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Buffalo Bill Cody was born on 26 February 1846 in Scott County, Iowa, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Fighting with Buffalo Bill (1926), Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931) and The Indians Are Coming (1930). He was married to Louise Maude Frederici. He died on 10 January 1917 in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Henryk Sienkiewicz was born on 5 May 1846 in Wola Okrzejska, Poland, Russian Empire [now Wola Okrzejska, Lubelskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Quo Vadis (1951), Invasion 1700 (1962) and Na jasnym brzegu (1921). He was married to Maria Babska, Maria Romanowska and Maria Emilia Kazimiera Szetkiewicz. He died on 15 November 1916 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.

People's recollections of Carrie Nation range from a female evangelical prophetess, to raving lunatic. Carry Amelia Moore was born into a family that operated a sharecropping plantation, that was in central Kentucky, on November 25, 1846. As a young woman she was unusually tall and not very pretty. She married a young man who, she discovered, was a free mason, a smoker, and an alcoholic. He left her at the age of twenty-one, and from then on she vowed to fight the demon liquor that had taken her man from her. She re-married, with several other women in her community, helped to form the Wormen's Christian Temperance Union, which is still in existence today. Yet Nation now took her crusade a step further, beginning a campaign of "hatchetation". Over the course of ten years, she led groups of women into saloons, wielding an ax, and smashed each place to bits. She made headlines all over the country, and was even the subject of at least four short films, where she was often portrayed in a comic light, by a male actor in women's clothes. Her fame soon got the better of her and she soon drifted into obscurity. She died in a mental health facility on Friday, June 9th, 1911, never living to see the result of her cause: the 18th Ammendment. Several years after the enactment of Prohibition, it was reported that an illegal liquor still has been discovered, on the grounds of Carry Nation's birthplace.

Herbert Standing was born on 13 November 1846 in Peckham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for An International Marriage (1916), David Garrick (1916) and Peer Gynt (1915). He was married to Janet Grace Dalghesh Riddell and Emily Clementina Brown. He died on 5 December 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

American novelist Anna Katharine Green, often called "the mother of the American detective novel", was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1846. She graduated from Ripley Female College in Vermont at 20 years of age. She intended to be a poet, a career choice no doubt enhanced by her meeting renowned poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, but her first published work turned out to be something entirely different: a detective thriller called "The Leavenworth Case" (1878), which was critically praised for its clever, well-constructed plot and an obvious grounding in criminal law (her father was a lawyer). The book was a resounding success, selling more than 150,000 copies. More successful detective thrillers followed, many featuring her character of detective Ebenezer Gryce. She finally tried her hand at poetry, turning out two volumes, but they were not successful, and she decided to devote her talents full-time to her detective novels.

She died in 1935 in Buffalo, NY.

Anna Swan was born on 6 August 1846 in Mill Brook, New Annan, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was married to Captain Bates. She died on 5 August 1888.

Edmondo De Amicis was born on 21 October 1846 in Oneglia, Kingdom of Sardinia [now Imperia, Liguria, Italy]. He was a writer, known for The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918), Times Gone By (1952) and Dulce madre mía (1943). He died on 12 March 1908 in Bordighera, Liguria, Italy.

Verner Clarges, born in Bath, Somerset in 1846, began on stage in England then America from the 1870's. fine British bald gentleman who starred and supported in many American drama films under the direction of D.W. Griffith at the Biograph Film Company from 1909, the first was 'Was Justice Served? starring James Kirkwood and Gladys Egan, he died before the release of his last film 'The Punishment' starring Blanche Sweet

Ottomar Anschütz was a German inventor, photographer, and chronophotographer. Between 1864 and 1868, he studied photography under some of the well-known photographers of the time. He received recognition for his photograph of John of Saxony on horseback in 1867, and then took over his father's company in Lissa, mainly working as a portrait photographer and as a decorative painter. In 1881, he made his first instantaneous photographs. In 1882, he developed his portable camera and made a name for himself with sharp photographs of imperial military demonstrations in Breslau the same year, and gained more fame with pictures of flying white storks in 1884 - the first photographs of birds on the wild. In 1885, he made his first chronophotographs of horses. The quality of his pictures was generally regarded to be much higher than that of the chronophotography works of Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey. In 1886, he developed the Electrotachyscope, an early device that displayed short motion picture loops with 24 glass plate photographs on a 1.5 meter wide rotating wheel that was hand-cranked to the speed of circa 30 frames per second. Each image was illuminated by a sparking spiral Geissler tube and displayed on a small opal glass window in a wall in a darkened room for up to seven spectators. Different versions were developed and shown at many international exhibitions, fairs, conventions and arcades from 1887 until at least 1894, and probably inspired many other pioneers in the history of film technology.

