1840s births

Oglala Sioux chief (1840–1877)

Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901

Ashanti Queen Mother and military leader

Indonesian guerrilla leader against the Dutch (1850–1908)

Spanish Catalan author

Gbehanzin, also known as Béhanzin ( – 10 December 1906), is considered the eleventh (if Adandozan is not counted) King of Dahomey, modern-day Republic of Benin. Upon taking the throne, he changed his name from Kondo.

Ottoman Turkish writer, journalist and translator (1844-1912)

Native American Indian leader (1845–1911)

American distiller and founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery. (1850–1911)

Native American writer, activist, scout, and teacher (1844–1891)

Lobengula Khumalo ( 1835 – 1894) was the second and last official king of Mthwakazi (historically called Matabeleland in English). Both names in the Ndebele language mean "the men of the long shields", a reference to the Ndebele warriors' use of the Nguni shield.

West African princess

Japanese swordsman

American guerrilla fighter (1839–1864)

19th century Lakota chief (1840–1894)

tribal chief

Sudanese warlord and slave trader (1842–1900)

Lakota chief (1840-1908)

Nongqawuse (; c. 1841 – 1898) was a Xhosa prophet. Her prophecies resulted in a millenarian belief that culminated in the Xhosa cattle-killing and famine of 1856–1857, in what is now Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Ottoman Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army during the First Balkan War of 1912–13

Poundmaker ( – 4 July 1886), also known as pîhtokahânapiwiyin (), was a Plains Cree chief known as a peacemaker and defender of his people, the Poundmaker Cree Nation. His name denotes his special craft at leading buffalo into buffalo pounds (enclosures) for harvest.

Uzbekistani poet (1845–1910)

Chilean politician (1845-1910)

Indian photographer (1844–1905)

American film director and cinematographer (1847–1910)

Whitechapel murder victim

Chief of Cheyenne Tribe (1847–1917)

First consort of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II

Bulgarian revolutionary (1843–1876)

Scottish football coach (1843-1921)

British numismatist (1844-1914)

Anglo-New Zealand poet, journalist, politician (1843–1898)

Union United States Army soldier (1844–1902)

Russian physician (1844–1899)

Mtyela Kasanda (c. 1840–1884), better known as King Mirambo, was a Nyamwezi king, from 1860 to 1884. He created the largest state by area in 19th-century East Africa in present-day Urambo district in Tabora Region of Tanzania. Urambo district is named after him. He also built a capital for his territory at Iselemagazi.

English artists' model (1845-1884)

English zoologist (1846-1879)

French sculptor

one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic Slave Trade

American photographer (1840–1882)

Zimbabwean rebel (1840–1898)

King of Cayor (1842–1886)

19th-century American demagogue

Japanese photographer (1844–1875)

Cheyenne woman warrior

Sudanese military commander (1836-1926)

plantation worker in the Danish West Indies

French violinist (died 1902)

Al Bashir ibn Salim al-Harthi () (c.1840 - 15 December 1889), was a wealthy merchant and slave-owning plantation owner of Omani Arab and Oromo parentage (from his mother's side) who is known for the Abushiri Revolt against the German East Africa Company in present-day Tanzania. He is credited with uniting local Arab traders and African tribes against German colonialism.

Irish writer (1847–1920)

King of the Kénédougou Empire (1845–1893)

Greek painter (1845-1873)

Greek feminist and educator (1847–1929)

Native American scout with the US 7th Cavalry, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1840–1876)

Chinese giant and performer (1841–1893)

British sport shooter (1849–1934)

Modoc interpreter (c. 1848–1920)

Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1842-1894)

Hellenic Army general (1846–1931)

Lakota leader