ON THIS DAY
Born in 1775
139 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Jane Austen
satirical novelist, novelist
- J. M. W. Turner
illustrator, visual artist
- Ching Shih
prostitute, pirate
- Bahadur Shah Zafar
monarch, poet
- Louisa Adams
First Lady, writer
- Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême
military personnel, pretender
- Daniel O'Connell
politician, barrister
- André-Marie Ampère
physicist, inventor
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
librettist, university teacher
- Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
naval officer, politician
- Lucien Bonaparte
politician, diplomat
- Charles Lamb
playwright, short story writer
- Baji Rao II
politician
- Anna Harrison
politician
- Eugène François Vidocq
detective, police officer
- Carlota Joaquina of Spain
consort
- Tenskwatawa
traditional leader or chief
- Muthuswami Dikshitar
writer, composer
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
playwright, writer
- Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle
military officer, military commander
- Bhimsen Thapa
politician
- Gabriel
blacksmith, Slave rebellion leader
- Rana Bahadur Shah
politician
- Andrew Henry
explorer, businessperson
- Pōtatau Te Wherowhero
monarch
- Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse
skydiver, stunt performer
- Lyman Beecher
theologian, priest
- Walter Savage Landor
poet, writer
- William C. C. Claiborne
judge, politician
- Adam Albert von Neipperg
military officer, diplomat
- Lucy Mack Smith
writer
- Jacob Brown
military personnel
- Antoni Radziwiłł
musician, official
- William Thompson
reformer, writer
- François Adrien Boieldieu
conductor, university teacher
- Pablo Morillo
soldier, military personnel
- James Barbour
diplomat, politician
- John Vanderlyn
painter
- John Maurice Hauke
politician, military officer
- Étienne-Louis Malus
physicist, military engineer
- Thomas Girtin
etcher, visual artist
- Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona
art collector, military officer
- Bernhard Crusell
translator, autobiographer
- Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby
biologist, politician
- Ninian Edwards
lawyer, politician
- Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach
writer, university teacher
- Georg Friedrich Grotefend
historian, orientalist
- Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
ornithologist, university teacher
- Manuel García
businessperson, voice teacher
- Mary Martha Sherwood
novelist, illustrator
- Farkas Bolyai
poet, inventor
- Juan Martín Díez
military personnel, soldier
- Stefan Bogoridi
politician, diplomat
- Louis-François, Baron Lejeune
politician, lithographer
- George Tucker
science fiction writer, writer
- William Henry Ireland
playwright, writer
- Carlo Rossi
architect
- Prince Carlo, Duke of Calabria
aristocrat
- Karl Freiherr von Müffling
general field marshal, diplomat
- Richard Westmacott
painter, sculptor
- Petro Prokopovych
beekeeper, military personnel
- Guy-Victor Duperré
Officer of the French Navy, soldier
- Charlotte Bury
lady-in-waiting, novelist
- Seku Amadu
marabout, cleric
- William Crotch
organist, composer
- Joseph Blanco White
theologian, writer
- Conrad Malte-Brun
cartographer, poet
- Sophia Dussek
singer, harpist
- François Péron
zoologist, naturalist
- Maximilien Sebastien Foy
politician, military officer
- Therese Brunsvik
educator, musicologist
- José Rebolledo de Palafox, 1st Duke of Saragossa
military leader, politician
- Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian
military personnel, lieutenant general
- François Marius Granet
watercolorist, curator
- Vasily Orlov-Denisov
soldier, colonel
- Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans
politician, military officer
- Nicolas Isouard
composer
- Philippe de Girard
engineer, inventor
- Carlo Porta
writer, salonnière
- Kamma Rahbek
writer, salonnière
- Patriarch Cyril VII of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- João Domingos Bomtempo
composer, pianist
- Amelia Curran
painter
- Henry Crabb Robinson
jurist, writer
- Pietro Colletta
historian, politician
- Thomas B. Robertson
politician, governor
- Robert Adrain
mathematician
- Dawson Turner
botanist, banker
- Francisco Ramón Vicuña
politician, diplomat
- Johann Anton André
music historian, musicographer
- Catterino Cavos
composer, conductor
- Nicolás Rodríguez Peña
military personnel, politician
- Jacob Peter Mynster
Lutheran pastor, Lutheran theologian
- Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris
opinion journalist, writer
- Giacomo Filippo Fransoni
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Adolf Stieler
geographer, publisher
- Hieronymus Karl Graf von Colloredo-Mansfeld
military officer, military commander
- Pauline Auzou
painter
- Luis Lacy y Gautier
military personnel, politician
- Joseph Denis Odevaere
draftsperson, painter
- Sergey Glinka
historian, poet
- George Prideaux Robert Harris
zoologist
- Pierre Berthezène
politician, military officer
- Antonín Machek
lithographer, painter
- Muhammad Rahim Bahadur Khan I
sovereign
- Pierre Jean François Turpin
painter, artist
- Ádám Récsey
military officer, politician
- Henriette Lorimier
painter
- Georg Hermes
theologian, university teacher
- Ludovico Micara
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Karl von Rotteck
politician, constitutional lawyer
- Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville
naturalist, entomologist
- Thomas Taylor
lichenologist, mycologist
- Sophie Gail
composer
- John Kidd
physician, geologist
- Giuseppe Baini
chapelmaster, choir director
- Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers
zoologist, mineralogist
- Nathan Cutler
governor, politician
- Antonio Bertoloni
university teacher, scientific collector
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
university teacher, entomologist
- Alberto Lista
poet, mathematician
- José Ángel Lamas
composer, oboist
- Jean-François Le Gonidec
lexicographer, linguist
- Peter Thonning
customs officer, physician
- Christian Friedrich Schwaegrichen
botanical collector, botanist
- Narciso Fernández de Heredia, 2nd Count of Heredia-Spínola
politician, diplomat
- Camillo Ranzani
naturalist, zoologist
- Pietro Ostini
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Jean-Louis Burnouf
grammarian, latinist
- François-Pierre Chaumeton
botanist, pharmacist
- Jean Kickx
naturalist, botanist
- Jens Christian Berg
editing staff, lawyer
- Adam Elias von Siebold
gynecologist, physician
- Johannes Flüggé
botanist, university teacher
- Gerardus Craeyvanger
violinist, singer
- Henry Sanfourche
military personnel