ON THIS DAY
Born in 1788
150 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Lord Byron
lyricist, translator
- Arthur Schopenhauer
university teacher, writer
- Sacagawea
explorer, interpreter
- Robert Peel
art collector, minister
- Ranavalona I
politician, head of state
- Margaret Taylor
First Lady of the United States
- Nangklao
sovereign, military officer
- FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
military officer, general field marshal
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
engineer, civil engineer
- Carlos de Borbón y Borbón-Parma
politician
- Muhammad ibn Thani
politician
- Sarah Josepha Hale
novelist, poet
- Catherine Pavlovna of Russia
monarch
- Princess Augusta of Bavaria
aristocrat
- Francisco Balagtas
writer, poet
- Adoniram Judson
lexicographer, translator
- Princess Wilhelmine of Baden
politician
- Sarah Goodridge
painter, artist
- Geert Adriaans Boomgaard
soldier
- Johan Christian Dahl
landscape painter, painter
- Joseph von Eichendorff
diarist, writer
- Markos Botsaris
freedom fighter, military officer
- William Henry Sleeman
writer, colonial administrator
- Lorenzo de Zavala
minister, philosopher
- David G. Burnet
politician
- Archduke Rudolf of Austria
canon, Catholic bishop
- Alexander Campbell
priest, Bible translator
- Mary Prince
domestic worker, slave
- Athanasios Diakos
freedom fighter, military personnel
- James Gadsden
diplomat, entrepreneur
- Étienne Cabet
lawyer, utopian
- Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud
politician
- Rafael Urdaneta
politician, military personnel
- Friedrich Rückert
librettist, poet
- Mikhail Lazarev
admiral, military personnel
- Soliman Pasha
soldier, military personnel
- Abdul Momin of Brunei
politician
- Jean-Victor Poncelet
professor, politician
- Francis Ronalds
electrotechnician, archaeologist
- Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
archaeologist, numismatist
- James Phipps
research participant, gardener
- Carl Reichenbach
engineer, naturalist
- Grigorios Dikaios (Papaflessas)
priest, military personnel
- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
metaphysician, logician
- Elisha Collier
inventor
- Hugh Clapperton
sailor, writer
- Edward Sabine
botanist, astronomer
- Spiridon Trikoupis
historian, politician
- William Strickland
engraver, painter
- Duke Eugen of Württemberg
military personnel, composer
- Tomás de Zumalacárregui
carlist soldier, military personnel
- Charles Robert Cockerell
architect, anthropologist
- Kikuchi Yōsai
artist, painter
- Antoine César Becquerel
chemist, university teacher
- David d'Angers
sculptor, medalist
- Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark
aristocrat
- John C. Spencer
lawyer, judge
- Pavel Kiselyov
bretteur, diplomat
- Félix Varela
philosopher, theologian
- Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford
aristocrat, politician
- Theodore Hook
novelist, journalist
- William Henry Smyth
astronomer, archaeologist
- Sergey Volkonsky
military officer, memoirist
- Leopold Gmelin
university teacher, chemist
- Charles A. Wickliffe
judge, lawyer
- Bento Gonçalves
politician, military personnel
- Charles de Steuben
lithographer, painter
- Giuseppe Donizetti
music educator, composer
- Felice Romani
poet, librettist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow
art educator, painter
- Simon Sechter
music educator, composition teacher
- Camille Pleyel
pianist, composer
- Gheorghe Asachi
lithographer, playwright
- William Carroll
politician, governor
- Jahangir Khoja
politician
- William Collins
artist, painter
- Christian Ludwig Gerling
mathematician, physicist
- Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat
librarian, philologist
- Thomas Medwin
writer, poet
- Edward Hodges Baily
artist, sculptor
- Carl Sigismund Kunth
scientific collector, explorer
- Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
writer, art historian
- Pierre Joseph Pelletier
chemist, university teacher
- Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
painter, portraitist
- Margherita Occhiena
pedagogue
- James Burton
archaeologist, Egyptologist
- John Alsop King
jurist, lawyer
- John Reynolds
jurist, governor
- Isaac Baer Levinsohn
writer, Hebraist
- Mikhail Shchepkin
actor, stage actor
- Augustus Siebe
engineer
- Prideaux John Selby
zoologist, ornithologist
- Juraj Haulik
Catholic priest, Catholic deacon
- Richard Harris Barham
Anglican priest, writer
- Franz Pforr
graphic artist, painter
- William Thomas Brande
inventor, scientist
- Robert P. Letcher
diplomat, lawyer
- Patriarch Germanus IV of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Francis Palgrave
civil servant, non-fiction writer
- Dezydery Chłapowski
farmer, military officer
- Basil Hall
writer, explorer
- Heinrich von Hess
military officer, general field marshal
- Johann Peter Pixis
composer, pianist
- Károly Kisfaludy
poet, writer
- James Iredell Jr.
jurist, lawyer
- Adamo Tadolini
sculptor
- Thomas Southwood Smith
physician
- Albion Parris
governor, mayor
- Juan Van Halen
military officer, soldier
- Edwin Atherstone
novelist, writer
- Aloys Schmitt
pianist, composer
- Neil Arnott
inventor, physician
- Ignaz Venetz
engineer, botanist
- Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker
astronomer
- Thomas Tredgold
engineer, writer
- Charles Fraser
explorer, botanist
- Carl Wilhelm von Heideck
military personnel, painter
- Louis François Auguste de Rohan-Chabot
archbishop, politician
- Ludwig Vogel
painter, artist
- Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt
playwright, poet
- George Brettingham Sowerby
scientific illustrator, naturalist
- Atanazy Raczyński
art historian, military personnel
- Karl von Abel
politician
- Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin
opinion journalist, legal counselor
- Georg Freytag
librarian, academic
- Gustav Friedrich Hetsch
furniture designer, painter
- Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld
draftsperson, painter
- Wilhelmine Reichard
balloonist
- Bartolomé Hidalgo
writer, poet
- José Bernardo Alzedo
composer
- John S. Spence
politician
- Raffaello Lambruschini
politician, Catholic priest
- Johann Jakob Nöggerath
university teacher, geologist
- József Kossics
anthropologist, writer
- Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda
academic, geologist
- Paolo Toschi
painter, architect
- Yekaterina Avdeyeva
publisher, writer
- Caspar Ett
musician, church musician
- Benedetto Barberini
Catholic priest
- Esprit Requien
malacologist, botanical collector
- Fernando Estévez
sculptor, painter
- Ernesta Legnani Bisi
printmaker, painter
- George Matthias von Martens
zoologist, traveler
- Alexandre Guiraud
playwright, poet
- Luigi Ciacchi
Catholic priest
- Johann Heinrich Achterfeld
university teacher, editor
- Gaetano Baluffi
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Vilhelm Fredrik Palmblad
book printer, translator