ON THIS DAY
Born in 1866
469 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Sun Yat-sen
politician, philosopher
- H. G. Wells
writer, science fiction writer
- Beatrix Potter
novelist, conservationist
- Wassily Kandinsky
writer, lawyer
- Erik Satie
pianist, composer
- Butch Cassidy
criminal
- Ramsay MacDonald
diplomat, politician
- George Gurdjieff
screenwriter, composer
- Anne Sullivan
teacher
- George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
photographer, aristocrat
- Antonio Luna
freedom fighter, bacteriologist
- Romain Rolland
historian, musician
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
translator, writer
- Maud Gonne
suffragette, suffragist
- Alexander Ulyanov
revolutionary, student
- Matthew Henson
traveler, explorer
- Benedetto Croce
art historian, historian
- Hans von Seeckt
author, politician
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
lawyer, judge
- Elizabeth Magie
stenographer, writer
- Emilio De Bono
military officer, politician
- Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia
memoirist, military personnel
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
zoologist, evolutionary biologist
- Ferruccio Busoni
music arranger, music theorist
- Princess Viktoria of Prussia
politician
- James John Corbett
screenwriter, film actor
- Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
aristocrat
- Harry Davenport
actor, stage actor
- Hiram Johnson
jurist, politician
- James Barry Munnik Hertzog
politician, military personnel
- Roger Fry
draftsperson, university teacher
- Mary Anderson
rancher, inventor
- Lev Shestov
philosopher, writer
- Elizabeth von Arnim
novelist, writer
- Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
writer, literary historian
- Léon Bakst
interior designer, artist
- Aby Warburg
art historian, university teacher
- Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
cricketer, diplomat
- Reginald Fessenden
engineer, physicist
- Louise Weber
dancer, model
- Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria
politician, military personnel
- Karl Maria Wiligut
occultist, writer
- Abraham Flexner
scientist, pedagogue
- Lincoln Steffens
journalist, autobiographer
- Voltairine de Cleyre
journalist, women's rights activist
- Fred Karno
comedian, impresario
- Charles Francis Adams III
lawyer, politician
- Wakatsuki Reijirō
politician
- Asaf Jah VI of Hyderabad
monarch
- Cornelia Sorabji
lawyer, barrister
- Herbert Henry Dow
businessperson, inventor
- J. M. E. McTaggart
philosopher, university teacher
- Silouan the Athonite
monk, mystic
- Henri Deterding
art collector, entrepreneur
- Emine Nazikeda Kadınefendi
aristocrat
- Jesse William Lazear
physician
- Arnold Ehret
dietitian, writer
- Jacinto Benavente
journalist, playwright
- Alfred Werner
university teacher, chemist
- Dimitrios Gounaris
head of government, lawyer
- Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera
aristocrat
- Mary Pearcey
serial killer, murderer
- Charles Benedict Davenport
eugenicist, university teacher
- Georg Jensen
designer, ceramicist
- Nathan Söderblom
pastor, missionary
- Älihan Bökeihan
scientist, writer
- Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
writer, novelist
- Ernest William Hornung
writer, novelist
- Serge Voronoff
physiologist, gynecologist
- Charles Mangin
military officer, military personnel
- Leopold Mandić
Catholic priest
- Ambroise Vollard
art collector, publisher
- Ramon Casas
draftsperson, artist
- Cheiro
occultist, author
- Henry H. Goddard
psychologist, pedagogue
- Henry Bacon
architect
- Adrien de Gerlache
art collector, naval officer
- Franz von Bayros
illustrator, painter
- Enrique Simonet
painter
- Gilbert Murray
university teacher, playwright
- Sattar Khan
politician
- Billy Hamilton
baseball player
- Bronisław Piłsudski
anthropologist, revolutionary
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
suffragist, lawyer
- Emich, 5th Prince of Leiningen
politician, entrepreneur
- Hugh Chisholm
editor, journalist
- Charles Nicolle
bacteriologist, professor
- Mario García Menocal
military personnel, politician
- Vasily Kalinnikov
composer
- John Duncan
illustrator, painter
- John Gray
poet, monk
- Charles Francis Haanel
writer
- Alexander Protopopov
politician, minister
- Kazys Grinius
journalist, publicist
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
writer, novelist
- Karl Fazer
sport shooter, businessperson
- Ignacy Daszyński
writer, head of government
- Alice Austen
artist, photographer
- Kuroda Seiki
politician, artist
- Ilya Tolstoy
school teacher, military personnel
- Carlos Schwabe
graphic artist, painter
- Harry T. Burleigh
music arranger, opera singer
- Swami Abhedananda
writer, philosopher
- Adolf Meyer
psychiatrist, university teacher
- Ernest Mangnall
association football player, association football coach
- Antoine Meillet
orientalist, grammarian
- Wlodimir Ledóchowski
Catholic priest, Catholic theologian
- J. E. Casely Hayford
editor, journalist
- Janko Vukotić
military personnel, politician
- Vyacheslav Ivanov
pedagogue, playwright
- Gustav Adolf von Götzen
explorer, jurist
- George Milne, 1st Baron Milne
soldier, military personnel
- Johan Vaaler
inventor
- Domhnall Ua Buachalla
politician
- Prince Pedro Augusto, 5th Prince of Kohary
mineralogist
- George Ade
humorist, novelist
- Francesco Cilea
pianist, composer
- Hugh Duffy
baseball player
- Henry Cantwell Wallace
journalist, politician
- Euclides da Cunha
philosopher, novelist
- Émile Vandervelde
politician, social democrat
- Hermann Löns
dramaturge, screenwriter
- Paolo Troubetzkoy
artist, sculptor
- Johann Strauss III
actor, pianist
- Ernest Starling
physician, physiologist
- Robert Broom
physician, university teacher
- Jeppe Aakjær
poet, writer
- António José de Almeida
physician, minister
- Pakubuwono X
monarch, royalty
- Charles Ricketts
jewelry designer, type designer
- Arthur Keith
anatomist, university teacher
- Katherine Routledge
archaeologist, anthropologist
- René Quinton
biologist
- Charles Wood
music teacher, music arranger
- Julian Marchlewski
publisher, politician
- George Coșbuc
jurist, journalist
- Hugh Clifford
colonial administrator, politician
- Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski
military officer, diplomat
- Edward Alsworth Ross
eugenicist, demographer
- Carl Theodor Zahle
politician, lawyer
- Kazimierz Twardowski
mathematician, philosopher
- Yamada Torajirō
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Princess Maria Letizia, Duchess of Aosta
aristocrat
- Art Young
journalist, writer
- Brandon Hurst
actor
- Thomas Jefferson Jackson See
mathematician, astronomer