1870 births

founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)

Russian writer and poet (1870–1953)

Austrian psychotherapist (1870–1937)

Italian pedagogue and physician (1870-1952)

French physicist (1870–1942)

Russian writer (1870–1938)

Belgian immunologist and microbiologist (1870-1961)

King of Denmark (1912–1947) and Iceland (1918–1944)

Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930

7th President of Finland (1870-1956)

first President of Austria (1870–1950)

Austrian and Czech architect and art collector (1870-1933)

Imperial Russian Army general (1870–1918)

Russian-American anarchist and writer (1870–1936)

Komárom-born Austrian music composer (1870–1948)

German trade unionist and chancellor (1870–1944)

French painter (1870–1943)

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.

Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester and cannibal who committed at least three child murders between July 1924 and June 1928. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and the Boogey Man. Fish was a suspect in at least ten murders during his lifetime, although he only confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide. He also confessed to stabbing at least two other people.

French-English writer (1870–1953)

South African statesman and military leader (1870–1950)

French writer and poet (1870–1925)

German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer (1870–1938)

German chemist (1870-1915)

Italian poet, writer, and teacher (1870–1945)

Russian artist (1870–1960)

American businessman (1870-1965)

Queen consort of Greece (1870–1932)

Russian priest (1870-1906)

Indian film producer, director and screenwriter (1870–1944)

German army officer (1870-1964)

Japanese Buddhist scholar, Doctor of Letters (1870–1966)

11th Prime Minister of Canada (1870-1947)

inventor of volleyball

Austrian architect and product designer (1870-1956)

German businessperson, politician (1870-1950)

Polish-American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist

Spanish politician (1870-1917)

prince of Monaco (1870-1949)

Greek astronomer

Swedish industrialist and International Olympic Committee official (1870–1964)

American film pioneer (1870–1941)

French organist and composer (1870–1937)

Japanese politician (1870-1931)

Russian historian of ancient history (1870–1952)

English tennis player

Japanese philosopher (1870–1945)

German anarchist, editor (1870-1919)

daughter of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia; wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia

Irish politician (1870-1958)

Russian revolutionary (1870-1926)

British politician (1870–1963)

Czech composer and pedagogue (1870-1949)

English poet and journalist (1870–1945)

16th Prime Minister of Norway (1870–1943)

Azerbaijani Soviet politician, writer and physician (1870-1925)

Swedish religious foundress (1870–1957)

President of Mexico (1870-1932)

Bulgarian and Parmese Royal

Hungarian chess player (1870–1951)