1869 births

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

French artist (1869-1954)

French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940

Russian mystic (1869–1916)

Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)

Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)

Russian revolutionary and politician (1869-1939)

King of Italy from 1900 to 1946

President of the Philippines from 1899 to 1902

Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)

German embryologist (1869–1941)

right|235px|thumb|Komitas singing Mokats Mirza. Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas (; 22 October 1935), was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology.

Russian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker (1869-1945)

Norwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1869-1938)

British princess (1869-1938), Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938

Austro-Hungarian author and critic in Vienna (1869–1945)

Jewish German poet (1869–1945)

Armenian writer and public activist (1869–1923)

Polish playwright, painter and poet (1869–1907)

wife of Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian leader of British era (1869-1944)

Spanish politician (1869-1946)

German philosopher (1869-1946)

Swedish writer (1869–1941)

Spanish writer (1869-1966)

British architect (1869–1944)

infected houseworker in New York City

French mathematician (1869–1951)

Sudanese saint and former slave

Canadian writer and economist (1869–1944)

Norwegian sculptor (1869–1943)

President of Brazil from 1926 to 1930

Danish writer (1869–1954)

President of Austria (1869-1950)

German theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist (1869-1937)

German athlete (1869-1946)

11th Portuguese president (1926-1951)

Armenian businessman, art collector and philanthropist (1869-1955)

American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)

English short story writer and novelist (1869–1951)

Polish scientist and politician (1869-1953)

Great Khan of Outer Mongolia (1869–1924)

American lawyer, Watch Tower Society president (1869–1942)

French composer (1869–1937)

Italian general (1869–1931)

German general (1869–1955)

Bengali lawyer, politician, author and leader of the Bengali Swaraj Party (1870-1925)

American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)

American novelist (1869–1946)

German chemist (1869-1910)

Prince of Greece and Denmark (1869-1957)

Finnish writer (1869-1913)

Spanish philologist (1869-1968)

Italian anarchist regicide of King Umberto I of Italy (1869-1901)

German gymnast (1869–1942)

President of Cuba from 1925 to 1933

White movement Cossack (1869－1947)

Imam (1869–1948)

German opera producer and composer, son of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt (1869–1930)