The Famous Birthdays: Celebrity birthdays and famous people biographies

Famous people born in 1862

Joseph Merrick

Joseph Merrick (1862 - 1890)

English man with deformities, best known as the Elephant Man
Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918)

Austrian painter
Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells (1862 - 1931)

American civil rights activist
O. Henry

O. Henry (1862 - 1910)

American author
David Hilbert

David Hilbert (1862 - 1943)

German mathematician
J. Bruce Ismay

J. Bruce Ismay (1862 - 1937)

English businessman
Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes (1862 - 1948)

American statesman, lawyer and politician
Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday (1862 - 1935)

American baseball player and evangelist
Hawley Harvey Crippen

Hawley Harvey Crippen (1862 - 1910)

American physician and murderer
Connie Mack

Connie Mack (1862 - 1956)

American baseball manager and owner
Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)

Belgian poet Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate
Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler (1862 - 1931)

Austrian dramatist
Aristide Briand

Aristide Briand (1862 - 1932)

French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Dummy Hoy

Dummy Hoy (1862 - 1961)

American baseball player
Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862 - 1965)

American football player and coach
Julius Rosenwald

Julius Rosenwald (1862 - 1932)

American Businessman, Philanthropist
Aurel Stein

Aurel Stein (1862 - 1943)

Hungarian-born British archaeologist and orientalist
Georges Feydeau

Georges Feydeau (1862 - 1921)

French playwright
John Commons

John Commons (1862 - 1945)

United States institutional economist and labor historian
Ethelbert Nevin

Ethelbert Nevin (1862 - 1901)

American Pianist, Composer
Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

American author