ON THIS DAY
Born in 1777
126 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Alexander I of Russia
monarch
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
geophysicist, university teacher
- Henry Clay
jurist, lawyer
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild
banker
- Roger B. Taney
politician, judge
- Désirée Clary
consort
- Hans Christian Ørsted
physicist, inventor
- Heinrich von Kleist
poet lawyer, writer
- Patrick Brontë
parson, writer
- Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom
aristocrat
- Francis I of the Two Sicilies
politician
- Madame Clicquot Ponsardin
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
sovereign
- Elisa Bonaparte
patron of the arts, politician
- William Brown
admiral, military personnel
- Heinrich Marx
jurist, lawyer
- Kunwar Singh
freedom fighter, revolutionary
- John Ross
botanist, polar explorer
- Juliette Récamier
socialite, salonnière
- Philipp Otto Runge
printmaker, poet
- William II of Hesse-Kassel
sovereign, military personnel
- Thomas Campbell
librettist, poet
- Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov
diplomat, linguist
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
librettist, writer
- Guillaume Dupuytren
surgeon, physician
- Edmund P. Gaines
military personnel
- Peregrine Maitland
politician, cricketer
- Princess Adélaïde of Orléans
salonnière, botanical illustrator
- Francis Greenway
architect, civil servant
- Benjamin d'Urban
soldier, politician
- Casimir Perier
banker, politician
- Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
herpetologist, entomologist
- Hyacinth
geographer, monk
- Charles Caleb Colton
Anglican priest, writer
- Joseph Hume
physician, politician
- Felix Grundy
judge, politician
- Richard Bourke
politician
- Lorenzo Bartolini
sculptor
- Juan Martín de Pueyrredon
politician, military personnel
- Louis Jacques Thénard
politician, chemist
- John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll
politician
- Bernard Courtois
chemist, pharmacist
- Robert Thomas Wilson
politician, military personnel
- Louis Poinsot
mathematician, university teacher
- Matija Nenadović
historian, writer
- José Cecilio del Valle
jurist, writer
- Henry Hallam
jurist, historian
- Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford
art collector, diplomat
- Nathan Sanford
lawyer, politician
- Karl Wilhelm von Toll
land owner, military personnel
- Laval Nugent von Westmeath
military leader, military officer
- Christian Daniel Rauch
sculptor, art historian
- Robert Ker Porter
painter, politician
- John George Children
zoologist, chemist
- Carlo Armellini
politician, jurist
- William Martin Leake
antiquarian, classical scholar
- Mariano Osorio
military personnel, politician
- Claire de Duras
duke, salonnière
- Filippo Taglioni
ballet master, teacher
- Karoline Jagemann
stage actor, actor
- Hendrik Doeff
colonial administrator, diplomat
- Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly
military officer, military personnel
- Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont
military officer, writer
- Aleksander Orłowski
pastellist, illustrator
- Józef Sowiński
military personnel
- Antoine Risso
naturalist, entomologist
- Peter von der Pahlen
military personnel, politician
- Giuseppe Bossi
writer, painter
- Marie Jules César Savigny
naturalist, zoologist
- Thomas Clayton
politician, lawyer
- Pedro Celestino Negrete
politician, military officer
- Charles Cagniard de la Tour
Councillor of State, military engineer
- Louis Hersent
printmaker, painter
- Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes
meteorologist, physicist
- Kizbech Tughuzhuqo
soldier
- Severin Løvenskiold
businessperson, politician
- Paavo Ruotsalainen
farmer
- Ludwig Berger
composer, pedagogue
- William Gell
artist, anthropologist
- Karl von Grolman
military personnel
- John Cheyne
surgeon, university teacher
- François Fleury-Richard
painter
- Lukijan Mušicki
poet, philosopher
- Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate
politician, minister
- Charles-Guillaume Étienne
writer, journalist
- Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, 14th Count of Chinchón
politician, Catholic priest
- Heinrich Rudolf Schinz
naturalist, physician
- Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel
inventor, organ builder
- Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst
university teacher, naturalist
- William Richard Hamilton
antiquarian bookseller, diplomat
- Henry Kater
military officer, astronomer
- Antoine Germain Labarraque
university teacher, pharmacist
- Carlos Anaya
politician, military personnel
- Franz Naegele
university teacher, physician
- Francisco de la Lastra
politician, military personnel
- Louis Cordier
geologist, politician
- Gaspar Bertoni
founder of Catholic religious community, Catholic theologian
- Edme-François Jomard
engineer, orientalist
- Johan Ludwig Lund
painter
- Auguste de Forbin
archaeologist, administrateur
- Domenico Barbaia
impresario
- Natale Schiavoni
engraver, painter
- Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann
playwright, theatre manager
- Manuel Salazar y Baquíjano
politician
- Józef Oleszkiewicz
painter
- Pedro Molina Mazariegos
statesperson, politician
- Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim
theologian, Catholic deacon
- Alessandro Sanquirico
scenographer, painter
- Joaquín María de Ferrer y Cafranga
military personnel, politician
- Tanomura Chikuden
painter
- François Debret
architect
- Vasily Shebuyev
painter
- Georges Louis Duvernoy
anatomist, professor
- William Bellinger Bulloch
politician, lawyer
- Johann Friedrich Benzenberg
physicist, astronomer
- Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz
Catholic deacon, Catholic priest
- Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet
librettist, writer
- Juan Nicasio Gallego
poet, translator
- Lyder Sagen
translator, teacher
- Henri Auguste Duval
physician, botanist