Famous people born in 1862

The best-known people born in 1862, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
January 23 · d. 1943
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)
August 29 · d. 1949
Photo: Gerschel, Public domain
Claude Debussy
French classical composer (1862–1918)
August 22 · d. 1918
Photo: Adam Cuerden, Public domain
Gerhart Hauptmann
German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)
November 15 · d. 1946
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Gustav Klimt
Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)
July 14 · d. 1918
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
July 2 · d. 1942
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Philipp Lenard
German physicist (1862–1947)
June 7 · d. 1947
Photo: Not mentioned in any source, Public domain
O. Henry
American short story writer (1862–1910)
September 11 · d. 1910
Photo: W.M. Vanderweyde, New York, Public domain
Edith Wharton
American writer and designer (1862–1937)
January 24 · d. 1937
Photo: E. F. Cooper, Newport, Rhode Island, Public domain
Arthur Schnitzler
Austrian writer (1862–1931)
May 15 · d. 1931
Photo: Ferdinand Schmutzer, Public domain
Aristide Briand
politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from France (1862-1932)
March 28 · d. 1932
Photo: Henri Manuel, Public domain
Allvar Gullstrand
Swedish ophthalmologist (1862-1930)
June 5 · d. 1930
Photo: Emil Finn, Public domain
Pyotr Stolypin
Russian politician (1862–1911)
April 14 · d. 1911
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Siegbert Tarrasch
German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician (1862–1934)
March 5 · d. 1934
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Maurice Barrès
French novelist (1862-1923)
August 19 · d. 1923
Photo: Auguste Léon, Public domain
Nicholas Murray Butler
American philosopher, diplomat, and educator (1862-1947)
April 2 · d. 1947
Photo: Auguste Léon, Public domain
Emilio Salgari
Italian writer (1862–1911)
August 21 · d. 1911
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Billy Hughes
Australian politician (1862–1952), 7th Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923
September 25 · d. 1952
Photo: Fairfax Corporation, Public domain
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
July 16 · d. 1931
Photo: Adam Cuerden, Public domain
Aurel Stein
Hungarian-British archaeologist (1862-1943)
November 26 · d. 1943
Photo: Thompson, The Grosvenor Studios, CC BY 4.0
Joseph Merrick
British man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man
August 5 · d. 1890
Nikolai Yudenich
Russian general
July 30 · d. 1933
Louis Barthou
French politician (1862-1934)
August 25 · d. 1934
Andrew Fisher
Australian politician, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (1862-1928)
August 29 · d. 1928
Georges Feydeau
French writer (1862–1921)
December 8 · d. 1921
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
British Liberal statesman (1862-1933)
April 25 · d. 1933
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
February 17 · d. 1922
Victoria of Baden
Queen consort of Sweden (1907-1930)
August 7 · d. 1930
Charles Evans Hughes
American jurist; Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941 (1862–1948)
April 11 · d. 1948
Vazha-Pshavela
Georgian writer, poet, noble (1861-1915)
May 27 · d. 1915

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Month by month

January

January 2 · Tang Shaoyi, First Premier of the Republic of China (1862-1938)
January 5 · Ekvtime Takaishvili, Georgian historian (1863–1953)
January 6 · August Oetker, German food scientist (1862-1918)
January 15 · Loïe Fuller, American dancer (1862–1928)
January 16 · Bajram Curri, Albanian politician (1862-1925)
January 29 · Frederick Delius, English composer (1862–1934)

February

February 2 · Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, linguist and writer (1862-1932)
February 2 · Émile Coste, French fencer (1862-1927)
February 4 · Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, 20th-century prime minister of Sweden (1862-1953)
February 7 · Edward Granville Browne, British Iranologist (1862–1926)
February 14 · Agnes Pockels, German chemist pioneer in surface science
February 14 · Okakura Kakuzō, Japanese scholar and art critic (1863–1913)

March

March 2 · Boris Galitzine, Russian geologist (1862–1916)
March 14 · Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (*1862 – †1951)
March 17 · Silvio Gesell, German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)
March 17 · Charles Laval, painter from France (1862–1894)
March 18 · Eugène Jansson, Swedish painter (1862-1915)
March 21 · Mykola Pymonenko, Ukrainian painter (1862-1912)

