1840 births

Japanese industrialist known as the "father of Japanese capitalism" (1840-1931)

German zoologist and anthropologist (1840–1911)

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

French composer (1840–1901)

German botanist and botanical artist (1840-1925)

British poet, literary critic and cultural historian (1840–1893)

French microbiologist and chemist (1840-1904)

Union Army soldier (1840–1910)

President of Bolivia (1840-1894)

astronomer (1840-1919)

French horticulturalist, landscape designer, as well as a leading landscape architect (1840-1911)

Georgian writer and journalist

Welsh novelist (1840–1920)

President of Paraguay (1840-1877)

Russian artist (1840-1894)

French mathematician and civil engineer (1840–1912)

German painter (1840–1915)

Russian poet, writer and critic (1840–1893)

Serbian general, politician, military strategist and Prime Minister (1840-1913)

British social researcher and philanthropist (1840-1916)

Danish artist (1840-1920)

French caricaturist (1840-1885)

English composer (1840–1901)

Lithuanian-born Polish romantic painter (1840-1916)

German poet (1840-1905)

German classical music composer (1840-1876)

politician (1840-1915)

British poet and writer (1840–1922)

British artist (1840 – 1905)

Italian composer and conductor (1840-1891)

Belarusian writer (1840 – 1900)

British artist of Huguenot descent (1840-1920)

British architect (1840–1904)

Italian writer and journalist (1840–1920)

American gospel singer and composer (1840-1908)

Russian explorer (1840–1892)

Japanese politician (1840-1908)

Swedish painter (1840–1926)

Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist (1840-1911)

Anglo-Hungarian orientalist

Irish astronomer (1840–1913)

British astronomer (1840-1908)

English geologist and ornithologist (1840–1910)

French explorer of the Sahara (1840–1892)

German zoologist (1840-1909)

American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat (1840–1890)

Polish-Austrian mathematician

Armenian feminist author (1840–1901)

Canadian Catholic cardinal (1840–1925)

Scottish historian and statistician (1840-1900)

German anatomist and zoologist (1840-1921)

Austrian painter (1840-1925)

German philosopher (1840–1912)

American industrialist, and first president of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society (1840-1897)

Austrian legal scholar (1840–1915)

Bulgarian revolutionary (1840–1868)

Hungarian Catholic cardinal (1840-1917)

Shi Xuyun or Hsu Yun (; 5 September 1840? – 13 October 1959) was a renowned Chinese Chan Buddhist master and an influential Buddhist teacher of the 19th and 20th centuries.

British author, art historian, feminist and trade unionist

British writer and theosophist (1840-1921)