ON THIS DAY
Born in 1772
117 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
critic, theologian
- Tarrare
street artist, military personnel
- Ram Mohan Roy
philosopher, translator
- William I of the Netherlands
monarch, head of state
- David Ricardo
philosopher, economist
- Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
monarch, politician
- Martha Jefferson Randolph
politician
- Charles Fourier
philosopher, economist
- Novalis
literary theorist, writer
- Nachman of Breslov
Rebbe, rabbi
- Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien
politician, military personnel
- Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc
military officer
- William H. Crawford
finance minister, diplomat
- Friedrich Schlegel
philosopher, editor
- Lalon
poet, composer
- Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
politician, military personnel
- Marie Anne Lenormand
fortune teller, writer
- Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann
university teacher, translator
- Henri de la Rochejaquelein
military officer
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
botanical collector, physician
- Mikhail Speransky
jurist, philosopher
- Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet
naval officer, politician
- Robert Stevenson
inventor, civil engineer
- Cristóbal de Mendoza
lawyer, politician
- William Wirt
writer, lawyer
- Peter Heywood
hydrographer, sailor
- Luke Howard
Gaelic football player, pharmacist
- Géraud Duroc
politician, military personnel
- Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta
military personnel, marshal
- Solomon II of Imereti
public figure, royalty
- Barton W. Stone
theologian, preacher
- Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch
cricketer, politician
- Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria
politician
- Carl Löwenhielm
politician, military personnel
- Imam Bonjol
resistance fighter, patriot
- Hồ Xuân Hương
writer, poet
- Johann Nepomuk Maelzel
inventor, engineer
- Vicente López Portaña
painter, draftsperson
- Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol
psychiatrist, physician
- Gordon Drummond
military personnel
- Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet
politician, inventor
- Manuel Lisa
Indian agent, businessperson
- Ang Eng
king
- Joseph Francis, 7th Prince of Lobkowicz
patron of the arts, violinist
- Bertrand Clausel
military officer, governor
- José Núñez de Cáceres
politician, writer
- Ralph Darling
politician, soldier
- Charlotte Dacre
novelist, writer
- Catherine Flon
nurse, seamster
- Caesar Augustus Rodney
politician, lawyer
- John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
aristocrat, judge
- Archibald Alexander
theologian, pastor
- George Murray
politician
- John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford
military personnel, military officer
- Gerhard von Kügelgen
painter, university teacher
- Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke
military personnel
- Eli Terry
businessperson, inventor
- Benjamin Williams Crowninshield
politician
- Emmanouil Papas
military personnel, banker
- Emmanuil Xanthos
merchant
- Dimitrios Makris
freedom fighter, politician
- Henry Francis Cary
writer, linguist
- Duncan McArthur
politician
- William H. Cabell
governor, politician
- Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
writer, music theorist
- Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
bookseller, publisher
- Antonio Casimir Cartellieri
composer, violinist
- Paul Louis Courier
hellenist, military personnel
- Nino of Mingrelia
royalty, lady-in-waiting
- Johann Wilhelm Wilms
pianist, composer
- François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
surgeon, physiologist
- Friedrich Gilly
architect, general contractor
- Zahar Dimitrijevič Olsufjev
military personnel
- Frans Michael Franzén
poet, Lutheran theologian
- Louis-Philippe Crépin
painter
- Heinrich Joseph von Collin
playwright, writer
- Athanasios Christopoulos
poet, judge
- Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg
aristocrat
- Meletius III of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Manuel José Quintana
politician, poet
- Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando
anthropologist, writer
- José Mariano Michelena
politician, military personnel
- Claude Pierre Pajol
military officer, politician
- Anne Françoise Elisabeth Lange
art model, actor
- Pancrace Bessa
botanical illustrator, flower painter
- Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode
politician
- Claude Charles Fauriel
writer, literary critic
- Luis de Quintanar
military personnel, politician
- Karl von Kügelgen
draftsperson, painter
- Sándor Kisfaludy
poet, writer
- Jacob Sarratt
chess player
- Jonas Collett
Vogt, amtmann
- Gustaf Johan Billberg
entomologist, jurist
- Friedrich Hornemann
explorer
- Karl Friedrich von Gaertner
botanist, lichenologist
- Carl Johan Schönherr
entomologist, entrepreneur
- Eduard Joseph d'Alton
anatomist, naturalist
- Martin Schrettinger
library scientist, Catholic priest
- Giovanni Battista Brocchi
engineer, geologist
- Ladislaus Pyrker
writer, Catholic bishop
- Judah Dana
jurist, lawyer
- Marie-Victoire Jaquotot
painter, porcelain painter
- Konstantinos Bellios
banker, merchant
- Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire
botanist, draftsperson
- Alexis-François Artaud De Montor
art historian, translator
- Eustatie Altini
professor, painter
- Jacques Draparnaud
university teacher, malacologist
- Paul d'Astros
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers
geologist, politician
- Domenico Viviani
botanist, biologist
- Joseph Alois Gleich
writer, beamter
- Giorgio Doria Pamfilj Landi
Catholic priest
- Therese von Artner
poet, writer