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): Anastasia M. Ashman • Andy Priaulx • Carl Fredrik Pechlin • Craig Breslow • Frank Howard (baseball) • Félix Auger-Aliassime • Hermann Anton Gelinek • Huey Morgan • Katie Leung • Larisa Bogoraz • Mohamed Morsi • Rashard Lewis • Saint Dominic • Vanessa Amorosi • Willie Hall (drummer)

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