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William Howard Taft
27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)
Joseph Conrad
Polish-British writer (1857–1924)
Pius XI
pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939
Heinrich Hertz
German physicist (1857–1894)
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
Clara Zetkin
Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857–1933)
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
Ronald Ross
British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Danish writer (1857–1919)
Henrik Pontoppidan
Danish writer, Nobel Laureate
Edward Elgar
English composer (1857-1934)
Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Italian composer
Alfonso XII of Spain
king of Spain from 1874 to 1885
Paul Doumer
French statesman (1857–1932)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist (1857–1940)
Thorstein Veblen
American economist and sociologist (1857–1929)
Edward Emerson Barnard
American astronomer and astronomical photographer (1857-1923)
Alfred Binet
French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test (1857–1911)
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)
Axel Munthe
Swedish physician (1857-1949)
Christian Michelsen
9th Prime Minister of Norway
Vladimir Bekhterev
Russian neurologist
Georg Michaelis
German civil servant and chancellor (1857-1936)
Eugen Bleuler
Swiss psychiatrist (1857–1939)
Antoni Grabowski
Polish chemical engineer (1857–1921)
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union (1857-1938)
Williamina Fleming
Scottish-American astronomer (1857–1911)
Aleksandr Lyapunov
Russian mathematician (1857–1918)
Alexander of Battenberg
Bulgarian ruler (1857–1893)
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
Member of the House of Battenberg (1857–1944)
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
French philosopher (1857-1939)
Theo Van Gogh
Dutch art dealer (1857–1891)
Trinle Gyatso
12th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1857-1875)
Andrija Mohorovičić
Croatian seismologist (1857–1936)
George Gissing
English novelist (1857–1903)
Gabriela Zapolska
Polish novelist, prose writer, publicist, feuilletonist, theatre critic, stage actress (1857–1921)
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke of Russia (1857–1905)
Juan Vicente Gómez
Venezuelan general and dictator (1857-1935)
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American geologist and eugenicist (1857–1935)
Ida Tarbell
American journalist (1857-1944)
Cyril Genik
immigration agent (1857-1925)
Joseph Babinski
French neurologist (1857-1932)
Max Klinger
German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer (1857–1920)
Mikhail Alekseyev
Russian general of infantry (1857–1918)
Hermann Sudermann
German dramatist and novelist (1857–1928)
Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen
Danish botanist (1857-1927)
Joseph Larmor
Irish physicist and mathematician (1857-1942)
Cécile Chaminade
French composer and pianist (1857-1944)
Wilhelm Kienzl
Austrian composer (1857–1941)
Herman Bang
Danish writer (1857-1912)
Émile Coué
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
Theodor Escherich
Austrian doctor (1857–1911)
James Edward Keeler
American astronomer (1857–1900)
A. E. Waite
British occultist mystic, poet and writer (1857–1942)
Theodor Kittelsen
Norwegian artist (1857–1914)
Otto von Below
German general (1857–1944)
Tom Clarke
Irish revolutionary leader (1857-1916)
Friedrich II, Grand Duke of Baden
Grand Duke of Baden (1857–1928)