Famous People Born In 1861
Discover the most famous people born in 1861. The list includes people like Rabindranath Tagore, Jose Rizal, James Naismith, Rudolf Steiner, Madan Mohan Malaviya and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include philosophers, political leaders, military leaders and novelists born in 1861. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & India and many more countries.
Rabindranath Tagore7th May, Indian
Poet
H. H. Holmes16th May, American
Serial Killer
Mehmed VI14th January, Turkish
Last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Prafulla Chandra Ray2nd August, Indian
Chemist
Rudolf Steiner25th February, Croatian
Philosopher, social reformer, architect and
Motilal Nehru6th May, Indian
Political Leader
James Naismith6th November, Canadian, American
Invented Basketball
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig19th June, British
Military Leader
Alfred North Whitehead15th February, British, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
Edith Roosevelt6th August, American
Former First Lady of the United States
William C. Durant9th December, American
Entrepreneur
Fridtjof Nansen10th October, Norwegian
Explorer
Madan Mohan Malaviya25th December, Indian
Politician & Educationist
Nellie Melba19th May, Australian
Opera Singer
Helen Herron Taft2nd June, American
First Lady of the United States
Edith Cowan2nd August, Australian
Social Campaigner
Jose Rizal19th June, Filipino
William James Mayo29th June, American
Physician and Surgeon
George W. Norris11th July, American
Former US Senator
Frederick Gowland Hopkins20th June, British
English biochemist
Louis Anquetin26th January, French
Painter
Charles Édouard Guillaume15th February, Swiss
Discoverer of Invar and Elinvar
Amy Levy10th November, British
Poet, Novelist, Essayist
H. H. Holmes16th May, American
Criminal, Serial killer
Josephine Earp30th November, American
actor
Georges Méliès8th December, French
Actor, Film director, Animator, Film editor,
Lou Andreas-Salomé12th February, German, Russian
Psychoanalyst
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria26th February, German
Ruler
Erich von Falkenhayn11th September, German, Polish
Politician, Officer
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby23rd April, British
Soldier
Frederic Remington4th October, American
Sculptor, Writer, Painter
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Georgy Lvov2nd November, German, Russian
Politician
Robert Bosch23rd September, Austrian, German
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Artisan
Frederick Russell Burnham11th May, American
Explorer, Writer
Maximilian von Spee22nd June, German
Navy officer
Frederick Jackson Turner14th November, American
Historian, Writer
John William Godward9th August, British
Painter
Omar Mukhtar20th August, Libyan
Ruler of Senussi Zawiyas
Henry Gantt20th May, American
Engineer
Chung Ling Soo2nd April, American
Stage magician
Halford Mackinder15th February, British
Geographer
Victor Horta6th January, Belgian
Architect
Italo Svevo19th December, Italian
Writer, Playwright, Translator, Businessperson,
Nettie Stevens7th July, American
Geneticist
William Bateson8th August, British
Biologist
Armando Diaz5th December, Italian
General
Walter Rauschenbusch4th October, American
Theologian
Luigi Facta16th November, Italian
Prime Minister of Italy
Pierre Duhem9th June, French
Historian
István Tisza22nd April, Hungarian
Politician
Aristide Maillol8th December, French
Sculptor, Painter, Engraver
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud15th December, Finnish
Lawyer
Anton Arensky12th July, Russian
composer, conductor, music educator, university
Dorothy Dix18th November, American
Journalist
William Wrigley, Jr.30th September, American
Industrialist
James Mooney10th February, American
Ethnographer
Peter Cooper Hewitt5th May, American
Electrical Engineer
Ernestine Schumann-Heink15th June, Austrian, German, American
Contralto
Antoine Bourdelle30th October, French
Sculptor, Painter
James Mark Baldwin12th January, French, American
Philosopher, Psychologist, University teacher
Cyrus Edwin Dallin22nd November, American
American sculptor
Norman Triplett1st October, American
psychologist
Maurice Blondel2nd November, French
Philosopher
Frank Orren Lowden26th January, American
Governor
Reginald Wingate25th June, Scottish
General
Ralph Modjeski27th January, Polish, American
Civil Engineer
Alexey Kaledin24th October, Russian
Military officer
Bliss Carman15th April, Canadian
Poet
Almroth Wright10th August, British
Bacteriologist
Albert Bacon Fall26th November, American
United States Senator
Pauline Johnson10th March, Canadian
Isaac Burns Murphy1st January, American
American jockey
George Tyrrell6th February, Irish
Theologian
Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman25th April, American
Economist
Uchimura Kanzō26th March, Japanese
Writer
Herbert Putnam20th September, American
Librarian
Juhani Aho11th September, Finnish
Author
Maximilian Harden20th October, German
German journalist
James B. Herrick11th August, American
Physician
Walter Simons24th September, German
Lawyer
François Gény17th December, French
Jurist
Charles Martin Loeffler30th January, German, American
Violinist
Albert Chevalier21st March, British
Comedian
Henry Seely White20th May, American
Mathematician
Francis Bourne23rd March, British
Archbishop
Hans Goldschmidt18th January, German
Chemist
Arthur E. Kennelly17th December, American
Electrical engineer
Irving Wightman Colburn16th May, American
Inventor
Marcellin Boule1st January, French
Palaeontologist
Mikhail Matyushin30th November, Russian
Painter
Hannes Hafstein4th December, Icelander
Politician
Édouard Dujardin10th November, French
Writer
Vida Dutton Scudder15th December, American
Writer
João da Cruz e Sousa24th November, Brazilian
Poet