Auguste Rodin
Profession - Sculptor
Born - Nov 12,1840
Died - Nov 17,1917
1840 Father Damien Flemish priest and missionary (d. 1889)
1840 Louis-Nazaire Bégin Canadian cardinal (d. 1925)
1840 Henry Austin Dobson English poet and author (d. 1921)
1840 Sophia Jex-Blake English physician and feminist (d. 1912)
1840 Ernest Wilberforce English bishop (d. 1907)
1840 Ernst Abbe German physicist and engineer (d. 1905)
1840 Allan McLean Scottish-Australian politician 19th Premier of Victoria (d. 1911)
1840 John Boyd Dunlop Scottish businessman co-founded Dunlop Rubber (d. 1921)
1840 Hiram Maxim American engineer invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916)
1840 Titu Maiorescu Romanian philosopher academic and politician 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1917)
1840 August Bebel German theorist and politician (d. 1913)
1840 Shibusawa Eiichi Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
1840 Georg von der Gabelentz German linguist and sinologist (d. 1893)
1840 William Cosmo Monkhouse English poet and critic (d. 1901)
1840 Illarion Pryanishnikov Russian painter (d. 1894)
1840 Myles Keogh Irish-American colonel (d. 1876)
1840 Emin Pasha German-Jewish Egyptian physician and politician (d. 1892)
1840 Ghazaros Aghayan Armenian historian and linguist (d. 1911)
1840 Edward Whymper English-French mountaineer explorer author and illustrator (d. 1911)
1840 Alejandro Gorostiaga Chilean colonel (d. 1912)
1840 Alphonse Daudet French author poet and playwright (d. 1897)
1840 George Throssell Irish-Australian politician 2nd Premier of Western Australia (d. 1910)
1840 Thomas Hardy English novelist and poet (d. 1928)
1840 Émile Munier French artist (d. 1895)
1840 Carlota of Mexico (d. 1927)
1840 Theodor Philipsen Danish painter (d. 1920)
1840 Augusta Lundin the first international Swedish fashion designer (d. 1919)
1840 William F. Nast American businessman (d. 1893)
1840 Ernst Otto Schlick German engineer and author (d. 1913)
1840 Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz German entomologist and academic (d. 1917)
1840 José María Velasco Gómez Mexican painter and academic (d. 1912)
1840 John Bigham 1st Viscount Mersey English jurist and politician (d. 1929)
1840 Richard von Krafft-Ebing German-Austrian psychologist and author (d. 1902)
1840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt English poet and activist (d. 1922)
1840 Ferdinand Hamer Dutch bishop and missionary (d. 1900)
1840 George C. Magoun American businessman (d. 1893)
1840 Alexander Cameron Sim Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (d. 1900)
1840 Jacob Christian Fabricius Danish composer (d. 1919)
1840 Murad V Ottoman sultan (d. 1904)
1840 Louis-Olivier Taillon Canadian lawyer and politician 8th Premier of Quebec (d. 1923)
1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan American captain and historian (d. 1914)
1840 Simeon Solomon English painter (d. 1905)
1840 Helena Modjeska Polish-American actress (d. 1909)
1840 Dmitry Pisarev Russian author and critic (d. 1868)
1840 Honoré Mercier Canadian journalist lawyer and politician 9th Premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
1840 Kuroda Kiyotaka Japanese general and politician 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1840 André Gill French caricaturist (d. 1885)
1840 William Giblin Australian politician 13th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1887)
1840 Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau Canadian lawyer and politician 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
1840 Victoria Princess Royal of England (d. 1901)
1840 John Alfred Brashear American scientist telescope maker and educator (d. 1920)
1840 Henry Birks Canadian businessman founded Birks & Mayors (d. 1928)
1840 Nozu Michitsura Japanese field marshal (d. 1908)
1840 Namık Kemal Turkish journalist playwright and activist (d. 1888)
1840 Odilon Redon French painter and illustrator (d. 1916)
