Famous people born in 1864
Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly was an American journalist who is best known for her investigative and undercover reporting
Walther Nernst
Walther Hermann Nernst was a German scientist who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to the field of thermochemistry.
Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish educator, philosopher, and author
Louis Lumière
Louis Lumière and his brother Auguste were French inventors who made the world’s first true motion picture
John Jacob Astor IV
John Jacob Astor IV was an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family.
Banjo Paterson
Banjo Paterson was a famous Australian poet who is known for his bush poetry such as 'Waltzing Matilda' and 'The Man from Snowy River'
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Toulouse-Lautrec was a 19th century French artist and was one of the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period
Jozef Murgaš
Jozef Murgaš was a Slovak inventor, painter, and priest who contributed towards the development of wireless communications
Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist who won Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in thermal radiation