Lew Hart was born on 7 December 1846 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Stolen Paradise (1917), The Deacon's Son (1914) and The Unbeliever (1918). He was married to Louise Generva Plunkett and Evalyn Patterson. He died on 9 January 1920 in Staten Island, New York, USA.

Peter Carl Fabergé was born on 30 May 1846 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was married to Augusta Julia Jacobs. He died on 24 September 1920 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Prince Leopold of Bavaria was born on 9 February 1846 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]. He was married to Archduchess Gisela of Austria. He died on 28 September 1930 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

William Allen Pinkerton was born on 7 April 1846 in Dundee, Illinois, USA. William Allen is known for Voices of the City (1921). William Allen died on 11 December 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Holger Drachmann was born on 9 October 1846 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a writer, known for Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai (1983), Once Upon a Time (1922) and Once Upon a Time There Was (1907). He was married to Vilhelmine Erichsen, Emmy and Polly. He died on 14 January 1908 in Hornbæk, Seeland, Denmark.

Maxwell Gray was born on 11 December 1846 in Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Sealed Lips (1915), The Silence of Dean Maitland (1914) and The Last Sentence (1917). He died on 21 September 1923 in Ealing, London, England, UK.

Luigi Denza was born on 24 February 1846 in Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy. He was a composer, known for Heavenly Creatures (1994), The Visit (2015) and Shine (1996). He died on 26 January 1922 in London, England, UK.

Henry Youngman was born on 7 November 1846 in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Humanity (1916), Slippery Slim, the Mortgage and Sophie (1914) and Slippery Slim and the Impersonator (1914). He died on 24 December 1940 in San Francisco, California, USA.

Helena of Schleswig-Holstein was born on 25 May 1846 in Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, UK. She was married to Prince Christian. She died on 9 June 1923 in London, England, UK.

The Count of Lautreamont Isidore Ducasse was born on 4 April 1846 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The was a writer, known for Maldoror (1977), Watson and the Shark (2006) and Correspondances (1953). The died on 24 November 1870 in Paris, France.

George Westinghouse was born on 6 October 1846 in Central Bridge, New York, USA. He was married to Marguerite Erskine Walker. He died on 12 March 1914 in New York City, New York, USA.

Brtitish novelist, poet and playwright Mrs. W.K. Clifford was born Lucy Lane in Barbados, British West Indies, in 1846. In 1875 she married writer William Kingdon Clifford, and they settled in England. Although he was only in his early 30s, Kingdon's health began to fail and the couple moved to the Mediterranean in 1878. The new change in climate seemed to improve his health, but upon their return to England it began to decline rapidly. Another move to Portugal didn't help, and he died in March of 1879. She was left with two children and little money, but her friendship with writer George Eliot resulted in Eliot's helping her both financially and professionally; it was through Eliot's efforts that Clifford had her first works published in "The Standard", and for the next few years she was a regular contributor to that publication.

Her first novel, "Mrs. Keith's Crime", was published in 1885, but it didn't carry her name; it wasn't until the work was in its second printing that her name appeared on it. Over the following years she wrote in a variety of genres--plays, short stories, novels, poems--and she became a favorite of many of the finest writers of the day, among them Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and James Russell Lowell.

She died in London, England, on April 21, 1929.

Amalie Skram was born on 22 August 1846 in Bergen, Norway. She was a writer, known for Formynderne (1978), Lucie (1979) and Else Kant (1978). She was married to Erik Skram and Bernt Ulrik August Müller. She died on 15 March 1905 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kate Greenaway was born on 17 March 1846 in Hoxton, London, England, UK. She is known for The Sweet Hereafter (1997). She died on 6 November 1901 in London, England, UK.

Francesco Paolo Tosti was born on 9 April 1846 in Ortona, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer, known for Because of Him (1946), Ritorna all'onda (1914) and The Great Caruso (1951). He died on 2 December 1916 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Justus van Maurik was born on 16 August 1846 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was a writer, known for Krates (1913). He died on 18 November 1904.