Famous people born in 1839
The best-known people born in 1839, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.
Best known
Paul CézanneFrench painter (1839–1906)
January 19 · d. 1906
Photo: Unknown; Cézanne was born in 1839 and died in 1906, Public domain
Sully PrudhommeFrench poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901 (1839–1907)
March 16 · d. 1907
Photo: Unknown Unknown , uploaded, stitched and restored by Jebulon, Public domain
John D. RockefellerAmerican industrialist and philanthropist (1839–1937)
July 8 · d. 1937
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Modest Petrovich MussorgskyRussian composer (1839–1881)
March 21 · d. 1881
Photo: Рузана Ширинян, Public domain
Alfred SisleyFrench, British painter (1839–1899)
October 30 · d. 1899
Photo: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Public domain
Charles Sanders PeirceAmerican philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
September 10 · d. 1914
Photo: Napoleon Sarony, Public domain
Josiah Willard GibbsAmerican scientist (1839–1903)
February 11 · d. 1903
Photo: Unknown. Uploaded by Serge Lachinov (обработка для wiki), Public domain
Machado de AssisBrazilian writer (1839–1908)
June 21 · d. 1908
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Henry GeorgeAmerican political economist and journalist (1839–1897)
September 2 · d. 1897
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
George Armstrong CusterUnited States cavalry commander (1839–1876)
December 5 · d. 1876
Photo: George L. Andrews, Public domain
Nikolay PrzhevalskyRussian soldier, explorer, & geographer (1839-1888)
April 12 · d. 1888
Photo: В.Класен, Public domain
Jamsetji TataIndian industrialist, founder of the Tata Group (born 1839)
March 3 · d. 1904
Photo: hochgeladen in en-Wiki von Chirags, Public domain
Carol I of Romaniaking of Romania from 1881 to 1914
April 20 · d. 1914
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain- Princess Cecilie of Baden
Russian grand duchess (1839-1891); youngest daughter of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and Princess Sophie of Sweden
September 20 · d. 1891
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January
- January 2 · Gustave Trouvé, French electrical engineer and inventor (1839-1902)
- January 5 · Nicolás de Piérola, President of Peru (1839–1913)
- January 5 · Nikolai Linevich, Russian general (1839–1908)
- January 21 · Alfred Barye, French sculptor
- January 27 · Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian politician (1839-1904)
- January 27 · Pavlo Chubynskyi, Ukrainian writer (1839–1884)
February
- February 7 · Nicolaas Pierson, Dutch politician (1839-1909)
- February 9 · Addison Emery Verrill, U.S. zoologist (1839–1926)
- February 10 · Joseph Oller, founder of the famous cabaret Moulin Rouge (1839–1922)
- February 11 · Almon Brown Strowger, Union Army officer, inventor (1839–1902)
- February 15 · Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (1839–1920)
- February 16 · Alexander Veselovsky, Russian philologist (1838-1906)
March
- March 1 · Luigi Pelloux, Sardinian politician (1839-1924)
- March 8 · James Crafts, American chemist (1839-1917)
- March 13 · Tage Reedtz-Thott, Danish politician (1839-1923)
- March 17 · Josef Rheinberger, Liechtensteiner organist and composer (1839-1901)
- March 25 · Marianne Hainisch, Austrian women's rights activist (1839–1936)
- March 27 · John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (1839-1893)
April
- April 5 · Robert Smalls, American politician and former slave (1839-1915)
- April 15 · Yaqub Sanu, Egyptian journalist, dramatist, and political agitator
- April 19 · Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, French botanist and biologist (1839–1914)
- April 22 · August W. Eichler, German botanist (1839-1887)
- April 30 · Yoshitoshi, Japanese artist and printmaker (1839–1892)
- April 30 · Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, Archduke of Austria (1839-1892)
May
- May 1 · Hilaire de Chardonnet, French engineer (1839–1924)
- May 20 · Bernardino Caballero, Paraguayan politician (1839-1912)
- May 21 · Nils Christoffer Dunér, Swedish astronomer (1839-1914)
- May 23 · Nagakura Shinpachi, Japanese swordsman (1839–1915)
- May 27 · Lucjan Malinowski, Polish linguist (1839-1898)
- May 30 · Robert Hartig, German forestry scientist and mycologist (1839–1901)
June
- June 3 · Paul Lindau, German writer (1839–1919)
- June 10 · Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish politician (1839-1912)
- June 16 · Julius Petersen, Danish mathematician (1839-1910)
- June 17 · Henry Holiday, British artist (1839–1927)
- June 27 · George Mary Searle, American astronomer (1839-1918)
- June 29 · Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, Italian writer, poet and journalist (1839–1869)
July
- July 7 · Feodora zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German princess (1839–1872)
- July 8 · Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Italian Roman Catholic bishop and blessed (1839–1905)
- July 17 · Friedrich Gernsheim, German composer, conductor, pianist and teacher (1839–1916)
- July 20 · Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, German pathologist (1839-1884)
- July 25 · Francis Garnier, French Navy officer (1839-1873)
- July 31 · Ignacio Andrade, president of Venezuela (1839-1925)
August
- August 8 · Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch, German explorer and biologist (1839-1917)
- August 8 · General Nelson A. Miles, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Commanding General of the United States Army (1839-1925)
- August 9 · Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Duke in Bavaria (1839–1909)
- August 10 · Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (1839–1896)
- August 17 · Abdyl Frashëri, Albanian statesman, diplomat (1839-1892)
- August 24 · Eduard Nápravník, Czech conductor and composer
September
- September 1 · Sarah Winchester, American heiress and occultist (1839–1922)
- September 8 · John Aitken, Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer (1839-1919)
- September 8 · Gregorio Luperón, Dominican military and state leader (1879-1997)
- September 9 · Laura Spelman Rockefeller, American philanthropist, schoolteacher (1839-1915)
- September 25 · Karl Alfred von Zittel, German geologist and paleontologist (1839–1904)
- September 27 · Takasugi Shinsaku, samurai (1839-1867)
October
- October 2 · Hans Thoma, German painter and graphic artist (1839–1924)
- October 5 · Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Egyptian Prime Minister (1839–1904)
- October 9 · Georges Leclanché, French electrical engineer (1839–1882)
- October 19 · Jane Morris, English embroiderer and artists' model (1839–1914)
- October 29 · Imre Steindl, architect (1839-1902)
- October 31 · Heinrich Ernst Göring, German diplomat
November
- November 3 · Pōmare V, King of Tahiti (1839-1891)
- November 7 · Hermann Levi, German conductor, composer and royal Bavarian general music director (1839-1900)
- November 8 · Ivan Goremykin, Russian politician (1839-1917)
- November 9 · Tadeusz Korzon, Polish historian (1839–1918)
- November 16 · Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian poet, politician and playwright (1839-1923)
- November 24 · Leo Mechelin, Finland Swedish politician and academic (1839–1914)
December
- December 7 · Redvers Buller, British general (1839–1908)
- December 12 · Georges Rayet, French astronomer (1839–1906)
- December 17 · Ferdinand James von Rothschild, British politician (1839-1898)
- December 19 · Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak, Bosnia and Herzegovina mayor and writer (1839-1902)
- December 22 · Béni Kállay, Hungarian politician, Minister of Finance of Austria-Hungary, governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1839-1903)
- December 30 · Albert de Lapparent, French geologist (1839-1908)
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