ON THIS DAY
Born in 1791
141 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- James Buchanan
ambassador, statesperson
- Michael Faraday
writer, physicist
- Charles Babbage
inventor, engineer
- Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
ruler, consort
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse
writer, sculptor
- Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
composer, music educator
- Anne Lister
land owner, writer
- Théodore Géricault
draftsperson, graphic artist
- Hari Singh Nalwa
military leader
- Carl Czerny
conductor, composer
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
conductor, autobiographer
- Mary Baker
aristocrat
- Robert Knox
surgeon, military physician
- Francesco Hayez
graphic artist, engraver
- Minh Mạng
monarch
- Francis Preston Blair
politician, editor
- Roberto Cofresí
pirate, privateer
- Peter Cooper
inventor, politician
- István Széchenyi
writer, politician
- Said bin Sultan Al Busaidi
politician
- Alexandros Mavrokordatos
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, politician
- Jane Franklin
explorer, traveler
- Franz Grillparzer
politician, writer
- Luis Vernet
politician, merchant
- Franz Bopp
university teacher, Indologist
- Gowri Lakshmi Bayi
politician
- Eugène Scribe
composer, novelist
- James Stirling
politician, naval officer
- Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk
politician
- Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
military officer, politician
- Theodor Körner
writer, poet
- Sergey Aksakov
memoirist, writer
- Allan Cunningham
pteridologist, botanist
- Félix Savart
physician, engineer
- Ferdinand Hérold
costume designer, scenographer
- Friedrich Parrot
explorer, botanist
- Phillip Parker King
cartographer, politician
- John Howard Payne
writer, translator
- Odilon Barrot
lawyer, official
- Lydia Sigourney
essayist, writer
- Andreas Zaimis
freedom fighter, politician
- Olaf Rye
military personnel
- John Elliotson
physician, university teacher
- Johann Franz Encke
astronomer, mathematician
- Ang Chan II
king
- Thomas Edward Bowdich
cartographer, botanist
- Louis Visconti
architect
- Charles Oudinot
military officer, writer
- William Orlando Butler
lawyer, politician
- Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen
theologian, archaeologist
- Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
poet, writer
- Robert Y. Hayne
mayor, governor
- Jan Václav Voříšek
organist, composer
- Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas
writer, poet
- Henryk Dembiński
military officer, engineer
- Manuela Malasaña
embroiderer
- José María Paz
military personnel, politician
- George Ticknor
writer, educator
- José Ignacio Pavón
politician, legal counselor
- Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward
botanist, scientific collector
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg
playwright, literary historian
- John Mercer
chemist
- Jacob Collamer
politician, lawyer
- Charles Knight
editor, writer
- George Peacock
university teacher, astronomer
- Claude Pouillet
politician, physicist
- Sima Milutinović Sarajlija
linguist, historian
- Émile Deschamps
playwright, journalist
- Charles Pravaz
orthopedic surgeon, physician
- Samuel Bailey
economist, philosopher
- Ōtagaki Rengetsu
writer, nun
- John Nelson
politician, diplomat
- Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello
Christian nun, missionary
- Friedrich von Gärtner
general contractor, architect
- Francisco Acuña de Figueroa
writer, poet
- John Curtis
copper engraver, scientific illustrator
- Marie Ellenrieder
etcher, printmaker
- Jan Svatopluk Presl
naturalist, botanist
- Jean Cruveilhier
professor, anatomist
- Adolf Ivar Arwidsson
historian, writer
- Floris Adriaan van Hall
diplomat, politician
- John Brown Francis
politician
- Václav Hanka
historian, university teacher
- Francisco José Debali
conductor, composer
- Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg
author, military officer
- John McLean
lawyer, politician
- Charles Wolfe
poet, priest
- Alexandru Sturdza
writer, diplomat
- József Katona
writer, actor
- Gaetano Errico
regular priest, Catholic priest
- Enriqueta Favez
military officer, physician
- Hugh Cuming
malacologist, traveler
- Sylvester Shchedrin
painter
- Anna Claypoole Peale
artist, painter
- Denison Olmsted
physicist, astronomer
- Alexis Thérèse Petit
physicist
- Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer
university teacher, botanist
- Ambrose of Belaya Krinitsa
presbyter
- Josef Munzinger
politician
- Truman Smith
lawyer, politician
- Vasili Bebutov
military officer, military personnel
- Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti
politician, theoretical physicist
- Amand Bazard
politician, journalist
- Emma Roberts
journalist, poet
- Vladimir Adlerberg
military officer, civil servant
- Henryk Rzewuski
journalist, writer
- Kazimierz Brodziński
university teacher, historian
- William Snow Harris
physicist, inventor
- Heinrich Ritter
writer, university teacher
- Heinrich von Bülow
politician, minister
- Félix de Mérode
politician
- Sveinbjörn Egilsson
theologian, poet
- Károly Markó
painter, scientific illustrator
- Friedrich Ludwig Weidig
theologian, pedagogue
- Giorgio Jan
naturalist, herpetologist
- Peter Josef von Lindpainter
conductor, composer
- Élisa Garnerin
balloonist, skydiver
- Nikolay Bestuzhev
military officer, writer
- Juan Francisco Giró
politician
- August Breithaupt
mineralogist, university teacher
- Robert Adams
university teacher, physician
- Amalie Schoppe
children's writer, journalist
- Joseph Calasanza von Arneth
university teacher, numismatist
- José Jorge Loureiro
military personnel, writer
- Ján Chalupka
poet, writer
- Max Joseph Roemer
botanist
- Friedrich Adolf Ebert
librarian
- Franciszek Mirecki
pianist, composer
- Frederik Holst
professor, physician
- Jacques Pierre Charles Abbatucci
politician
- Nicola Antonio Manfroce
composer
- Giuseppe Domenico Botto
university teacher, physicist
- Vincenzo Tineo
university teacher, botanist
- Heinrich Wendland
gardener, botanist
- Ferdinand Josef Schmidt
merchant, entomologist
- Marie Désiré Beaulieu
musicologist, composer
- Ugo Pietro Spinola
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Christina Enschedé
painter
- Pierre Giraud
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop