1847 births

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)

Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)

Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany (1847–1934)

British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933)

Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician (1847-1911)

German chemist (1847–1931)

Polish novelist (1847–1912)

Empress consort of Russia (1847–1928)

American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robber

French philosopher and sociologist

6th President of the French Republic (1847–1907)

German painter (1847–1935)

British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1847–1929)

Danish novelist, poet, scientist (1847-1885)

Russian scientist in mechanics and aerohydrodinamics

English actress (1847–1928)

Italian politician (1847–1922)

6th president of Brazil

Hungarian writer and politician (1847–1910)

First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901

English politician, writer, and activist (1847–1929)

French literary critic (1847–1916)

American neoclassical economist (1847–1938)

Queen consort of Spain from 1870 to 1873

Croatian inventor

Italian librettist, poet and writer (1847-1906)

Serbian field marshal (1847-1917)

Russian revolutionary (1847-1882)

Queen of Portugal from 1862 to 1889

German pathologist (1847–1888)

Russian Grand Duke

sport shooter (1847–1927)

Chinese martial artist and physician (1847-1924)

English ornithologist (1847–1909)

President of Peru (1847-1912)

Czech feminist author, editor (1847-1926)

Russian engineer (1847–1894)

first Hungarian female physician (1847–1922)

Italian engineer and physicist (1847-1897)

German mathematician (1847–1923)

Russian geologist and president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847-1936)

Vietnamese emperor (1847–1883)

French army officer (1847-1923)

Brazilian poet (1847-1871)

foundress of Margarete Steiff GmbH in Germany

German ornithologist (1847-1941)

British zoologist (1847-1929)

South African general (1847-1914)

Norwegian painter (1847-1906)

English physicist and electrical engineer (1847-1908)

Bavarian duchess (1847-1897); victim of the Bazar de la Charité fire

Russian noble (1847-1923)

Austrian jurist (1847-1915)

Norwegian pianist and composer (1847–1907)

mistress and morganatic wife of Tsar Alexander II

American astronomer (1847–1921)

American physician and activist (1847-1919)

Japanese warrior

Serbian writer (1847–1908)