ON THIS DAY
Born in 1794
190 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
railway executive, entrepreneur
- Antonio López de Santa Anna
politician, military officer
- Matthew C. Perry
sailor, seafarer
- Robert Liston
surgeon, inventor
- Sylvester Graham
preacher, health activist
- William Cullen Bryant
translator, lawyer
- Edward Everett
foreign minister, writer
- Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain
aristocrat, politician
- Józef Bem
engineer, military officer
- William Whewell
art historian, astronomer
- Prince Friedrich of Prussia
aristocrat
- Dwarkanath Tagore
entrepreneur
- George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster
aristocrat, orientalist
- Ignaz Moscheles
university teacher, pedagogue
- Stephen W. Kearny
politician, military personnel
- Feargus O'Connor
lawyer, socialist
- Jacques Collin de Plancy
writer, occultist
- Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
draftsperson, visual artist
- Pyotr Chaadayev
politician, philosopher
- Jeanne Villepreux-Power
dressmaker, researcher
- Theobald Boehm
composer, flautist
- Wilhelm Müller
military personnel, composer
- Tusun Pasha
politician
- Princess Maria Amalie of Saxony
composer, aristocrat
- Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge
university teacher, chemist
- Augustus d'Este
Lieutenant
- María Manuela Kirkpatrick
courtier, aristocrat
- George Grote
writer, banker
- Léon Cogniet
painter, draftsperson
- Thomas Corwin
diplomat, politician
- Charles Longley
Anglican priest, archbishop
- Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen
aristocrat
- James B. Longacre
medalist, engraver
- Edward Robinson
archaeologist, university teacher
- Eduard Rüppell
botanist, zoologist
- August von Senarclens de Grancy
civil servant
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
scientific collector, botanist
- Elias Magnus Fries
mycologist, pteridologist
- Aimable Pélissier
politician, diplomat
- Gerrit Schimmelpenninck
statesperson, diplomat
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg
geographer, politician
- Asaf Jah IV of Hyderabad
sovereign
- François-Vincent Raspail
chemist, politician
- Mihail Sturdza
politician
- Nancy Maria Donaldson Johnson
inventor
- Achille Valenciennes
zoologist, ornithologist
- Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen
aristocrat, politician
- Baysangur of Benoa
military leader
- Wei Yuan
historian, writer
- Queen Tripurasundari
politician
- Charles Robert Leslie
autobiographer, portrait painter
- Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky
traveler, military personnel
- Konstantin Thon
university teacher, architect
- René Lesson
botanist, ornithologist
- John Gibson Lockhart
jurist, biographer
- Leopold Zunz
philologist, Judaic scholar
- Eilhard Mitscherlich
university teacher, mineralogist
- Wilhelm Hensel
painter
- Philippe Le Bas
archaeologist, librarian
- William Carleton
journalist, writer
- Charles Greville
athlete, opinion journalist
- Valentín Canalizo
politician, minister
- Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
military personnel, philosopher
- Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
art critic, painter
- José Justo Corro
lawyer, politician
- Princess Maria Theresia of Thurn and Taxis
lady-in-waiting
- Jean Pierre Flourens
physician, physiologist
- George Cathcart
army officer, diplomat
- Heinrich XX, Prince Reuss of Greiz
military officer
- Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
botanist, gardener
- William Ellis
theologian, writer
- Mizuno Tadakuni
samurai, politician
- Anselm Hüttenbrenner
composer, pianist
- Henriette d'Angeville
speleologist, mountain guide
- Nikolay Galitzin
music critic, cellist
- Joseph Lebeau
journalist, lawyer
- Jacques Babinet
meteorologist, university teacher
- John Bede Polding
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Mirza Shafi Vazeh
teacher, poet
- Yusuf Ma Dexin
translator
- Luigi Lablache
singer, composer
- Arthur P. Bagby
politician, diplomat
- Carl Joseph Begas
university teacher, painter
- Christian Albrecht Bluhme
judge, diplomat
- Giovanni Battista Rubini
opera singer
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné
theologian, writer
- Elias Kane
lawyer, judge
- Gustav Friedrich Waagen
teacher, art historian
- John Biscoe
explorer
- Johann Heinrich von Mädler
astronomer
- Léopold Robert
painter
- John Conolly
psychiatrist
- Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
botanist, botanical collector
- Ferdinand Schubert
teacher, choir director
- Ami Boué
physician, geologist
- Umihana Čuvidina
poet, writer
- Joseph Duncan
politician
- Francisco Ferrera
lawyer, politician
- Thomas Maclear
astronomer
- Friedrich Christian Diez
philologist, writer
- Gabriel Antonio Pereira
politician
- Andreas Johan Sjögren
traveler, linguist
- Eberhard Friedrich Walcker
musical instrument maker, organ builder
- Poul Martin Møller
poet, linguist
- Allah Kuli Bahadur Khan
sovereign
- Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan
politician, lawyer
- Jean-Pierre Falret
physician, psychiatrist
- Eugene O'Curry
historian, university teacher
- William C. Preston
lawyer, politician
- Sergey Stroganov
art collector, military personnel
- Lawrence Brainerd
politician, banker
- Robert Kaye Greville
botanical collector, botanical illustrator
- Achille Richard
botanical collector, scientific illustrator
- Eduard Friedrich Eversmann
ornithologist, zoologist
- Johann Baptist Coronini-Cronberg
military officer, military personnel
- Carl Borivoj Presl
mycologist, curator
- Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy
translator, orientalist
- Heinrich Boie
herpetologist, ornithologist
- François Benoist
music educator, organist
- James Backhouse
horticulturist, illustrator
- Alexander O. Anderson
judge, politician
- Germinal Pierre Dandelin
engineer, mining engineer
- George Powell
explorer
- Temple Chevallier
teacher, university teacher
- Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
Catholic bishop, titular bishop
- Jan Feliks Piwarski
lithographer, exhibition curator
- Jean-Louis Taberd
linguist, missionary
- Johann Jacob Baeyer
military personnel, surveyor
- Oliver H. Smith
lawyer, politician
- Josef Proksch
composer, pedagogue
- Valentín Ferraz y Barrau
minister, military personnel
- Christian Heinrich Pander
explorer, zoologist
- Friedrich Balduin von Gagern
military personnel
- James Fazy
journalist, writer
- Pierre Adolphe Piorry
poet, physician
- Amalie Sieveking
writer, nurse