ON THIS DAY
Born in 1789
148 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Sarah Baartman
performing artist
- James Fenimore Cooper
children's writer, novelist
- James Barry
surgeon, military physician
- John Martin
history painter, writer
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
mathematician, physicist
- Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
military personnel, politician
- Georg Simon Ohm
mathematician, physicist
- Friedrich List
writer, economist
- Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark
aristocrat
- Abbas Mirza
politician, military personnel
- Horace Vernet
photographer, draftsperson
- Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel
politician
- Josiah Henson
preacher, autobiographer
- Stéphanie de Beauharnais
aristocrat, sovereign
- Rbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn
composer, Rebbe
- Marcellin Champagnat
Catholic priest, founder of Catholic religious community
- Sunwon
politician
- Henry Pottinger
diplomat, military personnel
- Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
aristocrat
- Levi Woodbury
jurisprudence, jurist
- Charles Rivière-Hérard
politician, military officer
- Thomas Ewing
lawyer, politician
- Leona Vicario
politician, journalist
- August von Goethe
chamberlain, assessor
- Maria Szymanowska
salonnière, composer
- Charlotte Elliott
writer, hymnwriter
- Carl Gustav Carus
psychologist, philosopher
- Hiram Bingham I
missionary, Bible translator
- William Swainson
conchologist, ornithologist
- Miguel Barragán
politician, military personnel
- Silvio Pellico
playwright, poet
- Manuel de la Peña y Peña
diplomat, politician
- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
journalist, aristocrat
- Manuel Gómez Pedraza
politician, diplomat
- Johann Friedrich Overbeck
poet, painter
- Betsi Cadwaladr
nurse
- Carlos Soublette
diplomat, military personnel
- Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg
aristocrat
- William Scoresby
explorer, scientist
- Carlos María de Alvear
military personnel, politician
- Catharine Sedgwick
children's writer, novelist
- Amos Kendall
writer, journalist
- François Antommarchi
university teacher, physician
- Richard Bright
geologist, physician
- Auguste Couder
draftsperson, painter
- Thomas Cochrane
naval officer, politician
- Cesare Balbo
writer, historian
- Maria Isabella of Spain
queen, aristocrat
- Clement Comer Clay
governor, jurist
- William Fairbairn
civil engineer, engineer
- Friedrich Silcher
music director, collector
- Jared Sparks
editing staff, writer
- Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
opera singer, composer
- Zinaida Volkonskaya
writer, singer
- Josephine Fodor
opera singer
- Bernhard Severin Ingemann
hymnwriter, autobiographer
- August Neander
writer, historian
- Faddey Bulgarin
poet, land owner
- Bernardo Monteagudo
revolutionary, journalist
- Peter Joseph Lenné
gardener, botanist
- Rana Jang Pande
politician
- Heinrich LXVII, Prince Reuss of Gera
sovereign, military personnel
- William Cranch Bond
astronomer, meteorological observer
- Jakob Alt
portrait painter, lithographer
- Richard Roberts
engineer, inventor
- Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul
military officer, politician
- John Ramsay McCulloch
writer, historian
- Friederike Krüger
military personnel
- Thomas Keightley
writer, historian
- Diego Noboa
politician
- Heinrich Schwabe
botanist, court counsel
- Friedrich Boie
herpetologist, naturalist
- Louis Dupré
painter, draftsperson
- Francisco Javier Mina
military officer, lawyer
- Dimitrije Davidović
writer, historian
- Francis Rawdon Chesney
explorer, botanical collector
- Joseph Rosati
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Thomas Carlin
politician, governor
- Hibetullah Sultan
aristocrat
- Pietro Tenerani
sculptor
- Jules Robert Auguste
sculptor, painter
- Nikolay Turgenev
writer, economist
- Franz Schlik
military personnel, military officer
- Isaac Hill
politician
- John Ruggles
inventor, judge
- Apostol Arsache
physician, politician
- Antonio Maria Gianelli
Catholic priest, Catholic deacon
- José Ramón Rodil, 1st Marquis of Rodil
minister, military personnel
- Alberto della Marmora
scientific collector, geologist
- William Christopher Zeise
chemist, university teacher
- Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon
founder of Catholic religious community, nun
- José Fernández Madrid
writer, politician
- Vasil Aprilov
writer, merchant
- Mikhail Zagoskin
writer, librettist
- Franz Xaver Gabelsberger
inventor
- Frederic Ernest Fesca
concertmaster, musician
- Joseph Mayseder
violinist, composer
- Ramón Carnicer
composer, university teacher
- William C. Redfield
meteorologist, paleontologist
- Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré
explorer, bryologist
- William S. Archer
lawyer, politician
- Antonio Alcalá Galiano
author, university teacher
- Ettore Perrone di San Martino
politician, military personnel
- Franz Sieber
explorer, engineer
- Friedrich Sellow
scientific collector, botanist
- Alexander Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky
writer, lieutenant general
- József Hild
architect
- John Miers
scientific illustrator, botanist
- Micurá de Rü
Catholic priest, linguist
- Márk Rózsavölgyi
composer, musician
- Edward Bromhead
mathematician, botanist
- Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
philosopher, physician
- Matthias Numsen Blytt
botanical collector, explorer
- Pierre Boitard
botanist, geologist
- Eaton Hodgkinson
mathematician, engineer
- Joakim Frederik Schouw
botanist, geographer
- Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer
violinist, conductor
- Michel Félix Dunal
botanist, pteridologist
- Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna
civil servant, art historian
- Ernst Schulze
university teacher, poet
- Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor
founder, lithographer
- Carlo Luigi Giuseppe Bertero
physicist, scientific collector
- Heinrich von Brandt
military officer, politician
- Hanna Winsnes
writer, novelist
- Justus Hiddes Halbertsma
translator, conceptual artist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Carové
lawyer, jurist
- Carl Alexander Heideloff
preservationist, architect
- Minna Herzlieb
publisher
- Friedrich von Schubert
surveyor, geographical engineer (military cartographer)
- William Broderip
malacologist, naturalist
- Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard
conductor, composer
- Alexandre-François Caminade
painter
- Antonio Maria Bordoni
mathematician
- Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin
linguist, translator of William Shakespeare
- Agustín Durán
librarian, poet
- Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée
pteridologist, botanist
- Johannes Hegetschweiler
politician, botanist
- Carl Friedrich Bruch
naturalist, notary
- Johan Emanuel Wikström
botanical collector, botanist
- August Twesten
university teacher, theologian
- Franciszek Armiński
astronomer
- Frederick IV, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg
politician, colonel
- Lorenzo Simonetti
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Johann Metzger
landscape architect, gardener