1
Dmitri Mendeleev
(Inventor of Periodic Table)
137
9
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: February 8, 1834
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Tobolsk
Died: February 2
2
Edvard Grieg
(One of the Main Composers of the Romantic Era)
80
21
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: June 15, 1843
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Bergen, Norway
Died: September 4
3
Lord Kelvin
(Mathematician, Physicist)
65
16
4
Klara Hitler
(Mother of Adolf Hitler)
23
17
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: August 12, 1860
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Spital, Austria
Died: December 21
5
Kato Svanidze
(First Wife of Joseph Stalin)
25
5
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 2, 1885
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Tbilisi, Georgia
Died: November 22
6
Edmonia Lewis
(First African-American and Native American Sculptor to Achieve International Prominence)
7
4
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: July 4, 1844
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Rensselaer County, New York, United States
Died: September 17
7
William Henry Perkin
(British Chemist Known for His Serendipitous Discovery of First Commercial Synthetic Organic Dye, 'Mauveine')
3
0
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: March 12, 1838
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: London, England
Died: July 14
8
Macario Sakay
(Revolutionary)
4
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: March 1, 1878
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Manila, Philippines
Died: September 13
9
Joseph Joachim
(Violinist Known for His Interpretations of Works of Bach, Mozart & Beethoven)
5
0
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: June 28, 1831
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Kittsee, Austria
Died: August 15
10
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
(Sculptor)
2
0
11
Oscar II of Sweden
(King of Sweden from 1872 to 1907)
3
2
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: January 21, 1829
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Stadsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
Died: December 8
12
Ilia Chavchavadze
(Journalist)
12
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: November 8, 1837
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Kvareli, Georgia
Died: September 12
13
Robert I, Duke of Parma
(Aristocrat)
1
0
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: July 9, 1848
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Florence, Italy
Died: November 16
14
Otto Goldschmidt
(Composer)
2
0
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: August 21, 1829
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Died: February 24
15
Henry Steel Olcott
(Military Officer)
3
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: August 2, 1832
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: City of Orange, New Jersey, United States
Died: February 17
16
Paula Modersohn-Becker
(Painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism)
3
3
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: February 8, 1876
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Friedrichstadt, Dresden, Germany
Died: November 21
17
Joris-Karl Huysmans
(Art critic, Novelist)
1
0
Listed In: Critics & Connoisseurs
Birthdate: February 5, 1848
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: May 12
18
Stanisław Wyspiański
(Polish Playwright, Painter and Poet)
3
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: January 15, 1869
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Kraków, Poland
Died: November 28
19
Francis Thompson
(Poet)
2
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: December 18, 1859
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Preston, England
Died: November 13
20
Hector Malot
(Writer)
4
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: May 20, 1830
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: La Bouille, France
Died: July 18
21
Edmund Pettus
(Politician)
0
0
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: July 6, 1821
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Athens, Alabama, United States
Died: July 27
22
Henri Moissan
(Chemist)
3
1
23
Elizabeth Keckley
(Author)
0
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 1818
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Historic Dinwiddie Courthouse, Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States
Died: April 30
24
Ernst von Bergmann
(German Surgeon Who was the First Physician to Introduce Heat Sterilisation of Surgical Instruments)
6
1
Listed In: Physicians
Birthdate: December 16, 1836
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
Died: March 25
25
Sully Prudhomme
(Poet, Essayist, and was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901)
1
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: March 16, 1839
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: September 6
26
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
(Writer)
4
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: February 26, 1838
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Khotyns'kyi district, Ukraine
Died: September 7
27
Giosuè Carducci
(Poet, Writer and Journalist)
1
0
Listed In: Critics & Connoisseurs
Birthdate: July 27, 1835
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Pietrasanta, Italy
Died: February 16
28
Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
(Prince)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: August 8, 1845
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Château d'Eu, Eu, France
Died: September 14
29
Marcellin Berthelot
(French Chemist and Politician Known for the 'Thomsen–Berthelot Principle of Thermochemistry')
1
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: October 25, 1827
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: March 18
30
Désirée Artôt
(Soprano)
2
0
31
Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen
(Danish Explorer Who Led Two Productive Expeditions to Greenland)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: January 15, 1872
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Viborg, Denmark
Died: November 25
32
Pierre Janssen
(Astronomer)
1
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: February 22, 1824
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: December 23
33
Charles Howard Hinton
(Mathematician, writer, science fiction writer)
1
0
34
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
(Writer)
3
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: December 5, 1822
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: June 27
35
William Le Baron Jenney
(Architect)
0
0
Listed In: Architects
Birthdate: September 25, 1832
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Died: June 14
36
Asaph Hall
(American astronomer)
1
0
37
Adolf Furtwängler
(Archaeologist)
3
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: June 30, 1853
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Died: October 10
38
Sophus Bugge
(Norwegian Philologist and Linguist Known for His Theories and His Work on the 'Runic Alphabet')
2
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: January 5, 1833
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Lurvik, Norway
Died: July 8
39
Moncure D. Conway
(Writer)
1
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: March 17, 1832
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Falmouth, Virginia, United States
Died: November 15
40
Richard Mansfield
(British Actor-Manager Best Known for His Performances in Shakespeare Plays, Gilbert and Sullivan Operas)
0
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: May 24, 1857
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: August 30
41
Lucile Grahn
(Ballerina)
3
0
Listed In: Dancers
Birthdate: June 30, 1819
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: April 4
42
John F. Peto
(American Painter)
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1
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: May 21, 1854
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: November 23
43
Asai Chu
(Former Painter noted for his pioneering work in developing the yōga)
2
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: July 22, 1856
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Sakura Domain, Japan
Died: December 16
44
Alfred Newton
(Ornithologist)
1
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: June 11, 1829
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland
Died: June 7
45
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Poet & Novelist)
0
0
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: November 11, 1836
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
Died: March 19
46
Jørgen Brønlund
(Former Greenlandic polar explorer)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: December 14, 1877
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Ilulissat, Greenland
Died: October 31
47
John Kells Ingram
(Irish Economist and Poet)
1
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: July 7, 1823
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Pettigo, Ireland
Died: May 1
48
John Alexander Dowie
(Evangelist)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: May 25, 1847
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: March 9
49
Mkrtich Khrimian
(Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople from 1869 to 1873)
3
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: April 4, 1820
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Van, Ottoman Empire
Died: October 29
50
Francis McClintock
(Explorer)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: July 8, 1819
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Dundalk, Ireland
Died: November 17
