Ivan Franko

Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.

27 August 1856

Born on the same birth day (27 August): Aygül Özkan • Brian Peckford • Chandra Wilson • Darren McFadden • Diana Scarwid • Jeff Cook • Juan Fernando Cobo • Justin Miller (baseball, born 1977) • Kayla Ewell • Man Ray • Mangosuthu Buthelezi • Mark Webber (racing driver) • Michael Long (golfer) • Tony Harris (sportsman) • Tony Howard • William Least Heat-Moon • Ödön Lechner

Born in the same month (August 1856): Alfred Deakin • Aparicio Saravia • Carl Runge • Clara Schønfeld • Diamond Jim Brady • George Coulthard • Jakub Bart-Ćišinski • Keir Hardie • Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès • Thomas Anstey Guthrie • William Willett