| 1802 July 24 | Birth | Alexandre Dumas | Author |
| 1806 April 6 | Birth | Elizabeth Barret-Browning | Poet |
| 1806 April 9 | Birth | Isembard Kingdom Brunel | Railway and Maritime engineer whose works include the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the steamship SS Great Western. Born in Portsmouth. |
| 1806 April 9 | Birth | Eadweard Muybridge | Pioneer in the study of motion using photography. |
| 1808 November 22 | Birth | Thomas Cook | The founder of Thomas Cook & Son, Travel Agent, Started with an organised train journey to a temperance meeting on 5th July 1841.
Started the true ticket and travel agency in the early 1860s. |
| 1809 August 6 | Birth | Alfred Tennyson, Lord | Poet Laureate |
| 1809 February 12 | Birth | Birth of Charles Darwin | Famous scientist who wrote of the Theory of Evolution. |
| 1809 February 12 | Birth | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States of America. |
| 1809 May 31 | Birth | Franz Joseph Haydn | Composer |
| 1810 July 5 | Birth | P.T. Barnum | Showman |
| 1811 July 18 | Birth | William Makepeace Thackeray | Novelist. |
| 1811 October 22 | Birth | Franz Liszt | Hungarian composer. |
| 1812 May 12 | Birth | Edward Lear | Landscape painter and poet. |
| 1812 May 7 | Birth | Robert Browning | English Poet. |
| 1813 October 10 | Birth | Giuseppe Verdi | Composer. |
| 1814 July 19 | Birth | Samuel Colt | creator of the Colt Revolver. |
| 1814 November 6 | Birth | Adolphe Sax | Instrument Inventor. |
| 1815 April 24 | Birth | Anthony Trollope | Novelist |
| 1816 April 21 | Birth | Charlotte Bronte | Author born in Thornton, Yorkshire |
| 1818 July 30 | Birth | Emily Bronet | Author. |
| 1818 May 7 | Birth | Karl Marx | |
| 1819 June 20 | Birth | Jacques Offenback | Composer. |
| 1819 May 22 | Birth | Richard Wagner | Composer (Ring Cycle) |
| 1819 May 24 | Birth | Queen Victoria of England | (1837-1901) |
| 1819 May 24 | Birth | Queen Victoria of England | Daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. Born at Kensington Palace. |
| 1819 September 18 | Birth | Jean-Bernard-L'on Foucauld | whos pendulum proved that the earth rotates. |
| 1820 May 12 | Birth | Florence Nightingale | Nurse (Crimean War) |
| 1824 January 21 | Birth | Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson | Confederate General. |
| 1824 September 4 | Birth | Anton Bruckner | Composer. |
| 1825 October 25 | Birth | Johann Strauss the Younger | Composer |
| 1828 August 28 | Birth | Leo Tolstoy | Author. |
| 1829 April 10 | Birth | William Booth | Founder of the Salvation Army. |
| 1829 October 15 | Birth | Asaph Hall | Astronomer. |
| 1833 May 7 | Birth | Johannes Brahms | Composer. |
| 1833 October 21 | Birth | Alfred Bernhard Nobel | Created both Dynamite and the Nobel Prizes. |
| 1834 July 19 | Birth | Edgar Degas | Impressionist Painter. |
| 1834 March 17 | Birth | Gottleib Daimler | the notable car designer and manufacturer. |
| 1836 November 18 | Birth | W.S. Gilbert, Sir | Partneres Sullivan in creating the world famous opera company. |
| 1837 May 27 | Birth | Wild Bill Hickock | Cowboy/Scout (James Butler) |
| 1838 July 8 | Birth | Count Ferdinand Graf von Zepplin | Inventor. |
| 1838 October 25 | Birth | Georges Bizet | Composer |
| 1838 September 02 | Birth | Queen Liliuokalani | Queen of Hawaii |
| 1839 July 8 | Birth | John D. Rockerfeller | Very Rich Man! |
| 1841 July 31 | Birth | Herman Melville | Author (Moby Dick) |
| 1844 July 22 | Birth | Reverend Spooner | or should that be Speverend Rooner? |
| 1844 October 11 | Birth | Henry John Heinz | of food fame, beans and all! |
| 1844 October 15 | Birth | Friedrich Nietzshe | Author. |
| 1845 October 22 | Birth | Sarah Bernhardt | Actress. |
| 1846 June 7 | Birth | Paul Gaugin (Eugene Henri) | French post-impressionist painter. |
| 1848 June 7 | Birth | Paul Gauguin | Painter. |
| 1852 April 13 | Birth | Frank Winfield Woolworth | founder of the department store chain. Born in New York. |
| 1854 April 29 | Birth | Henri Poincar | Mathematician. |
| 1854 October 16 | Birth | Oscar Wilde | Wit, author |
| 1856 July 26 | Birth | George Bernard Shaw | Dramatist and Author. |
| 1856 May 6 | Birth | Sigmund Freud | Austrian cigar smoker and Father of Psychology. |
