Famous people born in 1863

The best-known people born in 1863, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
July 30 · d. 1947
Photo: Fred Hartsook, Public domain
Swami Vivekananda
Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863–1902)
January 12 · d. 1902
Photo: The original uploader was Dziewa at English Wikipedia ., Public domain
Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter (1863–1944)
December 12 · d. 1944
Photo: Anders Beer Wilse, Public domain
Pierre de Coubertin
founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian (1863-1937)
January 1 · d. 1937
Photo: Photograph from Bain News Service., Public domain
David Lloyd George
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922
January 17 · d. 1945
Photo: Harris & Ewing, Public domain
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Italian writer, poet, playwright, soldier and politician (1863-1938)
March 12 · d. 1938
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary (1863–1914)
December 18 · d. 1914
Photo: Ferdinand Schmutzer, Public domain
Constantine Stanislavsky
Russian actor and theatre director (1863–1938)
January 17 · d. 1938
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
December 16 · d. 1952
Photo: Artist: Samuel Johnson Woolf (1880-1948). Time magazine., Public domain
Konstantinos P. Cavafy
Greek-Egyptian poet and journalist (1863–1933)
April 29 · d. 1933
Photo: Unknown photographer (signed: Pacino), Public domain
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
March 12 · d. 1945
Pietro Mascagni
Italian composer known for operas (1863–1945)
December 7 · d. 1945
Photo: Gavo Studio; copyright expire, Public domain
Austen Chamberlain
British politician (1863-1937)
October 16 · d. 1937
Photo: Georges Chevalier, CC BY 4.0
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer (1863-1941)
December 11 · d. 1941
Photo: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper, Public domain
Paul Signac
French painter (1863–1935)
November 11 · d. 1935
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
William Randolph Hearst
American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)
April 29 · d. 1951
Gaston Doumergue
French lawyer and statesman (1863–1937)
August 1 · d. 1937
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Carlos I of Portugal
King of Portugal from 1889 to 1908 (1863–1908)
September 28 · d. 1908
Photo: anonymous, Public domain
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
Russian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)
August 30 · d. 1944
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Max Wolf
German astrophotography pioneer (1863-1932)
June 21 · d. 1932
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Arthur Henderson
British politician (1863-1935)
September 13 · d. 1935
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Leo Baekeland
Belgium American inventor (1863-1944)
November 14 · d. 1944
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Werner Sombart
German economist, sociologist, historian (1863-1941)
January 19 · d. 1941
Photo: Nicola Perscheid, Public domain
Wilhelm Marx
German politician (1863–1946)
January 15 · d. 1946
Photo: Bain News Service, Public domain
Henry van de Velde
Belgian painter, architect and interior designer (1863–1957)
April 3 · d. 1957
George Herbert Mead
American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist (1863–1931)
February 27 · d. 1931
Joaquín Sorolla
Spanish painter (1863–1923)
February 27 · d. 1923
Andrés Bonifacio
Filipino nationalist and revolutionary hero (1863–1897)
November 30 · d. 1897
Henry Royce
English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
March 27 · d. 1933
Fyodor Sologub
Russian writer (1863–1927)
March 1 · d. 1927

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Month by month

January

January 1 · Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Latvian writer, journalist and playwright (1863–1908)
January 8 · Ellen Churchill Semple, American geographer (1863–1932)
January 14 · Manuel Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician (1863–1929)
January 14 · Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist (1863-1928)
January 15 · Frederic G. Kenyon, British palaeographer and classical scholar (1863–1952)
January 19 · Alexander Serafimovich, Russian and Soviet writer (1863–1949)

February

February 4 · Antoine Lacroix, French mineralogist and geologist (1863–1948)
February 9 · Anthony Hope, English novelist (1863–1933)
February 13 · Milenko Radomar Vesnić, Serbian politician; (1863-1921)
February 19 · Augusto Leguía, President of Peru (1863-1932)
February 19 · Axel Thue, Norwegian mathematician (1863-1922)
February 23 · Franz von Stuck, German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and architect (1863–1928)

