People Born in the 1840s

Discover ancestors and historical figures in our database of 5,741 people with archival photographs and biographical details.

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5,741 people found

Viktor Thallmayer

1847–1921 educator, inventor, mechanical engineer Petrovaradin

Vincentia Maria López y Vicuña

1847–1890 religious sister Cascante

Vinzenz Chiavacci

1847–1916 journalist, playwright, writer Vienna

Vladimir Okhotnikov

1847–1919 military personnel Moscow

Vladimir Shmarovin

1847–1924 businessperson, patron of the arts

Vladimir Snegiryov

1847–1917 gynecologist, obstetrician Moscow

Vojta Slukov

1847–1903 actor, director Zlukov

Volodymyr Navrotskyi

1847–1882 adult educator, economist, ethnographer, literary critic, opinion journalist, poet, statistician Kotuziv

Václav Oplt

1847–1935 Catholic priest

Václav Šnajdr

1847–1920 journalist, poet, translator, writer České Budějovice

Vítězslav Janovský

1847–1925 pedagogue, physician Prague

Warington Baden-Powell

1847–1921 military personnel Oxford

Warren Seymour Johnson

1847–1911 inventor Leicester

Warren Winn Rawson

1847–1908 gardener Arlington

Wilgelm Vitgeft

1847–1904 military personnel Odesa

Wilhelm Clemens

1847–1934 painter Neurath

Wilhelm Ritter

1847–1906 architect, civil engineer, executive, university teacher Liestal

Wilhelmina Drucker

1847–1925 editor, feminist, journalist, peace activist, suffragette, writer Amsterdam

Willem Robert

1847–1914 composer, conductor, violinist, violist

William Bilsland

1847–1921 businessperson

William Edward Ayrton

1847–1908 electrical engineer, electrotechnician, inventor, physicist, university teacher London

William Haurowitz

1847–1908 brewer, business executive Trondheim

William Henry Bishop

1847–1928 novelist, writer Hartford

William Henry Frederick Fiedler

1847–1919 politician New York City

William Henry Hyndman Jones

1847–1926 barrister, judge Liverpool

William John Greenwell

1847–1914 barrister, writer St Helen Auckland

William Loring Nunez Spencer

1847–1921 actor, writer

William Nelson

1847–1914 lawyer, writer Newark

William Warde Fowler

1847–1921 classical scholar, historian, ornithologist, university teacher

Wordsworth Donisthorpe

1847–1914 chess player, cinematographer, film director, inventor, photographer Leeds

Xan Míguez González

1847–1912 bagpiper

Xan Quinto

b. 1847 bandit O Araño

Yakov Parnokh

1847–1912 Taganrog

Yamashita Shigetake

1847–1919 politician

Yasuya Takeichi

1847–1894 photographer, politician, theologian Nankoku

Yevgeny Sabaneyev

1847–1913 architect Saint Petersburg

Ze'ev Yavetz

1847–1924 rabbi, translator Kolno

Zhang Hengjia

1847–1910 politician

pesach Isser Golczynski

1847–1927 Łomża

Árpád Béla Kisfaludy

1847–1903 Catholic priest, theologian Gyömöre

Émile Barrois-Lepers

1847–1920 politician, wholesaler Tourcoing

Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe

1847–1924 industrialist, philanthropist La Villette

Émile Marignan

1847–1937 archaeologist, ethnologist, physician, writer Marsillargues

Ödön Literáty

1847–1887 politician Velyka Byihan

Adela Johnson

1848–1906

Adelsteen Normann

1848–1918 painter Bodin Municipality

Adolf Albin

1848–1920 chess player, non-fiction writer Bucharest

Adolf Becker

1848–1922 politician Rostock

Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

1848–1914 ruler Neustrelitz

Adolf Kaufmann

1848–1916 painter Opava