1850 births

Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)

French writer (1850-1893)

Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher; first Czechoslovak president (1850–1937)

German inventor and physicist (1909 Nobel Prize)

19th-century Russian mathematician

Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (1850-1889)

French physiologist and parapsychologist (1850-1935)

Bulgarian writer and poet (1850-1921)

German politician and theorist (1850–1932)

electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)

French writer (1850-1923)

Irish officer and colonial administrator in the British Army (1850–1916)

captain of the RMS Titanic (1850–1912)

American author (1850–1904)

French chemist (1850–1936)

Greek-Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West (1850–1904)

German psychologist (1850-1909)

American author and socialist (1850–1898)

Russian chess player

Mexican military officer and 35th President of Mexico (1850-1916)

Italian general (1850-1928)

Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist

American geographer (1850–1934)

British prince (1850–1942), Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916

Albanian writer, philosopher, playwright and activist (1850–1904)

Hungarian orientalist, scholar (1850-1921)

Japanese politician (1850-1942)

British writer, founder of the garden city movement (1850–1928)

Italian-American Catholic nun, misionary and saint (1850-1917)

British Pre-Raphaelite painter and author (1850-1934)

Catalan architect (1850–1923)

Russian Menshevik (1850–1928)

Italian volcanologist (1850-1914)

British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (1850–1928)

American statesman (1850–1924)

American paleontologist and 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1850-1927)

German physicist and the great science-history maker (1850-1930)

Russian grand duke

Russian noble (1850-1925)

American author and poet (1850–1919)

American sculptor (1850–1931)

American ornithologist (1850-1929)

Swedish writer (1850–1888)

Polish painter (1850–1901)

Spanish politician and labour leader (1850–1925)

American sheriff (1850–1908)

Swiss hotelier (1850-1918)

Czech conductor, music educator, composer and choirmaster (1850-1900)

Finnish artist (1850–1914)

German physicist (1850–1919)

German military leader (1850-1921)

American operatic soprano (1850-1891)

Saudi monarch and the last Emir of Nejd (1850–1928)

Monegasque princess

Moldovan-Bulgarian physician

American physician (1850–1916); discoverer of Huntington's disease

British tennis player (1850–1906)

German biologist (1850-1924)

German general (1850-1935)

Italian physicist (1850-1920)