ON THIS DAY
Born in 1855
363 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Eugene V. Debs
union member, socialist
- John Browning
entrepreneur, firearms designer
- Lidia Poët
jurist, lawyer
- Andrew W. Mellon
finance minister, art collector
- Archduchess Sophie Friederike of Austria
aristocrat
- Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
politician, aristocrat
- Eleanor Marx
socialist, politician
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain
racial theorist, writer
- Robert M. La Follette
politician, writer
- King Camp Gillette
salesperson, entrepreneur
- James S. Sherman
politician, lawyer
- Yukteswar Giri
astrologer
- Percival Lowell
scientific collector, astronomer
- Josiah Royce
philosopher, historian
- Inukai Tsuyoshi
politician, journalist
- Paul Deschanel
writer, politician
- William Mulholland
civil engineer, engineer
- Otto Liman von Sanders
military officer
- Evelyn De Morgan
painter
- Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal
aristocrat
- Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani
politician, Amir
- Marie Corelli
poet, writer
- Ferdinand Tönnies
sociologist, university teacher
- Axel Paulsen
figure skater, speed skater
- Francis Bellamy
Christian minister, writer
- Robert de Montesquiou
poet, journalist
- Pavlos Kountouriotis
admiral, politician
- Sarah E. Goode
entrepreneur, inventor
- Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
politician, military officer
- Isaac Isaacs
author, barrister
- Hsu Shih-chang
artist, politician
- George Ramsay
association football coach, association football player
- Ernest Chausson
pianist, conductor
- Olive Schreiner
feminist, writer
- Christian Bohr
university teacher, pharmacist
- Giovanni Pascoli
translator, literary critic
- Živojin Mišić
military officer, general field marshal
- August Vincent Theodore Spies
politician, editor
- Rodolphe Lindt
chocolatier, entrepreneur
- Vsevolod Garshin
art critic, poet
- Alexandros Zaimis
head of government, lawyer
- Emile Verhaeren
poet, writer
- Edwin Hall
physicist, university teacher
- Hermes da Fonseca
politician, military officer
- Cecilia Beaux
painter, artist
- Anatoly Lyadov
university teacher, folklorist
- William Friese-Greene
film director, photographer
- Félix Resurrección Hidalgo
painter
- Alfred Wallis
artist, draftsperson
- Hesya Helfman
laborer, revolutionary
- Secondo Pia
lawyer, photographer
- Bidar Kadın
aristocrat
- Ivan Michurin
geneticist, pomologist
- Vlaho Bukovac
teacher, painter
- Frank Friday Fletcher
military officer
- Princess Marie of Prussia
aristocrat
- Theodor Reuss
opera singer, actor
- Marianne Stokes
painter, history painter
- Jean Lorrain
journalist, librettist
- Arthur Wing Pinero
playwright, writer
- Konstantin Mereschkowski
lichenologist, university teacher
- Frederick McCubbin
painter
- Robert William Wilcox
politician, military personnel
- Tōyama Mitsuru
politician, businessperson
- William Sharp
writer, poet
- Robert Koldewey
architect, archaeologist
- Agnes Marshall
editor, writer
- Albert Frederick Mummery
economist, writer
- Arthur Nikisch
university teacher, composer
- Ellen Day Hale
artist, printmaker
- Florence Dixie
science fiction writer, journalist
- Jacques Curie
university teacher, mineralogist
- Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha
diplomat, writer
- Joseph Wright
philologist, linguist
- João Franco
politician, jurist
- Georges Rodenbach
poet lawyer, writer
- Tommaso Tittoni
ambassador, diplomat
- Mkwavinyika Munyigumba Mwamuyinga
politician, traditional leader or chief
- Clinton Hart Merriam
entomologist, anthropologist
- Hugo von Pohl
Marineoffizier
- Timothy Michael Healy
politician, barrister
- Swarnakumari Devi
playwright, editor
- Anthony Francis Lucas
businessperson, geologist
- Alexander Chekhov
writer, journalist
- Dorothy Tennant
artist, painter
- Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
writer, journal editor
- Keish
gold miner
- Edward Angle
dentist
- John Hays Hammond Sr.
businessperson, diplomat
- David Bruce
entomologist, pathologist
- Julius Röntgen
pianist, music educator
- John McKenna
association football coach, businessperson
- Eugène Boch
painter
- Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt
military officer
- Alexander Dubrovin
physician, opinion journalist
- Walter Hines Page
writer, editor
- Leo Deutsch
politician, journalist
- Tomas O'Crohan
diarist, fisher
- Samad bey Mehmandarov
army officer, politician
- Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
poet, judge
- Den Kenjirō
politician
- Eduard Meyer
assyriologist, historian
- Kamures Kadın
aristocrat
- Komura Jutarō
judge, diplomat
- Dmitri Trepov
military officer, politician
- Pope John XIX of Alexandria
presbyter
- Jakub Schikaneder
painter, teacher
- Tovmas Nazarbekian
politician, military personnel
- Hoke Smith
lawyer, politician
- Carl Röchling
watercolorist, painter
- William S. Benson
military officer, admiral
- François Pompon
medalist, sculptor
- David Wolffsohn
functionary, politician
- Alfred Cort Haddon
university teacher, ethnologist
- Govardhanram Tripathi
diarist, literary historian
- Guido Adler
pedagogue, jurist
- Louisine Havemeyer
suffragist, women's rights activist
- Ludwig Deutsch
painter
- Ewald von Lochow
Generaloberst, military officer
- Erik Werenskiold
lithographer, artist
- Alexei Polivanov
engineer, military personnel
- Henry Nicholas Ridley
geologist, mycologist
- Marco Fidel Suárez
writer, statesperson
- Emil Doepler
painter, graphic artist
- Jacob Adler
actor, director
- Muhammad V an-Nasir
Amir, politician
- Alice Freeman Palmer
university president, Dean of women
- Eduard von Keyserling
playwright, writer
- Innokenty Annensky
translator, poet
- Julius LeBlanc Stewart
painter
- David Peck Todd
astronomer, university teacher
- C. V. Boys
physicist
- Émile Driant
military officer, writer
- Stevan Sremac
screenwriter, writer
- Amandus Adamson
artist, painter
- Marie-Joseph Lagrange
Catholic theologian, friar
- Emilio Núñez
politician, dentist
- Frank Hadow
cricketer, tennis player
- Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea
literary critic, journalist
- Frédéric-Georges Herr
artillerist, military personnel
- Dmytro Yavornytsky
anthropologist, ethnographer
- José Malhoa
painter
- Harry Lane
politician, physician
- Ugyen Dorji
diplomat, politician
- Hubert Vos
draftsperson, painter
- Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin
soldier, military officer
- Jeon Bong-jun
politician