ON THIS DAY
Born in 1873
556 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Thérèse of Lisieux
writer, theologian
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
musicologist, conductor
- Leon Czolgosz
metalworker, anarchist
- Colette
cabaret performer, theatre critic
- Jules Rimet
sports executive, lawyer
- Enrico Caruso
opera singer
- Willa Cather
novelist, poet
- Thomas Andrews
businessperson, marine architect
- Francisco I. Madero
military personnel, writer
- Ma Barker
criminal
- Al Smith
politician
- Alberto Santos-Dumont
aircraft pilot, inventor
- Konstantin von Neurath
lawyer, diplomat
- William McMaster Murdoch
sailor, chief mate
- Yuly Martov
politician, opinion journalist
- Sidney Reilly
arms trader, spy
- Elena of Montenegro
consort
- Adolph Zukor
film director, film producer
- Ford Madox Ford
publisher, literary critic
- Luigi Lucheni
revolutionary, anarchist
- W. C. Handy
non-fiction writer, music journalist
- Karl Schwarzschild
mathematician, astronomer
- Alexander Bogdanov
science fiction writer, philosopher
- Ivanoe Bonomi
politician, diplomat
- G. E. Moore
university teacher, philosopher
- Viktor Chernov
journalist, writer
- Alexis Carrel
sociologist, surgeon
- A.K. Fazlul Huq
politician
- Anton Cermak
politician
- Kyösti Kallio
politician
- Alfred Jarry
graphic artist, printmaker
- Otto Wels
member of parliament, politician
- Alice Guy-Blaché
film producer, film director
- Daniel Daly
Major, military personnel
- Max Reinhardt
film director, director
- Eliel Saarinen
architect, urban planner
- Lee de Forest
engineer, radio technician
- Liang Chi-chao
writer, activist
- Walter de la Mare
poet, children's writer
- Lady Ottoline Morrell
photographer, writer
- Pavlo Skoropadsky
diplomat, large estate owner
- Feodor Chaliapin
dancer, writer
- Charles Péguy
philosopher, journalist
- John Joseph McGraw
baseball manager, baseball player-manager
- John William Davis
diplomat, jurist
- Leo Amery
journalist, politician
- Max Reger
pianist, university teacher
- David O. McKay
teacher, prophet
- Hayim Nahman Bialik
screenwriter, essayist
- Anne Morgan
philanthropist
- E. D. Morel
pacifist, member of parliament
- Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
explorer, military personnel
- Elena Stasova
revolutionary, politician
- Fritz Thyssen
politician, art collector
- Hugo Simberg
painter, sculptor
- Gauhar Jaan
singer, dancer
- Daisy, Princess of Pless
socialite, nurse
- Anton Pannekoek
philosopher, socialist
- Konstantinos Carathéodory
mathematician, university teacher
- Salvatore D'Aquila
gangster
- Moisei Uritsky
politician
- Charles Fox Parham
cleric, theologian
- Sándor Ferenczi
physician, neurologist
- Cornelius Vanderbilt III
military personnel, businessperson
- John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
politician, judge
- Frank Wild
explorer, traveler
- Henri Barbusse
historian, screenwriter
- Spyridon Louis
runner, herder
- Thorvald Stauning
politician
- Christian Rakovsky
lawyer, socialist
- Melitta Bentz
entrepreneur
- Ricardo Flores Magón
philosopher, journalist
- Gerald du Maurier
film actor, stage actor
- Robert Wiene
film producer, director
- Barnum Brown
geologist, paleontologist
- Vithalbhai Patel
politician
- Ernest James Bellocq
photographer
- Nellie McClung
novelist, women's rights activist
- Condé Nast
publisher, journalist
- Ibrahim of Johor
sovereign
- Tullio Levi-Civita
physicist, university teacher
- Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
aircraft pilot, politician
- Jukums Vācietis
colonel, university teacher
- Maulana Shaukat Ali
freedom fighter, journalist
- Mehmet Âkif Ersoy
politician, writer
- Kumaran Asan
poet, writer
- Iuliu Maniu
jurist, writer
- Enoch Mankayi Sontonga
composer, songwriter
- Rudolf Rocker
trade unionist, journalist
- Sakallı Nureddin Paşa
military personnel, politician
- Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
zoologist, politician
- Kyōka Izumi
writer, playwright
- Francis Harvey
military personnel
- Józef Haller
politician, military officer
- Fred Stone
stage actor, composer
- Maud Allan
stage actor, choreographer
- Michele Besso
mathematician, engineer
- Sara Josephine Baker
physician
- Otto Loewi
university teacher, physician
- Peig Sayers
writer, autobiographer
- Dorothy Richardson
novelist, journalist
- Sydney Barnes
cricketer
- Hans Berger
university teacher, scientist
- Arnold van Gennep
ethnographer, writer
- Dwight Morrow
politician, bank officer
- Johannes V. Jensen
translator-interpreter, poet
- Ellen Glasgow
poet, writer
- Margaret Bondfield
political activist, politician
- Leo Frobenius
anthropologist, Africanist
- Madame Sul-Te-Wan
television actor, film actor
- Sayyid Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi
military personnel
- Nikolay Bauman
politician, revolutionary
- Leo Baeck
educator, philosopher
- Sante Geronimo Caserio
militant, baker
- Valery Bryusov
writer, science fiction writer
- Hasan Prishtina
politician
- Ramón Castillo
lawyer, minister
- Charles Allan Gilbert
film director, painter
- Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen
head of government, politician
- Howard Chandler Christy
graphic artist, architectural drafter
- William Ernest Hocking
philosopher, theologian
- Heitor da Silva Costa
engineer
- Louis Feuillade
poet, screenwriter
- E. T. Whittaker
astronomer, university teacher
- Ejnar Hertzsprung
chemist, university teacher
- Nadežda Petrović
painter, nurse
- Ahmad Nami
politician
- Swami Rama Tirtha
Swami, philosopher
- Ray Ewry
athletics competitor
- Edwin Flack
middle-distance runner, athletics competitor
- Eufemio Zapata
military personnel
- Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich
journalist, writer
- Francis Burton Harrison
politician
- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
literary critic, literary historian
- Gabriel Terra
lawyer, politician
- Wojciech Korfanty
journalist, member of parliament
- Tom Sharkey
boxer
- Bibb Graves
politician, lawyer
- Mehmed Reshid
physician, politician
- Jakob Wassermann
narrator, essayist
- Indira Devi Chaudhurani
translator, writer
- Barbados Joe Walcott
boxer
- Leo Slezak
writer, autobiographer
- Manie Maritz
military personnel
- Dave Gallaher
rugby union player
- Karl von Müller
politician, military personnel
- Ma Lin
politician
- Richard Wilhelm
translator, Chinese–German translator
- Gaetano Salvemini
historian of Modern Age, politician