Famous People Born In 1866
Discover the most famous people born in 1866. The list includes people like Wassily Kandinsky, Erik Satie, Beatrix Potter, Anne Sullivan, George Gurdjieff and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include soldiers, political leaders, novelists and philosophers born in 1866. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
H. G. Wells21st September, British
Writer
Butch Cassidy13th April, American
Criminal
Beatrix Potter28th July, British
Author
Wassily Kandinsky16th December, Russian
Painters
Erik Satie17th May, French
Musician
Anne Sullivan14th April, American
American Teacher, Instructor
George Gurdjieff1st January, Armenian
Spiritual Teacher
Ramsay MacDonald12th October, British
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Kenesaw Mountain Landis20th November, American
Jurist
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon26th June, British
Egyptologist
Gopal Krishna Gokhale9th May, Indian
Pioneer of Indian Independence Movement
Matthew Henson8th August, American
First African-American to explore the North Pole
Thomas Hunt Morgan25th September, American
Geneticist
Ferruccio Busoni1st April, German, Italian
Composer
Abraham Flexner13th November, American
Educator
Alfred Werner12th December, Swiss
Chemist
Arthur Keith5th February, Welsh
Father of Modern Nationalism
Charles Nicolle21st September, French
Bacteriologist
Sun Yat Sen12th November, Chinese
Chinese Revolutionary and 'Father of Modern china'
Jalil Mammadguluzadeh22nd February, Azerbaijani
Satirist
Giovanni Agnelli13th August
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Businessperson, Racecar
James J. Corbett1st September, American
Boxer
Maud Gonne21st December, Irish, British
Actress
Romain Rolland29th January, French
Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Historian, Novelist,
Aleksandr Ulyanov31st March, Russian
revolutionary
Hans von Seeckt22nd April, German
Politician, Officer
Benedetto Croce25th February, Italian
Philosopher, Politician, Art historian, Writer,
Hiram Johnson2nd September, American
Former Governor of California
Herbert Henry Dow26th February, Canadian, American
Industrialist
Roger Fry14th December, British
Curator, Art historian, Painter, University
Victor Duleep Singh10th July, British
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Lev Shestov31st January, Russian
philosopher, university teacher
Charles Francis Adams III2nd August, American
Politician
Charles Davenport1st June, American
Biologist
Karl Maria Wiligut10th December, Austrian
Writer, Occultist
Emilio De Bono19th March
Politician, Officer
Elizabeth von Arnim31st August, German, British
Writer, Novelist
Léon Bakst27th January, Belarusian, French
Russian painter
Léon Bakst27th January, Belarusian, French
Russian painter
Léon Bakst27th January, Belarusian, French
Russian painter
Franz von Bayros28th May, Austrian
Painter, Artist, Illustrator
Serge Voronoff10th July, Swiss, French
Surgeon, Immunologist, Gynaecologist
Francesco Cilea23rd July, Italian
Composer
Pierce Butler17th March, American
Jurist
Gilbert Murray2nd January, Australian
Scholar
John Ringling31st May, American
Business Leader
Harry Burleigh2nd December, American
Composer
E. Phillips Oppenheim22nd October, British
Author
Henry Bacon28th November, American
Architect
Ambroise Vollard3rd July, French, Réunionese
Art Dealer
Ramón del Valle-Inclán28th October, Spanish
Dramatist
Jacinto Benavente12th August, Spanish
Dramatist
Ernest Starling17th April, British
Physiologist
George Ade9th February, American
Writer
Nathan Söderblom15th January, Swedish
Archbishop
Gelett Burgess30th January, American
Artist
Émile Gentil4th April, French
Military Leader
Euclides da Cunha20th January, Brazilian
Journalist
Sophonisba Breckinridge1st April, American
Educator
James Harbord21st March, American
Military officer
Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin8th November, British
Automobile Designer
Ignacy Daszyński26th October, Polish, Ukrainian
Politician
Alexander Protopopov18th December, Russian
Publicist
George Barr McCutcheon26th July, American
Author
Jesse William Lazear2nd May, American
Physician
Percy Pilcher16th January, British
Inventor
Simon Lake4th September, American
Mechanical engineer
Adrien de Gerlache2nd August, Belgian
Naval Officer
Kuroda Seiki9th August, Japanese
Painter
Art Young14th January, American
Cartoonist
Antoine Meillet11th November, French
Linguist
Gustav Cassel20th October, Swedish
Economist
Tristan Bernard7th September, French
Playwright
Jeppe Aakjær10th September, Danish
Poet,novelist
Kazys Grinius17th December, Lithuanian
President
Robert Ranulph Marett13th June, Islanders, British
Ethnologist
Hugh Chisholm22nd February, British
Editor
Fyodor Shcherbatskoy19th September, Polish, Russian
Scholar
Moses Gomberg8th February, Russian
Professor
Florence Prag Kahn9th November, American
Teacher
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil30th November, Turkish
Author
Ernest William Brown29th November, British
Mathematician
Erik Ivar Fredholm7th April, Swedish
Mathematician
Pyotr Lebedev24th February, Russian
Physicist
Sigbjørn Obstfelder21st November, Norwegian
Writer
George Pierce Baker4th April, American
Educator
Mary Anderson19th February, American
inventor
Dinu Brătianu13th January, Romanian
Politician
Ludwig Aschoff10th January, German
Physician
Johannes Jørgensen6th November, Danish
Writer
August von Wassermann21st February, German
Bacteriologist
Paul Kretschmer2nd May, German
Linguist
Ishii Kikujirō24th April, Japanese
Diplomat
Ferdinand Lot20th September, French
Historian