ON THIS DAY
Born in 1859
458 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Wilhelm II
painter, art collector
- Billy the Kid
gunfighter, cowboy
- Arthur Conan Doyle
science fiction writer, novelist
- Pierre Curie
chemist, nuclear physicist
- John Dewey
aesthetician, philosopher
- Knut Hamsun
poet, novelist
- Yuan Shikai
military personnel, military leader
- Alfred Dreyfus
military officer, army officer
- Georges Seurat
painter, architectural drafter
- Henri Bergson
university teacher, professor
- Edmund Husserl
philosopher, phenomenologist
- L. L. Zamenhof
Esperantist, esperantologist
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
diplomat, politician
- Dorabji Tata
businessperson
- Belle Gunness
criminal, serial killer
- Venustiano Carranza
president, politician
- Svante August Arrhenius
physicist, chemist
- Havelock Ellis
writer, physician
- Kenneth Grahame
writer, novelist
- Sholem Aleichem
novelist, humorist
- Jean Jaurès
professor, writer
- Jerome K. Jerome
novelist, writer
- Constance Lloyd
children's writer, literary critic
- Carrie Chapman Catt
suffragist, journalist
- Archibald Gracie IV
soldier, writer
- Alfred Edward Housman
classical philologist, librettist
- Fusajirō Yamauchi
entrepreneur
- John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
admiral, sailor
- Alexandre Millerand
head of government, lawyer
- Smith Wigglesworth
missionary, pastor
- Elias Disney
building contractor, railway worker
- Hugo Junkers
inventor, technician
- Walter Camp
sports journalist, American football coach
- Thibaw Min
monarch
- Katharine Lee Bates
poet, literary scholar
- George Lansbury
politician
- Pavel Milyukov
foreign minister, author
- Alexander Samsonov
military personnel
- Jesse Pomeroy
serial killer
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
illustrator, painter
- Childe Hassam
printmaker, painter
- Charles Comiskey
baseball player, baseball manager
- Peder Mørk Mønsted
landscape painter, graphic artist
- George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
engineer, inventor
- Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau
model, socialite
- Mansfield Smith-Cumming
military personnel
- Feng Guozhang
politician
- Saad Zaghloul
qadi, minister
- Ravachol
laborer, activist
- Michael Marks
businessperson, merchant
- Samuel Insull
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Supayalat
politician
- Charles August Lindbergh
lawyer, politician
- Anna Ancher
artist, painter
- Bertha Pappenheim
playwright, writer
- Cass Gilbert
painter, architect
- Meher Ali Shah
Muslim, ummah
- Pierre Janet
psychotherapist, philosopher
- Victor Herbert
conductor, screenwriter
- Walther von Lüttwitz
politician, military officer
- Théophile Steinlen
sculptor, draftsperson
- Prince Oscar Bernadotte
aristocrat, military personnel
- Sidney Webb
professor, aristocrat
- Florence Kelley
suffragist, economist
- Aline Charigot
dressmaker, art model
- Aleksandr Popov
pedagogue, inventor
- Yanagiwara Naruko
courtier, lady-in-waiting
- Cecil Sharp
folk song collector, musicologist
- Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia
aristocrat, entomologist
- Francis Thompson
poet, writer
- Mikhail Rodzianko
lord of the manor, politician
- Vilbrun Guillaume Sam
politician
- Alexandru Averescu
foreign minister, diplomat
- Léon Rom
explorer, ornithologist
- Francisco Ferrer
pedagogue, philosopher
- Nikolay Kasatkin
painter
- Takeda Sōkaku
samurai, aikidoka
- Kate Marsden
explorer, geographer
- Verner von Heidenstam
painter, poet
- Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi
diplomat, pacifist
- Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley
cricketer, politician
- Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria
physician, violinist
- Mildred J. Hill
songwriter, musicologist
- William Alden Smith
politician
- Francesc Macià i Llussà
military personnel, politician
- Peter Altenberg
writer, poet
- Casper ten Boom
resistance fighter, watchmaker
- Fanny Bullock Workman
activist, explorer
- Manuel Estrada Cabrera
lawyer, politician
- Maurice Paléologue
diplomat, writer
- Nahum Sokolow
biographer, journalist
- Daisy Bates
journalist, anthropologist
- Charles Brantley Aycock
prosecutor, teacher
- Georges Rochegrosse
etcher, graphic artist
- Ahmed Rıza
journalist, politician
- Sigurd Ibsen
writer, German Minister of State
- Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
business executive, engineer
- Adolf Hurwitz
mathematician, university teacher
- Marcela Agoncillo
dressmaker
- Radko Dimitriev
military officer, military personnel
- Andrew Volstead
politician, lawyer
- Emanuel Nobel
business executive, businessperson
- Cecil Spring-Rice
politician, writer
- Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia
military personnel
- Kostis Palamas
writer, poet
- Jānis Čakste
politician, lawyer
- James Albert Bonsack
inventor
- Alice Eastwood
editor, botanical illustrator
- Paul César Helleu
artist, printmaker
- Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
art collector, military personnel
- Labotsibeni Mdluli
politician
- Tom Watson
association football coach, association football player
- William Henry O'Connell
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Count Karl von Stürgkh
politician
- Sergei Lyapunov
music educator, composer
- Thomas J. Walsh
teacher, lawyer
- Akiyama Yoshifuru
military personnel
- Sen Katayama
farmer, human rights defender
- John Maxwell
military officer
- Doveton Sturdee
naval officer
- George W. P. Hunt
politician, mayor
- Luigi Capello
military officer, military personnel
- Oscar Eckenstein
rock climber, mountaineer
- Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi
marji', Islamic jurist
- Johan Jensen
engineer, mathematician
- Kei Okami
physician
- Samuel Alexander
university teacher, philosopher
- Anna Nahowski
housewife
- VI. Konstantinos
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Katharine Tynan
poet, writer
- Christian von Ehrenfels
university teacher, professor
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
music arranger, musicologist
- Alice Ayres
nanny
- Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo
governor, politician
- Paolo Thaon di Revel
politician, minister
- William Strang
painter, exlibrist
- Lu Rongting
politician
- Luis Muñoz Rivera
poet, politician
- Sa Zhenbing
naval officer, politician
- Otto Hölder
mathematician, university teacher
- Marie Wittman
lingère
- Louis Majorelle
painter, cabinetmaker
- John Burke
governor, finance minister
- Christapor Mikaelian
politician, revolutionary
- William Dennison Stephens
lawyer, jurist