ON THIS DAY
Born in 1792
170 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
poet, librettist
- Pius IX
diplomat, Catholic bishop
- Gioachino Rossini
composer
- William II of the Netherlands
military personnel, politician
- Thaddeus Stevens
lawyer, politician
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
politician
- John Frederick William Herschel
astronomer, physicist
- George M. Dallas
diplomat, politician
- Charles Grandison Finney
lawyer, religious leader
- Gulab Singh
monarch
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
university teacher, mathematician
- Francisco Morazán
writer, politician
- James Mayer de Rothschild
banker, businessperson
- Anne Isabella Byron
activist, mathematician
- Alexander Ypsilantis
military personnel, major general
- Johann Georg Hiedler
miller
- David Sassoon
entrepreneur, financier
- Caroline Augusta of Bavaria
aristocrat
- John Church Hamilton
lawyer, politician
- George Cruikshank
photographer, illustrator
- Francisco de Paula Santander
politician, military personnel
- Mangas Coloradas
traditional leader or chief
- Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
military officer, politician
- Frederick Marryat
novelist, naval officer
- Lucas Alamán
botanist, diplomat
- Sarah Grimké
writer, abolitionist
- Wilhelm I, Duke of Nassau
aristocrat
- Karl Ernst von Baer
zoologist, botanical collector
- Carlos Antonio López
lawyer, politician
- Joseph Mohr
Catholic priest, parson
- John George Lambton Durham
diplomat, politician
- John Keble
university teacher, hymnwriter
- John Bowring
linguist, economist
- Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
engineer, physicist
- Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet
botanist, geologist
- Andrés de Santa Cruz
general field marshal, military commander
- William Hobson
explorer
- Thomas Mitchell
politician, explorer
- Joseph Bates
Seventh-day Adventist minister, sailor
- José Joaquín de Herrera
military personnel, politician
- Victor Cousin
philosophy historian, politician
- Lowell Mason
music educator, composer
- Ferdinand Christian Baur
university teacher, Protestant theologian
- Jeanne Jugan
Christian nun, religious sister
- Edward Irving
teacher, Christian minister
- Edward John Trelawny
writer, biographer
- Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia
aristocrat
- Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark
aristocrat
- Maria Quitéria
soldier, military personnel
- James G. Birney
writer, politician
- Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
military officer, mathematician
- Manuel Oribe
military personnel, politician
- Johann Peter Eckermann
poet, philosopher
- Girolamo Segato
physician, archaeologist
- Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland
politician, naval officer
- Therese Malfatti
musician, pianist
- Hendrik Potgieter
politician, explorer
- Willie Person Mangum
lawyer, judge
- George Hayter
printmaker, painter
- Francis Granger
politician, lawyer
- Gustav Schwab
writer, parson
- Samuel Nelson
judge, lawyer
- Johan August Arfwedson
chemist, notary
- James Guthrie
politician, lawyer
- Pyotr Vyazemsky
historian, linguist
- John Linnell
poet, artist
- Thomas Phillipps
collector
- Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg
politician
- Henrietta d'Oultremont
lady-in-waiting
- Edward Hincks
assyriologist, archaeologist
- Prince Wilhelm of Baden
politician
- Dominic Barberi
Catholic priest, theologian
- Isaac Toucey
politician
- Peter von Hess
lithographer, painter
- Christian Albrecht Jensen
portraitist, painter
- Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet
politician
- Martin Ohm
member of parliament, politician
- Cipriani Potter
music arranger, music educator
- August von Haxthausen
diplomat, agronomist
- Lajos Aulich
military officer, military personnel
- Duke Adam of Württemberg
aristocrat, lieutenant general
- Nadira
writer, poet
- Christian Julius de Meza
military personnel, military leader
- António José Severim de Noronha, 1st Duke of Terceira
military personnel, politician
- Friedrich Staps
patriot, merchant
- Jacques Ignace Hittorff
general contractor, archaeologist
- William Howitt
poet, writer
- Fryderyk Skarbek
author, painter
- Lev Perovski
politician, mineralogist
- Thomas Romney Robinson
astronomer, physicist
- Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach
surgeon, university teacher
- José María Carreño
politician, military officer
- Andreas Kalvos
journalist, translator
- Gino Capponi
politician, writer
- Thomas Bell
herpetologist, physician
- John Gayle
governor, politician
- Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Moritz Hauptmann
music theorist, music director
- Osman Pasha
military officer
- Joaquim António de Aguiar
military personnel, head of government
- Engelbert Sterckx
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- James Francis Stephens
lepidopterist, ornithologist
- James Ellsworth De Kay
zoologist, travel writer
- Vicente Ramón Roca
merchant, politician
- William Sharp Macleay
biologist, zoological collector
- Gong Zizhen
poet, philosopher
- James Beaumont Neilson
businessperson, inventor
- Enrico Marconi
architect
- Ida Brun
actor, singer
- Alexander Hill Everett
diplomat, translator
- Isaac Lea
malacologist, author
- Johann Georg Christian Lehmann
university teacher, entomologist
- Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet
jurist, economist
- Ivan Lazhechnikov
writer
- Mariano Roque Alonzo
politician, soldier
- Topal İzzet Mehmed Paşa
politician, writer
- Ann Hall
painter, artist
- Nicolas Toussaint Charlet
draftsperson, printmaker
- Girolamo Ramorino
military personnel, politician
- Jean Civiale
physician, urologist
- Philip Musard
tour promoter, violinist
- Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder
draftsperson, printmaker
- Reuben Wood
politician, lawyer
- Luigi Poletti
philanthropist, engineer
- Gustav Bischof
geologist, university teacher
- Friderich Adolph Schleppegrell
military officer
- David J. Baker
lawyer, politician
- Antonio Corazzi
architect
- Boris Orlovsky
sculptor
- Christian Gmelin
chemist, university teacher
- Antonio González, 1st Marquis of Valdeterrazo
minister, jurist
- Liborio Mejía
politician
- Pyotr Pletnyov
university teacher, literary scholar
- Václav Kliment Klicpera
pedagogue, playwright
- Franz Hünten
pianist, composer
- Jean-Jacques Willmar
diplomat, judge
- Filippo de Angelis
Catholic priest, archbishop
- Francis Boott
botanical collector, physician
- Henrik Anker Bjerregaard
judge, poet lawyer
- Mario Mattei
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth
botanist, physician
- Gioacchino Ventura di Raulica
preacher, philosopher
- Virginie Ancelot
memoirist, salonnière
- Abraham Jacob van der Aa
historian, civil servant
- Louis Drouet
musician, composer