ON THIS DAY
Born in 1872
597 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Calvin Coolidge
statesperson, autobiographer
- Bertrand Russell
autobiographer, science fiction writer
- Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
consort, painter
- Roald Amundsen
researcher, naval aviator
- Haakon VII of Norway
royalty, monarch
- Piet Mondrian
writer, etcher
- Aurobindo Ghosh
politician, guru
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
conductor, pedagogue
- Alexander Scriabin
composer, university teacher
- Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
politician
- Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar
politician
- Léon Blum
jurist, writer
- Zane Grey
poet, novelist
- Anton Denikin
politician, military officer
- Eduard Bloch
physician
- Maurice Gamelin
military personnel, military commander
- Princess Margaret of Prussia
consort
- Djemal Pasha
military officer, politician
- Arthur Griffith
politician, writer
- Sergei Diaghilev
theatre, impresario
- John McCrae
university teacher, pathologist
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
librettist, playwright
- George Dern
politician, businessperson
- William Desmond Taylor
screenwriter, film producer
- Emil Hácha
politician, lawyer
- Louis Blériot
aerospace engineer, inventor
- Julia Morgan
film producer, architect
- Paul Langevin
chemist, philosopher of science
- Learned Hand
jurist, philosopher
- Maude Adams
researcher, film company owner
- Andrew Kehoe
spree killer
- Harlan F. Stone
judge, lawyer
- Hidesaburō Ueno
agronomist, professor
- Mathilde Kschessinska
dance teacher, ballet dancer
- Ranjitsinhji
cricketer
- Habibullah Khan
politician
- Henry Tingle Wilde
chief mate, sailor
- Kijūrō Shidehara
diplomat, politician
- John Cowper Powys
philosopher, poet
- Johan Huizinga
linguist, painter
- Archduke Joseph August of Austria
politician, military personnel
- V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
lawyer, activist
- Marcel Mauss
ethnologist, anthropologist
- David Unaipon
writer, journalist
- Gotse Delchev
politician, revolutionary
- Lucille La Verne
actor, film actor
- Wilhelm Miklas
politician
- William Heath Robinson
cartoonist, illustrator
- Emily Post
writer, author
- Max Beerbohm
comedian, essayist
- Otto Braun
minister, politician
- Edward Gordon Craig
stage actor, opera director
- Georgy Chicherin
politician, revolutionary
- Julius Fucik
conductor, composer
- Max Ehrmann
lawyer, poet
- George Joseph Smith
criminal, serial killer
- Tom Pendergast
businessperson, politician
- Tanguturi Prakasam
politician, lawyer
- Ella Ewing
sideshow performer, circus performer
- C. B. Fry
politician, athletics competitor
- Édouard Herriot
politician, writer
- Jože Plečnik
urban planner, architect
- Michael Joseph Savage
politician, diplomat
- Ichiyō Higuchi
waka poet, novelist
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
writer, translator
- Hendrik Seyffardt
military officer
- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
judge, jurist
- Norman Angell
opinion journalist, writer
- Grace Hall Hemingway
painter, novelist
- Ludwig Klages
psychologist, philosopher
- Jagatjit Singh I of Kapurthala
politician
- Addison Mizner
interior designer, architect
- Aleksandra Sokolovskaya
politician, midwife
- Miguel Cabanellas
politician, military personnel
- Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
writer, autobiographer
- Sidónio Pais
military personnel, mathematician
- Pío Baroja
playwright, baker
- Albert Coombs Barnes
chemist, pharmacologist
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer
lawyer, politician
- Rupert Hughes
film director, historian
- Vladimir Arsenyev
traveler, meteorologist
- Émile Henry
anarchist terrorist, anarchist
- Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany
politician, military personnel
- William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
governor, aristocrat
- Willem de Sitter
university teacher, astronomer
- Harry Payne Whitney
polo player, lawyer
- Willie Keeler
baseball player
- Traian Vuia
lawyer, Mason
- Marcel Renault
entrepreneur, racing automobile driver
- Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium
Christian nun
- Hugo Alfvén
composer, painter
- Bill Burgess
coach, water polo player
- Theodor Lessing
opinion journalist, teacher
- Richard Willstätter
university teacher, chemist
- B. S. Moonje
physician, politician
- Ubaidullah Sindhi
scholar, Islamicist
- Barbu Știrbey
politician, diplomat
- Harry Nelson Pillsbury
mnemonist, chess player
- Edward Adrian Wilson
explorer, painter
- David I. Walsh
jurist, peace activist
- Mikhail Tsvet
biochemist, physiologist
- Albert Sarraut
politician, diplomat
- Eleanor Rathbone
suffragist, suffragette
- Stanley Finch
lawyer
- Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
singer, music educator
- Yane Sandanski
politician, revolutionary
- Blaise Diagne
mayor, member of parliament
- Mehdi Frashëri
diplomat, politician
- Anton Korošec
writer, theologian
- Misia Sert
patron of the arts, pianist
- Martha Root
Esperantist, teacher
- William Larned
tennis player, soldier
- Abdul Karim Khan
singer, music educator
- Hamad I of Bahrain
sovereign, Amir
- Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham
judge, jurist
- Sai Jinhua
courtesan
- Joseph Taylor Robinson
governor, lawyer
- Marian Smoluchowski
physicist, mountaineer
- Manuel III of Kongo
monarch
- Benjamin Strong
banker, economist
- Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen
journalist, ethnologist
- Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
writer, politician
- Marie Equi
suffragist, peace activist
- Curnonsky
ghostwriter, gourmet
- Leon Moisseiff
civil engineer
- Ottokar Czernin
aristocrat, politician
- Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
cartoonist, painter
- Mikhail Kuzmin
poet, dramaturge
- Edward Johnston
illuminator, calligrapher
- Beatrix Farrand
landscape architect, gardener
- Bhai Vir Singh
novelist, theologian
- Edith Margaret Garrud
martial artist, feminist
- Carlo Sforza
diplomat, politician
- Tōson Shimazaki
writer, novelist