ON THIS DAY
Born in 1787
155 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Delphine LaLaurie
serial killer, criminal
- Louis Daguerre
photographer, painter
- François Guizot
diplomat, literary critic
- Vuk Karadžić
folklorist, philologist
- William Etty
artist, painter
- Joseph von Fraunhofer
physicist, chemist
- Eliza Poe
stage actor, actor
- John J. Crittenden
politician, governor
- Prince William of Hesse-Kassel
military personnel
- Franz Xaver Gruber
composer, poet
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně
poet, writer
- Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este
queen regnant
- Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne
lady-in-waiting
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Christian minister, teacher
- Edmund Kean
stage actor, actor
- Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov
diplomat, politician
- Solomon P. Sharp
military officer, politician
- Sayyid Muhammad bin ʿAli al-Sanusi
ulema, theologian
- Emma Willard
head teacher, feminist
- Friedrich Krupp
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Samuel Cunard
ship-owner, entrepreneur
- Guillaume Henri Dufour
civil engineer, urban planner
- Otto von Kotzebue
scientist, military officer
- Theodore Frelinghuysen
lawyer, politician
- Rasmus Rask
university teacher, philologist
- Manuel Dorrego
journalist, diplomat
- Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet
military personnel, soldier
- Pellegrino Rossi
diplomat, jurist
- Andrés Quintana Roo
minister, journalist
- Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz
politician, military officer
- José María Bocanegra
diplomat, minister
- James Weddell
explorer
- Ninomiya Sontoku
philosopher, economist
- Thomas Say
explorer, scientific collector
- Manuel José Arce
politician
- Ludwig Uhland
lyricist, librettist
- Mary Russell Mitford
playwright, editor
- John Richardson
scientific collector, explorer
- Ramón Freire
military personnel, soldier
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
tzadik, Rebbe
- Mathieu Orfila
physician, pharmacologist
- Richard Whately
Anglican priest, economist
- Tharrawaddy Min
monarch
- Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo
poet, writer
- Edward Blore
architect
- Joaquín Mosquera y Arboleda
diplomat, politician
- Keying
diplomat, politician
- Josef Ludwig von Armansperg
politician
- Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis
university teacher, physician
- Thomas Hodgskin
naval officer, journalist
- Abraham Firkovich
hazzan, bibliophile
- Marguerite Georges
stage actor, dramaturge
- Christian Friedrich, Baron Stockmar
physician, diplomat
- Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse
engineer, business executive
- Samuel Lewis Southard
jurist, judge
- Casimir-Louis-Victurnien de Rochechouart de Mortemart
diplomat, military personnel
- Alexander Alyabyev
composer, pianist
- Henry Bishop
conductor, composer
- James Holman
naval officer, writer
- Konstantin Batyushkov
poet, writer
- William Daniel Conybeare
paleontologist, cleric
- Mary Aikenhead
religious sister, nun
- François-Joseph Navez
painter
- Yanagawa Shigenobu
ukiyo-e artist, illustrator
- George Simpson
colonial administrator, explorer
- Ustym Karmaliuk
rebel, military personnel
- George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale
politician, colonial governor
- Jacob Bigelow
herpetologist, botanist
- De Lacy Evans
military personnel, politician
- William Lewis
non-fiction writer, chess player
- Stephen Decatur Miller
lawyer, jurist
- Claudius James Rich
linguist, assyriologist
- Semen Korsakov
physician, inventor
- Pedro Vélez
philosopher, politician
- José Tomás Ovalle
minister, lawyer
- Shō Kō
king
- Christian Ludwig Brehm
ornithologist, pastor
- Mustafa I of Tunisia
politician
- Emilie de Rodat
nun, mystic
- Johann Mayrhofer
statutory auditor, librettist
- Pascal Coste
painter, art historian
- Andreas Schelfhout
pastellist, lithographer
- Frédéric Cailliaud
explorer, naturalist
- James Drummond
mycologist, botanist
- Ignacio Álvarez Thomas
soldier, diplomat
- Antony Pogorelsky
linguist, writer
- John Milton Niles
lawyer, editor
- Johann Natterer
taxidermist, preparator
- Nils Gabriel Sefström
chemist
- Juana Galán
hero
- Jean-Pierre Cortot
sculptor
- Franz Josef, 1st Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
lord of the manor, politician
- François Joseph Heim
lithographer, painter
- Kikukawa Eizan
xylographer, painter
- Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine
politician, lawyer
- Hans Linstow
lawyer, architect
- Jean Victor Schnetz
painter
- Robert L. Stevens
inventor, engineer
- François Sudre
composer
- Michele Carafa
composer, music educator
- Barry Cornwall
lawyer, writer
- Wilhelm Albert
mining engineer, mintmaster
- Karl Immanuel Nitzsch
theologian, university teacher
- Pyotr Sokolov
painter
- Sven Nilsson
paleontologist, botanist
- Carl Sprengel
chemist, botanist
- Johannes Flintoe
painter
- Jean Antoine Letronne
philologist, geographer
- Maxim Vorobiev
painter
- Tobias Haslinger
composer, music publisher
- Robert C. Nicholas
politician
- Domenico Quaglio the Younger
sculptor, architect
- Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier
translator, linguist
- Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin
surgeon, gynecologist
- Thomas Buck Reed
politician, lawyer
- Abraham Cooper
painter
- Jean-Antoine Petipa
ballet master, choreographer
- Tommaso Minardi
painter
- Mikhail Vielgorsky
cellist, hofmeister
- Samuel McKean
politician
- François Sulpice Beudant
geologist, chemist
- Karl Ferdinand von Graefe
surgeon, university teacher
- Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- James De Carle Sowerby
mineralogist, botanist
- Hippolyte Cloquet
entomologist, physician
- Pierre Antoine Delalande
painter, scientific explorer
- Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck
pharmacist, university teacher
- Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter
theologian, university teacher
- Nicolai von Gretsch
literary critic, philologist
- Wilhelm Wach
portrait painter, history painter
- Mélesville
jurist, playwright
- Josephine Kablick
zoological collector, paleontologist
- Johan Wilhelm Dalman
botanist, naturalist
- Nicolai Johan Lohmann Krog
politician
- Nils Vibe Stockfleth
parson, lexicographer
- Filip Maximilian Opiz
mycologist, forester
- Peter Dajnko
linguist, philologist
- Heinrich Adam
lithographer, painter
- Benjamin Valz
mathematician, astronomer
- Oronzio Gabriele Costa
zoologist, paleontologist
- Giovanni Gussone
university teacher, botanist
- Magnus Georg Paucker
astronomer, mathematician
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Fonvizin
military personnel, philosopher
- Georg Kloss
physician, collector
- Antoni Gorecki
poet, writer
- Raffaele Fornari
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop