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
Woodrow Wilson28th December, American
Father of the League of Nations
Booker T. Washington5th April, American
George Bernard Shaw26th July, Irish
Playwright
Bal Gangadhar Tilak23rd July, Indian
Indian teacher
Philippe Pétain24th April, French
Marshal of France
J. J. Thomson18th December, British
Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
John Singer Sargent12th January, Italian, American
Artist
Narayana Guru20th August, Indian
Spiritual Leader, Social Reformer
Louis Brandeis13th November, American
Former Lawyer & US Supreme Court Associate Justice
Daniel Hale Williams18th January, American
Surgeon
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi14th June, Indian
Islamic Scholar, Reformer
Louis Sullivan3rd September, American
Pioneering Architect
Robert Peary6th May, American
Explorer
Granville Woods23rd April, American
Inventor
Alfred Deakin3rd August, Australian
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Emil Kraepelin15th February, German
Psychiatrist
Henry Ossian Flipper21st March, American
Military Leader
Frank B. Kellogg22nd December, American
Lawyer, Politician
Asai Chu22nd July, Japanese
Painter
L. Frank Baum15th May, American
Writer
Frederick Winslow Taylor20th March, American
Tennis player, Engineer, Economist, Golfer,
Harry Gordon Selfridge11th January, British
business magnate
Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata30th November, Indian
Aviator
Tongzhi Emperor27th April, Chinese
H. Rider Haggard22nd June, British
Writer
James Buchanan Duke23rd December, American
Entrepreneur
Elbert Hubbard19th June, American
Journalist, Philosopher, Publisher, Writer
Andrey Markov2nd June, Russian
mathematician, statistician, university teacher
Mabel Loomis Todd10th November, American
Editor
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Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg29th November, German
Politician, Jurist
Georgi Plekhanov29th November, Russian
philosopher, politician, journalist, writer,
Diamond Jim Brady12th August, American
Businessman
Wovoka30th November, American
Religious leader
Robert Nivelle15th October, French
Military personnel
Mikhail Vrubel5th March, Russian
painter, sculptor
Tom Roberts9th March, Australian
Artist, Painter
John Redmond1st September, Irish
Politician
Frank Harris14th February, Northern Irish
Journalist
William Willett10th August, British
Inventor
Carl Peters27th September, German
Explorer
Sergei Winogradsky1st September, French, Russian
Microbiologist
A. Lawrence Lowell13th December, American
Educator
Ivan Franko27th August, Ukrainian
Poet
Sergei Taneyev25th November, Russian
composer, musicologist, music educator, music
Hara Takashi9th February, Japanese
politician, writer, journalist, diplomat
José Batlle y Ordóñez21st May, Uruguayan
Politician
Daniel Guggenheim9th July, American
Industrialist and philanthropist
Henri-Edmond Cross20th May, French
painter
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg29th November, German
President, Chancellor
Vernon Lee14th October, French, British
Writer
Mahmud Shevket Pasha30th November, Turkish
Statesman
William Massey26th March, Northern Irish
Prime minister of New Zealand
Hendrik Petrus Berlage21st February, Netherlands Antilles
Architect
Edmund Beecher Wilson19th October, American
Geneticist
Vasily Rozanov2nd May, Russian
Writer
Timothy Thomas Fortune3rd October, American
Orator
Kate Douglas Wiggin28th September, American
Writer, Children's writer, Teacher
Tom Mann15th April, British
Public Speaker
Jean Moréas15th April, Greek
Poet
Peter Henry Emerson13th May, British
Photographer
Louis D. Brandeis13th November, American
Judge
George Adam Smith19th October, British
Theologian
Reuben Archer Torrey28th January, American
Thomas Jan Stieltjes29th December, French, Dutch
Mathematician
Edward Sandford Martin2nd January, American
Journalist,
Naphtali Herz Imber27th December, Ukrainian
Poet
Granville T. Woods30th November
Inventor
Sergey Taneyev25th November, Russian
Composer
Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray15th July, British
Engineer
Wilhelm Humboldt18th September, German
J. Keir Hardie15th August, Scottish
Politician
William Bramwell Booth8th March, British
Minister
Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli12th February, Czech, Italian
Austrian general
Georgiana Barrymore11th July, American
Actress