ON THIS DAY
Born in 1868
497 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Nicholas II of Russia
aristocrat, philatelist
- W. E. B. Du Bois
journalist, writer
- Maxim Gorky
autobiographer, politician
- Fritz Haber
physicist, engineer
- Magnus Hirschfeld
writer, sexologist
- Constantine I of Greece
sovereign
- Robert Falcon Scott
naval officer, explorer
- Miklós Horthy
politician, admiral
- Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
photographer, lady-in-waiting
- Gertrude Bell
historian, politician
- John Nance Garner
judge, vice president
- James Connolly
politician, socialist
- Florence Foster Jenkins
singer, songwriter
- Myrtle Corbin
circus performer, sideshow performer
- Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom
patron of the arts, aristocrat
- Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria
aristocrat
- Fuad I of Egypt
monarch, king
- Emanuel Lasker
bridge player, philosopher
- Abdülmecid II
painter
- Constance Markievicz
stage actor, suffragette
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
watercolorist, furniture designer
- Alice Keppel
mistress, socialite
- Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
entomologist, scientific collector
- Dietrich Eckart
editor, opinion journalist
- Charles Maurras
politician, journalist
- Josephine Bakhita
religious sister, nun
- Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
draftsperson, poet
- Empress Dowager Longyu
politician
- Gaston Leroux
screenwriter, lawyer
- Arnold Sommerfeld
theoretical physicist, university teacher
- George Arliss
director, film director
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
astronomer
- Kantarō Suzuki
politician, diplomat
- Marie Dressler
writer, actor
- Robert Andrews Millikan
university teacher, physicist
- Karl Landsteiner
immunologist, university teacher
- Alexandra David-Néel
singer, author
- Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
art collector
- Huo Yuanjia
martial artist
- Harvey Samuel Firestone
entrepreneur
- Gichin Funakoshi
karateka
- Edmond Rostand
playwright, writer
- Maxine Elliott
businessperson, stage actor
- Paul Claudel
poet, playwright
- Swarup Rani Nehru
activist
- Edward S. Curtis
film director, explorer
- Amy Archer-Gilligan
serial killer
- Gustav Noske
social democrat, journalist
- Paul Warburg
banker, merchant
- Ömer Fahreddin Türkkan
diplomat, politician
- Horace Elgin Dodge
businessperson, engineer
- Frank Bunker Gilbreth
general contractor, engineer
- Édouard Vuillard
painter, photographer
- Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
minister, politician
- Stefan George
librettist, linguist
- Peter Behrens
illustrator, architect
- Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
newspaper proprietor, politician
- Princess Anastasia of Montenegro
aristocrat
- Franz Ritter von Epp
career soldier, military officer
- August Horch
racing automobile driver, design engineer
- Olga Knipper
actor
- Gustav Meyrink
writer, translator
- Felix Hausdorff
university teacher, astronomer
- Émile Bernard
sculptor, watercolorist
- Jane Avril
art model, dancer
- William Allen White
editor, newspaper editor
- Mwanga II of Buganda
Kabaka of Buganda
- La Belle Otero
screenwriter, stage actor
- Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg
military officer
- Lin Sen
politician
- Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
politician, viceroy
- Francesco Saverio Nitti
university teacher, minister
- Mary Parker Follett
political scientist, writer
- John MacBride
politician, military personnel
- José Félix Uriburu
politician, military personnel
- Al Shean
comedian, vaudeville performer
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
biographer, writer
- Fedor Jeftichew
sideshow performer, circus performer
- Edgar Lee Masters
playwright, novelist
- Koloman Moser
illustrator, decorator
- Ahmed Shawqi
translator, writer
- Eleanor H. Porter
writer, novelist
- Felix Hoffmann
non-fiction writer, inventor
- Otto von Lossow
military attaché, soldier
- Arturo Alessandri
lawyer, librarian
- Hugo Eckener
engineer, entrepreneur
- George Ellery Hale
astronomer, physicist
- Lakshminath Bezbarua
autobiographer, poet
- Alain
philosopher, writer
- Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria
politician
- Cai Yuanpei
educator, Esperantist
- August Natterer
painter, artist
- Paul Percy Harris
jurist, lawyer
- Noe Zhordania
journalist, politician
- James Connolly
triple jumper, politician
- Stanisław Przybyszewski
journalist, writer
- Vittorio Monti
choreographer, violinist
- Norman Douglas
autobiographer, novelist
- Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild
art collector, financier
- Willie Maley
association football coach, association football player
- Emily Murphy
women's rights activist, writer
- Enriqueta Martí
procurer, curandero
- Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
entrepreneur
- Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria
politician
- Bernarr Macfadden
businessperson, nutritionist
- Kaddour Benghabrit
politician, theologian
- Philippa Fawcett
mathematician, writer
- Mary Hunter Austin
playwright, autobiographer
- Lulu White
businessperson, procurer
- Francis Jammes
literary critic, poet
- Georgy Voronoy
mathematician
- Venceslau Brás
politician, lawyer
- Henry Bergman
film actor, film producer
- Alfred Weber
economist, pedagogue
- Heinrich Schenker
musicologist, pianist
- Sophie of Merenberg
aristocrat
- Emil Racoviță
geologist, botanist
- Lloyd Osbourne
diplomat, novelist
- Heinrich Held
publisher, journalist
- Aleksa Šantić
playwright, translator
- Henri Bourassa
newspaper editor, journalist
- Luther Standing Bear
actor, philosopher
- Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen
chemist
- Patty Hill
composer, songwriter
- Mihailo Petrović
university teacher, mathematician
- Maude Abbott
pathologist, university teacher
- Wilhelm Stekel
psychiatrist, psychoanalyst
- Granville Bantock
composer, choreographer
- Vydūnas
theosophist, humanist
- Pompeu Fabra
engineer, romanist
- Charles Edward Taylor
inventor
- Mariano Trías
autobiographer, politician
- Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
writer, novelist
- Mikhail Pokrovsky
historian, politician
- Vladimir Vazov
military personnel, military officer
- Harry von Kessler
diplomat, writer
- Ahmad Dahlan
educator, mystic
- Adolph de Meyer
photographer, painter
- Karl Bonhoeffer
neurologist, physician
- John Francis Hylan
politician
- Félix Díaz
politician, military personnel
- Paul Otlet
Esperantist, writer
- Chang Ping-lin
sociologist, linguist
- Theodore William Richards
chemist
- Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo
politician
- Korbinian Brodmann
neuroscientist, anatomist
- Keisuke Okada
politician, military personnel