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

Mohamed Ebeed

1842–1882 military officer, military personnel Kafr El Zayat

Nette Coessens

1842–1912 midwife

Nikolai Andreevich Bunge

1842–1915 chemist Warsaw

Noël Blache

1842–1920 lawyer, official, politician, writer Toulon

Olive Harper

1842–1915 novelist, translator Tunkhannock

Oskar Emil Törnå

1842–1894 draftsperson, graphic artist, painter

Paul-Louis Ladame

1842–1919 neurologist, philanthropist, physician, psychiatrist, university teacher Neuchâtel

Petar Sarafov

1842–1915 translator Gaytaninovo

Peter Bornholdt

1842–1924 businessperson

Peter Obretenov

1842–1868 Ruse

Petro Kosach

1842–1909 social activist Mglin

Philipp De Ponti

1842–1918 organ builder Neulerchenfeld

Placide Vigneau

1842–1926 author, lighthouse keeper Havre-aux-Maisons

Péter Ráth

1842–1939 politician, railway engineer Buda

Rasmus Strøm

1842–1918 lawyer Vordingborg

Sarah A. Leonard

1842–1904 temperance worker Boston

Sarah Morgan Dawson

1842–1909 writer

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet

1842–1919 barrister, military officer, politician

Sophus Vind

1842–1913

Spas Harizanov

1842–1900 Bulgarian National Revival, jurist Vlahi

Spas Prokopov

1842–1917 Gaytaninovo

Theo Kanters

1842–1897 architect Rotterdam

Thomas Connor

b. 1842 Ireland

Todor Peev

1842–1904 journalist, playwright, revolutionary, school teacher, writer Etropole

Viktrizius Weiß

1842–1924 theologian Eggenfelden

Vilhelm Groth

1842–1899 painter Copenhagen

W.A. Langkilde

1842–1925 large estate owner Sandholt

Wilhelm Bracke

1842–1880 politician, publisher, writer Brunswick

Willem Meijer

1842–1926

William James

1842–1910 philosopher, physician, psychologist, university teacher, writer Astor House

William Moir Bryce

1842–1919 historian Edinburgh

William Smith Peck

1842–1910

Yanko Mustakov

1842–1881 composer, music educator Tryavna

Yiḥya ben Yehudah Tsarum

1842–1917 rabbi

Yordzhe Dimitrov

1842–1894 Kovachevitsa

Édouard Schlumberger

1842–1913 bank officer Guebwiller

Aaron Montgomery Ward

1843–1913 businessperson Chatham Borough

Abbie D. Willey

1843–1926 temperance worker Roxbury

Abbie Gardner Sharp

1843–1921 New York

Abdol-samad Mirza Ezz ed-Dowleh Saloor

1843–1929 Tehran

Abdul Ghani Saheb Saudagar

1843–1897 businessperson

Abraham Abraham

1843–1911 businessperson, philanthropist Manhattan

Abraham Baer Dobsewitch

1843–1900 Hebraist Pinsk

Acton Adams

1843–1924 lawyer, politician

Ada Anderson

b. 1843 athlete London

Ada Dyas

1843–1908 actor

Adam Willis Wagnalls

1843–1924 publisher

Adelaide Cilley Waldron

1843–1909 clubwoman, editor, poet, writer Manchester

Adelheid Kálnoky

1843–1905 aristocrat Letovice

Adolf Echtler

1843–1914 painter Gdańsk