| 1859 May 19 | Birth | Dame Nellie Melba | Australian Soprano |
| 1859 May 22 | Birth | Arthur Conan Doyle | Author (Sherlock Holmes) |
| 1860 August 13 | Birth | Annie Oakley | Wild West Woman? |
| 1862 August 22 | Birth | Claude Debussy | Composer. |
| 1863 July 30 | Birth | Henry Ford. | Car Maker. |
| 1864 June 11 | Birth | Richard Strauss | German Composer. |
| 1864 June 14 | Birth | Alois Alzheimer | German Psychiatrist |
| 1865 June 13 | Birth | William Butler Yeats | Poet |
| 1865 June 3 | Birth | King George V of England | Saksen-Coburg (Windsor) (1910-36) |
| 1866 April 6 | Birth | Robert Parker [Butch Cassidy] | US Bandit and Desperado |
| 1869 October 2 | Birth | Mahatma Ghandi | Indian Pacifist. |
| 1870 April 22 | Birth | Vladimir llyich Ulyanov - Lenin | Born in Simbirsk. |
| 1871 August 19 | Birth | Orville Wright | Builder of Airplanes. |
| 1871 July 10 | Birth | Marcel Proust | Novelist. |
| 1872 July 16 | Birth | Roald Amundsen | First mane to reach the South Pole. |
| 1873 May 9 | Birth | Howard Carter | British Archaeologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb) |
| 1874 April 25 | Birth | Guglielmo Marconi | Inventor of Radio. |
| 1874 April 6 | Birth | Harry Houdini [Erich Weiss] | Famous magician and escape artist |
| 1875 July 26 | Birth | Carl Jung | Analytical Psychologist. |
| 1879 April 29 | Birth | Thomas Beecham | Musical Conductor |
| 1879 April 9 | Birth | W.C. Fields | Actor and Wit. |
| 1879 August 8 | Birth | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary. |
| 1879 November 7 | Birth | Leon Trotsky | Russian Communist Theorist and Bolshevik. |
| 1880 June 27 | Birth | Hellen Keller | Deaf and Blind Author and Lecturer |
| 1881 August 12 | Birth | Cecil B. deMille | Film Director |
| 1881 August 6 | Birth | Alexander Fleming | Discovered use for Penecillin. |
| 1881 October 1 | Birth | Willaim Edward Boeing | Founder of the aircraft manufacturer |
| 1881 October 25 | Birth | Pablo Picasso | Artist. |
| 1882 June 17 | Birth | Igor Stravinski | Composer. |
| 1883 July 29 | Birth | Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) | Italian Dictator. |
| 1883 July 3 | Birth | Franz Kafka | Author (The Trial) |
| 1883 May 23 | Birth | Duglas Fairbanks | Actor |
| 1884 August 16 | Birth | Hugo Gernsback | Science Fictionalist? |
| 1884 October 29 | Birth | Bella Lugosi | Actor (horror movies) |
| 1885 October 7 | Birth | Niels Bohr | Quantum Physicist. |
| 1885 September 11 | Birth | D.H. Lawrence | Author. |
| 1886 May 26 | Birth | Al Jolson | Singer/Actor |
| 1887 July 22 | Birth | Gustav Hertz | Quantum Physicist. |
| 1889 April 14 | Birth | Adolf Hitler | Austrian, Dictator of Nazi germany. |
| 1889 April 16 | Birth | Charlie Chaplin | Comedian and Actor |
| 1889 April 8 | Birth | Sir Adrian Boult - Conductor | BBC Symphony Orchestra |
| 1889 April 9 | Birth | Paul Robeson | Actor and Singer, famous for rendition of "Ol' Man River" in Show Boat. |
| 1889 May 25 | Birth | Igor Sikorski | who developed a working Helicopter. |
| 1890 November 22 | Birth | Charles de Gaulle | who became President of France. |
| 1892 August 16 | Birth | Harold Foster | Cartoonist |
| 1892 July 23 | Birth | Haile Selassie | Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974) |
| 1892 May 11 | Birth | Margaret Rutherford | English Actress |
| 1893 April 8 | Birth | Mary Picford | Actress |
| 1894 July 26 | Birth | Aldous Huxley | Author. |
| 1894 October 14 | Birth | E.E. Cummings | Poet. |
| 1895 April 29 | Birth | Sir Malcolm Sargent | Musical Conductor |
| 1895 December 14 | Birth | King George VI of England | Who succeeded King Edward VIII when he abdicated and led England through the World War II years. |
| 1895 July 24 | Birth | Robert Graves | Author (I Claudius) |
| 1895 October 2 | Birth | Groucho Marx | Comedian and Actor |
| 1895 October 4 | Birth | Buster Keaton | Silent Movie Actor. |
| 1897 June 12 | Birth | Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon | and later British Prime Minister. |
| 1897 May 18 | Birth | Frank Capra | Italian Film Director |
| 1897 May 18 | Birth | Fred Perry | English Tennis Star |
| 1898 July 24 | Birth | Amelia Earhart | Aviator |
| 1899 May 10 | Birth | Fred Astaire | Actor and Tap Dancer |
