ON THIS DAY
Born in 1874
622 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Winston Churchill
screenwriter, member of parliament
- Herbert Hoover
writer, author
- Harry Houdini
magician, illusionist
- Ernest Shackleton
military officer, polar explorer
- Robert Frost
pedagogue, writer
- G. K. Chesterton
poet, opinion journalist
- William Somerset Maugham
prose writer, physician
- Gertrude Stein
collector, autobiographer
- Guglielmo Marconi
inventor, politician
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
banker, philanthropist
- Howard Carter
painter, necropolis scholar
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
biographer, diarist
- Arnold Schoenberg
conductor, painter
- Nance O'Neil
film actor, actor
- Alexander Kolchak
minister, explorer
- Gustav Holst
music arranger, librettist
- Chaim Weizmann
politician, university teacher
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
diplomat, writer
- Charles Lightoller
sailor, adventurer
- Talaat Paşa
politician, grand vizier
- Mary Ann Bevan
nurse, circus performer
- Honus Wagner
baseball player
- Nicholas Roerich
mystic, jurist
- Lou Henry Hoover
geologist, president
- Sunjong of the Korean Empire
emperor
- Henry Travers
actor, stage actor
- António Egas Moniz
neurosurgeon, writer
- Charles Ives
composer, actuary
- J. C. Leyendecker
illustrator, painter
- William Hale
cattle rancher, murderer
- Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
politician
- Carl Bosch
inventor, academic
- Wu Peifu
politician, military personnel
- Abbas II
governor, politician
- Inessa Armand
editor, feminist
- Daniel François Malan
politician, Christian minister
- Edward Thorndike
psychologist, university teacher
- Nikolai Berdyaev
university teacher, philosopher
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
composer, librettist
- Ernst Cassirer
philosopher, university teacher
- Thomas John Watson, Sr.
chief executive officer, entrepreneur
- Reginald Johnston
sinologist, diplomat
- Charles Fort
ufologist, science fiction writer
- Abigail Greene Aldrich
housewife, philanthropist
- Lewis Hine
sociologist, photographer
- Shahu of Kolhapur
monarch
- Max Scheler
anthropologist, sociologist
- Luigi Einaudi
professor, banker
- Vsevolod Meyerhold
theatre manager, actor
- Karl Kraus
writer, pacifist
- Konstantin Päts
author, politician
- Antanas Smetona
writer, pedagogue
- Prince Jean d’Orléans
aristocrat
- Clara Clemens
singer, writer
- Frank Knox
journalist, newspaper proprietor
- Arthur Meighen
politician, diplomat
- Emilie Louise Flöge
art collector, entrepreneur
- Robert W. Service
novelist, writer
- Cathal Brugha
politician
- Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
politician
- James L. Kraft
entrepreneur
- Oswald Chambers
writer, Anglican theologian
- Auda ibu Tayi
combatant
- Charles Vyner Brooke
monarch
- Sidney Toler
theatre director, playwright
- Nap Lajoie
baseball player
- Steve Bloomer
association football player, baseball player
- Charles A. Beard
opinion journalist, historian of Modern Age
- Billy Meredith
association football player
- Charles Robert Knight
painter, illustrator
- Johannes Stark
physicist, university teacher
- Harold L. Ickes
journalist, politician
- Bert Williams
singer, film actor
- Rose O'Neill
comics artist, artist
- Tan Kah Kee
merchant, entrepreneur
- Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels
church historian, cleric
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
assemblage artist, painter
- James Michael Curley
politician
- Elizabeth Patterson
film actor, stage actor
- Ludger Sylbaris
fisher, farmer
- Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
politician, military personnel
- Romaine Brooks
painter, artist
- Owen D. Young
jurist, lawyer
- Gustave Whitehead
inventor, military flight engineer
- Josef Suk
composer, violinist
- Amy Lawrence Lowell
socialite, poet
- Reynaldo Hahn
music critic, choreographer
- Huang Xing
revolutionary, politician
- Dmitry Ulyanov
revolutionary, physician
- Paul Wegener
actor, film actor
- Eugen Fischer
racial hygienist, geneticist
- Henri Guisan
politician, farmer
- Khalid bin Barghash Al Busaidi
politician
- Serge Koussevitzky
musician, conductor
- Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati
magistrate, astronomer
- George Tupou II
politician
- William Brockman Bankhead
American football player, politician
- Stephen Samuel Wise
community leader, Zionist activist
- August Krogh
pedagogue, university teacher
- William Foulke
goalkeeper, association football player
- Anton Philips
art collector, entrepreneur
- Kurt Eberhard
major general, military personnel
- Auguste Perret
teacher, architect
- Menahem Mendel Beilis
laborer, merchant
- Mikhail Diterikhs
politician, military personnel
- Āpirana Ngata
historian, lawyer
- Wincenty Witos
member of parliament, farmer
- Isaac Carasso
entrepreneur
- Constantin Ion Parhon
university teacher, endocrinologist
- François Coty
industrialist, mayor
- Harry McNish
carpenter, explorer
- Lina Cavalieri
film actor, opera singer
- Polaire
dancer, stage actor
- Grant Mitchell
stage actor, actor
- Elsa Beskow
artist, art educator
- Giorgi Kvinitadze
military personnel, military officer
- Joseph Goldberger
physician, epidemiologist
- Avhustyn Voloshyn
writer, priest
- Princess Anna of Montenegro
aristocrat
- Charles William Miller
rugby union player, cricketer
- Joe Gans
boxer
- Charles L. McNary
politician, lawyer
- István Bethlen
economist, diplomat
- Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria-Tuscany
military personnel, politician
- Otto Mueller
illustrator, lithographer
- George Samuel Clason
soldier, writer
- Franz Schmidt
composer, violinist
- Shapurji Saklatvala
politician
- Charles Middleton
actor, film actor
- Joaquín Torres-García
artist, painter
- Joseph Erlanger
physiologist, neuroscientist
- Henriette Caillaux
socialite, art historian
- Lynn Frazier
politician
- Ephraim Moses Lilien
engraver, painter
- Charlotta Bass
politician, suffragist
- Stenio Vincent
writer, politician
- Aldo Castellani
microbiologist, politician
- Mary Garden
opera singer, film actor
- Alceste De Ambris
author, jurist
- Juan Bautista Sacasa
politician
- Mary Carr
film actor, actor
- Carl Størmer
inventor, botanist
- Georges Lefebvre
historian of the French Revolution, historian
- Adolf Brand
publisher, writer
- Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena Montoya
nun, Christian nun
- Dustin Farnum
singer, film actor
- Fred Niblo
stage actor, film director
