ON THIS DAY
Born in 1786
161 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Davy Crockett
explorer, frontiersman
- Shaka Zulu
monarch
- Winfield Scott
soldier, politician
- William R. King
diplomat, lawyer
- John Franklin
scientist, naval officer
- Jean-Marie Vianney
Latin Catholic priest, Catholic priest
- Chief Seattle
traditional leader or chief
- Carl Maria von Weber
pianist, guitarist
- Gregor MacGregor
soldier, impostor
- John Conroy
courtier, military personnel
- Wilhelm Grimm
children's writer, philologist
- Guadalupe Victoria
lawyer, soldier
- Christian VIII of Denmark
monarch, patron of the arts
- Moshoeshoe I
politician
- François Arago
biographer, mathematician
- Syed Ahmad Barelvi
jihadist, politician
- Michel Eugène Chevreul
painter, chemist
- William L. Marcy
jurist, diplomat
- Charles, Grand Duke of Baden
sovereign
- Utagawa Kunisada
printmaker, graphic artist
- Nicolás Bravo
politician, military personnel
- Nicholas Biddle
banker, politician
- George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
politician, cricketer
- Louis-Joseph Papineau
lawyer, jurist
- Friedrich Kuhlau
Kammermusiker, musicologist
- Julius Jacob von Haynau
military personnel, military officer
- Duke Pius August in Bavaria
politician
- Benjamin Haydon
painter
- Agustina de Aragón
freedom fighter, partisan
- Louis McLane
lawyer, diplomat
- Sergey Uvarov
classical scholar, education activist
- Charles de la Bédoyère
politician, military officer
- Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia
socialite, consort
- Ludwig Börne
writer, opinion journalist
- Wilhelm Gesenius
philologist, Hebraist
- William Light
discoverer, surveyor
- Sunthorn Phu
writer, poet
- Qishan
politician
- Thomas Nuttall
ornithologist, writer
- Princess Sophie of France
aristocrat
- Charles Napier
naval officer, writer
- José María de los Dolores Vargas Ponce
politician, physician
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
actor, novelist
- William John Bankes
archaeologist, explorer
- John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton
writer, politician
- Barry Edward O'Meara
surgeon, writer
- Andreas Metaxas
politician, diplomat
- Justinus Kerner
scientist, librettist
- Gordon Bremer
naval officer
- Thomas Hancock
inventor, businessperson
- Joachim Lelewel
numismatist, politician
- Gaspar del Bufalo
Catholic priest, founder of Catholic religious community
- Nathaniel Wolff Wallich
botanical collector, scientific collector
- Marc Seguin
engineer, locomotive designer
- Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
physicist, professor
- Henry Deringer
gunsmith
- William George Horner
secondary school teacher
- Edward Coles
politician
- Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov
diplomat, military officer
- Roksandra Skarlatovna
lady-in-waiting, writer
- Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
diplomat, politician
- Alexander Ivanovich Chernyshev
diplomat, politician
- James Cowles Prichard
linguist, physician
- François-Édouard Picot
painter
- Alexander Chavchavadze
poet, military personnel
- Joseph Jackson Lister
physicist
- Paul III Anton, Prince Esterházy
composer, diplomat
- Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo
Catholic theologian, Catholic priest
- Joseph Nicollet
geographer, mathematician
- Auguste de Montferrand
art historian, architect
- Horace Hayman Wilson
lexicographer, numismatist
- Timothy Hackworth
engineer, railway engineer
- James Silk Buckingham
writer, travel writer
- Ana María Huarte
politician
- Miguel de la Torre y Pando
politician, military personnel
- Kim Jeong-hui
philosopher, calligrapher
- Albrecht Adam
battle painter, printmaker
- José Joaquín Prieto
military personnel, captain
- Pavel Schilling
engineer, physicist
- Kanga Sakukawa
karateka
- William Mulready
draftsperson, painter
- Heinrich LXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz
politician
- Modibo Adama
ruler
- George Pollock
military personnel
- Giovanni Battista Amici
engineer, botanist
- John Lewis Krimmel
painter
- Friedrich Schneider
composer, organist
- Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
military officer
- William Hovell
traveler, explorer
- Franz von Pillersdorf
politician, statesperson
- Michel Martin Drolling
painter
- Stevan Šupljikac
politician, military officer
- Walter Forward
diplomat, judge
- Dimitris Plapoutas
politician
- Dixon Denham
Major, botanist
- Joseph Vance
politician
- Anne Knight
abolitionist, suffragette
- Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol
physician
- John Breathitt
politician, lawyer
- Iwan Müller
musical instrument maker, music arranger
- Jean Alaux
painter, artist
- Louis Vicat
engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads, inventor
- Marie Bigot
pianist, composer
- Yashima Gakutei
gesakusha, translator
- Estanislao López
politician, military personnel
- John Murphy
lawyer, politician
- Louis-Albert Necker
mineralogist, zoologist
- Samuel Ward King
politician, governor
- José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno
politician, historian
- Dominik Hieronim Radziwiłł
military personnel
- Carl Friedrich von Ledebour
scientific collector, zoologist
- Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter
newspaper editor, revolutionary
- Johannes Voigt
historian, university teacher
- Josiah J. Evans
lawyer, judge
- Alexandre Soumet
poet, writer
- Antonio José de Irisarri
diplomat, journalist
- Ekaterina Semenova
actor
- Otto Magnus von Stackelberg
archaeologist, anthropologist
- Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar
physician, zoologist
- Hermann Ernst Freund
sculptor
- Joseph Sokolsky
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Pietro Raimondi
composer, teacher
- Filipp Vigel
diplomat, memoirist
- Madame Saqui
stunt performer, circus performer
- Sara Losh
architect
- Charles Dunoyer
jurist, official
- Arseny Zakrevsky
politician
- Louise Seidler
artist, portrait painter
- Robert Graham
university teacher, physician
- Louis-Isidore Duperrey
hydrographer, sea captain
- Jean de Charpentier
geologist, engineer
- Jean-Louis Tulou
teacher, flautist
- Carl Wilhelm Hahn
naturalist, arachnologist
- János Majláth
translator, poet
- Étienne Serres
anthropologist, physiologist
- Fyodor Glinka
poet, writer
- George Loddiges
ornithologist, botanist
- Ernst Friedrich Germar
local politician, botanist
- William P. C. Barton
scientific collector, botanist
- Bengt Erland Fogelberg
draftsperson, sculptor
- Pedro Juan Caballero
politician, military personnel
- András Fáy
poet, political economist
- Philippe-Jacques van Bree
painter
- Bjarni Thorarensen
judge, poet
- Gustav Heinrich von Bongard
pteridologist, botanist