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Ferdinand Foch
French marchal and military theorist (1851–1929)
Léon Bourgeois
French statesman (1851-1925)
Arthur Evans
British archaeologist and scholar (1851–1941)
Emile Berliner
German-born American inventor (1851–1929)
Olga Constantinovna of Russia
Queen of the Hellenes (1851–1926)
George FitzGerald
Irish physicist (1851–1901)
Ismail Gaspıralı
Crimean Tatar intellectual and politician (1851-1914)
Louise of Sweden
Queen consort of Denmark; wife of Frederick VIII of Denmark
Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck
Dutch microbiologist (1851–1931)
Friedrich von Wieser
Austrian economist (1851-1926)
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Austrian economist (1851-1914)
Adolf von Harnack
Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian (1851–1930)
Arne Garborg
Norwegian writer (1851–1924)
Melvil Dewey
American librarian (1851–1931)
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spanish author, editor (1851–1922)
Margherita of Savoy
Queen of Italy from 1878 to 1900
Peder Severin Krøyer
Danish painter (1851-1909)
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist and educator (1851-1931)
Jacobus Kapteyn
Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation (1851-1922)
Jonas Basanavičius
Lithuanian activist (1851-1927)
Vincent d'Indy
French composer and teacher
Alois Jirásek
Czech writer (1851–1930)
Oliver Lodge
British physicist (1851-1940)
Knut Wicksell
Swedish economist (1851–1926)
Nataliya Kobrynska
Ukrainian writer, editor (1855-1920)
Roque Sáenz Peña
Argentine politician, president of Argentina (1851-1914)
Empress Myeongseong
Empress Consort of Korea (1851–1895)
Bernardino Machado
Portuguese president (1851-1944)
Charles Dupuy
French politician (1851-1923)
Infanta Isabel, Countess of Gergenti
Spanish princess; eldest daughter of Queen Isabella II and Francis, Duke of Cádiz
Doc Holliday
gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West (1851–1887)
Georg Jellinek
German philosopher (1851-1911)
Charles Dow
American journalist (1851–1902)
Ekaterine Gabashvili
Georgian writer (1851–1938)
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Greek short-story writer (1851–1911)
Guillaume Bigourdan
French astronomer (1851–1932)
Frederick Francis III
German Grand Duke (1851–1897)
Edward Walter Maunder
English astronomer studying sunspots
Spyridon Lambros
Greek historian, university professor and politician (1851-1919)
Aristide Bruant
French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner (1851–1925)
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
French physicist and physician (1851–1940)
Walter Reed
American physician and medical researcher (1851–1902)
Laza Lazarević
Serbian writer (1851–1891)
Theodor Lipps
German philosopher (1851-1914)
Maksim Kovalevsky
Ukrainian sociologist (1851-1916)
Charles Joseph Bonaparte
American lawyer (1851–1921)
Petros Duryan
Armenian poet (1851-1872)
Stanisław Witkiewicz
Polish artist, writer and architect (1851-1915)
Andrea Costa
Italian politician (1851-1910)
Leonhard Hess Stejneger
biologist (1851-1943)
Mary Augusta Ward
British novelist (1851-1920)
Felix Adler
German-American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer (1851-1933)
Désiré Mercier
Roman-Catholic Cardinal
Otto Schott
German chemist, glass technologist, and inventor (1851–1935)
Émile Boirac
French philosopher, parapsychologist, promoter of Esperanto and writer (1851–1917)
Asa Griggs Candler
American mayor and businessman (1851-1929)
Torakusu Yamaha
Founder of Yamaha (1851–1916)
George Abraham Grierson
Irish linguistic scholar and civil servant (1851–1941)
Angelo Moriondo
Italian inventor known for inventing the first espresso machine (1851–1914)
Ivan Tavčar
Slovenian writer and politician (1851-1923)