1862 births

German mathematician (1862–1943)

Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)

French classical composer (1862–1918)

German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)

Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)

British scientist (1862–1942)

German physicist (1862-1947)

American short story writer (1862–1910)

American writer and designer (1862–1937)

Austrian writer (1862–1931)

politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from France (1862-1932)

Swedish ophthalmologist (1862-1930)

Russian politician (1862–1911)

German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician (1862–1934)

French novelist (1862-1923)

Italian writer

American philosopher, diplomat, and educator (1862-1947)

Hungarian-British archaeologist (1862-1943)

Australian politician (1862–1952), 7th Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923

Georgian artist (1862-1918)

American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

British man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man

French writer (1862–1921)

French politician (1862-1934)

Russian general

British Liberal statesman (1862-1933)

Australian politician, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (1862-1928)

Queen consort of Sweden (1907-1930)

Russian artist (1862-1942)

American jurist; Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941 (1862–1948)

Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)

Belgian historian (1862-1935)

Finnish painter (1862–1946)

Swedish artist (1862–1944)

king of Bhutan (1862-1926)

British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer (1862–1900)

English composer (1862–1934)

Turkish writer and self-described feminist (1862–1936)

Chairman of White Star shipping line (1862–1937)

German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)

American dancer (1862–1928)

Russian artist (1862-1945)

Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)

American astronomer (1862–1938)

South African general and politician (1862-1919)

Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (*1862 – †1951)

Member of the House of Hohenzollern (1862–1929)

Finnish academic (1862–1939)

Swedish 20th century prime minister (1862-1936)

20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost (1862–1936)

20th-century prime minister of Sweden (1862-1953)

Belgian painter (1862-1926)

German philosopher (1862-1915)

Russian artist (1862-1930)

German politician (1862-1934)

Titular Duchess of Parma (1862–1959)

Chinese general and warlord (1862–1938)

Russian politician (1862–1936)

Slovenian artist (1862-1905)

Austrian crystal glass industrialist, founder of D. Swarovski KG company (1862–1956)