ON THIS DAY
Born in 1785
139 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Louis XVII of France
royalty
- Mahmud II
sovereign, sultan
- John James Audubon
botanical collector, scientific collector
- Jacob Grimm
lexicographer, historian
- Lady Caroline Lamb
poet, writer
- Alessandro Manzoni
playwright, writer
- Thomas De Quincey
prose writer, essayist
- Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
military personnel
- Oliver Hazard Perry
military officer, naval officer
- Lin Tse-hsu
politician, calligrapher
- Claude-Louis Navier
economist, engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
- Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
aristocrat, military officer
- Diponegoro
politician, resistance fighter
- Karl Drais
forester, land surveyor
- Abdullah bin Saud Al Kabeer
politician, ruler
- Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville
socialite, aristocrat
- Florestan, Prince of Monaco
politician, actor
- Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
merchant, socialite
- Prince Paul of Württemberg
aristocrat
- Bettina von Arnim
illustrator, salonnière
- David Walker
writer, merchant
- Thomas Love Peacock
poet, writer
- David Wilkie
artist, painter
- Adam Sedgwick
abolitionist, geologist
- John McLean
judge, jurist
- William Beaumont
physiologist, surgeon
- Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
military personnel, politician
- Jose Miguel Carrera
military personnel, Major
- Victor de Broglie
minister, politician
- William Jackson Hooker
writer, botanical illustrator
- Laurent Clerc
pedagogue, teacher
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner
musicographer, music educator
- Agustín Gamarra
military personnel, politician
- Hans Karl von Diebitsch
politician, military officer
- Jonker Afrikaner
politician
- Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe
diplomat, politician
- Vicente López y Planes
writer, lawyer
- Martín Miguel de Güemes
politician, military personnel
- Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau
architect, world traveler
- Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg
aristocrat
- Friedrich Wieck
musicologist, musicographer
- Mordecai Manuel Noah
jurist, journalist
- Gesche Gottfried
serial killer
- Dorothea Lieven
diplomat, salonnière
- Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland
politician
- Adam Wilhelm Moltke
politician, diplomat
- Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut
count, politician
- Charles Bird King
painter
- Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
physicist, meteorologist
- Zoé Talon, comtesse du Cayla
aristocrat
- Eleonore Prochaska
military personnel
- Edward Bransfield
explorer
- William Prout
physician, chemist
- Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza
military personnel, politician
- Karl Wilhelm Naundorff
writer, aristocrat
- Nicholas Aylward Vigors
zoologist, politician
- Vicente Filisola
military personnel, soldier
- Etienne Constantin de Gerlache
historian, politician
- Duke Charles of Mecklenburg
military officer, politician
- Pierre Louis Dulong
professor, physicist
- John Wilson
philosopher, writer
- Karol Kurpiński
music educator, violinist
- Archduke Karl of Austria-Este
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- John Hindmarsh
politician, governor
- August Böckh
historian of classical antiquity, classical philologist
- Carlo Odescalchi
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Maria Graham
art historian, painter
- Immanuel Bekker
philologist, romanist
- Francisco Antonio Pinto
diplomat, politician
- Eliezer Papo
rabbi
- Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen
homeopath, physician
- Tshudpud Namgyal
politician
- Charles Xavier Thomas
patent inventor, mechanic
- Josif Rajačić
patriarch, Eastern Orthodox priest
- Gabriel Moore
politician
- John Fleming
entomologist, writer
- William Francis Patrick Napier
historian, military commander
- Prosper Louis, 7th Duke of Arenberg
art collector, military officer
- Henry Wheaton
judge, diplomat
- Georg Friedrich Kersting
painter
- Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann
writer, politician
- Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
diplomat, chronicler
- Anna Doyle Wheeler
writer, feminist
- Joseph Johnson
politician
- Carl Adolph Agardh
university teacher, botanist
- Abel de Pujol
painter
- Ján Hollý
writer, poet
- Ellen Hutchins
correspondent, phycologist
- Nachman Krochmal
writer, philosopher
- Charles Green
balloonist
- Theodor von Grotthuss
physicist, chemist
- Jan Roothaan
Catholic priest, Catholic theologian
- Francisco Javier de Istúriz y Montero
politician, diplomat
- Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann
musicologist, composer
- James South
astronomer
- Anthimus IV of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Johann Andreas Schmeller
editor, Germanist
- Per Georg Scheutz
translator, opinion journalist
- Henry Kirke White
writer, poet
- Sarah Ann Glover
music educator
- Juliette Colbert de Barolo
philanthropist
- Konstantin von Benckendorff
military personnel, diplomat
- Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski
discoverer, orientalist
- Alexandre Pierre-François Boëly
organist, composer
- Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová
playwright, poet
- Dmitry Bludov
linguist, politician
- Carl Friedrich von Rumohr
economist, gourmet
- Federico Confalonieri
politician
- Arvid August Afzelius
translator, historian
- Anna Milder-Hauptmann
singer, actor
- Anna Sundström
chemist
- Evaristo Fernández de San Miguel
politician, military personnel
- Ján Scitovský
Catholic deacon, archbishop
- Ange Hyacinthe Maxence de Damas
military officer, military personnel
- Philip Allen
politician
- Christen Smith
university teacher, scientific collector
- Gerhard Christoph von Krogh
military personnel
- Charles, Joseph, Marie, Auguste de Forbin Janson
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt
botanical collector, botanist
- Jean Schneitzhoeffer
composer, pianist
- Ferdinand Olivier
graphic artist, painter
- Manuel Basilio Bustamante
soldier
- Heinrich Hentzi
military officer, military personnel
- James Dundas
naval officer, politician
- Domenico Gilardi
architect
- Heinrich Anschütz
translator, stage actor
- Andreas Moustoxydis
philologist, politician
- Albert Methfessel
conductor, court chapel master
- Pierre-Antoine Lebrun
politician, playwright
- Julia Nyberg
author, writer
- Filippo Giudice Caracciolo
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Lorenzo Hammarsköld
librarian, writer
- Georg Friedrich von Jäger
botanist, physician
- Antoni Andrzejowski
botanist, zoologist
- Tadeusz Wolański
historian, numismatist