Famous People Born In 1842
Discover the most famous people born in 1842. The list includes people like William James, Ambrose Bierce, Peter Kropotkin, Alfred Marshall, Mary MacKillop and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include physicists, economists, chemists and psychologists born in 1842. This list includes people from United Kingdom, United States, France and many more countries.
William James11th January, American
Philosopher, Psychologist
Ambrose Bierce24th June, American
Journalist & Writer, soldier
Peter Kropotkin9th December, Russian
Philosopher & Activist
Mary MacKillop15th January, Australian
Nun
Mahadev Govind Ranade18th January, Indian
Judge, Social Reformer
Alfred Marshall26th July, British
Economist
Arthur Sullivan13th May, British
Composer
Stéphane Mallarmé18th March, French
Poet
Lord Rayleigh12th November, British
Discoverer of Argon
Allen Allensworth7th April, American
Baptist Minister, Educator, Army Officer
Alferd Packer21st January, American
Criminal, Serial killer
Jules Massenet12th May, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, University
Karl May25th February, German
Writer, Novelist, Children's writer, Screenwriter
David Herold16th June, American
Politician
James Dewar20th September, British, Scottish
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor
Alfred de Rothschild20th July, British
Banker, Diplomat
Charlotte Mason1st January, British
Philanthropist
Josef Breuer15th January, Austrian
Physician, Psychologist, University teacher,
Giovanni Giolitti27th October, Italian
Politician
Paul Lafargue15th June, French
journalist, politician, economist, essayist
Giovanni Boldini31st December
Painter
Ellen Swallow Richards3rd December, American
Chemist, University teacher, Economist
Sophus Lie17th December, Norwegian
Mathematician
Vasily Vereshchagin14th October, Russian
painter, writer
Camille Flammarion26th February, French
astronomer, writer, balloonist, science fiction
Daniel Paul Schreber25th July, German
Judge, Writer, Autobiographer
Osborne Reynolds23rd August, British
Physicist, Civil engineer, Engineer
Arrigo Boito24th February, Italian
poet
Maria Konopnicka23rd May, Polish
Writer, poet
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin31st August, American
American publisher
Alessandro Fortis16th September, Italian
Politician
John William Strutt12th November, British
Physicist
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Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin26th October, Russian
Artist
Ellen Richards30th November
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes4th February, Danish
Jean-Gaston Darboux14th August, French
Mathematician
‘Abdu’l-Hamid II21st September, Turkish
Emperor