
- Fernand de Langle de Cary
military personnel
- Karl Brugmann
linguist, university teacher
- John W. Kern
lawyer, politician
- Friedrich von Bernhardi
military personnel, writer
- John Froelich
inventor
- Manuel Bonilla
politician
- Horace Lamb
mathematician, physicist
- Henrietta Edwards
women's rights activist
- Oskar Enkvist
military personnel
- Deng Shichang
military personnel
- Fritz Mauthner
literary critic, writer
- Leona Florentino
poet, writer
- Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
jurist, politician
- James Tyler Kent
university teacher, physician
- Clara Shortridge Foltz
suffragette, jurist
- Geneviève Halévy
salonnière
- Benjamin Godard
composer, violist
- Si Singamangaraja XII
resistance fighter
- Jean Richepin
politician, opinion journalist
- Friedrich Jodl
university teacher, philosopher
- Theodor Leutwein
politician, Landeshauptmann
- Rafael Reyes
explorer, author
- Mary Fraser Tytler
ceramicist, handicrafter
- George Mercer Dawson
photographer, paleontologist
- John Hopkinson
engineer, physicist
- A. H. Albut
association football coach, association football player
- Joaquim Nabuco
journalist, diplomat
- Emile Claus
graphic artist, visual artist
- Sarat Chandra Das
spy, novelist
- Pedro Montt
politician, lawyer
- Laura Kieler
writer, journalist
- Nosson Tzvi Finkel
rabbi
- Takaki Kanehiro
physician, politician
- James Mason
writer, chess player
- Hans Dahl
painter, university teacher
- Murphy J. Foster
governor, entrepreneur
- Franz S. Exner
university teacher, physicist
- Olena Pchilka
writer, journalist
- Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock
politician, diplomat
- Alexander von Krobatin
pedagogue, politician
- Augusto Aubry
politician
- Gerhard Munthe
illustrator, textile artist
- Božidar Janković
military personnel
- Hallie Quinn Brown
educator, civil rights advocate
- Manuel Acuña
lyricist, playwright
- Ivan Evstratiev Geshov
banker, politician
- Erwin Bälz
internist, anthropologist
- John W. Griggs
politician, judge
- Johan Kjeldahl
chemist
- Agenor Maria Gołuchowski
diplomat, foreign minister
- Frederick Schwatka
botanist, physician