ON THIS DAY
Born in 1879
734 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Heisuke Yanagawa
military personnel
- Pedro Aguirre Cerda
lawyer, politician
- Carlos Chagas
academic, physician
- Émile Nelligan
poet
- Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
physicist, chemist
- Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria
aristocrat
- Prince Mirko of Montenegro
aristocrat
- Walery Sławek
head of government, politician
- Ray Harroun
racing automobile driver
- Melvin Jones
businessperson, philanthropist
- Jin Shuren
politician
- Léon Jouhaux
trade unionist
- Kafū Nagai
diarist, university teacher
- Owen Willans Richardson
theoretical physicist, physicist
- Viktor Tausk
jurist, neurologist
- Pinhas Rutenberg
writer, engineer
- Gleb Bokii
politician
- Rıza Nur
surgeon, Turkologist
- Cyril Scott
musician, choreographer
- Friedrich Christiansen
military personnel, politician
- Francis Peyton Rous
pathologist, physician
- Muhammad Al-Tahir Ibn 'Ashur
Qur'anic exegete, qadi
- Oskar Barnack
engineer, inventor
- Eily Malyon
actor, film actor
- Petar Živković
military officer, politician
- Patrick Abercrombie
architect, poet
- Aram Manukian
party organizer, politician
- George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd
aristocrat, politician
- Alexander Moissi
stage actor, actor
- Rafael de Nogales Méndez
writer, military personnel
- Thomas Meighan
stage actor, film actor
- Jacques Copeau
theatre manager, stage actor
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
journalist, writer
- Nannie Helen Burroughs
orator, suffragist
- Joseph Louis Anne Avenol
diplomat, politician
- Mustafa al-Nahhas
lawyer, politician
- Gorazd
Eastern Orthodox bishop, publisher
- Beatrice Hastings
novelist, poet
- Guido Fubini
university teacher, mathematician
- Karol Wojtyła
military officer, soldier
- Joseph Canteloube
musicologist, composer
- José Giral
head of government, chemist
- Milan Šufflay
politician, writer
- Charles Bryant
film director, stage actor
- Nadezhda Plevitskaya
musician, spy
- Shinobu Ishihara
surgeon, physician
- Martin Mutschmann
entrepreneur, industrialist
- Bedřich Hrozný
archaeologist, assyriologist
- Roberto Roberti
film actor, stage actor
- Hussain Ahmad Madani
imam, freedom fighter
- Daya Ram Sahni
archaeologist
- Hermann Dietrich
jurist, politician
- Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
university teacher, jurist
- Giuseppe Garibaldi II
soldier, politician
- Henry de Monfreid
writer, seafarer
- Marius Jacob
robber, sailor
- David Landau
stage actor, actor
- Karl Heinrich Emil Becker
military officer, chemist
- Thomas Holcomb
soldier, military officer
- Isaac Gruenbaum
politician, Zionist
- Henri-Pierre Roché
journalist, writer
- Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann
architect, designer
- Gunther Burstyn
engineer, inventor
- Yevgenia Bosch
statesperson, politician
- Agha Hashar Kashmiri
writer, playwright
- Warwick Armstrong
cricketer, Australian rules football player
- Hovannes Adamian
inventor, engineer
- Karl Bühler
psychiatrist, university teacher
- Ernst Herzfeld
art historian, archaeologist
- Jacques Bainville
journalist, chronicler
- Jan Sierada
military personnel, politician
- Eli Heckscher
economist, economic historian
- Otto Steinhäusl
lawyer, beamter
- Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton
painter, visual artist
- Leonid Feodorov
Catholic deacon, Catholic priest
- Guglielmo Nasi
diplomat, military officer
- Rupert Julian
film producer, director
- Agnes Arber
historian, botanical collector
- Hans Eppinger
university teacher, internist
- Theodor Haecker
translator, linguist
- Luigj Gurakuqi
politician, writer
- Elmer McCollum
biochemist, university teacher
- Robert Greig
stage actor, actor
- Pavel Bazhov
children's writer, journalist
- William Dobbie
engineer, military personnel
- Bunk Johnson
musician, jazz musician
- Yakov Ganetsky
politician, banker
- Andriy Livytskyi
politician, diplomat
- Willie Anderson
golfer
- Bob Crompton
association football coach, association football player
- Charles Delestraint
French resistance fighter, military personnel
- Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda
politician, translator
- Sári Fedák
film actor, singer
- Aimo Cajander
professor, university teacher
- Peter G. Gerry
politician
- Han Yong-un
poet, philosopher
- Othon Friesz
teacher, painter
- Leonid Mandelstam
physicist, university teacher
- Edward Martin
lawyer, solicitor
- Josep Maria Jujol
professor, architect
- Rose Pastor Stokes
activist, writer
- Alexandros Othonaios
military personnel, politician
- James McIlroy
surgeon, explorer
- Alfred Eckhard Zimmern
political scientist, historian
- Jean Cras
soldier, naval officer
- 'Aziz 'Ali al-Misri
diplomat, military officer
- Alice Masaryková
political prisoner, sociologist
- J. Gade
composer
- Ernest Jones
psychiatrist, psychoanalyst
- Eugène Freyssinet
engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads, civil engineer
- Kathlyn Williams
screenwriter, film director
- Gustaf Aulén
theologian, bishop
- Bernhard Schmidt
physicist, astronomer
- Agnes Miegel
journalist, poet
- Alfred Ritscher
explorer
- Edgar Sengier
mining engineer, engineer
- Harry Burton
archaeologist, photographer
- John Randolph Bray
illustrator, film director
- Eugen Varga
political economist, economist
- Robert Elliott
actor, character actor
- Vladimir Medem
union member, journalist
- Gala Galaction
writer, translator
- Robert Daniel Carmichael
university teacher, mathematician
- Pietro Gazzera
military personnel, politician
- Georg John
stage actor, actor
- Simon Rodia
engineer, sculptor
- Raymond Pearl
university teacher, biogerontologist
- Robert William Seton-Watson
author, historian
- Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes
military officer, physician
- Hod Stuart
ice hockey player
- Francesco Severi
mathematician, university teacher
- Henri Casadesus
conductor, music arranger
- Marie Juchacz
licensed practical nurse, resistance fighter
- Björn Þórðarson
politician
- Andrés Ignacio Menéndez
politician
- Luke Lea
editor, businessperson
- Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun
military personnel, politician