Famous people born in 1869

Best known

1. 
   Mahatma Gandhi

   Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

   October 2 · d. 1948

   Photo: Elliott & Fry, Public domain
2. 
   Henri Matisse

   French artist (1869–1954)

   December 31 · d. 1954

   Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain
3. 
   André Gide

   French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

   November 22 · d. 1951

   Photo: Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Public domain
4. 
   Emma Goldman

   Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)

   June 27 · d. 1940

   Photo: Takuma Kajiwara, Public domain
5. 
   Neville Chamberlain

   Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940

   March 18 · d. 1940

   Photo: Lafayette Ltd, Public domain
6. 
   Grigori Rasputin

   Russian mystic (1869–1916)

   January 21 · d. 1916

   Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
7. 
   Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

   Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)

   February 14 · d. 1959

   Photo: The American Institute of Physics credits the photo [1] to AB Lagrelius & Westphal , which is the Sw, Public domain
8. 
   Nadezhda Krupskaya

   Russian revolutionary and politician (1869–1939)

   February 26 · d. 1939

   Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
9. 
   Nils Gustaf Dalén

   Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)

   November 30 · d. 1937

   Photo: Atelier Jaeger, Public domain
10. 
    Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

    King of Italy from 1900 to 1946

    November 11 · d. 1947

    Photo: Mario Nunes Vais, Public domain
11. 
    Emilio Aguinaldo

    President of the Philippines from 1899 to 1902

    March 22 · d. 1964

    Photo: Harris & Ewing Photo Studio, Public domain
12. 
    Fritz Pregl

    Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)

    September 3 · d. 1930

    Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
13. Hans Spemann

    German embryologist (1869–1941)

    June 27 · d. 1941

14. 
    Christian Lous Lange

    Norwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1869-1938)

    September 17 · d. 1938

    Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
15. 
    Komitas

    Ottoman Armenian priest, musicologist, composer and vardapet (1869–1935)

    October 8 · d. 1935

    Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
16. 
    Zinaida Gippius

    Russian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker (1869-1945)

    November 20 · d. 1945

    Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
17. 
    Maud of Wales

    British princess (1869–1938), Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938

    November 26 · d. 1938

    Photo: Mittet & Co., Public domain
18. 
    Else Lasker-Schüler

    Jewish German poet (1869–1945)

    February 11 · d. 1945

    Photo: unknown, uploader Pitichinaccio, Public domain
19. 
    Felix Salten

    Austro-Hungarian author and critic in Vienna (1869–1945)

    September 6 · d. 1945

    Photo: Ferdinand Schmutzer, Public domain
20. 
    Hovhannes Tumanyan

    Armenian writer and public activist (1869–1923)

    February 19 · d. 1923

    Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
21. Francisco Largo Caballero

    Spanish politician (1869-1946)

    October 15 · d. 1946

22. Stanisław Wyspiański

    Polish playwright, painter and poet (1869–1907)

    January 15 · d. 1907

23. Winsor McCay

    American cartoonist and animator

    September 26 · d. 1934

24. Hjalmar Söderberg

    Swedish writer (1869–1941)

    July 2 · d. 1941

25. Typhoid Mary

    infected houseworker in New York City

    September 23 · d. 1938

26. Kasturba Gandhi

    wife of Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian leader of British era (1869-1944)

    April 11 · d. 1944

27. Karl Haushofer

    German philosopher (1869-1946)

    August 27 · d. 1946

28. Caterina Albert

    Spanish writer (1869-1966)

    September 11 · d. 1966

29. Élie Cartan

    French mathematician (1869–1951)

    April 9 · d. 1951

30. Edwin Lutyens

    British architect (1869–1944)

    March 29 · d. 1944

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