Jean Leon Gerome Ferris

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled The Pageant of a Nation, the largest series of American historical paintings by a single artist.

8 August 1863

Born on the same birth day (8 August): Dennis Canavan • Diego Markwell • Don Burrows • John David Wilson • John Holmes (actor) • José Francisco Molina • Manjul Bhargava • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Michael Johnson (singer) • Miho Shiraishi • Prajakta Mali • Rudi Gernreich • Sheila Varian

Born in the same month (August 1863): Aleksey Krylov • Dragutin Lerman • Ernest Thayer • Gene Stratton-Porter • Géza Gárdonyi