ON THIS DAY
Born in 1854
367 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Oscar Wilde
essayist, fabulist
- Ned Kelly
writer, bushranger
- Arthur Rimbaud
librettist, arms trader
- Henri Poincaré
astronomer, polymath
- Jeanette Jerome
writer, autobiographer
- John Philip Sousa
military personnel, bandleader
- Prince Louis of Battenberg
aristocrat, writer
- Benedict XV
Latin Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- George Eastman
inventor, patron of the arts
- Thomas R. Marshall
governor, lawyer
- Karl Kautsky
writer, philosopher
- Paul Ehrlich
physician, inventor
- Jane Toppan
nurse, serial killer
- Leoš Janáček
teacher, librettist
- Robert Borden
diplomat, lawyer
- Engelbert Humperdinck
music teacher, music critic
- Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
aristocrat
- James George Frazer
mythographer, linguist
- Dmitry Shuvayev
politician
- Milan I Obrenović
military personnel
- Edward Carson, Baron Carson
judge, politician
- Emil von Behring
university teacher, immunologist
- Paul von Rennenkampf
military personnel, soldier
- Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
linguist, translator
- Takahashi Korekiyo
economist, accountant
- Hertha Ayrton
electrical engineer, writer
- Charles Webster Leadbeater
occultist, theologian
- Louis-Hubert Lyautey
military officer, World War I
- Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
politician, diplomat
- Alessandro Mussolini
blacksmith
- Benjamin Tucker
sociologist, translator
- Charles Algernon Parsons
engineer, businessperson
- Zhang Xun
politician
- Georges Picquart
military personnel, politician
- Patrick Geddes
philosopher, botanist
- Moritz Moszkowski
composer, conductor
- Salomon August Andrée
photographer, explorer
- Charles Radbourn
baseball player
- Christiaan de Wet
politician
- David Dunbar Buick
inventor, artisan
- Albert Edelfelt
graphic artist, painter
- James Paterson
painter
- Joseph Jacobs
collector of fairy tales, writer
- Friedrich Alfred Krupp
entrepreneur, politician
- Aletta Jacobs
peace activist, physician
- Léo Taxil
writer, publisher
- Francis Marion Crawford
poet, writer
- Jacek Malczewski
art educator, university teacher
- Augustine Tolton
religious leader, Catholic priest
- Percy French
engineer, composer
- Stefan Stambolov
journalist, politician
- Paul Sabatier
university teacher, chemist
- Thomas A. Watson
businessperson, inventor
- Herman Bavinck
politician, philosopher
- Yan Fu
translator, sociologist
- Cornelis Lely
governor, engineer
- Alphonse Allais
comedian, dramaturge
- Ching Ling Foo
juggler, magician
- Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa
military officer
- Hans Jæger
philosopher, writer
- Andrew Jackson Houston
military officer, historian
- Charles Vance Millar
businessperson, lawyer
- William Crawford Gorgas
medical officer, physician
- Nikolay Morozov
historian, politician
- Johannes Rydberg
physicist, mathematician
- Cincinnatus Leconte
politician
- Sergei Shchukin
art collector, businessperson
- Eusapia Palladino
spiritual medium
- Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz
teacher, painter
- Julian Corbett
jurist, writer
- Fausto Zonaro
painter, genre painter
- Percy Alexander MacMahon
mathematician
- Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo
politician
- Henri La Fontaine
author, politician
- Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza
general field marshal, military engineer
- Thomas Stevens
journalist, sport cyclist
- Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg
politician
- John Kemp Starley
businessperson, engineer
- Nikolai Ruzsky
military officer
- Georges Vacher de Lapouge
philosopher, librarian
- Alexis Toth
Eastern Orthodox priest, Greek-Catholic priest
- George Whitefield Chadwick
music teacher, music educator
- Victor Babeș
bacteriologist, university teacher
- Alfredo Catalani
composer, musicologist
- Mahendranath Gupta
professor, writer
- Arthur Barclay
politician
- Ruth Belville
merchant, businessperson
- Alexandru Macedonski
journalist, linguist
- Dugald Clerk
inventor
- William Temple Hornaday
scientific collector, director
- Konstantin Jireček
university teacher, linguist
- Alexander Carlisle
businessperson, engineer
- Otto Sverdrup
sailor, polar exploration
- Ottmar Mergenthaler
inventor, precision mechanic
- Jenny Nyström
cartoonist, artist
- Ernest Belfort Bax
opinion journalist, journalist
- Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal
foreign minister, politician
- Vladimir Chertkov
opinion journalist, writer
- John Rahm
golfer
- Vasil Radoslavov
politician
- Princess Elisabeth Sybille of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
aristocrat, writer
- Paul Natorp
pedagogue, philosopher
- Ludwig von Pastor
historian, diplomat
- Richard T. Ely
social reformer, economist
- Jean-Marie Guyau
poet, writer
- Stanley Lane-Poole
numismatist, lexicographer
- Laurits Andersen Ring
painter, ceramicist
- Alfred Gilbert
artist, medalist
- José Canalejas
politician, head of government
- Viktor Dankl von Krasnik
military officer, politician
- Ali bin Said Al Busaidi
politician
- Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long
politician
- Ramón Corral
politician, military personnel
- Heinrich Köselitz
composer
- Niels Neergaard
journalist, politician
- Muhammad al-Muqri
diplomat, politician
- Anghel Saligny
engineer, politician
- Felix von Luschan
physiologist, zoological collector
- José Yves Limantour
lawyer, politician
- Thomas Cooper Gotch
painter, artist
- Clorinda Matto de Turner
writer, essayist
- Fritz Hommel
orientalist, university teacher
- Alexandru Marghiloman
lawyer, politician
- Sarah Grand
women's rights activist, writer
- John Sharp Williams
politician
- Myron Timothy Herrick
jurist, politician
- Heinrich Pesch
political economist, economist
- Adolf Erman
linguist, lexicographer
- W. G. Collingwood
author, painter
- Albert Bushnell Hart
historian, political scientist
- Edward Meyrick
zoologist, teacher
- Laurence Waddell
traveler, orientalist
- Adela Zamudio
poet, head teacher
- Charles Angrand
draftsperson, repetitor
- Charles Sumner Tainter
businessperson, scientist
- Gottlieb Haberlandt
plant physiologist, university teacher
- Giovanni Battista Grassi
malariologist, parasitologist
- Hjalmar Mellin
mathematician
- Takamine Jōkichi
chemist
- Tatsuno Kingo
university teacher, architect
- Rudolf Ernst
tile painter, painter
- Miguel Febres Cordero
educator
- Paul Vinogradoff
jurist, law professor
- José María Reina Barrios
politician