March

March 3 · Arthur Machen, Welsh author and mystic (1863–1947)
March 4 · Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (1863–1947)
March 14 · Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (*1862 – †1951)
March 25 · William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Scottish ornithologist (1863-1924)
March 30 · Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)
March 30 · Joseph Caillaux, French politician (1863-1944)

April

April 5 · Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Member of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt (1863–1950)
April 10 · Paul Héroult, French inventor (1863–1914)
April 16 · Émile Friant, French painter (1863-1932)
April 18 · Leopold Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian politician (1863-1942)
April 26 · Arno Holz, German naturalist poet and dramatist (1863-1929)
April 30 · Max Skladanowsky, German inventor and early filmmaker (1863–1939)

May

May 14 · John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician (1863–1932)
May 21 · Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian archduke and military officer (1863-1954)
May 25 · Heinrich Rickert, German philosopher (1863-1936)
May 26 · Bob Fitzsimmons, British boxer (1863-1917)
May 27 · Franz Schalk, Austrian composer (1863–1931)
May 31 · Francis Younghusband, British army explorer (1863–1942)

June

June 2 · Felix von Weingartner, Austrian conductor, composer and pianist (1863-1942)
June 3 · Yevhen Petrushevych, Ukrainian politician (1863-1940)
June 10 · Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist and poet (1863–1923)
June 13 · Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, British fashion designer (1863-1935)
June 16 · Francisco León de la Barra, President of Mexico (1863-1939)
June 22 · Tanaka Giichi, Japanese general (1864-1929)

July

July 12 · Paul Drude, German physicist specializing in optics
July 12 · Albert Calmette, French scientist (1863-1933)
July 13 · Margaret Murray, Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (1863–1963)
July 19 · Hermann Bahr, Austrian dramatic, publicist and writer (1863–1934)
July 21 · C. Aubrey Smith, British actor (1863-1948)
July 26 · Paul Walden, Baltic German chemist (1863-1957)

August

August 3 · Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian writer (1863–1922)
August 8 · Florence Merriam Bailey, American ornithologist, birdwatcher, and nature writer (1863 – 1948)
August 13 · William Isaac Thomas, American sociologist (1863-1947)
August 15 · Aleksey Krylov, Russian naval engineer and mathematician (1863-1945)
August 16 · Gabriel Pierné, French composer, conductor, and organist (1863–1937)
August 23 · Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, Russian grand duke (1863-1919); fourth child and third son of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia and Princess Cecilie of Baden

September

September 8 · W. W. Jacobs, English author of short stories and novels (1863–1943)
September 10 · Charles Spearman, English psychologist (1863-1945)
September 13 · Franz von Hipper, German Imperial Navy admiral (1863–1932)
September 22 · Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist
September 29 · Hugo Haase, German jurist, politician (SPD), and pacifist (1863-1919)
September 30 · Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (1863-1928)

October

October 5 · Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist (1863–1938)
October 6 · Klara Zamenhof, Polish esperantist
October 10 · Vladimir A. Obruchev, Russian and Soviet geologist and writer (1863–1956)
October 15 · Pyotr Kozlov, Russian explorer (1863–1935)
October 16 · Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and songwriter (1859-1929)
October 27 · S. An-sky, Russian Jewish author (1863-1920)

November

November 3 · Blanche Bingley, English tennis player (1863–1946)
November 8 · René Viviani, Prime Minister of France (1862-1925)
November 8 · Eero Järnefelt, Finnish realist painter (1863–1937)
November 17 · Spiro Samara, Greek composer (1861-1917)
November 18 · Richard Dehmel, German poet (1863-1920)
November 27 · Olha Kobylianska, Ukrainian writer and feminist (1863–1942)

December

December 1 · Black Elk, Oglala Lakota leader (1863–1950)
December 1 · Qasim Amin, Egyptian writer, judge and social reformer (1863–1908)
December 5 · Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (1863-1933)
December 6 · Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (1863-1914)
December 8 · Edith Durham, British artist (1863-1944)
December 14 · Okakura Kakuzō, Japanese scholar and art critic (1863–1913)

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