ON THIS DAY
Born in 1862
460 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Gustav Klimt
architectural drafter, graphic artist
- Claude Debussy
music critic, composer
- Joseph Merrick
artist
- Edith Wharton
translator, prose writer
- David Hilbert
physicist, mathematician
- Ida B. Wells
social activist, clubwoman
- O. Henry
journalist, writer
- J. Bruce Ismay
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Hilma af Klint
female painter, painter
- Robert Ford
informer collaborator, bounty hunter
- Charles Evans Hughes
diplomat, foreign minister
- Arthur Schnitzler
screenwriter, physician
- Pyotr Stolypin
statesperson, head of government
- Hawley Harvey Crippen
physician, homeopath
- George Washington Vanderbilt
art collector, businessperson
- M. R. James
medieval historian, art historian
- Maurice Maeterlinck
librettist, natural philosopher
- Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
university teacher, translator
- Victor, Prince Napoléon
politician
- Victoria of Baden
consort, photographer
- Daniel Swarovski
glassmaker, jeweler
- Connie Mack
baseball player, baseball player-manager
- Billy Hughes
diplomat, head of government
- Emilio Salgari
screenwriter, children's writer
- Sarah Chapman
trade unionist, laborer
- Louis Botha
politician
- Philipp Lenard
university teacher, inventor
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
politician, ornithologist
- Aristide Briand
journalist, minister
- Frederick Delius
composer
- Mori Ōgai
playwright, critic
- Helene Schjerfbeck
exlibrist, painter
- Charles M. Schwab
engineer, businessperson
- Billy Sunday
writer, baseball player
- Gerhart Hauptmann
lyricist, novelist
- William Henry Bragg
chemist, mathematician
- Gustav Ritter von Kahr
judge, head of government
- Ugyen Wangchuck
king, politician
- Nikolai Yudenich
military officer, politician
- Andrew Fisher
miner, diplomat
- Julius Rosenwald
entrepreneur
- Nicholas Murray Butler
pedagogue, teacher
- Niko Pirosmani
painter
- Wil van Gogh
nurse, women's rights activist
- Amos Alonzo Stagg
American football player, basketball player
- Cosmo Duff-Gordon
businessperson
- Aurel Stein
anthropologist, art historian
- Loïe Fuller
stage actor, actor
- William Walker Atkinson
lawyer, writer
- Maurice Barrès
journalist, novelist
- Siegbert Tarrasch
chess player, chess theoretician
- Cao Kun
politician, warlord
- Binodini Dasi
autobiographer, actor
- Carlos Fitzcarrald
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Nitobe Inazō
university teacher, pedagogue
- Savang Vadhana
aristocrat
- Silvio Gesell
economist, reformer
- Josephus Daniels
newspaper proprietor, diplomat
- Mary Kingsley
writer, ethnographer
- Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
police officer, politician
- Louis Barthou
politician, lawyer
- Prince Henry of Prussia
politician, military personnel
- Leonid Pasternak
graphic artist, painter
- Georges Feydeau
writer, playwright
- Vito Cascio Ferro
gangster
- Reed Owen Smoot
politician
- August Oetker
entrepreneur, nutritionist
- Henri Pirenne
medievalist, university teacher
- Mikhail Nesterov
memoirist, philosopher
- James Clark McReynolds
politician, university teacher
- May Morris
embroiderer, designer
- Edward Stratemeyer
businessperson, book packaging
- Alexander Guchkov
bretteur, politician
- John Thayer
athlete, businessperson
- Dummy Hoy
baseball player
- Herbert Baker
architect
- Ramabai Ranade
feminist, social worker
- Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
politician, diplomat
- Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal
aristocrat
- Sergei Nilus
writer, publisher
- Théo van Rysselberghe
draftsperson, painter
- A. C. Benson
poet, writer
- Christopher Cradock
naval officer, military officer
- Emmanuel Carasso
politician
- George Bruce Cortelyou
politician
- George Sutherland
jurist, judge
- Helen Bannerman
writer, illustrator
- R. Austin Freeman
surgeon, physician
- Mehmet Esat Bülkat
soldier, author
- Gurajada Apparao
poet, playwright
- John de Robeck
admiral, soldier
- Maurice Janin
politician, military officer
- Henry Newbolt
journalist, writer
- Henry McMahon
diplomat, military officer
- Tang Shaoyi
diplomat, politician
- Frantz Funck-Brentano
university teacher, librarian
- Oscar Underwood
lawyer, politician
- Albert J. Beveridge
jurist, biographer
- Frank Weston Benson
painter, graphic artist
- Edvard Westermarck
anthropologist, philosopher
- Bajram Curri
politician, freedom fighter
- Agnes Pockels
chemist, physicist
- Arvid Lindman
military personnel, diplomat
- Damrong Rajanubhab
politician, historian
- Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky
physicist, inventor
- Friedrich Meinecke
historian of Modern Age, historian
- Alexander Trepov
politician, statesperson
- Vilhelm Bjerknes
climatologist, scientist
- Wilhelm Heinrich Solf
physician, ambassador
- Fatma Aliye Topuz
journalist, essayist
- Auguste Lumière
engineer, film director
- Ada Leverson
writer, novelist
- Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria
aristocrat
- May Irwin
actor, singer
- Eden Phillpotts
screenwriter, novelist
- Carolyn Wells
crime fiction writer, humorist
- Edward Granville Browne
academic, writer
- John R. Commons
university teacher, economist
- Allvar Gullstrand
ophthalmologist, physician
- Eliakim Hastings Moore
mathematician, university teacher
- Geerhardus Vos
theologian
- Léon Boëllmann
pianist, organist
- Ernest Troubridge
admiral, military personnel
- Walter Damrosch
music educator, conductor
- Florence Bascom
geologist, author
- Pauline de Ahna
opera singer
- Henri Le Sidaner
painter, visual artist
- Matthew Nathan
engineer, military officer
- Gustav von Seyffertitz
theatre director, film director
- Justus D. Barnes
actor, stage actor
- Movses Silikyan
military leader, military personnel
- Prince Alfons of Bavaria
politician
- William Coley
immunologist, physician
- Enrico Caviglia
military officer, politician
- David George Hogarth
historian, writer
- Eugène Jansson
painter
- Hermann Gunkel
Hebrew Bible scholar, university teacher
- Mykola Pymonenko
painter
- Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff
member of parliament, diplomat
- Violet Hunt
writer, novelist
- Horatio Caro
chess player
- Claude A. Swanson
governor, lawyer
- Károly Ferenczy
university teacher, painter
- Savva Timofeyevich Morozov
manufacturing advisor, patron of the arts
- Theodor Boveri
biologist, anatomist
- Zeki Kolaç
politician, military officer