ON THIS DAY
Born in 1864
479 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Max Weber
university teacher, sociologist
- George Washington Carver
inventor, university teacher
- John Jacob Astor IV
entrepreneur, hotel owner
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
designer, graphic artist
- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
aristocrat, politician
- Richard Strauss
general music director, librettist
- Reginald Dyer
military personnel
- Frances Cleveland
First Lady of the United States
- Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
aristocrat, tsar
- Roger Casement
revolutionary, diplomat
- Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
writer, diarist
- Eleftherios Venizelos
journalist, head of government
- Camille Claudel
painter, architectural drafter
- Alfred Stieglitz
exhibition curator, gallerist
- Miguel de Unamuno
essayist, novelist
- Alois Alzheimer
neuroscientist, psychiatrist
- Hermann Minkowski
university teacher, mathematician
- Apolinario Mabini
judge, diplomat
- Lucia Zarate
circus performer
- Andrew Barton Paterson
lawyer, war correspondent
- Breaker Morant
writer
- Maurice Leblanc
writer, journalist
- Li Yuanhong
politician
- Ashutosh Mukherjee
essayist, university teacher
- John Francis Dodge
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Israel Zangwill
novelist, comedian
- William S. Hart
screenwriter, writer
- Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet
politician, soldier
- Charles Marion Russell
sculptor, draftsperson
- Ransom E. Olds
racing automobile driver, car designer
- Anna Jarvis
activist, founder
- José Gregorio Hernández
physician
- Rukhmabai
physician, surgeon
- Walther Hermann Nernst
chemist, physicist
- Roman Dmowski
foreign minister, writer
- James Allen
writer, author
- Vilhelm Hammershøi
painter, visual artist
- Herbert Macaulay
surveyor, engineer
- Thomas Dixon Jr.
Christian minister, lawyer
- Margot Asquith
autobiographer, diarist
- Ethel Lilian Voynich
activist, composer
- Frank Wedekind
lyricist, composer
- Cosmo Gordon Lang
archbishop, politician
- Prince Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern
military leader, politician
- Elinor Glyn
film screenwriter, director
- Arthur Zimmermann
politician, secretary of state
- Wilhelm Wien
university teacher, physicist
- Alfred Redl
spy, military officer
- Robert Lansing
lawyer, politician
- Anagarika Dharmapala
Buddhist monk, writer
- Anna Ulyanova
editing staff, memoirist
- Prince Aribert of Anhalt
regent
- John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch
politician, aristocrat
- Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia
military personnel, aristocrat
- Qi Baishi
seal cutter, poet
- Adolf Wölfli
photographer, composer
- Isa Boletini
politician
- Mizzi Kaspar
actor
- Saovabha Phongsri
queen consort
- Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
polo player, military officer
- Hakim Ajmal Khan
Hakīm, freedom fighter
- Andrej Hlinka
politician, journalist
- Jakob von Uexküll
biologist, physiologist
- Said Halim Pasha
writer, politician
- Kikunae Ikeda
inventor, chemist
- Tsuda Umeko
teacher, founder
- Charles Dawson
prehistorian, classical scholar
- Charles Cooley
economist, sociologist
- Peter Deunov
spiritual teacher, mystic
- Ahmet İzzet Furgaç
writer, politician
- Nikolay Chkheidze
diplomat, revolutionary
- Johan Halvorsen
concertmaster, conductor
- Franklin Knight Lane
lawyer, politician
- Alejandro Lerroux
politician, journalist
- Dmitri Ivanovsky
virologist, botanist
- Franz Oppenheimer
university teacher, economist
- William Halse Rivers Rivers
anthropologist, ethnologist
- Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild
socialite, art collector
- Nathan Birnbaum
Zionist, philosopher
- Suniti Devi
poet, activist
- Princess Zorka of Montenegro
aristocrat
- Percy Cox
chemist, politician
- Ion I. C. Brătianu
engineer, civil engineer
- Stefan Żeromski
diarist, science fiction writer
- Heinrich Wölfflin
university teacher, writer
- Willy Stöwer
marine painter, painter
- Louis Lumière
inventor, director
- Đồng Khánh
monarch
- Max von Stephanitz
dog breeder, animal breeder
- Robert Ezra Park
sociologist, writer
- Paul Sérusier
artist, printmaker
- Branislav Nušić
civil servant, essayist
- Salim I of Kuwait
politician
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt
poet, writer
- Jessie Ralph
film actor, stage actor
- Carl Akeley
inventor, scientific collector
- Wilhelm Souchon
admiral, naval officer
- Richard Harding Davis
war correspondent, journalist
- Emil Seidel
politician, trade unionist
- Carsten Borchgrevink
explorer, scientific collector
- Princess Hilda of Nassau
aristocrat, consort
- Frances Benjamin Johnston
photojournalist, photographer
- Aylmer Hunter-Weston
military personnel, politician
- Elsie Inglis
physician, suffragist
- Rudolf Kjellén
politician, geographer
- Vesta Tilley
film actor, comedian
- Isabelo de los Reyes
linguist, trade unionist
- John Henry Mackay
LGBTQ rights activist, poet
- Abdul Hamid Halim of Kedah
sovereign
- Akashi Motojiro
military personnel
- Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
politician, civil servant
- Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss
admiral, politician
- Prince Louis Bonaparte
military personnel
- Herman Gorter
communist, socialist
- Kamini Roy
playwright, writer
- Peyton C. March
military officer, artillerist
- Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
politician, journalist
- Queen Charlotte of Württemberg
aristocrat
- Henri de Régnier
critic, writer
- Abala Bose
social worker, scientist
- Eugen d'Albert
pianist, composer
- Kuno von Westarp
politician, jurist
- Ellison D. Smith
politician
- Frederick Stanley Maude
military officer
- Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi
playwright, screenwriter
- Alexander Gretchaninov
music arranger, pianist
- William Le Queux
diplomat, writer
- Louis Lingg
joiner, union member
- Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
governor, military personnel
- Willis C. Hawley
lawyer, politician
- Daniel Mannix
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
executive, inventor
- Léon Gaumont
entrepreneur, businessperson
- George Washington Crile
surgeon
- Ricarda Huch
novelist, librarian
- George Brant Bridgman
painter, writer
- Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
philosopher, university teacher
- Alfred Hermann Fried
Esperantist, pacifist