1829 births

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. Assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination, Arthur's administration saw the largest expansion of the U.S. Navy, the end of the so-called "spoils system", and the implementation of harsher restrictions for migrants entering from abroad.

Gerónimo (, ; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands the Tchihende, the Tsokanende (called Chiricahua by Americans) and the Nednhito carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona.

German organic chemist (1829–1896)

King of Sweden from 1872 to 1907 and Norway from 1872 to 1905 (1829–1907)

American astronomer (1829–1907)

Belgian prime minister and human rights activist (1829-1912)

Russian pianist, composer and conductor (1829–1894)

British painter and illustrator (1829–1896)

German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)

British Methodist preacher (1829-1912)

British Ornithologist and Founder of the Indian National Congress (1829–1912)

German naturalist (1829-1884)

Russian physiologist (1829–1905)

Brazilian writer (1829–1877)

German surgeon (1829-1894)

English zoologist, ornithologist, and lawyer (1829-1913)

German painter (1829–1880)

German-born physician and physiologist (1829-1901)

Vietnamese emperor (1829–1883)

Queen of Imerina (1868-1883)

German mathematician (1829–1900)

Russian saint (1829–1908)

Union Army general, politician (1829-1906)

Russian philosopher and life extensionist (1829-1903)

Italian linguist (1829–1907)

German philologist (1829-1911)

German historian of mathematics (1829-1920)

British astronomer (1829–1891)

Armenian writer (1829-1866)

Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and poet (1829-1862)

English zoologist and ornithologist (1829-1907)

King of Madagascar

Mexican political and military leader (1829–1862)

Danish mathematician and physicist (1829-1891)

French writer (1829-1871)

English chess player (1830–1908)

German mechanical engineer (1829–1905)

President of Venezuela (1829–1899)

French felibre (1829–1886)

Japanese professional Go player from the 19th century

German noble (1829–1880)

Greek politician, lawyer and journalist (1829-1879)

American musician and composer (1829-1869)

German chess player and chess composer (1829–1893)

Mother of The Salvation Army (1829–1890)

British author, traveller, diplomat and Christian mystic (1829-1888)

Swedish businessman (1829–1896)

English clergyman, botanist and zoologist (1829-1915)

French painter (1829-1905)

American mechanical engineer (1829–1908)

German prince (1829–1897)

Spanish general, politician and author (1829–1911)

Welsh astronomer (1829–1904)

French satirist and lawyer (1829–1878)

Pre-Raphaelite writer and critic (1829-1919)

American deaf-blind woman

German geologist (1829–1884)

novelist and author (1829-1899)

U.S geologist and surgeon (1829-1887)

Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1904)