1. Alexander Kelly (1840)

War Hero

American Civil War hero who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in the Battle of Chaffin's Farm.

2. Robert Stawell Ball (1840)

Astronomer

Irish astronomer remembered for founding the mathematical concept known as "screw theory." He was named the Royal Astronomer of Ireland at the University of Dublin in 1874 and is responsible...

3. Edward S. Ellis (1840)

Novelist

The American author of the Deerfoot novels, he is also known for works such as The Steam Man of the Prairies and Seth Jones. After writing fiction for three decades,...

4. Victoria Princess Royal (1840)

Political Wife

Victoria Princess Royal is a famous Political Wife, who was born on November 21, 1840 in United Kingdom. Daughter of Queen Victoria who married the German Emperor Frederick III in...

5. Henry Austin Dobson (1840)

British Writer

English poet, author, and biographer known for Vignettes in Rhyme, At the Sign of the Lyre, and other works. A posthumous collection of his complete works was published in 1923.

6. Fanny Stevenson (1840)

Family Member

Wife of Robert Louis Stevenson who supported and inspired his work.

7. Auguste Rodin (1840)

French Sculptor Author Of The Th

French sculptor best known for such pieces as The Thinker, The Kiss, and The Burghers of Calais. He was known for his unique ability to mold clay.

8. Chief Joseph (1840)

Nez Percé Chieftain

Native American leader who took part in an 1877 war, after his Nez Perce tribesmen were removed from Oregon's Wallowa Valley.

9. Thomas Nast (1840)

American Cartoonist

German-American 20th century cartoonist and caricaturist who famously created the modern Santa Claus and Republican elephant images.

10. Samuel Baldwinmarks Young (1840)

War Hero

Military hero who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In the early 1900s, he also served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of War....

11. Anthony Higgins (1840)

Politician

Politician, Civil War veteran, and member of the Republican Party who served as a U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1889 to 1895.

12. Mark Antokolski (1840)

Sculptor

Russian-Jewish sculptor known for the psychological complexity of his historical images. He sculpted Mephistopheles, finished in 1884.

13. Thomas Hardy (1840)

British Writer

An important Victorian Realist author, he is remembered for Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and other novels. Also a significant poet, he published Moments of Vision,...

14. Jonathan Jasper Wright (1840)

Lawyer

During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era, this African-American judge served in South Carolina's Supreme Court. Earlier in his career, he had been the primary attorney for the Freedmen's Bureau of...

15. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840)

Poet

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt is a famous Poet, who was born on August 17, 1840 in United Kingdom. British poet and author who is most remembered for The Quatrains of Youth....

16. Louis Brassin (1840)

Pianist

Famous for his piano transcription of the oft-recorded Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre by Richard Wagner.

17. Charles Booth (1840)

Non-fiction Author

A British social researcher and philanthropist, he documented the lives of the London poor and published his observations in the two-volume work, Life and Labour of the People (1889-1891).

18. Helena Modjeska (1840)

Polish-american Actress

Remembered for her acclaimed work in theatrical productions of Shakespeare's Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III, and Hamlet; Ibsen's A Doll's House; and Schiller's Maria Stuart, this late nineteenth-century stage...

19. Claude Monet (1840)

Painter

French Impressionist painter famous for such works as Impression, Sunrise and Water Lilies. His artistic mission was to document the French countryside through the various hours of the day and...

20. Father Damien (1840)

A Belgian Roman Catholic Priest

Roman Catholic priest from Belgium who was known for his work with people with leprosy.

21. Eliza Frances Andrews (1840)

Novelist

Eliza Frances Andrews is a famous Novelist, who was born on August 10, 1840 in Georgia. An American turn-of-the-century writer, she is best known for The War-Time Journal of a...

22. Isidor Seiss (1840)

Composer

Beloved educator and pianist who influenced many future musicians over the course of his lengthy teaching career. Edvard Grieg, Josef Rheinberger, and August Winding all dedicated works to him.

23. Edmond Audran (1840)

French Composer

French composer known for writing several internationally successful operettas during the late 19th century. One his best known oeuvre's was "Les noces d'Olivette" in 1879.

24. Henry Watterson (1840)

United States Journalist

American journalist who served as editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1918.

25. Sisowath I (1840)

King

Leader of the House of Sisowath who reigned as the King of Cambodia from 1904 to 1927. 

