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Famous People Born in 1864
Born in 1864? Meet the well-known people who share your birth year, from the biggest names to the ones you might not expect, month by month.
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The 1860s
The most famous people born in 186421
1864–1920Max Weber
German sociologist and economist who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and helped found modern sociology
Photo: Ernst Gottmann · Public domain
1864–1901Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French Post-Impressionist painter of Parisian nightlife and cabaret
Photo: Paul Sescau · Public domain
1864–1928Wilhelm Wien
Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his laws on thermal radiation
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
1864–1936Miguel de Unamuno
Spanish philosopher whose Tragic Sense of Life and novels Mist and Abel Sánchez explored existential themes whilst he held the rectorship at Salamanca
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse · Public domain
1864–1949Richard Strauss
German composer famous for his operas and tone poems
Photo: unidentified photograph · Public domain
1864–1931Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Swedish poet awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
Photo: Anders Zorn · Public domain
1864–1941Walther Hermann Nernst
Nobel Prize-winning chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics
Photo: Smithsonian Institution · No restrictions
1864–1945Yun Ch'iho
Korean activist and politician during the late 19th century
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
Born in 1864, month by month
- January
- George Washington Carver (January 1) · Agricultural scientist who developed hundreds of products from peanuts
- Soh Jaipil (January 7) · Activist and the first Korean to become a US citizen
- Wilhelm Wien (January 13) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his laws on thermal radiation
- February
- Jules Renard (February 22) · French author and playwright known for the novel Poil de carotte
- April
- Max Weber (April 21) · German sociologist and economist who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and helped found modern sociology
- May
- Nellie Bly (May 5) · Journalist who travelled around the world in seventy-two days
- June
- Richard Strauss (June 11) · German composer famous for his operas and tone poems
- Alois Alzheimer (June 14) · German psychiatrist who first described the symptoms of dementia
- Hermann Minkowski (June 22) · Mathematician who developed the space-time framework for relativity
- Walther Hermann Nernst (June 25) · Nobel Prize-winning chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics
- July
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt (July 20) · Swedish poet awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Frances Cleveland (July 21) · Youngest woman to serve as First Lady of the United States
- Frank Wedekind (July 24) · German playwright who wrote the controversial play Spring Awakening
- August
- Eleftherios Venizelos (August 23) · Dominant Greek statesman and architect of modern Greece
- September
- Robert Cecil (September 14) · British statesman and a primary architect of the League of Nations
- Miguel de Unamuno (September 29) · Spanish philosopher whose Tragic Sense of Life and novels Mist and Abel Sánchez explored existential themes whilst he held the rectorship at Salamanca
- October
- Branislav Nušić (October 8) · Serbian playwright, novelist and satirist
- November
- Alfred Hermann Fried (November 11) · Austrian pacifist and co-founder of the German peace movement
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (November 24) · French Post-Impressionist painter of Parisian nightlife and cabaret
- December
- Yun Ch'iho (December 26) · Korean activist and politician during the late 19th century
- Henri de Régnier (December 28) · French symbolist poet and novelist from the early twentieth century