Famous People Born In 1856
Discover the most famous people born in 1856. The list includes people like Nikola Tesla, Sigmund Freud, Woodrow Wilson, J. J. Thomson, George Bernard Shaw and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, inventors, physicists and journalists born in 1856. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, India & Russia and many more countries.
Nikola Tesla10th July, Austrian, American
Inventor, Father of Radio
Sigmund Freud6th May, Austrian
Neurologist, Psychiatrist
Woodrow Wilson28th December, American
Father of the League of Nations
Bal Gangadhar Tilak23rd July, Indian
Indian teacher
George Bernard Shaw26th July, Irish
Playwright
Booker T. Washington5th April, American
Philippe Pétain24th April, French
Marshal of France
J. J. Thomson18th December, British
Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
Louis Brandeis13th November, American
Former Lawyer & US Supreme Court Associate Justice
Louis Sullivan3rd September, American
Pioneering Architect
Robert Peary6th May, American
Explorer
Emil Kraepelin15th February, German
Psychiatrist
Alfred Deakin3rd August, Australian
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Frank B. Kellogg22nd December, American
Lawyer, Politician
Asai Chu22nd July, Japanese
Painter
Frederick Winslow Taylor20th March, American
Tennis player, Engineer, Economist, Golfer,
Narayana Guru20th August, Indian
Philosopher
John Singer Sargent12th January, Italian, American
Artist
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi14th June, Indian
Muhaddith, Translator, Author
Harry Gordon Selfridge11th January, British
business magnate
H. Rider Haggard22nd June, British
Writer
Tongzhi Emperor27th April, Chinese
Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata30th November, Indian
Aviator
James Buchanan Duke23rd December, American
Entrepreneur
Elbert Hubbard19th June, American
Journalist, Philosopher, Publisher, Writer
Andrey Markov2nd June, Russian
mathematician, statistician, university teacher
Daniel Hale Williams18th January, American
cardiologist
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg29th November, German
Politician, Jurist
Georgi Plekhanov29th November, Russian
philosopher, politician, journalist, writer,
Henry Ossian Flipper21st March, American
Military Leader
Tom Roberts9th March, Australian
Artist, Painter
Robert Nivelle15th October, French
Military personnel
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John Redmond1st September, Irish
Politician
Mikhail Vrubel5th March, Russian
painter, sculptor
Granville Woods23rd April, American
Inventor, Engineer
Henri-Edmond Cross20th May, French
painter
Ivan Franko27th August, Ukrainian
Poet
Sergei Taneyev25th November, Russian
composer, musicologist, music educator, music
Hara Takashi9th February, Japanese
politician, writer, journalist, diplomat
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg29th November, German
President, Chancellor
William Willett10th August, British
Inventor
Kate Douglas Wiggin28th September, American
Writer, Children's writer, Teacher
Joseph John Thomson18th December, British
Mathematician, Physicist
George Adam Smith19th October, British
Theologian
Reuben Archer Torrey28th January, American
Lyman Frank Baum15th May, American
Edward Sandford Martin2nd January, American
Journalist,
Wilhelm Humboldt18th September, German
Granville T. Woods30th November
Inventor
Elbert Green Hubbard19th June, American
Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli12th February, Czech, Italian
Austrian general