ON THIS DAY
Born in 1779
128 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
politician
- Francis Scott Key
poet lawyer, poet
- Mustafa IV
ruler, sultan
- Thomas Moore
novelist, librettist
- Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia
politician, military personnel
- Giovanni Battista Bugatti
executioner
- Stephen Decatur
admiral, military officer
- Elizabeth Alexeievna
aristocrat
- Zebulon Pike
military personnel, explorer
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius
pharmacist, physician
- Clement Clarke Moore
public figure, poet
- Antoine-Henri Jomini
cartographer, banker
- Joseph Story
politician, legal scholar
- Abd al-Rahman of Morocco
politician
- Albine de Montholon
author
- Friedrich Carl von Savigny
legal historian, writer
- Augustin Saint-Hilaire
mycologist, explorer
- Joel Roberts Poinsett
scientific collector, botanist
- Carl Ritter
university teacher, botanist
- Mountstuart Elphinstone
writer, historian
- Madeleine Sophie Barat
founder of Catholic religious community, religious
- John Galt
businessperson, writer
- Peter Mark Roget
physician, philologist
- Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough
military personnel, general field marshal
- Josephine Brunsvik
composer
- Tabitha Babbitt
inventor
- Adam Oehlenschläger
poet, university teacher
- Archduke Anton Victor of Austria
politician
- Maria Naryshkina
lady-in-waiting
- Washington Allston
writer, painter
- Prince Augustus of Prussia
aristocrat
- Adam Müller
writer, political economist
- Lorenz Oken
university teacher, physician
- Benjamin Silliman Sr.
mineralogist, university teacher
- Josefa de Tudó, 1st Countess of Castillo Fiel
lady-in-waiting, model
- John By
military officer, civil engineer
- Joseph Bara
chico baterista, drummer
- Horace Smith
poet, writer
- Francis IV of Modena
aristocrat
- Marie von Brühl
editor
- Louis de Freycinet
explorer, Officer of the French Navy
- Cyrill Demian
musical instrument maker, piano maker
- Infanta María Amalia of Spain
aristocrat
- Osei Bonsu
monarch
- George Poindexter
politician, lawyer
- Hendrik Merkus de Kock
politician
- Anne-Marie Javouhey
founder of Catholic religious community, missionary
- Benjamin Gompertz
mathematician, actuary
- Joseph Kent
politician
- Samuel D. Ingham
politician, businessperson
- Ludwig Geyer
artist, poet
- Abol-Qasem Qa'em-Maqam
politician, head of government
- Khâlid-i Baghdâdî
mystic, writer
- John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell
judge, writer
- William Wilkins
diplomat, judge
- Jean Coralli
ballet master, choreographer
- Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
military officer, military personnel
- Ernst von Pfuel
politician, military personnel
- Gheorghe Lazăr
engineer, pedagogue
- Nikolaos Skoufas
revolutionary
- William Hedley
engineer
- Jan Willem Pieneman
drawing teacher, engraver
- Nicolas Clément
physicist, chemist
- Fredrik Meltzer
politician, entrepreneur
- Mademoiselle Mars
stage actor
- John Adam
diplomat
- Henry W. Edwards
politician, lawyer
- James Clark
judge, lawyer
- José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, Marquis of Torre Tagle
politician, military officer
- Samuel B. Moore
politician, governor
- Jérôme-Martin Langlois
painter
- Johann Schweigger
inventor, philosopher
- Daniel Elliott Huger
judge, lawyer
- Isaac Jacob Schmidt
orientalist, linguist
- Johan Olof Wallin
Lutheran pastor, archbishop
- Philip Osipovich Paulucci
military personnel, governor
- Pierre Amédée Jaubert
explorer, professor
- Thomas Birch
painter
- Louise Reichardt
opera singer, composer
- Pedro Velarde y Santillán
military personnel
- Patriarch Anthimus V of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Gottfried Weber
musicologist, composer
- Francisco Cea Bermúdez
politician, diplomat
- Manuel Vicente Maza
politician, lawyer
- Victor Amadeus, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg
politician, chamberlain
- Joachim Nicolas Eggert
conductor, composer
- Anna Potocka
painter, art collector
- Bernhard von Lindenau
astronomer, jurist
- Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg
politician, jurist
- David Campbell
politician
- François van Campenhout
opera singer, composer
- Robert Henry Goldsborough
politician
- Tommaso Bernetti
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d’Ohsson
orientalist, diplomat
- Magnus Björnstjerna
diplomat, military personnel
- Alexander Zasyadko
inventor, engineer
- William Baldwin
botanist, physician
- Ludolph Christian Treviranus
university teacher, scientific collector
- Vasily Demut-Malinovsky
sculptor
- Juan Antonio de Ribera
painter
- Józef Dwernicki
military officer
- Ivan Kozlov
translator of William Wordsworth, translator
- Alexandre Du Sommerard
archaeologist, art historian
- Stefano Pavesi
composer
- Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux
biologist, zoologist
- Karl Cäsar von Leonhard
university teacher, assessor
- Judas José Romo y Gamboa
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Johann Caspar Aiblinger
conductor, composer
- Carl Reinhold Sahlberg
zoologist, farmer
- Giovanni Soglia Ceroni
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Alexandre Louis Simon Lejeune
physician, botanical collector
- Fernando Serrano
lawyer, politician
- Beatriz Francisca de Assis Brandão
teacher, poet
- Louis Alexandre Piccinni
pianist, choreographer
- Léopol Haimon
composer, choir director
- Giovanni Inghirami
presbyter, astronomer
- Toussaint von Charpentier
geologist, mineralogist
- Carl Franz van der Velde
poet lawyer, judge
- Yoshiko-naishinnō
ruler
- Edward Lloyd
politician
