Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Journalists, including Dorothy Day, Jack London, Nellie Bly, Friedrich Engels and Theodor Herzl.
Jack London12 January 1876, American
Author
Walter Winchell07 April 1897, American
Journalist, Radio Personality
Henry Morton Stanley28 January 1841, British, American, Welsh
Explorer
Nellie Bly05 May 1864, American
Journalist
H. L. Mencken12 September 1880, American
Theodor Herzl02 May 1860, Austrian, Hungarian
Journalist
Dorothy Day08 November 1897, American
Ambrose Bierce24 June 1842, American
Journalist & Writer, soldier
Joseph Pulitzer10 April 1847, Hungarian
Journalist & Publisher
Horace Greeley03 February 1811, American
Journalist
Pauline Pfeiffer22 July 1895, American
Journalist & Second Wife of Ernest Hemingway
Walter Lippmann23 September 1889, American
First to introduce the concept of Cold War
Banjo Paterson17 February 1864, Australian
Poet
James Thurber08 December 1894, American
Cartoonist, Author, Journalist & Playwright
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810, American
Katherine Anne Porter15 May 1890, American
Journalist, Essayist, Writer, Novelist
Ida Tarbell05 November 1857, American
Journalist
Henry Adams16 February 1838, American
Historian
Robert Benchley15 October 1889, American
Humorist
Marcelo H. del Pilar30 August 1850, Filipino
Writer
Bret Harte25 August 1836, American
Author & Poet
Kurt Eisner14 May 1867, German
Statesman
Hristo Botev06 January 1848, Bulgarian
Bulgarian Revolutionary
Giuseppe Ungaretti08 February 1888, Italian
Poet, Essayist
Alexander Woollcott19 January 1887, American
American critic
Christopher Morley05 May 1890, American
Journalist, Novelist
Norman Angell26 December 1872, British
British Journalist & Author
Don Marquis29 July 1878, American
Humorist
Thomas Bailey Aldrich11 November 1836, American
Poet & Novelist
Catherine Helen Spence31 October 1825, Australian
Author, Journalist & Politician
Franklin Pierce Adams15 November 1881, American
Journalist
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John Reed22 October 1887, American
Journalist, Poet
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
C.P. Scott26 October 1846, British
Former Editor of 'The Guardian'
Rose Wilder Lane05 December 1886, American
Journalists
Vita Sackville-West09 March 1892, British
Writer
Joel Chandler Harris09 December 1848, American
Journalist
Harold Abrahams15 December 1899, British
Athletics competitor, Sprinter, Lawyer, Journalist
Carter G. Woodson19 December 1875, American
Journalist, Historian
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook25 May 1879, Canadian, British
Newspaper publisher
Clara Zetkin05 July 1857, German
Politician, Journalist, Feminist
Victoria Woodhull23 September 1838, American
Politician
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Kalki Krishnamurthy09 September 1899, Indian
Screenwriter, Journalist, Writer
Stephen Crane01 November 1871, American
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Baseball player,
Keith Murdoch12 August 1885, Australian
War correspondent
Gaston Leroux06 May 1868, French
Journalist, Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter
Karl Polanyi25 October 1886, Hungarian
Economist, Anthropologist, Economic historian,
Damon Runyon04 October 1880, American
Writer
Theodor Heuss31 January 1884, German
Politician, University teacher, Journalist
Emma Lazarus22 July 1849, American
Poet, Writer, Journalist
Henryk Sienkiewicz05 May 1846, Polish
Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Journalist
Paul Reynaud15 October 1878, French
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
Karl Kautsky16 October 1854, Czech, German
Philosopher
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890, American
Journalist
Djuna Barnes12 June 1892, American
Artist
Arthur Ransome18 January 1884, British
Author
Raymond Poincaré20 August 1860, French
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
James M. Cox31 March 1870, American
Politician
Weegee12 June 1899, American
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist
Henry Luce03 April 1898, American
Journalist, Publisher
Lewis Mumford19 October 1895, American
Architect, Historian of technology, Historian,
Otto Strasser10 September 1897, German
Journalist, Politician, Writer
Ben Hecht28 February 1893, American
Screenwriter
Constantine P. Cavafy29 April 1863, Egyptian, Greek, British
Poet, Writer, Civil servant, Journalist
Carlo Collodi24 November 1826, Italian
Writer
Adolphe Thiers15 April 1797, French
Politician
B. H. Liddell Hart31 October 1895, British
Journalist, Military historian, Historian, Writer
Béla Kun20 February 1886, Hungarian
Politician, Diplomat, Journalist
Lysander Spooner19 January 1808, American
Lawyer, Journalist, Essayist, Philosopher
Walther Funk18 August 1890, Bulgarian, German
Journalist, Banker, Economist, Politician
Chen Duxiu08 October 1879, Chinese
Politician, Professor, Philosopher, Journalist
Elbert Hubbard19 June 1856, American
Journalist, Philosopher, Publisher, Writer
Lajos Kossuth16 September 1802, Hungarian
Lawyer
George S. Kaufman16 November 1889, American
Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist,
Caresse Crosby20 April 1891, American
Publisher, Writer, Socialite, Poet, Memoirist,
Fukuzawa Yukichi10 January 1835, Japanese
Writer, Teacher, Educationist, Philosopher,
Charles Dow06 November 1851, American
Journalist
Karl Radek31 October 1885, Austrian, Polish
Politician, University teacher, Journalist
Hayim Nahman Bialik09 January 1873, Russian
Writer
Victor Klemperer09 October 1881, German
Linguist, Politician, Writer, Autobiographer,
George Washington Williams16 October 1849, American
Soldier, Historian, Diplomat, Writer, Minister,
Robbie Ross25 May 1869, Canadian, French, British
Journalist
Henry W. Grady24 May 1850, American
Journalist
Lothrop Stoddard29 June 1883, American
Anthropologist, Political scientist, Historian,
E. H. Carr28 June 1892, British
Historian, Journalist, Diplomat, Writer, Political
Hu Shih17 December 1891, Taiwanese
Diplomat, Professor, Journalist
James Russell Lowell22 February 1819, American
Poet, Diplomat, Essayist, Writer, Literary critic,
Wyndham Lewis18 November 1882, British
Painter, Writer, Journalist, Editor, Novelist
Walter Bagehot03 February 1826, British
Journalist, Economist, Political scientist,
Dorothy Thompson09 July 1893, American
Journalist, Writer
Harriet Martineau12 June 1802, British
Linguist, Journalist, Economist, Historian,
Elijah Parish Lovejoy09 November 1802, American
Journalist
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895, American
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,