Famous Births
Browse 75,136 historical entries of Famous Births, sorted by date.
Births on This Day
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AD 15
Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress (or possibly AD 16) (d. 59)
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1391
Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
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1479
Joanna of Castile (d. 1555)
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1479
Philip I, Margrave of Baden (d. 1533)
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1494
Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan (d. 1566)
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1550
Karin Månsdotter, Swedish queen (d. 1612)
Most mentioned
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 189 occurrences
- Nobel Prize in Physics 185 occurrences
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry 157 occurrences
- Nobel Prize in Literature 110 occurrences
- Nobel Peace Prize 95 occurrences
- Medal of Honor 56 occurrences
- Governor of Massachusetts 56 occurrences
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 52 occurrences
- Prime Minister of France 50 occurrences
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 49 occurrences
- President of the United States 44 occurrences
- SS 41 occurrences
- Prime Minister of Greece 40 occurrences
- Makuuchi 39 occurrences
- Prime Minister of New Zealand 39 occurrences
- Prime Minister of Japan 37 occurrences
- United States Secretary of State 37 occurrences
- Prime Minister of Australia 29 occurrences
- Vice President of the United States 28 occurrences
- Premier of Victoria 28 occurrences
All entries
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1431
1/1 — Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
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1449
1/1 — Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian politician (d. 1492)
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1453
1/1 — Bernardin Frankopan, Croatian nobleman, diplomat and soldier (d. 1529)
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1465
1/1 — Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, 11th Chief, Scottish clan chief (d. 1523)
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1467
1/1 — Sigismund I the Old, Polish king (d. 1548)
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1484
1/1 — Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss pastor and theologian (d. 1531)
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1488
1/1 — Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1543)
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1500
1/1 — Solomon Molcho, Portuguese mystic (d. 1532)
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1509
1/1 — Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (d. 1573)
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1515
1/1 — Johann Weyer, Dutch physician (d. 1588)
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1516
1/1 — Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
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1526
1/1 — Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary to Latin America, patron saint of Colombia (d. 1581)
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1530
1/1 — Thomas Bromley, English lord chancellor (d. 1587)
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1545
1/1 — Magnus Heinason, Faroese naval hero (d. 1589)
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1548
1/1 — Giordano Bruno, Italian mathematician, friar, philosopher, poet, and cosmological theorist (d. 1600)
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1557
1/1 — Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606)
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1560
1/1 — Hugh Myddelton, Welsh businessman (d. 1631)
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1561
1/1 — Thomas Walsingham, English spymaster (d. 1630)
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1579
1/1 — Jacob Dircksz de Graeff, Dutch mayor (d. 1638)
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1584
1/1 — Charles de Lorme, French physician (d. 1678)
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1586
1/1 — Pau Claris i Casademunt, Catalan ecclesiastic (d. 1641)
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1600
1/1 — Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1649)
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1628
1/1 — Christoph Bernhard, German composer and theorist (d. 1692)
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1638
1/1 — Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
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1638
1/1 — Nicolas Steno, Danish pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (d. 1686)
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1650
1/1 — George Rooke, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1709)
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1655
1/1 — Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (d. 1728)
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1684
1/1 — Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch scholar and author (d. 1748)
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1704
1/1 — Soame Jenyns, English author, poet, and politician (d. 1787)
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1711
1/1 — Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
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1714
1/1 — Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian soprano and author (d. 1800)
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1714
1/1 — Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (d. 1780)
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1735
1/1 — Paul Revere, American silversmith and engraver (d. 1818)
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1745
1/1 — Anthony Wayne, American general and politician (d. 1796)
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1750
1/1 — Frederick Muhlenberg, American minister and politician, 1st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1801)
Frederick Muhlenberg · Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
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1752
1/1 — Betsy Ross, American seamstress, credited with designing the Flag of the United States (d. 1836)
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1768
1/1 — Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish author (d. 1849)
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1769
1/1 — Marie Lachapelle, French obstetrician (d. 1821)
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1769
1/1 — Jane Marcet, British science writer (d. 1858)
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1774
1/1 — André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and academic (d. 1860)
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1779
1/1 — William Clowes, English publisher (d. 1847)
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1803
1/1 — Edward Dickinson, American politician and father of poet Emily Dickinson (d. 1874)
