1861 births

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930)

English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)

Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)

Swiss physicist (1861-1938)

Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)

36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)

French filmmaker and illusionist (1861–1938)

English biochemist

German-Russian Psychoanalyst and author

Italian writer (1861-1928)

Bulgarian ruler (1861–1948)

Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball

Russian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia (1861-1925)

Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau (1861–1947)

President of Finland (1861–1944)

British senior officer during the First World War (1861-1928)

German industrialist, inventor, engineer (1861-1942)

Chief of Germany's General Staff during the first two years of the First World War (1861-1922)

First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909

sculptor from France (1861–1944)

British geographer, academic and politician (1861-1947)

Italian general (1861-1928)

Indian lawyer and politician (1861–1931)

last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar (1861-1917)

British geneticist and biologist (1861-1926)

Vazha-Pshavela (), simply referred to as Vazha () (14 July 1861 – 10 July 1915), is the pen name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili ().

American historian (1861-1932)

Russian artist (1861-1939)

Italian politician (1861-1930)

French physicist and historian of science (1861-1916)

French painter and sculptor (1861–1929)

Australian opera singer (1861–1931)

Catalan author and painter; (1861-1931)

Finnish author and journalist (1861-1921)

First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913

Swedish prince (1861-1951); third son of Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau

American geneticist (1861–1912)

American con artist and serial killer (1861–1896)

British Army general (1861-1936)

German admiral (1861–1914)

Russian composer, pianist and professor of music

Indian physician (1862–1923)

Hungarian politician (1861–1918)

Japanese admiral (1861-1923)

Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher (1861-1914)

American engineer (1861-1919)

Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore

Ukranian chemist (1861–1953)

Grand Duchess consort and regent of Luxembourg (1861-1942)

English painter (1861-1922)

Slovenian artist (1861–1926)

Anglo-Irish historian and classical scholar (1861–1927)

German politician and judge (1861-1937)

American painter and sculptor (1861-1909)

German princess (1861-1922)

French painter (1861-1932)

English tennis player (1861–1904)

French writer (1861–1925)

French philosopher (1861-1949)