Skip to content
Category

1860 births

page 1
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Gustav Mahler
Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)
Theodor Herzl
father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)
J. M. Barrie
Scottish writer and playwright (1860–1937)
Jane Addams
American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)
Raymond Poincaré
French statesman and lawyer, President of France (1860-1934)
Eduard Buchner
German chemist (1907 Nobel Prize)
Willem Einthoven
Dutch physiologist
Alphonse Mucha
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Faroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent
Hjalmar Branting
Prime Minister of Sweden (1860-1925)
John J. Pershing
United States Army general in World War I
Herman Hollerith
American statistician and inventor(1860-1929)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Polish pianist, composer, supporter of Poland's independence movements, politician, Prime Minister of reborn Poland (1860–1941)
Isaac Albéniz
Spanish composer (1860-1909)
Charles Curtis
vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933
Kanō Jigorō
Japanese educator and judoka (1860–1938)
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Italian diplomat (1860–1952)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
Isaac Levitan
Russian artist (1860-1900)
Klara Hitler
mother of Adolf Hitler (1860–1907)
Anders Zorn
Swedish painter and engraver (1860-1920)
William Jennings Bryan
American politician (1860–1925)
Douglas Hyde
first President of Ireland; historian, poet, and folklorist (1860-1949)
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist (1860–1943)
James Ensor
Belgian painter (1860–1949)
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist (1860-1940)
Hugo Wolf
Austrian composer (1860–1903)
Florence Harding
First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923
Joseph Cook
6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914
Jules Laforgue
Franco-Uruguayan poet (1860–1887)
Ellen Axson Wilson
First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914
Katō Takaaki
Japanese politician (1860-1926)
Waldemar Haffkine
bacteriologist (1856–1930)
Annie Oakley
American exhibition sharpshooter (1860–1926)
Ernest Thompson Seton
British/American author, artist and naturalist, and one of the founders of the scouting movement (1860–1946)
Grandma Moses
American painter (1860–1961)
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German technician and inventor (1860–1940)
Marianne von Werefkin
Russian-German-Swiss expressionist painter (1860–1938)
Princess Charlotte of Prussia
Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (1860–1919)
Sergey Sazonov
Russian statesman and diplomat (1860-1927)
René Lalique
French glass designer (1860–1945)
Gustave Charpentier
French composer (1860-1956)
Mercedes of Orléans
Queen consort of Spain
William Kennedy Dickson
Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras (1860-1935)
James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist (1860–1944)
Friedrich Naumann
German politician, editor (1860-1919)
Edward MacDowell
American composer (1860–1908)
William Kemmler
American murderer (1860–1890)
Sidney Paget
English illustrator
Gustaf Fröding
Swedish writer (1860-1911)
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just nine days before the death of her older sister Emma.
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
Russian noble (1860-1919)
Paul Ulrich Villard
French chemist and physicist (1860–1934)
Kaarlo Castrén
Finnish politician and Prime Minister (1860-1938)
John Scott Haldane
British physiologist (1860–1936)
Joan Maragall
Spanish Catalan poet, journalist and translator (1860–1911)
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia
only daughter of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and Princess Cecilie of Baden
Karel Kramář
Czech politician, political prisoner and lawyer (1860-1937)
Walter Sickert
British artist (1860-1942)