ON THIS DAY
Born in 1852
325 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Antoni Gaudí
architect, designer
- Emperor Meiji
monarch, aristocrat
- Calamity Jane
army scout, adventurer
- H. H. Asquith
politician, diplomat
- Gojong of the Korean Empire
king, monarch
- John Harvey Kellogg
nutritionist, physician
- Charles Taze Russell
writer, religious leader
- Alice Liddell
art model, fashion model
- Joseph Joffre
military engineer, military personnel
- John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
general field marshal, politician
- Antoine Henri Becquerel
chemist, physicist
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
histologist, photographer
- Albert Abraham Michelson
university teacher, physicist
- Charles W. Fairbanks
politician, writer
- Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
military officer, politician
- William Stewart Halsted
surgeon, physician
- Tevfik Paşa
governor, politician
- Francisco Tárrega
music arranger, pianist
- Frank Winfield Woolworth
businessperson
- Daniel Burley Woolfall
association football player, association football coach
- Augusta, Lady Gregory
translator, diarist
- William Ramsay
archaeologist, chemist
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
chemist, engineer
- George Moore
dramaturge, art historian
- Cap Anson
baseball player
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
actor-manager, stage actor
- Terauchi Masatake
head of government, military personnel
- Yamamoto Gonnohyōe
admiral, head of government
- Emil Fischer
chemist, organic chemist
- Jan Ernst Matzeliger
patent inventor, mechanician
- Edmund Blair Leighton
painter
- Michael J. McGivney
Catholic priest
- Charles Villiers Stanford
composer, classical composer
- Henri Moissan
university teacher, chemist
- Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
settler, explorer
- Mekonnen Welde Mikael
politician
- José Guadalupe Posada
caricaturist, graphic artist
- Wilhelm von Bismarck
politician, beamter
- Ion Luca Caragiale
journalist, short story writer
- Alton B. Parker
politician, jurist
- Max von Gallwitz
politician, military officer
- Edwin Austin Abbey
architect, painter
- Ferdinand von Lindemann
mathematician, university teacher
- Daniel De Leon
journalist, trade unionist
- Henry van Dyke
theologian, diplomat
- Ernest Cassel
banker, art collector
- Constantin Fehrenbach
politician, jurist
- Leonardo Torres Quevedo
Esperantist, computer scientist
- Christian Krohg
writer, painter
- George Foster Peabody
businessperson
- Guglielmo Plüschow
photographer
- Pietro Gasparri
diplomat, Catholic priest
- Vera Figner
political activist, writer
- George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg
military personnel
- Victor Adler
social democrat, politician
- Sofia Schliemann
archaeologist, donor
- Willie Wilde
poet, journalist
- Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland
aristocrat
- Julius Richard Petri
physician, bacteriologist
- Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson
writer, governor
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
writer, children's writer
- Paul Bourget
poet, essayist
- Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler
military officer
- Arnold Toynbee
historian, economist
- Bérenger Saunière
Catholic priest
- John Neville Keynes
philosopher, research fellow
- Princess Marie of Battenberg
writer, feminist
- Dục Đức
monarch
- John Henry Poynting
physicist, university teacher
- Gertrude Käsebier
photographer, artist
- Theodor Fritsch
publisher, engineer
- Kodama Gentarō
military personnel, politician
- Flora Shaw
writer, editor
- Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal
aristocrat
- Itzhak Peretz
opinion journalist, poet lawyer
- Claude Maxwell MacDonald
politician, diplomat
- Charles Lanrezac
military personnel, military officer
- Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain
archaeologist, military personnel
- Arisaka Nariakira
military personnel, engineer
- Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret
visual artist, photographer
- Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov
Buddhist monk
- Hans Vaihinger
university teacher, philosopher
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
world traveler, historian
- Leopoldo Alas
writer, literary critic
- Théophile Delcassé
journalist, politician
- Émile Fayolle
military officer, military personnel
- Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher
writer, barrister
- Prince Arnulf of Bavaria
Generaloberst, military officer
- Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria
aristocrat, military officer
- Henri Gervex
painter, pastellist
- Francisco Pascasio Moreno
discoverer, botanical collector
- Max Wilhelm Carl Weber
ichthyologist, scientific collector
- Josiah Conder
architect
- Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
aristocrat
- Fukushima Yasumasa
politician, explorer
- Eilif Peterssen
draftsperson, painter
- Paul Carus
theologian, translator
- George Clausen
lithographer, draftsperson
- Edwin Markham
social reformer, essayist
- Curt von François
explorer, cartographer
- Phoebe Anna Traquair
painter, embroiderer
- Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
aristocrat
- Duchess Therese Petrovna of Oldenburg
aristocrat
- Joseph Freinademetz
Catholic priest
- J. Alden Weir
painter
- Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana
politician
- Lionel Royer
painter
- Princess Maria Cristina of Orléans
aristocrat
- Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe
politician
- Joshua W. Alexander
judge, politician
- Yusef Wahba
politician, diplomat
- Friedrich von Hügel
writer, philosopher
- Schalk Willem Burger
politician, military personnel
- Duke Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
military leader
- Theodore Robinson
artist, painter
- Leon Wyczółkowski
graphic artist, draftsperson
- Jean-Louis Forain
graphic artist, caricaturist
- Felix Graf von Bothmer
military officer
- Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema
painter
- Joseph Deniker
botanist, naturalist
- James Carroll Beckwith
painter
- Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
politician, military personnel
- Otakar Ševčík
teacher, music educator
- László Mednyánszky
illustrator, painter
- Antonio Mancini
painter, portraitist
- Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois
painter, teacher
- John Louis Emil Dreyer
astronomer, biographer
- Enrico Mazzanti
visual artist, illustrator
- Cornelia Cole Fairbanks
suffragette
- William Burnside
mathematician
- Bruno Abakanowicz
inventor, electrotechnician
- Vasily Safonov
pianist, classical pianist
- Mikoláš Aleš
painter, watercolorist
- Friedrich Loeffler
historian, physician
- Carl Chun
marine biologist, malacologist
- Fulgence Bienvenüe
engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads, architect
- Arnold Mathew
priest, archbishop
- Maximilian Berlitz
linguist
- Abdülhak Hâmit Tarhan
writer, playwright
- Jef Lambeaux
visual artist, sculptor
- Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick
physician, Privatdozent
- Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak
children's writer, writer
- Franz Eckert
composer
- Charles Erskine Scott Wood
soldier, poet lawyer
- James Theodore Bent
archaeologist, anthropologist
- Simo Matavulj
writer
- Lev Tikhomirov
philosopher, revolutionary
- Gaston Méliès
film producer, businessperson
- Theo Heemskerk
university teacher, politician
- Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter
politician, jurist