ON THIS DAY
Born in 1869
501 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Mahatma Gandhi
humanitarian, political writer
- Grigori Rasputin
monk, occultist
- Neville Chamberlain
politician, businessperson
- Henri Matisse
lithographer, printmaker
- Frederick Trump
hotel manager, entrepreneur
- Emma Goldman
philosopher, political philosopher
- Typhoid Mary
cook
- Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
sovereign, numismatist
- Emilio Aguinaldo
politician, autobiographer
- Maud of Wales
royalty, consort
- André Gide
playwright, travel writer
- Nadezhda Krupskaya
librarian, politician
- Kasturba Gandhi
politician, activist
- Edwin Lutyens
architect, urban planner
- Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
politician, military personnel
- Bogd Khan
religious leader, writer
- Prince George of Greece and Denmark
politician
- Algernon Blackwood
reporter, journalist
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
judge, lawyer
- Charley Grapewin
stage actor, cabaret performer
- Harvey Williams Cushing
neuroscientist, surgeon
- Henri Désiré Landru
serial killer, cartographer
- Karl Haushofer
political scientist, pedagogue
- Arthur Rostron
sailor
- Pyotr Krasnov
politician, lieutenant general
- Booth Tarkington
politician, playwright
- Gaetano Bresci
laborer, anarchist
- Francisco Largo Caballero
plasterer, trade unionist
- William Dudley Haywood
union member, labor leader
- Felix Salten
theatre critic, screenwriter
- Robbie Baldwin Ross
short story writer, literary critic
- Howard R. Hughes Sr.
entrepreneur, inventor
- Gustav Vigeland
wood carver, sculptor
- Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din
politician
- Philip de László
sculptor, painter
- Lyubov Dostoevskaya
writer
- Stephen Leacock
writer, economist
- Komitas
choir director, singer
- Nicholas Longworth
politician, lawyer
- Óscar Carmona
writer, military personnel
- Albert Kahn
architect
- Siegfried Wagner
musician, film director
- Konstantin Somov
exlibrist, miniature painter
- Élie Cartan
physicist, university teacher
- Martin A. Couney
neonatologist, physician
- Tyrone Power Sr.
actor, stage actor
- Marguerite Steinheil
salonnière
- Washington Luís
lawyer, governor
- Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
military personnel
- Liane de Pougy
dancer, novelist
- Rudolf Otto
philosopher, politician
- Ben Turpin
comedian, actor
- J. C. W. Beckham
lawyer, politician
- Max Hoffmann
politician, diplomat
- Stanisław Wojciechowski
politician, mathematician
- Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans
explorer, writer
- Alice Hamilton
writer, bacteriologist
- Stanisław Wyspiański
poet, architect
- Giulio Douhet
aircraft pilot, military officer
- Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta
military officer
- Yevno Azef
journalist, politician
- Nils Gustaf Dalén
chemist, business executive
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
poet, writer
- Else Lasker-Schüler
artist, salonnière
- Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein
soldier, aristocrat
- Hovhannes Tumanyan
writer, poet
- Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia
military personnel, politician
- Akbar Hydari
politician
- Michael von Faulhaber
Catholic bishop, resistance fighter
- Ludwig von Reuter
Marineoffizier, admiral
- Henry Wood
conductor, university teacher
- Prince Baudouin of Belgium
aristocrat
- Wayne Wheeler
jurist, lawyer
- Joseph Vacher
murderer, serial killer
- Abdul-Aziz bin Mitab
Amir, politician
- Ruby Laffoon
Democratic Party, judge
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
chemist, meteorologist
- Zinaida Gippius
writer, playwright
- Nicolae Paulescu
university teacher, physiologist
- Karl Seitz
politician, pedagogue
- James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn
politician
- Albert Roussel
pianist, music educator
- Hans Pfitzner
director, university teacher
- Laurence Binyon
playwright, art historian
- Bhagwan Das
philosopher, theosophist
- Hans Spemann
zoologist, physician
- Mary Colter
designer, architect
- Vida Goldstein
women's rights activist, journalist
- Ivan Aguéli
painter, politician
- Nikola Mandić
jurist, lawyer
- Constance Bulwer-Lytton
feminist, writer
- Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen
politician, art collector
- Eligiusz Niewiadomski
art critic, murderer
- James Rolph
politician, businessperson
- Hjalmar Söderberg
novelist, literary critic
- Abdullah Cevdet
translator, writer
- Edith Craig
theatrical producer, director
- Ahmad al-Alawi
mystic
- Ma Qi
politician
- Hendrikus Colijn
diplomat, university teacher
- David Grandison Fairchild
explorer, botanist
- Julius Dorpmüller
business executive, railway worker
- Kijirō Nambu
military personnel
- Helene Kröller-Müller
art collector, painter
- George Sterling
poet, dramaturge
- Hans Kundt
military officer, soldier
- Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
prose writer, sculptor
- José María Pino Suárez
lawyer, journalist
- Kiến Phúc
monarch
- Philip Chetwode
politician, major general
- Hughie Jennings
baseball player
- Ramón Menéndez Pidal
romanist, dialectologist
- Carl Schuhmann
artistic gymnast, weightlifter
- Georgette Leblanc
writer, actor
- Christian Lous Lange
politician, political scientist
- Max Bauer
author, military personnel
- Kenneth McKellar
politician, lawyer
- Kid Nichols
baseball player
- Bainbridge Colby
politician, jurist
- Henry Sylvester Williams
politician, historian
- Mustafa Sabri
statesperson, researcher
- Charlotte Mew
poet, writer
- F. Matthias Alexander
pedagogue, musician
- Martin Andersen Nexø
writer, journalist
- Hans Poelzig
painter, architect
- John Robert Clynes
politician, trade unionist
- Valdemar Poulsen
engineer, physicist
- Bertram Goodhue
type designer, architect
- George Robey
comedian, musical instrument maker
- Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau
jurist, politician
- Arnold Genthe
designer, journalist
- Klymentiy Sheptytsky
Righteous Among the Nations, politician
- Prince Johann Georg of Saxony
independent scholar, photographer