ON THIS DAY
Born in 1861
444 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Rabindranath Tagore
novelist, travel writer
- José Rizal
satirical novelist, painter
- H. H. Holmes
pharmacist, serial killer
- Mehmed VI
sovereign
- Rudolf Steiner
editor, autobiographer
- James Naismith
physician, inventor
- Georges Méliès
director, film producer
- Motilal Nehru
barrister, politician
- Alfred North Whitehead
writer, university teacher
- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
politician, army officer
- Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
ornithologist, ruler
- Fridtjof Nansen
politician, writer
- Lou Andreas-Salomem
autobiographer, philosopher
- Erich von Falkenhayn
military attaché, military commander
- Edith Roosevelt
politician
- William Crapo Durant
industrialist, entrepreneur
- Madan Mohan Malaviya
poet, politician
- Nellie Melba
musician, singer
- Georgy Lvov
statesperson, politician
- Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland
military personnel, aristocrat
- Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
diplomat, military officer
- Robert Bosch
industrialist, factory owner
- William Ellsworth Robinson
magician
- Helen Herron Taft
university teacher, politician
- Solomon R. Guggenheim
art collector, industrialist
- Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany
aristocrat, botanical collector
- Ranavalona III
statesperson
- Kadambini Ganguly
feminist, politician
- Frederic Remington
painter, sculptor
- Luigi Facta
journalist, politician
- Maximilian von Spee
count, naval officer
- Bhikaiji Cama
women's rights activist, freedom fighter
- William Wrigley
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick
editor, socialite
- Karl Denke
organist, serial killer
- Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
judge, politician
- Halford Mackinder
geopolitical analyst, political scientist
- Prafulla Chandra Ray
essayist, chemist
- Victor Horta
teacher, general contractor
- Italo Svevo
businessperson, translator
- Armando Diaz
politician, military personnel
- Frederick Jackson Turner
writer, historian
- Draga Mašin
journalist
- Frederick Russell Burnham
writer, explorer
- Nettie Stevens
librarian, zoologist
- Albert B. Fall
politician, lawyer
- Zinaida Yusupova
art collector
- Luigi Galleani
lawyer, writer
- István Tisza
politician, diplomat
- Henry Gantt
manager, mechanical engineer
- Edith Cowan
politician, suffragette
- Constance Garnett
writer, librarian
- Lillian Russell
actor, film actor
- John William Godward
painter
- Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia
Grand Prince, aristocrat
- George W. Norris
judge, jurist
- Morgan Robertson
inventor, writer
- Aristide Maillol
draftsperson, sculptor
- Frederick Hopkins
university teacher, biochemist
- Pauline Johnson
writer, actor
- Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg
military personnel, Major
- Anton Arensky
pianist, music educator
- George Dunton Widener
art collector, banker
- Michel Verne
screenwriter, prose writer
- Walter Rauschenbusch
university teacher, missionary
- William Bateson
biologist, geneticist
- Joseph Bell
engineer
- James K. Vardaman
lawyer, governor
- William James Mayo
surgeon, military physician
- John Bagnell Bury
university teacher, linguist
- Richard Sears
tennis player
- Antoine Bourdelle
sculptor, draftsperson
- Pierre Duhem
mathematician, chemist
- Eugen Steinach
physiologist, sexologist
- William Renshaw
tennis player
- Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt
socialite
- Charles Townshend
major general, politician
- Katō Tomosaburō
admiral, politician
- Reginald Wingate
Major, military officer
- Alexey Kaledin
military leader, politician
- Amy Levy
novelist, writer
- Konstantin Korovin
theatre designer, scenographer
- Santiago Rusiñol i Prats
painter, poet
- Auguste Vaillant
anarchist
- Walter Simons
university teacher, judge
- Peter Cooper Hewitt
inventor, engineer
- Makino Nobuaki
politician, diplomat
- Nikolai Rysakov
politician
- Charles Edward Magoon
diplomat, politician
- Lazăr Edeleanu
chemist, inventor
- Jurji Zaydan
teacher, journalist
- Meir Dizengoff
mayor, chemist
- Charles Sumner Hamlin
politician, lawyer
- Maurice Blondel
writer, docent
- Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin
military leader
- Sukhumala Marasri
queen consort
- James Mooney
ethnographer, writer
- Vazha-Pshavela
teacher, translator
- Stanislas de Guaita
poet, occultist
- Constantin Prezan
politician
- Kurt Hensel
university teacher, editing staff
- Devaki Nandan Khatri
writer, novelist
- Nasreddine Dinet
lithographer, illustrator
- James D. Phelan
politician, businessperson
- Jacques-Émile Blanche
lithographer, painter
- Philip Burne-Jones
painter
- Henri Mathias Berthelot
military personnel
- Ernestine Schumann-Heink
opera singer
- Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso
politician, lawyer
- Justinas Pranaitis
writer, Catholic theologian
- August Bier
surgeon, university teacher
- Juhani Aho
journalist, writer
- Mary Richmond
social worker
- Maximilian Harden
actor, journalist
- Dorothy Dix
journalist, columnist
- Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland
head of government, politician
- Louis Anquetin
graphic artist, painter
- Cyrus Edwin Dallin
archer, sculptor
- Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel
aristocrat
- George Tyrrell
theologian, teacher
- Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen
military personnel
- Paul Ranson
printmaker, painter
- Félix Fénéon
writer, art critic
- Ralph Modjeski
civil engineer
- Kanzō Uchimura
columnist, philosopher
- James Mark Baldwin
psychologist, philosopher
- Andries Bonger
art collector
- Peter Jackson
boxer
- Elin Danielson-Gambogi
painter, visual artist
- Elizabeth Bisland
journalist, writer
- Carl Moll
gallerist, exhibition curator
- Carl Duisberg
engineer, entrepreneur
- Robert Sherard
novelist, autobiographer
- Theodore Roberts
actor, television actor
- Florence Roberts
film actor, stage actor
- John Clarkson
baseball player
- Charles Édouard Guillaume
researcher, physicist
- James A. Reed
lawyer, politician
- Mykola Zelinsky
university teacher, inventor
- Zhan Tianyou
railway engineer
- Antonio de La Gandara
designer, painter