ON THIS DAY
Born in 1856
434 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Nikola Tesla
electrical engineer, physicist
- Sigmund Freud
essayist, neurologist
- Woodrow Wilson
jurist, lawyer
- George Bernard Shaw
pacifist, prose writer
- Philippe Pétain
military personnel, politician
- Booker T. Washington
autobiographer, writer
- L. Frank Baum
poet, children's writer
- John Singer Sargent
painter, artist
- Joseph John Thomson
mathematician, university teacher
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
writer, journalist
- Archduchess Gisela of Austria
politician, philanthropist
- Napoléon, Prince Imperial
politician
- Robert Peary
military officer, botanical collector
- Louis Brandeis
lawyer, jurist
- Frederick Winslow Taylor
management consultant, economist
- H. Rider Haggard
prose writer, novelist
- James Buchanan Duke
entrepreneur
- Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
head of government, local government officer
- Keir Hardie
journalist, politician
- Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
writer, muhaddith
- Louis Sullivan
architect, designer
- Andrey Markov
university teacher, statistician
- Elbert Green Hubbard
philosopher, writer
- Alfred Deakin
poet, journalist
- Pedro Lascuráin
politician, diplomat
- Ivan Franko
poet, translator of Adam Mickiewicz
- Emil Kraepelin
psychiatrist, university teacher
- Granville Tailer Woods
inventor, engineer
- Robert Nivelle
military personnel, military officer
- Frank B. Kellogg
jurist, lawyer
- Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia
engineer, military personnel
- Hara Takashi
writer, journalist
- Mikhail Vrubel
theatre designer, painter
- Heber J. Grant
President of the Church, prophet
- Ahad Ha'am
writer, journalist
- Toru Dutt
translator, writer
- Svetozar Boroević
military personnel, general field marshal
- Wovoka
religious leader
- Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
aristocrat, military personnel
- William Goebel
politician, lawyer
- Henry Morgenthau
politician, lawyer
- John Redmond
barrister, politician
- Ignacy Hryniewiecki
politician, terrorist
- Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
politician, military officer
- Thomas E. Watson
journalist, publisher
- Louis Franchet d'Espèrey
military commander, military personnel
- Carl David Tolmé Runge
university teacher, mathematician
- Vernon Lee
art critic, poet
- Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain
police officer, military officer
- Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev
music educator, writer
- José Batlle y Ordóñez
politician
- Frank Harris
film editor, opinion journalist
- Orville Gibson
guitar maker, luthier
- Samuel Maharero
paramount chief, resistance fighter
- Henri-Edmond Cross
draftsperson, graphic artist
- Abdullah Quilliam
jurist, writer
- Carl Peters
politician, colonialist
- Mabel Loomis Todd
writer, editor
- Tom Roberts
painter
- Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
judge, lawyer
- Vasily Rozanov
writer, literary critic
- William Willett
master builder, entrepreneur
- Eddie Foy
vaudeville performer, comedian
- Maurice Koechlin
civil engineer
- John Lavery
painter, visual artist
- Daniel Guggenheim
businessperson, philanthropist
- William Thomas Turner
sailor, sea captain
- Hermann von François
writer, military officer
- Graciano López Jaena
physician, journalist
- Princess Isabella of Croÿ
lady-in-waiting
- Pud Galvin
baseball player
- R. A. Torrey
writer, theologian
- Stepa Stepanović
military personnel, minister
- Swami Shraddhanand
writer
- Edward Jones
statistician, businessperson
- Charles Émile Picard
university teacher, mathematician
- Carlo Bugatti
designer, cabinetmaker
- William Massey
politician, diplomat
- Charles Melville Hays
railway executive, entrepreneur
- Naftali Herz Imber
writer, poet
- Robert Latham Owen
politician, lawyer
- Dimitar Blagoev
politician
- Zaiyi
politician
- Christian Sinding
classical composer, academic musician
- Sergei Winogradsky
professor, bacteriologist
- Joseph Ward
politician, diplomat
- Alexander Izvolsky
diplomat, foreign minister
- A. D. Gordon
writer, philosopher
- Georg von der Marwitz
military officer, soldier
- Matthias Zurbriggen
mountaineer, mountain guide
- Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
artist, painter
- Eduardo Dato
jurist, diplomat
- Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
mathematician, university teacher
- Tom Mann
politician, socialist
- Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
literary critic, university teacher
- Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
artist, painter
- James Robert Mann
jurist, politician
- Ernesto Schiaparelli
archaeologist, politician
- William Rainey Harper
linguist, university teacher
- Enrico Ferri
politician, jurist
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell
jurist, writer
- William Bramwell Booth
theologian
- Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac
composer, ethnomusicologist
- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
writer, feminist
- Colin Campbell Cooper
writer, artist
- Matilde Serao
writer, journalist
- Apollinary Vasnetsov
painter, local historian
- Hendrik Petrus Berlage
exlibrist, ceramics designer
- William Archer
biographer, translator
- Richard Caton Woodville Jr.
painter, photographer
- J.-H. Rosny aîné
screenwriter, writer
- Louise Catherine Breslau
pastellist, lithographer
- Edward Goodrich Acheson
chemist, inventor
- Robert Reinhold von Wirén
military personnel
- Reginald Blomfield
landscape architect, architect
- Carl Kahler
animal painter, painter
- Kenyon Cox
art critic, painter
- George Frederick Kunz
curator, researcher
- Herbert Gustave Schmalz
painter
- John White Alexander
visual artist, painter
- Giuseppe Martucci
conductor, pianist
- Hermann von Kuhl
philologist, military scientist
- Edmund Beecher Wilson
zoologist, university teacher
- Helene von Druskowitz
writer, music critic
- Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi
military officer, politician
- Gabrielle Réjane
theatre manager, film actor
- Semyon Alapin
chess player
- Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet
mountaineer
- Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
explorer, university teacher
- Robert Kajanus
conductor, composer
