ON THIS DAY
Born in 1871
486 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Marcel Proust
novelist, poet
- Ernest Rutherford
physicist, politician
- Guangxu Emperor
head of state
- Friedrich Ebert
politician
- Karl Liebknecht
author, member of parliament
- Pietro Badoglio
military personnel, diplomat
- Mary von Vetsera
aristocrat
- Ratanji Tata
businessperson, art collector
- Ioannis Metaxas
politician, diplomat
- Stephen Crane
screenwriter, poet
- Cordell Hull
jurist, diplomat
- Theodore Dreiser
journalist, autobiographer
- Albert Lebrun
entomologist, politician
- Paul Valéry
university teacher, librettist
- James Weldon Johnson
politician, poet
- John Millington Synge
prose writer, poet
- Heinrich Mann
essayist, playwright
- Emily Carr
autobiographer, artist
- Grazia Deledda
short story writer, playwright
- Florence Scovel Shinn
artist, teacher
- Lesya Ukrainka
film screenwriter, dramaturge
- Prince Randian
circus performer, actor
- Walter Russell
philosopher, sculptor
- Abanindranath Tagore
essayist, painter
- Guillermo Kahlo
photographer
- David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
politician, admiral
- Princess Hélène of Orléans
aristocrat
- Kim Bo-hyon
peasant
- Sergei Bulgakov
philosopher of religion, economist
- Zhang Jinghui
politician
- Leonid Andreyev
prose writer, journalist
- Harry Brearley
inventor, engineer
- Giacomo Balla
ceramicist, artist
- Émile Borel
researcher, university teacher
- Stjepan Radić
opinion journalist, translator
- Orville Wright
aircraft pilot, scientist
- František Kupka
illustrator, teacher
- Maurice Garin
sport cyclist
- Ernst Zermelo
philosopher, university teacher
- W. H. Davies
writer, poet
- Emmett Dalton
actor, autobiographer
- Alexander von Zemlinsky
writer, conductor
- Luigi Sturzo
philosopher, sociologist
- Jack Butler Yeats
painter, comics artist
- Robert Hugh Benson
science fiction writer, dramaturge
- Khwaja Salimullah
politician
- Charles Freer Andrews
social reformer, missionary
- Winston Churchill
politician, editing staff
- James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
politician
- Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
physician, writer
- Victor Grignard
university teacher, chemist
- Marion Mahony Griffin
artist, architect
- Hàm Nghi
monarch, painter
- Princess Catherine Kaur of Lahore
politician, suffragette
- Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro
aristocrat
- Walter Bradford Cannon
university teacher, physiologist
- Seymour Hicks
singer, film director
- Fedor Tokarev
inventor, politician
- Lottie Dod
golfer, tennis player
- Cesare Mori
police officer, politician
- James E. Ferguson
politician, lawyer
- Claus Schilling
tropical physician, concentration camp guard
- Hermann Kallenbach
architect
- Charlotte Maxeke
social activist, politician
- Doppo Kunikida
poet, journalist
- Emery Roth
architect
- John Langalibalele Dube
poet, journalist
- John Sloan
etcher, draftsperson
- Newton Diehl Baker Jr.
jurist, lawyer
- Mariano Fortuny
sculptor, artist
- John Chilembwe
cleric, politician
- Christian Morgenstern
librettist, dramaturge
- Jane Barnell
actor, circus performer
- Henry Stephenson
actor, stage actor
- Lou Tseng-Tsiang
writer, politician
- Shūsui Kōtoku
journalist, translator
- William Stern
university teacher, psychologist
- Gjergj Fishta
prose writer, politician
- Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman
politician, banker
- Jovan Dučić
teacher, poet
- Hubert Cecil Booth
businessperson, inventor
- Hanns Heinz Ewers
horror writer, cabaret performer
- William McDougall
psychologist, university teacher
- Ivan Poddubny
athlete, amateur wrestler
- Florine Stettheimer
artist, painter
- Aino Sibelius
composer, wife
- Arthur Wynne
inventor, journalist
- Epifanio de los Santos
politician, musicologist
- Manuel Fernández Silvestre
military personnel
- Ralph Nelson Elliott
financier, accountant
- Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat
politician
- Dame Gruev
teacher
- Wilhelm von Opel
councillor of commerce, engineer
- Slavoljub Eduard Penkala
inventor, engineer
- Arthur Tansley
university teacher, scientific collector
- Meyer London
politician, trade unionist
- Patriarch Benjamin I of Constantinople
non-fiction writer, theologian
- Michele Angiolillo
journalist, typographer
- Wilhelm Stenhammar
conductor, pianist
- George Washington
inventor, non-fiction writer
- Willem Mengelberg
university teacher, conductor
- Felix M. Warburg
banker, patron of the arts
- Margaret Floy Washburn
psychologist
- Wilhelm von Mirbach
diplomat, politician
- Samuel Hopkins Adams
journalist, short story writer
- Sayyid Abdullah Khan II
politician
- Eugène Marais
journalist, poet
- Onisaburo Deguchi
potter, cleric
- Heinrich Schnee
jurist, undersecretary
- Florence R. Sabin
scientist, anatomist
- Fyodor Dan
opinion journalist, physician
- Daniel Alomía Robles
composer, musicologist
- Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
writer, politician
- Constantin Argetoianu
physician, diplomat
- Joe Roberts
stage actor, film actor
- Vincenzo Galdi
model, photographer
- Luisa Tetrazzini
music educator, musician
- Vatslav Vorovsky
revolutionary, literary critic
- Ahatanhel Krymsky
poet, orientalist
- Ellaline Terriss
singer, film actor
- Grafton Elliot Smith
anatomist, physician
- Samuel Peploe
painter
- Segundo de Chomón
cinematographer, film producer
- Meletios
patriarch, Eastern Orthodox priest
- Fannie Ward
film actor, actor
- Alma Kruger
film actor, actor
- Hasyim Asy'ari
public figure, ulema
- Teriimaevarua III
politician
- Kiyoshi Shiga
physician, university teacher
- José Enrique Rodó
writer, poet
- Atulprasad Sen
writer, lyricist
- Afonso Costa
diplomat, lawyer
- Frank B. Willis
governor, university teacher
- Oscar Wisting
explorer
- Sada Yacco
stage actor, geisha
- Martin Knudsen
physicist, university teacher
- Tsunesaburō Makiguchi
philosopher, educator
- Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence
editor, politician
- Wilfred Lucas
film actor, actor