ON THIS DAY
Born in 1761
118 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Marie Tussaud
handicrafter, sculptor
- Selim III
composer, sultan
- Dido Elizabeth Belle
amanuensis, lady's companion
- William Carey
botanist, orientalist
- Dorothea Jordan
stage actor, actor
- Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
politician, military officer
- Albert Gallatin
writer, lawyer
- Sybil Ludington
revolutionary
- John Moore
politician, military officer
- Pius VIII
Latin Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Georg Nikolaus von Nissen
diplomat, composer
- Henry Shrapnel
inventor
- Jan Potocki
anthropologist, historian
- Nakşidil Sultan
slave
- August von Kotzebue
jurist, poet
- Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough
aristocrat, socialite
- Louis-Léopold Boilly
draftsperson, lithographer
- Andre Rigaud
military leader, military personnel
- Antoine Barnave
politician, lawyer
- Jean-Charles Pichegru
military officer, military commander
- Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet
military officer
- Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
lawyer, diplomat
- Marguerite Gérard
artist, painter
- John Rennie
civil engineer, merchant
- Jean-Louis Pierrot
politician
- John Opie
biographer, portraitist
- Samuel Dexter
politician, lawyer
- Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt
salonnière
- Philippe Buonarroti
journalist, politician
- William Gregor
chemist, geologist
- William Joseph Chaminade
Catholic priest, Catholic theologian
- Infante José, Prince of Brazil
aristocrat, Tsarevich
- Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky
composer, patron of the arts
- Smithson Tennant
chemist, university teacher
- Akiva Eger Jr.
rabbi
- Marie-Gabrielle Capet
portraitist, artist
- Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg
military personnel, politician
- Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
botanist, scientific collector
- Dorothea von Medem
salonnière
- Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli
physician, inventor
- Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux
composer, painter
- Santō Kyōden
artist, painter
- Gottlob Ernst Schulze
university teacher, philosopher
- Jacob Hübner
copper engraver, naturalist
- François Just Marie Raynouard
playwright, philologist
- Mather Brown
painter
- Marie Harel
farmer
- Wilson Cary Nicholas
politician
- Adélaïde Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho
writer, salonnière
- Sakai Hōitsu
painter, artist
- Juvenaly of Alaska
missionary
- Alexandre Lenoir
archaeologist, medievalist
- Yekaterina von Engelhardt
lady-in-waiting
- Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy
politician
- Jakub Jasiński
politician, military officer
- Denis Decrès
admiral, politician
- Nikolay Novosiltsev
diplomat, politician
- Jakob Sigismund Beck
university teacher, philosopher
- Matthew Baillie
physician, anatomist
- Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov
physicist
- Richard Anthony Salisbury
botanical illustrator, botanist
- Karl Gustav von Baggovut
military officer, military personnel
- August Batsch
mycologist, botanist
- George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly
aristocrat, politician
- Sava Tekelija
writer, jurist
- Edward Savage
artist, painter
- Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
entomologist, naturalist
- Franz Seraph of Orsini-Rosenberg
military officer
- Halet Efendi
poet, diplomat
- Jean-Louis Pons
discoverer of comets, astronomer
- Blasius Merrem
mathematician, zoologist
- Gian Domenico Romagnosi
economist, sociologist
- Joshua Brookes
anatomist, zoologist
- Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet
geologist, politician
- Dirk van Hogendorp
politician, civil servant
- Pedro Caro, 3rd Marquis of la Romana
military officer, sea captain
- Heinrich Paulus
university teacher, philologist
- Thaddäus Haenke
cartographer, traveler
- Louis-Nicolas Robert
engineer, teacher
- Frédéric Henri Walther
military personnel
- Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot
sculptor, politician
- Friedrich von Matthisson
librarian, poet
- Antonín Vranický
bandleader, jurist
- Karl Ludwig Giesecke
botanist, librettist
- Şah Sultan
aristocrat
- Pierre Claude François Daunou
politician, professor
- Michael Francis Egan
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Antoine-François Andréossy
diplomat, politician
- Aylmer Bourke Lambert
botanist, botanical collector
- Charlotte von Kalb
writer, autobiographer
- Louis Klein
politician, military personnel
- Yevstigney Fomin
composer
- Nicolaus Thomas Host
botanist, botanical collector
- Friedrich Münter
orientalist, archaeologist
- Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie
lady-in-waiting
- Andreyan Zakharov
architect
- Armand, duc d'Aiguillon
military officer, military personnel
- Joaquín de la Pezuela, 1st Marquis of Viluma
military officer, politician
- Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet
naturalist, zoologist
- Ludwig Abeille
musician, composer
- Christoph Gottfried Bardili
philosopher, university teacher
- Ekaterina Senyavina
music educator, lady-in-waiting
- Jens Zetlitz
writer, poet
- Jacques-Edme Dumont
sculptor
- Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann
writer, philosopher
- F.L.Æ. Kunzen
conductor, composer
- Jean-Baptiste de Latil
Latin Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Angelo Anelli
university teacher, writer
- Charles Abbot
entomologist, botanist
- Bertrand Andrieu
stampcutter, medalist
- Maria Thaddäus von Trautmannsdorff
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł
philosopher, botanist
- Giorgio des Geneys
military personnel
- José Agostinho de Macedo
poet, Catholic priest
- George I of Saxe-Meiningen
aristocrat
- Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri
botanist, hofmeister