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
Wassily Kandinsky16th December, Russian
Painters
Butch Cassidy13th April, American
Criminal
Beatrix Potter28th July, British
Author
Erik Satie17th May, French
Musician
Ramsay MacDonald12th October, British
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
George Gurdjieff1st January, Armenian
Spiritual Teacher
Anne Sullivan14th April, American
American Teacher, Instructor
Gopal Krishna Gokhale9th May, Indian
Pioneer of Indian Independence Movement
Thomas Hunt Morgan25th September, American
Geneticist
Matthew Henson8th August, American
First African-American to explore the North Pole
Ferruccio Busoni1st April, German, Italian
Composer
Alfred Werner12th December, Swiss
Chemist
Abraham Flexner13th November, American
Educator
Charles Nicolle21st September, French
Bacteriologist
Arthur Keith5th February, Welsh
Father of Modern Nationalism
Sun Yat Sen12th November, Chinese
Chinese Revolutionary and 'Father of Modern china'
Jalil Mammadguluzadeh22nd February, Azerbaijani
Satirist
James J. Corbett1st September, American
Boxer
Kenesaw Mountain Landis20th November, American
Jurist
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon26th June, British
Giovanni Agnelli13th August
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Businessperson, Racecar
Maud Gonne21st December, Irish, British
Actress
Romain Rolland29th January, French
Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Historian, Novelist,
Hans von Seeckt22nd April, German
Politician, Officer
Benedetto Croce25th February, Italian
Philosopher, Politician, Art historian, Writer,
Aleksandr Ulyanov31st March, Russian
revolutionary
Hiram Johnson2nd September, American
Former Governor of California
Roger Fry14th December, British
Curator, Art historian, Painter, University
Lev Shestov31st January, Russian
philosopher, university teacher
John Ringling31st May, American
Business Leader
Charles Davenport1st June, American
Biologist
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Charles Francis Adams III2nd August, American
Politician
Victor Duleep Singh10th July, British
Franz von Bayros28th May, Austrian
Painter, Artist, Illustrator
Emilio De Bono19th March
Politician, Officer
Karl Maria Wiligut10th December, Austrian
Writer, Occultist
Léon Bakst27th January, Belarusian, French
Russian painter
Léon Bakst27th January, Belarusian, French
Russian painter
Léon Bakst27th January, Belarusian, French
Russian painter
Elizabeth von Arnim31st August, German, British
Writer, Novelist
Herbert Henry Dow26th February, American
Chemist, Inventor
Serge Voronoff10th July, Swiss, French
Surgeon, Immunologist, Gynaecologist
George Ade9th February, American
Writer
Ramón del Valle-Inclán28th October, Spanish
Dramatist
Jacinto Benavente12th August, Spanish
Dramatist
Nathan Söderblom15th January, Swedish
Archbishop
Gelett Burgess30th January, American
Artist
Kuroda Seiki9th August, Japanese
Painter
Jeppe Aakjær10th September, Danish
Poet,novelist
Ernest William Brown29th November, British
Mathematician
Mary Anderson19th February, American
inventor
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden6th October, Canadian, American
Inventor
Duncan MacDougall30th November, American
physician, psychiatrist
Henry Goddard14th August, American
psychologist, educationist