ON THIS DAY
Born in 1768
126 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
head of state
- Joseph Bonaparte
politician, diplomat
- Tecumseh
traditional leader or chief
- Charlotte Corday
aristocrat
- Caroline of Brunswick
politician
- Joseph Fourier
university teacher, mathematician
- Dolley Madison
writer
- Frederick VI of Denmark
monarch
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
poet, essayist
- Kaʻahumanu
missionary, politician
- Karađorđe
military leader, merchant
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
writer, philosopher
- Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
military personnel, bretteur
- Maria Edgeworth
essayist, novelist
- Phutthaloetla Naphalai
sovereign, Front Palace
- Elizabeth Monroe
First Lady
- Jean-Baptiste Bessières
duke, military personnel
- Louis Desaix
military officer, military commander
- Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom
aristocrat, numismatist
- Samuel Slater
entrepreneur
- Lazare Hoche
military commander, military officer
- Joseph Desha
politician
- William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
military officer, politician
- Thomas Mann Randolph
politician
- Carl August, Crown Prince of Sweden
military officer
- Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
revolutionary
- Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier
duke, politician
- Wang Zhenyi
poet, writer
- Marie-Guillemine Benoist
artist, painter
- Jean-Baptiste Debret
lithographer, painter
- Asaf Jah III of Hyderabad
sovereign
- Astley Cooper
personal physician, physician
- Mah Laqa Bai
dancer, poet
- Karl Ludwig von Haller
politician, jurist
- Jean-Robert Argand
politician, mathematician
- Jacques Lauriston
military personnel, marshal
- Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière
military personnel
- William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland
politician
- Smith Thompson
politician, lawyer
- Rosalie Lamorlière
domestic worker
- Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel
aristocrat
- Louise Caroline of Hochberg
lady-in-waiting
- George Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll
politician
- John Crome
painter, landscape painter
- Éléonore Duplay
painter
- Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty
military personnel
- Joseph Anton Koch
painter, graphic artist
- Pauline Léon
politician, revolutionary
- Sophie von Dönhoff
lady-in-waiting
- Francisco José de Caldas
journalist, engineer
- Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza
military personnel, general field marshal
- Viktor Kochubey
statesperson, diplomat
- Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova
actor, opera singer
- Sharon Turner
historian, writer
- Paul Grenier
politician, military officer
- William King
politician
- Prince Ioane of Georgia
lexicographer, writer
- Princess Maria Czartoryska
writer, salonnière
- Bryan Donkin
civil engineer, inventor
- Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus
archbishop, Catholic bishop
- José María Narváez
explorer
- William Wallace
naturalist, astronomer
- Christoph von Schmid
poet, educator
- Agustín Eyzaguirre
politician, military personnel
- Edward Fenwick
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Jędrzej Śniadecki
physician, philosopher
- François Joseph Bosio
teacher, sculptor
- Israel Jacobson
merchant, religious reformer
- Marie Victor de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, politician
- Domingos Sequeira
lithographer, painter
- Johann Michael Vogl
opera singer, composer
- Zacharias Werner
poet lawyer, poet
- Chrysanthus of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Hampartsoum Limondjian
music theorist, music teacher
- Louis Emmanuel Rey
military personnel
- Anthony Carlisle
surgeon, physician
- Gottfried Mind
painter
- Henry Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken
military personnel
- Jean Isidore Harispe
military officer, politician
- Mariam Tsitsishvili
royalty, monarch
- Sydenham Edwards
botanical illustrator, botanist
- Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo y Salm-Salm
politician, diplomat
- Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko
poet, politician
- Edward Donovan
zoologist, illustrator
- Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein
scientific collector, entomologist
- Marie-Jeanne de Lalande
mathematician, astronomer
- Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck
general field marshal, translator
- Hendrik Voogd
painter, printmaker
- Carles Baguer
composer, organist
- Friedrich von Adelung
historian, philosopher
- Louis Emmanuel Jadin
music educator, pianist
- William George Browne
explorer
- Amelia Griffiths
scientific collector, botanical collector
- Christopher Grant Champlin
politician
- Johannes Daniel Falk
poet, educator
- Johann Friedrich Kind
jurist, librettist
- Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer
ichthyologist, naturalist
- Samuel C. Crafts
judge, politician
- Peter Coudrin
Catholic theologian, Catholic priest
- Vincenzo Brunacci
mathematician
- Ferdinand, Graf Bubna von Littitz
diplomat, military personnel
- Jean-Louis Alibert
dermatologist, physician
- Margarethe Danzi
composer, opera singer
- José Álvarez Cubero
sculptor
- Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer
natural philosopher, university teacher
- Ivan Inzov
military officer, politician
- José Marchena Ruiz de Cueto
journalist, poet
- John Fearn
discoverer, sea captain
- Pierre François Tissot
literary scholar, historian
- Christopher Ellery
lawyer, politician
- Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller
theologian, university teacher
- Karoline von Manderscheid-Blankenheim
aristocrat
- Jerzy Samuel Bandtkie
philologist, historian
- Anne-Marie Rivier
nun, religious
- Joseph Schreyvogel
journalist, opinion journalist
- Marie-Charles Damoiseau
military personnel, astronomer
- Paul Usteri
publisher, botanist
- Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten
geologist, mineralogist
- William Findlay
politician
- Bernardino António Gomes
physician, chemist