Famous People Born In 1847
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Discover the most famous people born in 1847. The list includes people like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Jesse James, Bram Stoker, Paul von Hindenburg and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, novelists and military leaders born in 1847. This list includes people from United States, England, France & Germany and many more countries.
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Thomas Edison(Inventor of Phonograph, Motion Picture Camera and Early Version of the Electric Light Bulb)
Birthdate: 11th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Milan, Ohio, United States
Died: October 18, 1931
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Alexander Graham Bell(Inventor of Telephone & Co-Founder of 'American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)')
Birthdate: 3rd March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: August 2, 1922
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Bram Stoker(Irish Author Best Known for His Horror Novel ‘Dracula’)
Birthdate: 8th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
Died: April 20, 1912
Birthdate: 2nd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Poznań, Poland
Died: August 2, 1934
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Annie Besant(British Social Reformer, Theosophist and Women's Rights Activist)
Birthdate: 1st October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Clapham Town, London, United Kingdom
Died: September 20, 1933
Birthdate: 10th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Makó
Died: October 29, 1911
Birthdate: 26th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Yellow Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: October 13, 1928
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Millicent Fawcett(Feminist Politcian Who Led the Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain)
Birthdate: 11th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Aldeburgh, England
Died: August 5, 1929
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Kate Sheppard(The Most Prominent Member of the Women's Suffrage Movement in New Zealand)
Birthdate: 10th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Liverpool, England
Died: July 13, 1934
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James A. Bailey
(American Owner and Manager of Several 19th-Century Circuses)
Birthdate: 4th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Died: April 11, 1906
Birthdate: 27th February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Coventry, United Kingdom
Died: July 21, 1928
Birthdate: 14th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Died: July 2, 1919
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Georges Sorel
(Social Thinker, Political Theorist & Historian Known for His Advocacy of 'Sorelianism')
Birthdate: 2nd November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Cherbourg, France
Died: August 29, 1922
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Benjamin R. Tillman
(Politician)
Birthdate: 11th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Trenton, South Carolina, United States
Died: July 3, 1918
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John Chard
(Engineer, Military personnel)
Birthdate: 21st December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Plymouth
Died: November 1, 1897
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Bolesław Prus
(Polish Novelist and One of the Leading Figures of the Positivist Period in Polish Literature)
Birthdate: 20th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Hrubieszow, Poland
Died: May 19, 1912
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Sergey Nechayev
(Revolutionary)
Birthdate: 2nd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Ivanovo, Russia
Died: December 3, 1882
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Koos de la Rey
(Military officer)
Birthdate: 22nd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Doornfontein, Winburg, South Africa
Died: September 15, 1914
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Catherine Dolgorukov
(knyaz)
Birthdate: 2nd November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Russia
Died: February 15, 1922
Birthdate: 25th September
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Died: January 12, 1914
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John R. Lynch
(politician, lawyer)
Birthdate: 10th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Concordia Parish, Louisiana
Died: November 2, 1939
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Frank E. Butler
(American Marksman)
Birthdate: 30th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Longford, Ireland
Died: November 21, 1926
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John Forrest
(Australian Politician, Explorer and the First Premier of Western Australia)
Birthdate: 22nd August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Bunbury, Australia
Died: September 2, 1918
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Wong Fei-hung
(Physician,Martial artist)
Birthdate: 9th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Foshan, China
Died: April 17, 1925
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Albert Pinkham Ryder
(Painter)
Birthdate: 19th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Died: March 28, 1917
Birthdate: 20th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Oslo Christiania, Norway
Died: November 5, 1906
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Charles Follen McKim
(Architect)
Birthdate: 24th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: September 14, 1909
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Otto Wallach(German Chemist Who was Awarded Nobel Prize for His Work on Alicyclic Compounds)
Birthdate: 27th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Königsberg
Died: February 26, 1931
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Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895)
Birthdate: 7th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
Died: May 21, 1929
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Maria Pia of Savoy
(Consort)
Birthdate: 16th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Royal Palace, Turin, Sardinia
Died: July 5, 1911
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Julia A. Moore
(American poet)
Birthdate: 1st December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Plainfield charter Township, Michigan, United States
Died: June 5, 1920
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Radomir Putnik
(Serbia's First Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff)
Birthdate: 24th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Kragujevac, Serbia
Died: May 17, 1917
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Alice Meynell
(British Poet and Essayist)
Birthdate: 11th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Barnes, London, England
Died: November 27, 1922
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Henry Demarest Lloyd
(Journalist)
Birthdate: 1st May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: September 28, 1903
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Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg
(Diplomat)
Birthdate: 12th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Kaliningrad, Prussia
Died: September 17, 1921
36
Sidney Sonnino
(Statesman)
Birthdate: 11th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Pisa, Italy
Died: November 24, 1922
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Oscar Swahn
(Sport Shooter)
Birthdate: 20th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Götaland, Sweden
Died: May 1, 1927
38
Castro Alves
(Brazilian Poet and Playwright Famous for His Abolitionist and Republican Poems)
Birthdate: 14th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Castro Alves, State of Bahia, Brazil
Died: July 6, 1871
Birthdate: 8th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Kōchi, Japan
Died: December 13, 1901
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Jacob Schiff
(German-born American Banker & Philanthropist Who Financed the Expansion of American Railroads)
Birthdate: 10th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Frankfurt
Died: September 25, 1920
Birthdate: 20th February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: London, England
Died: December 16, 1897
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Nikolai Zhukovsky
(Scientist, Mathematician, Engineer)
Birthdate: 17th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Orekhovo
Died: March 17, 1921
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Mary Watson Whitney
(American Astronomer Who Built Vassar College’s Research Program in Astronomy Into One of the Nation’s Finest)
Birthdate: 11th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Died: January 21, 1921
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Jens Peter Jacobsen
(Danish Novelist, Poet, and Scientist)
Birthdate: 7th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Thisted, Denmark
Died: April 30, 1885
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Sarah Frances Whiting
(American Physicist, Astronomer and First Director of the 'Whitin Observatory' at 'Wellesley College')
Birthdate: 23rd August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Wyoming, New York, United States
Died: September 12, 1927
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Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird
(Football player)
Birthdate: 16th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Kensington, England
Died: January 30, 1923
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Kobayashi Kiyochika
(Japanese Artist Best Known for His Colour Woodblock Prints and Newspaper Illustrations)
Birthdate: 10th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Edo, Japan
Died: November 28, 1915
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Thomas Brock
(British Sculptor)
Birthdate: 1st March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Worcester, England
Died: August 22, 1922
Birthdate: 12th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Edo, Japan
Died: October 10, 1868
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Max Liebermann
(German Painter Who Is Known for His Naturalistic Studies of the Life and Labour of the Poor)
Birthdate: 20th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: February 8, 1935
