Famous People Born In 1854
Discover the most famous people born in 1854. The list includes people like Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Poincare, George Eastman, Paul Ehrlich and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include composers, political leaders, poets and journalists born in 1854. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
Oscar Wilde16th October, Irish
Playwright
Arthur Rimbaud20th October, French
Poet
Lady Randolph Churchill9th January, British, American
Socialite, Mother of Winston Churchill
John Philip Sousa6th November, American
Conductor, Composer
Paul Ehrlich14th March, German
Scientist
George Eastman12th July, American
Inventor of Roll Film
Jane Toppan31st March, American
Serial killer
Emil Adolf von Behring15th March, German
German physiologist
Henri La Fontaine22nd April, Belgian
Socialist, Senator, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Johannes Rydberg8th November, Swedish
Physicist
Paul Sabatier5th November, French
Chemist
Henri Poincare29th April, French
Mathematician and Philosopher
Leos Janacek3rd July, Czech
Composer
Prince Louis of Battenberg24th May, British
Admiral
C. W. Post26th October, American
Nutritionist
Thomas R. Marshall14th March, American
Politician, Lawyer
Pope Benedict XV21st November, Italian
Pope
Karl Kautsky16th October, Czech, German
Philosopher
Robert Borden26th June, Canadian
Politician
James George Frazer1st January, British
Anthropologist, Writer, Historian, Mythographer
Benjamin Tucker17th April, American
Journalist, Philosopher, Economist, Translator,
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner23rd March, British
Diplomat
Patrick Geddes2nd October, Scottish
Biologist
Bill Tilghman4th July, American
Politician
Engelbert Humperdinck1st September, German, Indian
Composer
Moritz Moszkowski23rd August, Polish
Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Musicologist
Joseph Jacobs29th August, Australian
Literary critic, Literary historian, Folklorist,
William C. Gorgas3rd October, American
Physician
Charles Algernon Parsons13th June, Irish, British
Engineer
Christiaan de Wet7th October, South African
General
Takahashi Korekiyo27th July, Japanese
Politician, Accountant, Economist
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David Dunbar Buick17th September, American, Scottish
Inventor
Thomas A. Watson18th January, American
Inventor
Hubert Lyautey17th November, French
French General
Hertha Ayrton28th April, British
Engineer
Augustus Tolton1st April, American
Priest
Francis Marion Crawford2nd August, Italian
Writer
Richard T. Ely13th April, American
Economist
Alphonse Allais20th October, French
Writer, Poet, Journalist, Screenwriter, Painter,
Bill Traylor1st April, American
Artist
Yan Fu8th January, Chinese
Scholar
John Sharp Williams30th July, American
Politician
Alfredo Catalani19th June, Italian
Composer
George Whitefield Chadwick13th November, American
Composer
Albert Bushnell Hart1st July, American
Historian
Susette La Flesche30th November, American
Writer
Ottmar Mergenthaler11th May, German, American
Inventor
Dugald Clerk31st March, British, Scottish
Engineer
Lucy Craft Laney13th April, American
Educator
Paul Natorp24th January, German
Philosopher
Horace Plunkett24th October, Irish, British
Author
Gottlieb Haberlandt28th November, Austrian
Botanist
Charles Sumner Tainter25th April, American
Inventor
Florentino Ameghino18th September, Argentinian
Naturalist
Alice Mary Robertson2nd January, American
Educator
Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal27th September, Austrian
Diplomat
Morton Prince22nd December, American
Physician
John F. Peto21st May, American
Painter
Alexandru Marghiloman4th July, Romanian
Statesman
Anna Botsford Comstock1st September, American
Artist
Harry Furniss26th March, British
Illustrator
Bradley A. Fiske13th June, American
Innovator
William Henry Drummond13th April, Canadian, Irish, British
Poet
E.W. Scripps30th November
Publisher
Georg Kerschensteiner29th July, German
Professor
Yves Delage13th May, French
Zoologist
Paul Marie Eugène Vieille2nd September, French
Chemist
Baron Max Wladimir von Beck6th September, Austrian
Statesman
Georges Eekhoud27th May, Belgian
Writer
William Holabird11th September, American
Architect
Jokichi Takamine3rd November, Japanese
Chemist
Mary Hannah Fulton31st May, American
Missionary
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls28th March, American
Painter
Dukinfield Henry Scott28th November, British
Botanist
Max Kretzer7th June, German
Writer
Otto Behaghel3rd May, German
Professor
Emma Cecilia Thursby21st February, American
Singer
François, Vicomte de Curel10th June, French
Dramatist
Albion W. Small11th May, American
10th President of Colby College
José Canalejas31st July, Spanish
Politician
Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone18th February, British
Statesman
Edward Willis Scripps18th June, American
Publisher
Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson9th February, British, Northern Irish
Politician
Hans Henrik Jæger2nd September, Norwegian
Writer
Frank Andrew Munsey21st August, American
Author
Ernst Bassermann26th July, German
Politician