ON THIS DAY
Born in 1766
119 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- John Dalton
mathematician, meteorologist
- Thomas Robert Malthus
political economist, writer
- Germaine de Staël
writer, philosopher
- Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
politician, military officer
- Charlotte, Princess Royal
aristocrat, royalty
- José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
lawyer, politician
- Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
diplomat
- Samuel Wilson
butcher
- Franz Xaver Süssmayr
conductor, composer
- Isaac D'Israeli
literary historian, opinion journalist
- Nikolay Karamzin
historian, critic
- Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy
marshal, politician
- George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough
politician, collector
- Dominique Jean Larrey
military physician, medical officer
- William Hyde Wollaston
physicist, astronomer
- Johanna Schopenhauer
writer, art historian
- Robert Darwin
physician
- Yusuf Karamanli
privateer, politician
- John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
botanist, politician
- Charles Macintosh
inventor, chemist
- Pierre Toussaint
philanthropist, hairdresser
- Jacob Perkins
engineer, engraver
- Nguyễn Du
writer, poet
- Slimane of Morocco
politician, writer
- Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu
diplomat, military personnel
- Rodolphe Kreutzer
music educator, university teacher
- Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases
politician, military officer
- Alexander Wilson
essayist, poet
- Samuel Wesley
composer, organist
- Maine de Biran
diarist, mathematician
- Robert Ross
military officer
- Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire
military personnel, military officer
- William Howley
theologian, Anglican priest
- William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland
politician, plantation owner
- Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud
military personnel, politician
- Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
politician
- Jean Samuel Pauly
gunsmith
- Peter Durand
entrepreneur, inventor
- Louis Delgrès
politician, freedom fighter
- Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford
politician
- Louis Marie de Lescure
military personnel
- Charlotte von Lengefeld
writer
- Edward Tiffin
politician
- Pierre Denys de Montfort
botanist, malacologist
- François-Xavier Fabre
painter, art educator
- Guillaume Philibert Duhesme
writer, military personnel
- Benjamin Smith Barton
university teacher, botanist
- Camilo Torres Tenorio
politician, lawyer
- Johann Philipp Palm
publisher
- John Leslie
linguist, physicist
- Adam Laxman
military personnel, explorer
- Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
diplomat, politician
- Varvara Golovina
writer
- Franz Xaver Niemetschek
music historian, music journalist
- Joseph Weigl
composer, conductor
- Jean-Antoine Dubois
missionary, Catholic priest
- Francisco Antonio Zea
scientific collector, botanist
- Joseph Franz von Jacquin
scientific collector, ornithologist
- Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
archaeologist, draftsperson
- Samuel Frederick Gray
mycologist, zoologist
- Caroline von Humboldt
wife, salonnière
- Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer
theologian, teacher
- Aaron Alexandre
chess composer, chess player
- William Dunlap
theatrical producer, playwright
- Arthur Woolf
inventor
- Hasan al-Attar
journalist, writer
- Thomas Charles Hope
university teacher, chemist
- Baltzar von Platen
politician
- Kurt Sprengel
mycologist, physician
- Luigi Bassi
opera singer, singer
- James Turner
politician
- Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal
military personnel
- Albertine Necker de Saussure
writer, pedagogue
- Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga
politician, military personnel
- Julie von Voss
lady-in-waiting
- Wilhelm Hisinger
paleontologist, mineralogist
- Nólsoyar Páll
poet, farmer
- Aaron Chorin
rabbi
- Friedrich Weinbrenner
architect, university teacher
- Antoine-Vincent Arnault
politician, playwright
- John Farey
mathematician, surveyor
- Louis-François Bertin
journalist, writer
- Hugh McVay
governor, politician
- Joseph Sonnleithner
writer, librettist
- William Townsend Aiton
botanist, horticulturist
- Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg
naturalist, botanical collector
- Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta
physician, writer
- Andrei Sychra
guitarist, musician
- Bedřich Diviš Weber
inventor, composer
- Wilhelm von Kobell
draftsperson, artist
- Claude Matthieu, Count Gardane
military leader, military personnel
- Juan de la Cruz Mourgeón
military personnel, colonial administrator
- Friedrich Ludewig Bouterwek
writer, philosopher
- Mihály Fazekas
poet, botanist
- Álvaro Flórez Estrada
political economist, economist
- Friedrich Carl Gröger
lithographer, painter
- José Antonio Conde
librarian, writer
- Pierre Antoine Poiteau
gardener, pomologist
- Joaquín Camacho
journalist, politician
- Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet
count, politician
- Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern
politician, writer
- Luigi Aloysius Colla
botanist, botanical collector
- Francisco de São Luís Saraiva
Catholic bishop, historian
- Georg Philipp Schmidt von Lübeck
poet, writer
- Johann Samuel Ersch
university teacher, bibliographer
- Christoph Friedrich von Ammon
philologist, linguist
- Christian Ludwig Ideler
philologist, astronomer
- Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle
journalist, university teacher
- Johann Tobias Bürg
astronomer, university teacher
- Joachim-Jean-Xavier d'Isoard
judge, politician
- Jean-François-Aimé-Philippe Gaudin
botanist, parson
- Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos y Jovellanos
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Ézsaiás Budai
historian, theologian
- Filippo Pananti
poet
- Bartolommeo Gamba
librarian, publisher