Explore 1001 historical events from 1860–1869.
A. E. Douglass was an American astronomer and archaeologist. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle, and founded the discipline of dendrochronology, w…
A. E. Douglass, American astronomer (died 1962)
Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of…
Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (died 1945)
Georges Lecomte was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies.
Georges Lecomte, French author and playwright (died 1958)
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, also known as Max von Baden, was a German aristocrat, general and politician. A member of the House of Baden, in October and November 1918 he briefly…
Prince Maximilian of Baden (died 1929)
Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean…
Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (died 1936)
Margaret Brown, posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a survivor of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, and she…
Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (died 1932)
Max Dauthendey was a German author and painter of the impressionist period. He was born in Würzburg and died in Malang. Together with Richard Dehmel and Eduard von Keyserling, he i…
Max Dauthendey, German author and painter (died 1918)
Alexander Joseph Rummler was an American painter best known for his work on murals and billboards.
Alexander Rummler, American painter (died 1959)
Enric Granados i Campiña, born Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Joaquin Malats and other pianist…
Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (died 1916)
Berthold Oppenheim (1867–1942) was the rabbi of Olomouc, Moravia, from 1892 to 1939. He was murdered in 1942 at the Treblinka extermination camp.
Berthold Oppenheim, Moravian rabbi (died 1942)
Frederick William Tate was an English cricketer who played in one Test in 1902. This was the famous match at Old Trafford which England lost by 3 runs, and with it the series. Tate…
Fred Tate, English cricketer and coach (died 1943)
Charles Dillon Perrine was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argent…
Charles Dillon Perrine, American-Argentinian astronomer (died 1951)
Sebastian Spering Kresge was an American merchant and businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores: the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century's largest…
S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (died 1966)
Ernest Christopher Dowson was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Despite his short lifespan, he made a lasting impression on the literature of the English fin-de-si…
Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1900)
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was prominent in the political leadership of the United Kingdom between the wo…
Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1947)
Jacob Peter Beckley, nicknamed "Eagle Eye", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Pittsburgh Burghe…
Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach (died 1918)
Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the…
Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator (died 1956)
Evelina Haverfield was a British suffragette and aid worker.
Evelina Haverfield, Scottish nurse and activist (died 1920)
Edith Hamilton was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr Colle…
Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator (died 1963)
George Benjamin Luks was an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of American painting.
George Luks, American painter and illustrator (died 1933)
Clarence Lemuel "Cupid" Childs was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball with a 13-season career from 1888, 1890–1901, playing for the Philadelphia Quakers, Cleveland…
Cupid Childs, American baseball player (died 1912)
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy an…
John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933)
Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, M.D. was a Swiss physician and a pioneer nutritionist credited for popularizing muesli and raw food vegetarianism.
Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (died 1939)
Charles Francis Jenkins was an American engineer who was a pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technolo…
Charles Francis Jenkins, American inventor (died 1934)