ON THIS DAY
Born in 1859
458 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Bhanurangsi Savangwongse
newspaper editor
- Felipe Agoncillo
jurist, politician
- Otto Warburg
university teacher, scientific collector
- Anatole Le Braz
writer, literary historian
- Kosta Khetagurov
prose writer, painter
- Henrietta Rae
painter, artist
- Édouard Michelin
industrialist, entrepreneur
- Karin Larsson
painter, textile artist
- Christopher Hornsrud
farmer, head of government
- Victor Loret
non-fiction writer, anthropologist
- Diana Abgar
politician, writer
- Karl Muck
conductor, pianist
- Sergey Malyutin
architect, illustrator
- Adolf Bertram
Catholic bishop, politician
- Mohammed Ameziane
resistance fighter, Amghar (title)
- Pandeli Evangjeli
politician, diplomat
- William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
member of parliament, diplomat
- Ellen Gates Starr
social reformer, activist
- Sidney Lee
university teacher, literary scholar
- Pauline Hopkins
playwright, journalist
- Aurel Stodola
physicist, engineer
- Fergus Hume
crime fiction writer, novelist
- George Barnes
politician, engineer
- Nathaniel Lord Britton
writer, pteridologist
- Jacques Loeb
biologist, zoologist
- Friedrich Salomon Krauss
writer, slavist
- Tsubouchi Shōyō
literary critic, pedagogue
- Stefan Toshev
soldier, military personnel
- Florian Cajori
astronomer, university teacher
- Josephine Crowell
film actor, actor
- Theobald Smith
pathologist, veterinarian
- Luigi Lavazza
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Édouard-Alfred Martel
speleologist, geographer
- Margaret Todd
novelist, physician
- Ogata Gekkō
printer, xylographer
- Ernesto Cesaro
university teacher, mathematician
- Elizabeth Nourse
painter, sculptor
- Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier
politician, non-fiction writer
- Cecilia Grierson
university teacher, suffragette
- James Willard Schultz
historian, writer
- Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
politician, judge
- Richard Semon
anatomist, evolutionary biologist
- Elizabeth Forbes
painter, artist
- Josef Bohuslav Foerster
composer, critic
- Dorothy Dene
actor, model
- Robert Demachy
art critic, painter
- Paul Hankar
urban planner, architect
- Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas
lawyer, diplomat
- Zhao Bingjun
politician
- Mary Anderson
actor, writer
- Frank Johnson Goodnow
jurist, historian
- Fyodor Schechtel
graphic artist, architect
- William Wrede
university teacher, theologian
- Paul Passy
political activist, philologist
- James Guthrie
painter
- Heber Manning Wells
governor, politician
- Hippolyte Delehaye
church historian, hagiographer
- Julius Klengel
university teacher, cellist
- William Bliss Baker
painter
- Vittorio Matteo Corcos
painter, artist
- Auguste Adib Pacha
writer, politician
- Jón Magnússon
politician
- John Tengo Jabavu
politician, journalist
- Léon Duguit
philosopher of law, university teacher
- Vittorio Sella
photographer, mountaineer
- Mickey Welch
baseball player
- Luis María Drago
journalist, jurist
- Gustave Kahn
literary critic, writer
- Virginie Demont-Breton
painter, writer
- Vasil Kutinchev
military officer, military personnel
- Gilbert Hitchcock
editor, lawyer
- Isidore Singer
publisher, Judaic scholar
- Andy Adams
novelist, writer
- Louis Boutan
photographer, zoologist
- Josephine Silone Yates
journalist, chemist
- Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno
writer, politician
- Giuseppina Vannini
religious sister
- Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal
physician, lawyer
- Westmoreland Davis
politician, governor
- Arthur Friedheim
pianist, musician
- Alfred William Pollard
writer, librarian
- Alfred Hettner
university teacher, geographer
- Michel Oreste
politician
- Nikolay Gamaleya
epidemiologist, physician
- Ludwig Knorr
chemist, university teacher
- Park Eun-sik
historian, writer
- Frank William Taussig
economist
- Archie Hunter
association football player
- Giacomo Boni
anthropologist, politician
- Charles Diehl
historian, university teacher
- Matilde Montoya
obstetrician
- Ernst Hartert
ornithologist, scientific collector
- Colin Campbell
actor, screenwriter
- Frank J. Cannon
editor, politician
- Panas Saksahansky
film director, theatre director
- José Sánchez Guerra
lawyer, journalist
- Frank R. Gooding
politician
- Giovanni Capurro
writer, composer
- Elek Benedek
philologist, children's writer
- Henri Tudor
inventor, engineer
- Alojzije Mišić
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Juan Campisteguy
politician, military personnel
- Sarala Roy
chemist
- Émile Meyerson
chemist, philosopher of science
- Georg Wissowa
classical philologist, university teacher
- Charles Henry Gilbert
ichthyologist, university teacher
- Ettore Tito
sculptor, composer
- Gregory IV of Antioch
patriarch
- Eduard Cuypers
architect, illustrator
- Daria Pratt
golfer
- Contardo Ferrini
jurist, university teacher
- Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera
writer, poet
- Karl Heun
university teacher, mathematician
- Gus Leonard
actor
- Enrico Barone
military historian, economist
- Arthur Heffter
university teacher, pharmacologist
- Henry Meynell Rheam
painter
- Mary Cholmondeley
novelist, satirical novelist
- Josip Vancaš
architect
- Robert Bolder
actor, film actor
- Harry Fielding Reid
university teacher, seismologist
- Nikolay Sokolov
university teacher, composer
- Max Fiedler
conductor, composer
- Joseph Henry Maiden
botanist, botanical collector
- Georg Knorr
entrepreneur, railway engineer
- Bjørn Bjørnson
writer, director
- Franciszek Żmurko
painter
- Alfred Jensen
poet, writer
- Emil Goeldi
entomologist, ichthyologist
- Ferdinand Bac
artist, poster artist
- Teodor Teodorov
judge, head of government
- Annie Furuhjelm
journalist, politician
- Wilhelm Hallwachs
university teacher, physicist
- Henryk Pachulski
music educator, pianist
- Ottilie Roederstein
painter
- Alfred Baudrillart
Catholic priest, writer
- Anna Sahlsten
painter