ON THIS DAY
Born in 1860
437 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Anton Chekhov
film screenwriter, playwright
- Theodor Herzl
critic, literary critic
- Gustav Mahler
chapelmaster, theatre manager
- John J. Pershing
lawyer, military officer
- J. M. Barrie
novelist, journalist
- William Jennings Bryan
foreign minister, publisher
- Annie Oakley
stunt performer, circus performer
- Alphonse Mucha
interior designer, lithographer
- Klara Hitler
housewife, domestic worker
- Jane Addams
philosopher, author
- Louis Wain
animator, caricaturist
- Charles Curtis
lawyer, prosecutor
- M. Visvesvaraya
politician, Dewan of Mysore
- Grandma Moses
illustrator, painter
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
sociologist, poet
- Raymond Poincaré
jurist, journalist
- Ishi
hunter-gatherer
- Kanō Jigorō
pedagogue, educator
- Leonard Wood
physician, military officer
- Will Keith Kellogg
entrepreneur
- Tom Horn
contract killer, detective
- Walter Sickert
painter, graphic artist
- Douglas Hyde
literary historian, linguist
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
politician, musicologist
- Ellen Axson Wilson
Sunday school teacher, artist
- Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
politician, military personnel
- Isaac Albéniz
conductor, virtuoso
- Princess Charlotte of Prussia
aristocrat
- Anders Zorn
watercolorist, graphic artist
- Florence Harding
politician, piano teacher
- William Kemmler
street vendor
- Juliette Gordon Low
writer, artist
- James Ensor
printmaker, painter
- Herman Hollerith
businessperson, inventor
- Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
university teacher, member of parliament
- Soapy Smith
gangster
- Niels Ryberg Finsen
physician, scientist
- Ernest Thompson Seton
artist, writer
- Isaac Levitan
painter, visual artist
- René Lalique
medalist, jeweler
- Emily Hobhouse
social activist, humanitarian
- Marie Bashkirtseva
diarist, biographer
- Hugo Wolf
composer, music critic
- Mercedes of Orléans
aristocrat, consort
- Willem Einthoven
physician, physiologist
- Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
judge, jurist
- Gregorio Aglipay
Aglipayan deacon, Aglipayan bishop
- Hjalmar Branting
politician, social democrat
- Victor L. Berger
editor, teacher
- John Taliaferro Thompson
military personnel, inventor
- Joseph Cook
politician, diplomat
- Sidney Paget
illustrator, painter
- Sunanda Kumariratana
aristocrat
- Charles Studd
cricketer, missionary
- William Robertson
general field marshal, military personnel
- Harry Micajah Daugherty
jurist, politician
- Zheng Xiaoxu
diplomat, painter
- Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria
soldier, sailor
- Waldemar Haffkine
physician, bacteriologist
- Edward MacDowell
music professor, musician
- Walther Kadow
teacher, political activist
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
mathematician, poet
- Joseph Petrosino
police officer
- Otto Jespersen
autobiographer, scholar of English
- William Kennedy Dickson
photographer, film director
- Sergey Sazonov
diplomat, foreign minister
- Dan Leno
comedian
- Wallace Wattles
writer, philosopher
- Eduard Buchner
university teacher, agronomist
- Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
music educator, musicologist
- Grand Duke Dimitri Constantinovich of Russia
politician, military personnel
- Owen Wister
novelist, Western author
- Henrietta Szold
teacher, author
- Katō Takaaki
head of government, foreign minister
- Frederick Rolfe
photographer, historian
- Susanna M. Salter
politician
- Vito Volterra
university teacher, mathematician
- John Scott Haldane
inventor, physiologist
- Marianne von Werefkin
artist, painter
- Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis
noble women
- Friedrich Naumann
parson, politician
- Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl
printmaker, painter
- Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
inventor, physicist
- Charles Frohman
theatre manager, impresario
- Robert Bacon
politician, diplomat
- Jules Laforgue
prose writer, poet
- Schuyler Wheeler
physicist, inventor
- James McKeen Cattell
psychologist, university teacher
- John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
politician
- Solomon Joseph Solomon
painter, engineer
- Jaber II Al-Sabah
Amir, politician
- Raphael of Brooklyn
journalist, journal editor
- Archibald James Murray
military officer
- Horatio Bottomley
politician, businessperson
- Sholom Dovber Schneersohn
Rebbe, philosopher
- Pavel Krushevan
lawyer, journalist
- Simon Dubnow
university teacher, opinion journalist
- Queen Eleonore of Bulgaria
consort, nurse
- Karel Kramář
member of parliament, political prisoner
- Rachilde
writer, salonnière
- Bruno Liljefors
cartoonist, comics artist
- John Montgomery Ward
trade unionist, baseball player
- Lorado Taft
sculptor, art historian
- William Ralph Inge
writer, Anglican theologian
- Max von Oppenheim
archaeologist, politician
- Albert Kahn
banker
- Hugo Preuß
university teacher, author
- Hamlin Garland
essayist, novelist
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry
entrepreneur, inventor
- Charles de Broqueville
politician, possessor
- Florence Farr
theatre director, occultist
- John W. Weeks
politician, military officer
- Jens Jensen
landscape architect, garden designer
- Charles Oman
politician, non-fiction writer
- Horacio Vásquez
politician, military personnel
- Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky
diplomat, politician
- Albert Lynch
illustrator, painter
- Abraham Cahan
autobiographer, editor
- Themistoklis Sofoulis
politician, archaeologist
- Sayyid Mumtaz Ali
publisher, writer
- Gustave Charpentier
conductor, writer
- Simón Isidoro Patiño
miner, entrepreneur
- Alicia Boole Stott
mathematician
- Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin
painter
- Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf
military officer
- Henry Justice Ford
painter, illustrator
- Yogmaya Neupane
writer, activist
- Carl Anton Larsen
scientific collector, discoverer
- Nikolai Essen
military personnel, admiral
- Harriet Monroe
poet, journalist
- Hanns Hörbiger
engineer, astronomer
- Ja Lama
politician
- Gyula Andrássy the Younger
art collector, author
- William Bates
scientist, physician
- Frederik van Eeden
physician, literary critic
- Oswald Wirth
writer, librarian
- Ōyama Sutematsu
teacher, nurse
- Pieter Jelles Troelstra
lawyer, jurist
- Alfred Ploetz
editing staff, writer
- Manuel Teixeira Gomes
author, writer
- Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten
military personnel
- Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas
author, naval officer
- Sam Thompson
baseball player
- Alexander Winton
businessperson, racing automobile driver
- Daniel Barringer
geologist