Famous People Born In 1840
Discover the most famous people born in 1840. The list includes people like Claude Monet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Thomas Hardy, Emile Zola, Auguste Rodin and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include artists, psychiatrists, political scientists and historians born in 1840. This list includes people from United States, France, United Kingdom & Germany and many more countries.
Claude Monet14th November, French
Painter
Victoria, Princess Royal21st November, British
Empress of Germany
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky7th May, Russian
Composer
Thomas Hardy2nd June, British
Novelist & Poet
Auguste Rodin12th November, French
Sculptor
Chief Joseph3rd March, American
Nez Perce leader
Thomas Nast27th September, American
Cartoonist
Alphonse Daudet13th May, French
Novelist, Short story writer, playwright, poet
Yaa Asantewaa30th November, Cental African, Ghanaian
Queens Mother
Emile Zola2nd April, French
French novelist
Father Damien3rd January, American
Saint
Alfred Thayer Mahan27th September, American
Officer, Geopolitician, Military historian,
Carlota of Mexico7th June, Belgian
Hiram Maxim5th February, British, American
Inventor
Murad V21st September, Turkish
Sultan
Odilon Redon20th April, French
Painter, Illustrator, Printmaker
Isabella Stewart Gardner14th April, American
Art collector
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild8th November, British
Politician, Banker
John Boyd Dunlop5th February, British
Inventor, Entrepreneur
Charlotte of Belgium7th June, Belgian
Empress
Carl Menger23rd February, Austrian, Polish
Economist, University teacher
William Graham Sumner30th October, American
Anthropologist, Political scientist, Historian,
Edward Drinker Cope28th July, American
American paleontologist
Richard von Krafft-Ebing14th August, Austrian, German
Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Physician, University
August Bebel22nd February, German
Politician, Writer
William, Prince of Orange4th September
Ernst Abbe23rd January
Physicist, Astronomer, University teacher
Giovanni Verga2nd September, Italian
Italian writer
Marie Bracquemond1st December, French
Painter
Kuroda Kiyotaka9th November, Japanese
Politician, Prime Minister
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing14th August, German
Ernst Karl Abbe23rd January, German
German physicist
William Ralph Meredith31st March, Canadian
Politician, Lawyer, Judge
David J. Cook30th November, American
lawman
Mike Reynolds30th November, American