April

April 1 · Mary Proctor, British astronomer (1862–1957)
April 1 · Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier, Swedish astronomer and statistical botanist (1862 – 1934)
April 3 · Leonid Pasternak, Russian artist (1862-1945)
April 11 · William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (1862–1938)
April 24 · A. C. Benson, English essayist and poet, 1862–1925 (1862–1925)
April 28 · Antoni Lange, Polish writer and philosopher (1862–1929)

May

May 1 · Marcel Prévost, French writer (1862-1941)
May 4 · Alimardan bey Topchubashov, Azerbaijani politician (1862-1934)
May 19 · João do Canto e Castro, President of Portugal (1862-1934)
May 23 · Hermann Gunkel, German evangelical theologian (1862–1932)
May 30 · Anton Ažbe, Slovenian artist (1862-1905)
May 31 · Mikhail Nesterov, Russian artist (1862-1942)

June

June 2 · Émile Mâle, French art historian (1862-1954)
June 4 · Teresa Claramunt, Catalan Spanish anarcho-syndicalist, editor
June 9 · Herbert Baker, British architect (1862-1946)
June 11 · Ugyen Wangchuck, king of Bhutan (1862-1926)
June 21 · Damrong Rajanubhab, Prince of Siam (1862-1943)
June 23 · Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Spanish and Bavarian Royal

July

July 2 · Christopher Cradock, Royal Navy admiral (1862-1914)
July 10 · Helene Schjerfbeck, swedish-speaking painter of Finland (1862-1946)
July 14 · Florence Bascom, American geologist (1862–1945)
July 17 · Oscar Levertin, Swedish poet, critic and literary historian (1862–1906)
July 18 · Kadambini Ganguly, Indian physician (1862–1923)
July 18 · Victor, Prince Napoléon, Prince of France (1862-1926)

August

August 1 · M. R. James, 20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost (1862–1936)
August 3 · Oswald Külpe, German philosopher (1862-1915)
August 7 · Henri Le Sidaner, French painter (1862-1939)
August 14 · Prince Henry of Prussia, Member of the House of Hohenzollern (1862–1929)
August 25 · Carl Anton Larsen, Norwegian explorer and whaler (1860–1924)
August 27 · Abram Arkhipov, Russian artist (1862-1930)

September

September 1 · Nitobe Inazō, Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
September 11 · Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862-1938); mother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; maternal grandmother of Elizabeth II
September 11 · Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British Army officer & 12th Governor-General of Canada (1862-1935)
September 19 · Arvid Lindman, Swedish 20th century prime minister (1862-1936)
September 27 · Louis Botha, South African general and politician (1862-1919)
September 30 · Alexander Trepov, Prime Minister of Russia (1862-1928)

October

October 9 · Fatma Aliye Topuz, Turkish writer and self-described feminist (1862–1936)
October 12 · Theodor Boveri, German geneticist (1862-1915)
October 13 · Mary Kingsley, British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer (1862–1900)
October 24 · Daniel Swarovski, Austrian crystal glass industrialist, founder of D. Swarovski KG company (1862–1956)
October 26 · Hilma af Klint, Swedish artist (1862–1944)
October 26 · Alexander Guchkov, Russian politician (1862–1936)

November

November 2 · Maironis, Lithuanian writer (1862–1932)
November 20 · Edvard Westermarck, Finnish academic (1862–1939)
November 23 · Théo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (1862-1926)
November 28 · Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Titular Duchess of Parma (1862–1959)
November 28 · Henry McMahon, British military officer, colonial official and diplomat (1862–1949)
November 29 · Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician (1862-1934)

December

December 3 · Jules Renkin, Belgian former prime minister (1862-1934)
December 7 · Paul Adam, French novelist (1862–1920)
December 12 · J. Bruce Ismay, Chairman of White Star shipping line (1862–1937)
December 23 · Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (1862-1935)
December 26 · Semyon Nadson, Russian poet (1862–1887)
December 26 · Alexander Amfiteatrov, Russian writer and historian (1862–1938)

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