ON THIS DAY
Born in 1850
356 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Robert Louis Stevenson
songwriter, essayist
- Edward Smith
sailor, sea captain
- Guy de Maupassant
playwright, poet
- Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
politician, aristocrat
- Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
politician, general field marshal
- Pat Garrett
bartender, sheriff
- Lafcadio Hearn
novelist, collector of fairy tales
- Frances Xavier Cabrini
nun, founder of Catholic religious community
- Johnny Ringo
gunfighter, cowboy
- Kate Chopin
novelist, writer
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
historian, editing staff
- Victoriano Huerta
politician, military personnel
- Eduard Bernstein
opinion journalist, editing staff
- Big Nose Kate
prostitute
- Oliver Heaviside
physicist, engineer
- Mihai Eminescu
essayist, prose writer
- Henry Cabot Lodge
biographer, historian
- Sofia Kovalevskaya
mathematician, novelist
- Luigi Cadorna
World War I, military commander
- Abdul Rahman bin Faisal
imam, statesperson
- Besarion Jughashvili
cobbler, artisan
- Marcelo H. del Pilar
journalist, writer
- Cäsar Johann Ritz
hotel owner, hotel manager
- Hipólito Yrigoyen
lawyer, author
- Samuel Gompers
union member, functionary
- Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia
naval officer, aristocrat
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
psychologist, philosopher
- John Collier
screenwriter, actor
- Pierre Loti
naval officer, essayist
- Edward Bellamy
writer, science fiction writer
- Daniel Chester French
sculptor
- Pavel Axelrod
politician, opinion journalist
- R. J. Reynolds
politician, entrepreneur
- Ebenezer Howard
Esperantist, landscape architect
- Henry E. Huntington
art collector, entrepreneur
- Thomas Neill Cream
physician, serial killer
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
writer, poet
- Richard M. Brewer
cowboy
- Albert Spalding
athlete, baseball player
- Sami Frashëri
journalist, writer
- Henry Louis Le Châtelier
chemist, engineer
- Bharatendu Harishchandra
opinion journalist, journalist
- Karl Ferdinand Braun
physicist, inventor
- Lluís Domènech i Montaner
architect, professor
- Nicholas Golitsyn
statesperson, head of government
- Charles Richet
playwright, Esperantist
- Ivan Vazov
judge, critic
- Sien Hoornik
prostitute, tailor
- Mikhail Chigorin
chess player
- Leonard Darwin
engineer, geneticist
- Champ Clark
politician, lawyer
- Jane Ellen Harrison
suffragist, essayist
- George Huntington
medical author, neurologist
- Tarabai Shinde
writer, women's rights activist
- Ignaz Goldziher
orientalist, philologist
- Eugene Field
editor, journalist
- Seth Low
politician
- Eugen Goldstein
physicist
- Pablo Iglesias Posse
politician, trade unionist
- Cut Nyak Dhien
resistance fighter, military personnel
- Spencer Gore
cricketer, tennis player
- Charles Ranlett Flint
entrepreneur
- Mortimer Durand
diplomat, politician
- Oscar Solomon Straus
writer, ambassador
- Bernardo Reyes
minister, Governor of Nuevo León
- Mikael of Wollo
military personnel
- Frank Swettenham
photographer
- Kiyoura Keigo
politician
- Jnanadanandini Devi
social reformer, autobiographer
- Charles Doolittle Walcott
mycologist, paleontologist
- Frederic William Maitland
barrister, biographer
- John Wellborn Root
architect
- Anténor Firmin
writer, politician
- David R. Francis
ambassador, governor
- Modest Tchaikovsky
writer, translator
- Diego de los Ríos
military personnel, politician
- Zdeněk Fibich
choir director, pedagogue
- Mdungazwe Nxumalo
monarch, captain general
- Basil Hall Chamberlain
university teacher, translator
- Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
politician
- Lawrence Hargrave
astronomer, military flight engineer
- Alfred Pringsheim
mathematician, art collector
- Princess Theresa of Bavaria
explorer, writer
- William Henry Welch
bacteriologist, military physician
- John Munro Longyear
entrepreneur, politician
- William Morris Davis
writer, geographer
- Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton
aristocrat
- Aweida
monarch
- Enrico Cecchetti
ballet master, dancer
- Agoli-agbo
monarch
- Nikolai Tchaikovsky
writer, politician
- Charles Hazelius Sternberg
paleontologist, botanical collector
- Veronica Micle
writer, poet
- Annie Smith Peck
mountaineer, university teacher
- Daniel Elmer Salmon
pathologist, veterinarian
- Woldemar Voigt
physicist, university teacher
- Alexander von Linsingen
military officer
- Đorđe Vajfert
economist, numismatist
- Jørgen Pedersen Gram
mathematician, actuary
- Mark Natanson
revolutionary, politician
- Giuseppe Mercalli
geologist, volcanologist
- Charlotte Garrigue
social democrat, opinion journalist
- Fanny Hesse
microbiologist, scientist
- Hans Hartwig von Beseler
soldier, Generaloberst
- Augustine Birrell
lawyer, minister
- John Watson
short story writer, Christian minister
- Patriarch Grigorios VII of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Karl Litzmann
politician, military officer
- Xaver Scharwenka
pianist, conductor
- Theodor Bergmann
entrepreneur, engineer
- Clément Duval
writer, robber
- Jim O'Rourke
baseball player, lawyer
- Salomé Ureña
writer, poet
- Robert S. Brookings
entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Constantin Fahlberg
inventor, chemist
- Cuthbert Ottaway
cricketer, association football player
- Jean de Reszke
pianist, singer
- David Schwarz
engineer, balloonist
- Robert Wilson Shufeldt
zoologist, physician
- Alphonse Pénaud
aerospace engineer, military flight engineer
- Robert Ridgway
botanist, explorer
- Aleksander Gierymski
painter
- Jan Mikulicz-Radecki
surgeon, professor
- Albert B. Cummins
politician, governor
- Josias von Heeringen
politician, soldier
- Victoria Benedictsson
novelist, writer
- Siri von Essen
actor, stage actor
- Isaac Rice
financier, businessperson
- Robert Love Taylor
lawyer, jurist
- Julius Kronberg
university teacher, painter
- W. W. Rouse Ball
university teacher, barrister
- Léon Comerre
painter
- Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
painter, artist
- Hayashi Tadasu
politician, diplomat
- Sophie Bryant
mathematician
- Masud Mirza Zell-e Soltan
politician
- Hasegawa Yoshimichi
military personnel
- Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov
painter, collector
- John Milne
engineer, inventor
- Philipp von Ferrary
collector, philatelist
- Eugène Burnand
printmaker, illustrator
- Friedrich Delitzsch
writer, theologian
- Ernest von Koerber
finance minister, head of government
- Anton Seidl
conductor, chapelmaster
- Aimé Morot
sculptor, painter