ON THIS DAY
Born in 1870
512 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Vladimir Lenin
lawyer, political theorist
- Albert Fish
cannibal, painter and varnisher
- Maria Montessori
pedagogue, biologist
- Alfred Adler
psychologist, psychotherapist
- Christian X of Denmark
military officer, monarch
- Jan Christiaan Smuts
botanist, politician
- Lord Alfred Douglas
journalist, writer
- Carrie Ingalls
typesetter
- Sophia of Prussia
royalty
- Hilaire Belloc
biographer, writer
- Dadasaheb Phalke
film director, screenwriter
- Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella
politician, head of government
- Saki
writer, novelist
- Bernard Mannes Baruch
stockbroker, economist
- Lavr Kornilov
explorer, diplomat
- Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
colonialist, author
- Ivan Bunin
writer, playwright
- Alexander Berkman
autobiographer, typographer
- Karl Renner
lawyer, jurist
- Maxfield Parrish
designer, illustrator
- James Middleton Cox
businessperson, politician
- Georgy Gapon
Eastern Orthodox priest, revolutionary
- Harry Vardon
golfer, golf course designer
- Erskine Childers
novelist, politician
- Adolf Loos
architecture critic, essayist
- D. T. Suzuki
philosopher, translator
- Benjamin N. Cardozo
jurist, politician
- Chittaranjan Das
politician, barrister
- Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark
aristocrat
- Marcus Loew
impresario, film producer
- Clara Immerwahr
women's rights activist, chemist
- Richard Bedford Bennett
diplomat, politician
- William J. Seymour
preacher, evangelist
- Juho Kusti Paasikivi
diplomat, politician
- Franz Lehár
operetta composer, author
- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
diplomat, philosopher
- William G. Morgan
volleyball player, inventor
- Amadeo Giannini
banker, entrepreneur
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
factory owner, diplomat
- Ilya Ivanov
geneticist, zoologist
- Masabumi Hosono
bureaucrat
- Prince Carlos of the Two Sicilies
military officer, politician
- Solanus Casey
regular priest, Catholic theologian
- Prince Francis of Teck
military personnel
- Pierre Louÿs
photographer, novelist
- Matangini Hazra
freedom fighter, revolutionary
- Joseph Strauss
structural engineer, architect
- Gustav Landauer
editing staff, publisher
- Frank Norris
writer, journalist
- Maurice Denis
painter, art historian
- Archduchess Louise of Austria
politician
- Josef Hoffmann
teacher, university teacher
- George Albert Smith
prophet
- Kitarō Nishida
philosopher, writer
- Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston
socialite, aristocrat
- Gustav Bauer
politician, trade unionist
- Macario Sakay
politician, military personnel
- Jaime de Borbón y Borbón-Parma
military personnel
- Herbert Kilpin
association football coach, association football player
- Jadunath Sarkar
writer, historian
- Hubert Gough
lieutenant general, military personnel
- Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein
military personnel, soldier
- Sigfrid Edström
businessperson, athletics competitor
- Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma
aristocrat, consort
- Louis Vierne
organist, composer
- Reginald Lee
sailor
- Thomas Gore
lawyer, peace activist
- Francisco S. Carvajal
diplomat, lawyer
- Thomas Byles
Catholic priest
- Alexandre Benois
theatre designer, art historian
- Marie Lloyd
singer, comedian
- Jean-Baptiste Perrin
university teacher, theoretical physicist
- Vladimir Purishkevich
politician
- Edwin Stanton Porter
screenwriter, camera operator
- Aleksandr Kuprin
prose writer, screenwriter
- Ella Harper
circus performer
- Hugo Stinnes
politician, entrepreneur
- Leopold Godowsky
music educator, composer
- Sascha Schneider
artist, sculptor
- Louis Bachelier
non-fiction writer, university teacher
- Weston Price
stomatologist, nutritionist
- Roscoe Pound
writer, university teacher
- Leonid Krasin
businessperson, diplomat
- Alice Seeley Harris
missionary, photographer
- Harry Lauder
songwriter, actor
- Ernst Barlach
exlibrist, printmaker
- Ivan Kharitonov
waiter, chef
- Richard Bennett
screenwriter, film actor
- Archer Milton Huntington
writer, entrepreneur
- François Georges-Picot
jurist, diplomat
- Thami El Glaoui
statesperson, politician
- Hamaguchi Osachi
politician
- Elisabeth Hesselblad
founder of Catholic religious community, nun
- Annie Londonderry
traveler, adventurer
- Mehmed Selim Efendi
statesperson, politician
- Albert Jay Nock
autobiographer, sociologist
- Dirk Jan de Geer
lawyer, politician
- Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria
aristocrat, patron of the arts
- Hatice Sultan
aristocrat
- Charlotte Cooper
tennis player
- Georges Claude
physicist, inventor
- George Pearce
carpenter, politician
- Nariman Narimanov
playwright, writer
- Émilienne d’Alençon
courtesan, stage actor
- Alexandros Schinas
criminal
- David Riazanov
historian, revolutionary
- Mun Bhuridatta
Buddhist monk, monk
- George Dixon
boxer
- Cevat Çobanlı
minister, military personnel
- James Braid
golfer
- Jimmy Barry
boxer
- Eva Gore-Booth
suffragette, poet
- Motobu Chōki
karateka
- Amado Nervo
writer, diplomat
- Jules Bordet
politician, bacteriologist
- Grigory Gershuni
revolutionary, politician
- Jimmy Collins
baseball manager, baseball player
- Princess Henriette of Belgium
aristocrat, illustrator
- Florent Schmitt
pianist, music critic
- Horace Hood
naval officer
- Alexander Stirling Calder
sculptor
- Ynes Mexia
photographer, botanist
- Peter Struve
politician, economist
- Marianne Weber
feminist, politician
- William James Glackens
painter, illustrator
- Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford
university teacher, politician
- Ada Negri
writer, poet
- Géza Maróczy
non-fiction writer, chess player
- Gao Lingwei
politician
- Michael Rostovtzeff
art historian, archaeologist
- Prince Ludwig of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary
military personnel
- Herbert Ponting
polar explorer, photographer
- John Marin
printmaker, architect
- Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Count of Turin
aristocrat, military officer
- Ignacio Zuloaga
painter, art collector
- George Eyser
artistic gymnast, bookkeeper
- Oscar Straus
conductor, musician
- Henry Kolker
actor, film director
- Henry Handel Richardson
writer, novelist
- Vera Gedroits
surgeon, writer