26. Alexander Kovalevsky (1840)

Russian Zoologist

Russian embryologist of Polish descent who is best known for his studies of animals.

27. Hiram Maxim (1840)

American-born Inventor

Inventor of the rapid-firing machine gun that revolutionized warfare.

28. King Zakarine (1840)

King

The King of Luang Phrabang who had a nine-year reign from 1895 to 1904. 

29. Ernst Abbe (1840)

German Physicist

Physicist who is often thought of as one of the fathers of modern optics. He had a hand in the development of several key instruments, such as the microscope and...

30. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)

Composer

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a famous Composer, who was born on May 7, 1840 in Russia. Famous for composing “The Nutcracker” ballet, as well as numerous symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets,...

31. Otto Mears (1840)

Entrepreneur

Built the Million Dollar Highway over Red Mountain Pass and hundreds more miles of toll roads that opened up southern Colorado to settlement.

32. Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840)

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A philanthropist and patron of the arts who supported many important artists.

33. Émile Zola (1840)

French Writer

French novelist and journalist known for being the leading thinker in the naturalist literary movement that was popular during the late 19th century. He is also remembered for having written the...

34. Robert Woodward (1840)

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35. Philipp Hirschfeld (1840)

German Chess Player

Philipp Hirschfeld was a German chess player and theoretician. Hirschfeld came from an affluent background. He learned the game as a child in Königsberg and by the time he went...

36. Viktor Knorre (1840)

Astronomer

Viktor Karlovich Knorre Russian: Виктор Карлович Кнорре was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin. He worked in Nikolaev Pulkovo and Berlin and is best known for having discovered 158...

37. Carl Friedrich Schmid (1840)

German Chess Player

Carl Friedrich Schmid was a Baltic German chess player. Born in Mitau Russian Empire he tied for 15-16th at Wiesbaden 1880 and took 16th in the Berlin 1881 chess tournament.

38. Edward Chamier (1840)

French Chess Player

Edward Chamier was a French chess master. He was born into an English branch of a French Huguenot family. Chamier won at Paris 1874 and at Paris 1881. He played...

39. James Hanham (1840)

American Chess Player

Major James Moore Hanham was an American chess master who played in many American and international chess tournaments between 1884 and 1889. He fought on the side of the North...

40. James Duckworth (1840)

British Politician

Sir James Duckworth was a self-made English businessman from Rochdale in Lancashire who rose from poverty to found a large chain a grocery shops known popularly as Jimmy Duck's and...

41. William Giblin (1840)

Australian Politician

Robert Giblin was Premier of Tasmania from 5 March 1878 until 20 December 1878 and from 1879 until 1884.

42. William J. Purman (1840)

American Politician

James Purman was a Republican US Representative from Florida. Born in Millheim Centre County Pennsylvania; attended the common schools and completed his studies at Aaronsburg Academy Centre County Pa. ;...

43. Currimbhoy Ebrahim (1840)

Indian Businessman

Sir Currimbhoy Ebrahim 1st Baronet was an Indian Muslim businessman of the Gujarati Khoja Ismaili faith based in Bombay credited with founding E. Pabaney & Co whose prominent shipowning family...

44. Lewis E. Payson (1840)

American Politician

Lewis Edwin Payson was a U. S.

45. Newton W. Nutting (1840)

American Politician

Newton Wright Nutting was a U. S. Representative from New York. Nutting was born in 1840 in West Monroe New York. He pursued an academic course studying law and was...

46. Hilarión Daza (1840)

President Of Bolivia

Hilarión Daza Groselle was President of Bolivia from 1876 to 1879.

47. Hosea H. Rockwell (1840)

American Politician

Hosea Hunt Rockwell was a U. S.

48. Albert Gayton (1840)

Canadian Politician

Albert Gayton was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia Canada. He represented Yarmouth County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1871 to 1890 as a Liberal...

49. Evans John Price (1840)

Canadian Politician

Evans John Price was a Canadian lumber merchant and politician. Born at Wolfesfield in the vicinity of Quebec City the fourth son of William Price a lumber merchant and Jane...

50. William Dudley Chipley (1840)

Confederate Army Officer And Pol

Dudley Chipley was an American railroad tycoon and statesman. He created two railroads in the Florida Panhandle and served one term as mayor of Pensacola Florida and in the Florida...