ON THIS DAY
Born in 1853
310 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Vincent van Gogh
draftsperson, etcher
- Cecil John Rhodes
explorer, engineer
- Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
politician, aristocrat
- Chulalongkorn
statesperson, diplomat
- José Martí
politician, essayist
- John Wesley Hardin
lawyer
- Lillie Langtry
stage actor, courtesan
- Bat Masterson
bretteur, journalist
- Hussein bin Ali
politician, caliph
- Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
politician
- Hendrik Lorentz
botanist, university teacher
- Alva Belmont
political activist, socialite
- Stanford White
painter, architect
- Sarada Devi
philosopher
- Aleksey Brusilov
military officer, memoirist
- Vladimir Solovyov
poet, university teacher
- Thyra, Crown Princess of Hanover
aristocrat
- Flinders Petrie
translator, historian
- Errico Malatesta
editor, journalist
- Howard Pyle
university teacher, illustrator
- Hussein Kamel of Egypt
politician
- Carl Larsson
illustrator, architectural drafter
- Wilhelm Ostwald
sociologist, university teacher
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
inventor, scientist
- Kitasato Shibasaburō
bacteriologist, politician
- Ian Hamilton
military personnel, army officer
- Oskar Potiorek
World War I, military personnel
- Alphonse Bertillon
anthropologist, photographer
- Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet
physician, surgeon
- Sophia Perovskaya
revolutionary, women's rights activist
- Emil Jellinek
diplomat, entrepreneur
- Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba
theologian, poet
- William Gillette
writer, actor
- Ferdinand Hodler
panoramist, graphic artist
- Damat Ferid Paşa
writer, politician
- Katharina Schratt
stage actor
- Frank Bernard Dicksee
painter, illustrator
- Leander Starr Jameson
politician
- Antonio Salandra
minister, lawyer
- Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted
politician, entrepreneur
- Philander C. Knox
diplomat, lawyer
- André Michelin
industrialist, entrepreneur
- Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
mathematician, university teacher
- Charles Howard Hinton
mathematician, science fiction writer
- Alexius Meinong
mathematician, philosopher
- Hans Christian Gram
pharmacologist, physician
- David Belasco
director, playwright
- Alfred Beit
merchant, art collector
- William Henry Moody
politician, judge
- Elihu Thomson
businessperson, engineer
- Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
painter, pharmacist
- Hector MacDonald
military officer
- Frederick Taylor Gates
theologian, pastor
- Hall Caine
journalist, author
- Henry Solomon Wellcome
businessperson, physician
- Vladimir Kokovtsov
statesperson, finance minister
- Fritz von Below
military personnel, soldier
- Teresa Carreño
opera singer, singer
- Vladimir Shukhov
physicist, inventor
- Vladimir Korolenko
prose writer, literary critic
- Albrecht Kossel
physician, university teacher
- Ferdinand Blumentritt
geographer, writer
- Pavel Mishchenko
military personnel, military officer
- Heinrich Lammasch
politician, university teacher
- Laurits Tuxen
painter, history painter
- Tasker H. Bliss
diplomat, military officer
- Ciprian Porumbescu
choir director, music teacher
- José Santos Zelayo
politician
- Clemens von Ketteler
diplomat
- Antonio Maura
lawyer, jurist-consultant
- Miguel de Bragança
military personnel
- John Frank Stevens
railway engineer, civil engineer
- Ernest Fenollosa
orientalist, art historian
- Henning von Holtzendorff
politician, naval officer
- Eduardo Scarpetta
screenwriter, actor
- Abadi Bano Begum
politician, freedom fighter
- Wilhelm Dörpfeld
building researcher, archaeologist
- Louise Abbéma
painter, printmaker
- Nikolai Kibalchich
chemist, revolutionary
- Damat Mahmud Celaleddin Paşa
politician, writer
- Yakov Zhilinskiy
military historian, military personnel
- Pierre-Paul Émile Roux
bacteriologist, photographer
- Musa al-Husayni
politician, mayor
- André Messager
organist, music arranger
- Hugh L. Scott
military officer
- Florentino Ameghino
paleontologist, ornithologist
- Chaim Soloveitchik
theologian, rabbi
- Agvan Dorzhiev
diplomat, Tibetologist
- John Henry Twachtman
painter, graphic artist
- Panagiotis Danglis
politician, military personnel
- Paddy Ryan
boxer
- Hermann Wissmann
explorer, colonial administrator
- Karl von Einem
non-fiction writer, Generaloberst
- Higaonna Kanryō
karateka
- Charles Gore
Anglican theologian, Anglican priest
- Behramji Malabari
journalist, social reformer
- Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen
composer, pianist
- Tom Ricketts
film director, stage actor
- Jacques Doucet
fashion designer, grand couturier
- Arthur Foote
musicologist, composer
- Knut Agathon Wallenberg
soldier, politician
- Woodbridge N. Ferris
politician
- Thomas Nelson Page
writer, poet
- Paul Julius Möbius
psychiatrist, neurologist
- Pierre Marie
neurologist, physician
- Armand du Paty de Clam
military personnel
- Jaroslav Vrchlický
translator, librettist
- Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
curator, photographer
- Hudson Maxim
inventor, chemist
- Kaneko Kentarō
diplomat, politician
- George W. Murray
politician
- William S. Taylor
judge, politician
- Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey
engineer, businessperson
- Frank Swett Black
lawyer, jurist
- Ivan Grigorovich
military personnel, minister
- Moses Alexander
governor, politician
- William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow
statistician, politician
- Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour
politician
- Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton
politician
- Oskar Panizza
publisher, editing staff
- Maria Wiik
draftsperson, painter
- Adelaide Herrmann
stage actor, magician
- Haraprasad Shastri
novelist, scholar
- Lie Kim Hok
journalist, writer
- Winthrop M. Crane
politician
- Johan Petter Johansson
mechanic, industrialist
- Jules Lemaître
writer, librettist
- Robert Underwood Johnson
historian, writer
- Georgios Jakobides
university teacher, painter
- Amanda Röntgen-Maier
composer, violinist
- Roberto Ferruzzi
painter
- Vere St. Leger Goold
tennis player
- Isidor Kaufmann
painter
- Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
jurist, judge
- Théodore Flournoy
university teacher, psychologist
- Dmitry Sipyagin
politician
- Adolf Furtwängler
classical archaeologist, art historian
- Giuseppina Bozzacchi
ballet dancer
- Frederick H. Evans
architectural photographer, photographer
- Gabriel Hanotaux
politician, historian
- Julian Fałat
landscape painter, teacher
- Stanisław Masłowski
draftsperson, graphic artist
- Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
aristocrat
- Şayan Kadın
aristocrat
- Friedrich von Pourtalès
diplomat
- Charles Mengin
painter, sculptor