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1803
1/1 — Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1869)
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1806
1/1 — Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (d. 1853)
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1809
1/1 — Achille Guenée, French lawyer and entomologist (d. 1880)
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1813
1/1 — George Bliss, American politician (d. 1868)
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1814
1/1 — Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebellion leader and king (d. 1864)
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1818
1/1 — William Gamble, American general (d. 1866)
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1819
1/1 — Arthur Hugh Clough, English-Italian poet and academic (d. 1861)
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1819
1/1 — George Foster Shepley, American general (d. 1878)
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1823
1/1 — Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and activist (d. 1849)
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1833
1/1 — Robert Lawson, Scottish-New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (d. 1902)
Robert Lawson (architect) · Otago Boys' High School · Knox Church, Dunedin
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1834
1/1 — Ludovic Halévy, French author and playwright (d. 1908)
- 1839
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1848
1/1 — John W. Goff, Irish-American lawyer and politician (d. 1924)
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1852
1/1 — Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist and academic (d. 1904)
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1854
1/1 — James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist and academic (d. 1941)
- 1857
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1859
1/1 — Thibaw Min, Burmese king (d. 1916)
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1859
1/1 — Michael Joseph Owens, American inventor (d. 1923)
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1860
1/1 — John Cassidy, Irish sculptor and painter (d. 1939)
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1860
1/1 — Dan Katchongva, American tribal leader and activist (d. 1972)
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1860
1/1 — Michele Lega, Italian cardinal (d. 1935)
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1860
1/1 — Jan Vilímek, Czech illustrator and painter (d. 1938)
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1863
1/1 — Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (d. 1937)
- 1864
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1864
1/1 — Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (d. 1946)
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1867
1/1 — Mary Ackworth Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (d. 1949)
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1867
1/1 — Lew Fields, American actor, producer, and manager (d. 1941)
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1871
1/1 — Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (d. 1948)
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1874
1/1 — Frank Knox, American publisher and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
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1874
1/1 — Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (d. 1927)
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1877
1/1 — Alexander von Staël-Holstein, German sinologist and orientalist (d. 1937)
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1878
1/1 — Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician, statistician, and engineer (d. 1929)
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1879
1/1 — E. M. Forster, English author and playwright (d. 1970)
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1879
1/1 — William Fox, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer, founded the Fox Film Corporation and Fox Theatres (d. 1952)
William Fox (producer) · Fox Film Corporation · Fox Theatres
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1883
1/1 — William J. Donovan, American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1959)
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1883
1/1 — Mary Forbes, English actress (d. 1974)
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1883
1/1 — Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist and composer (d. 1950)
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1884
1/1 — Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese lieutenant, engineer, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company (d. 1949)
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1884
1/1 — José Quirante, Spanish footballer, coach, and manager (d. 1964)
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1884
1/1 — Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1970)
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1887
1/1 — Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945)
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1888
1/1 — John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle (d. 1974)
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1888
1/1 — Georgios Stanotas, Greek general (d. 1965)
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1889
1/1 — Charles Bickford, American actor (d. 1967)
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1890
1/1 — Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (d. 1966)
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1891
1/1 — Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Rajasthan (d. 1969)
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1892
1/1 — Mahadev Desai, Indian author and activist (d. 1942)
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1892
1/1 — Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor (d. 1958)
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1892
1/1 — Manuel Roxas, Filipino lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Philippines (d. 1948)
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1893
1/1 — Mordechai Frizis, Greek colonel (d. 1940)
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1894
1/1 — Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician (d. 1974)
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1894
1/1 — Edward Joseph Hunkeler, American clergyman (d. 1970)
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1895
1/1 — J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 1972)
J. Edgar Hoover · Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1899
1/1 — Jack Beresford, British rower (d. 1977)
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1900
1/1 — Sam Berger, Canadian sports businessman (d. 1992)
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1900
1/1 — Paola Borboni, Italian film actress (d. 1995) [1]
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1900
1/1 — Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1990)