ON THIS DAY
Born in 1781
112 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France
aristocrat
- Swaminarayan
spiritual teacher, religious leader
- Thomas Stamford Raffles
scientific collector, ornithologist
- George Stephenson
civil engineer, mechanical engineer
- Eugène de Beauharnais
art collector, politician
- Siméon Denis Poisson
politician, university teacher
- René Laennec
inventor, professor
- Wilhelm I of Württemberg
aristocrat, monarch
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel
framer, furniture designer
- Bernard Bolzano
professor, theologian
- David Brewster
writer, pharmacist
- Charles Joseph Minard
master builder, cartographer
- Frederica of Baden
consort
- Andrés Bello
diplomat, translator
- Joseph Karl Stieler
painter, portrait painter
- Valentín Gómez Farías
physician, politician
- Adelbert von Chamisso
military officer, poet
- Mauro Giuliani
guitarist, cellist
- Anton Diabelli
music arranger, pianist
- George Dawe
portraitist, printmaker
- Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este
military personnel, military officer
- Robert Mills
architect, engineer
- Ludwig Achim von Arnim
lyricist, poet
- Alexander von Benckendorff
land owner, military personnel
- John Walker
inventor, chemist
- Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
writer, philosopher
- Henry Martyn
priest, Bible translator
- Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela
military personnel, art collector
- Sanité Bélair
military officer, revolutionary
- Johann Baptist von Spix
illustrator, zoologist
- Prince Henry of Prussia
aristocrat
- Merry-Joseph Blondel
artist, painter
- Louis-Mathieu Molé
politician, writer
- Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan
salonnière, writer
- Robert Lucas
politician
- John D. Sloat
politician, naval officer
- Francis Legatt Chantrey
draftsperson, painter
- John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough
politician
- William John Burchell
painter, writer
- John M. Berrien
jurist, judge
- William Wyatt Bibb
politician
- Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey
politician
- Guan Tianpei
military personnel
- Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Shenstone
naval officer
- Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet
politician, explorer
- Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
military officer
- Andrés Narvarte
lawyer, politician
- José de Madrazo y Agudo
artist, painter
- Friedrich Tiedemann
physiologist, physician
- Francisco Espoz y Mina
politician, military personnel
- Joaquín Suárez
politician, diplomat
- Carl Otto Mörner
diplomat, military officer
- Dionisio de Herrera
politician, lawyer
- Newton Cannon
politician
- George Ord
writer, ornithologist
- Frederick Adam
military officer, botanical collector
- Jean-Louis Vastey
politician, educator
- Vincent Novello
music publisher, organist
- Giovanni Plana
politician, mathematician
- Ebenezer Elliott
writer, poet
- Johann Friedrich Meckel the younger
pathologist, university teacher
- John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley
politician, plantation owner
- Henri Cassini
jurist, politician
- José Mariano Jiménez
military officer
- Lucy Aikin
historian, women's rights activist
- Bartolomeo Pinelli
draftsperson, printmaker
- Ratliff Boon
politician
- Émilie de Beauharnais
lady-in-waiting
- François Habeneck
conductor, music educator
- Richard Taylor
botanist, editor
- Caroline Bardua
artist, painter
- Adolphe Marbot
military officer
- Robert Hare
chemist, university teacher
- Joseph Johann Littrow
university teacher, writer
- Alexander Vostokov
slavist, poet
- Friedrich von Berchtold
botanist, physician
- Christian von Steven
botanist, physician
- Hippolyte Lecomte
painter
- Adèle d'Osmond
writer, salonnière
- Karl Friedrich Eichhorn
jurist, judge
- Thomas Stewart Traill
chemist, medical examiner
- George Bruce
entrepreneur, inventor
- Bartolomeo Borghesi
philologist, historian
- Joseph Paelinck
painter, artist
- Juan Pedro Aguirre
politician, military personnel
- José María Calatrava y Peinado
politician, diplomat
- Friedrich von Raumer
diplomat, writer
- Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg
diplomat, opinion journalist
- Étienne-Jean Delécluze
painter, writer
- Finnur Magnússon
literary historian, archivist
- Claude-Philibert Barthelot, comte de Rambuteau
prefect, official
- François Joseph Naderman
professor, composer
- Albin Roussin
Officer of the French Navy, admiral
- Charles Philippe Lafont
violist, singer
- Jahonotin Uvaysiy
poet, writer
- Christian Lobeck
writer, classical philologist
- Giorgio Bidone
mathematician, engineer
- Friedrich Weber
naturalist, entomologist
- Sophie Schröder
singer, actor
- Charlotte von Ahlefeld
poet, writer
- Pompeo Litta Biumi
aristocrat, genealogist
- Franciscana Cirer
nun, religious
- Louis-Pierre Norblin
composer, cellist
- Cirilo de Alameda y Brea
Latin Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Jiří Buquoy
land owner, economist
- François Étienne de La Roche
botanist, ichthyologist
- Philipp Bruch
pharmacist, naturalist
- Friedrich Siegmund Voigt
ornithologist, zoologist
- Franz Xavier Luschin
Catholic priest, Catholic deacon