1840 births

Russian composer (1840–1893)

French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)

French painter (1840–1926)

French sculptor (1840–1917)

English novelist and poet (1840–1928)

French novelist, playwright, and poet (1840–1897)

German social democrat politician (1840–1913)

33th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876)

German physicist (1840-1905)

French painter (1840–1916)

founder of the Austrian School of economics (1840–1921)

Italian writer (1840-1922)

British princess (1840-1901), Empress of Germany and Queen consort of Prussia from March to June 1888

Scottish inventor

American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840–1897)

19th century Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint (1840–1889)

Empress consort of Mexico (1863-1867)

Japanese general (1840-1900)

Ottoman writer (1840-1888)

Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and nobleman (1840–1902)

American-born inventor (1840-1916)

Russian journalist (1840–1868)

United States Navy admiral and historian (1840–1914)

Georgian writer (1840-1915)

British mountaineer

Chilean politician and President (1840-1891)

Swedish chemist who discovered holmium and thulium (1840-1905)

Prince of Liechtenstein (1840-1929)

American cartoonist (1840–1902)

German physicist (1840-1910)

Norwegian composer and conductor (1840–1911)

Romanian literary critic, writer and politician (1840-1917)

19th-century Native American leader

German linguist (1840–1916)

German physician, traveller and Turkish-Egyptian colonial governor (1840-1892)

American sociologist (1840–1910)

Portuguese president (1840-1917)

English Assyriologist (1840–1876)

Polish-American actress (1840–1909)

Austrian painter (1840–1884)

British physician and suffragist (1840–1912)

President of Argentina (1840–1919)

Swedish chemist (1840–1899)

French painter (1840–1916)

Ukrainian writer (1840–1904)

Russian sculptor (1840–1902)

Egyptian social activist

Austrian Imperial and Saxon Royal (1840-1858)

King of Cambodia from 1904 to 1927

Whitechapel murder victim

French writer, theatre administrator (1840-1913)

American art collector, philanthropist, patron of the arts (1840–1924)

British banker and politician (1840–1915)

Czech theater reviewer, publicist, bookwriter and writer

Italian art critic and writer (1840–1913)

Russian zoologist (1840-1901)

French politician (1840-1915)

Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright (1840–1908)

writer and actor (1840–1910)

British army officer, archaeologist, and photographer (1840-1927)