ON THIS DAY
Born in 1795
174 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- James K. Polk
jurist, lawyer
- John Keats
librettist, poet
- Thomas Carlyle
writer, mathematician
- Frederick William IV of Prussia
politician
- Johns Hopkins
entrepreneur, philanthropist
- John William Polidori
physician, writer
- Anna Pavlovna of Russia
painter, draftsperson
- Leopold von Ranke
writer, university teacher
- Antonio José de Sucre
military personnel, politician
- William Lyon Mackenzie
journalist, politician
- George Peabody
financier, banker
- Alexander Griboyedov
bretteur, playwright
- Charles Barry
architect
- Dingane kaSenzangakhona
king, monarch
- Thomas Arnold
historian, teacher
- Yagan
warrior
- Henry Havelock
military officer
- Charles Sturt
military commander, discoverer
- Policarpa Salavarrieta
spy, dressmaker
- Robert F. Stockton
naval officer, politician
- Ary Scheffer
pastellist, painter
- Hadji Murad
politician
- James Braid
hypnotherapist, surgeon
- Rowland Hill
politician, teacher
- James Gordon Bennett Sr.
journalist, businessperson
- Andrew Dung-Lac
presbyter
- Frances Wright
feminist, writer
- Ghazi Muhammad
politician, imam
- Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria
general field marshal, politician
- Ernst Heinrich Weber
anatomist, physiologist
- Robert Moffat
writer, explorer
- John Russell
presbyter
- Kondraty Ryleyev
writer, poet
- Vincent Pallotti
missionary, presbyter
- Antoine-Louis Barye
sculptor, painter
- Saverio Mercadante
conductor, director
- Gabriel Lamé
university teacher, physicist
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
ecologist, author
- Pavel Jozef Šafárik
philosopher, slavist
- John P. Kennedy
lawyer, jurist
- Anton Schindler
opinion journalist, musician
- Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa
military personnel, politician
- Zvi Hirsch Kalischer
Zionist, rabbi
- Heinrich August Marschner
composer, conductor
- Olinde Rodrigues
economist, banker
- Karl Ludwig Sand
student, murderer
- Nikita Muraviev
military personnel, historian
- Silas Wright
Brigadegeneral, politician
- Edwin Beard Budding
engineer, inventor
- Paul Chong Hasang
philosopher
- Pedro María de Anaya
military personnel, politician
- Joseph Wolff
missionary, explorer
- Benjamin Morrell
explorer
- Benjamin Franklin Butler
lawyer, politician
- Adélina Lévêque
politician
- John Francis Davis
orientalist, translator
- Augustin Thierry
writer, librarian
- Louis Choris
explorer, painter
- Matthias W. Baldwin
engineer, inventor
- José Miguel de Velasco
politician
- Jakob von Hartmann
military personnel
- William Dunn Moseley
jurist, lawyer
- José María Obando
politician, military personnel
- Luis José de Orbegoso
military personnel, politician
- Nathaniel P. Tallmadge
writer, governor
- Princess Amalie of Baden
aristocrat
- Anselme Payen
chemist, botanist
- Adolf Bernhard Marx
jurist, music theorist
- Aaron V. Brown
politician, lawyer
- Anthony Norris Groves
dentist, writer
- José Gregorio Monagas
politician
- Francisco Manuel da Silva
composer
- Thomas Wakley
surgeon, journalist
- Gabriele Ferretti
diplomat, Catholic bishop
- Charles von Hügel
military personnel, botanical collector
- George Tyler Wood
businessperson, governor
- Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter
politician, cricketer
- Pedro Blanco Soto
politician
- Robert Lucas de Pearsall
composer
- Nikolaos Mantzaros
composer
- Mihr 'Ali
painter, artist
- James McDowell
politician
- Jacques Louis Randon
politician, military officer
- Joseph Böhm
music educator, musicologist
- Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquis of Sá da Bandeira
politician, minister
- Vasily Perovsky
military personnel
- Bernt Michael Holmboe
mathematician, university teacher
- Peter Andreas Hansen
mathematician, scientist
- Lewis F. Linn
politician
- Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers
politician, military personnel
- Anton von Prokesch-Osten
politician, numismatist
- George Edmund Badger
judge, lawyer
- Sebastián Ágreda
politician
- Heinrich Rose
chemist, university teacher
- George Gawler
military officer, politician
- José María Luis Mora
Catholic priest, essayist
- Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach
politician, journalist
- Moritz Heinrich Romberg
pathologist, university teacher
- François Norbert Blanchet
Catholic priest, missionary
- Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau
anatomist, surgeon
- Peter Jan Beckx
Catholic theologian, Catholic priest
- William Lee D. Ewing
politician
- Christian Friedrich Ecklon
scientific collector, botanical collector
- Carl Christian Rafn
university teacher, translator
- Carl Anton von Meyer
explorer, botanist
- Georg Heinrich Pertz
medievalist, historian
- Joseph Bienaimé Caventou
pharmacist, biochemist
- Karl Eichwald
university teacher, explorer
- Čučuk Stana
revolutionary
- Benizelos Rouphos
head of government, politician
- Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy
politician, diplomat
- Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger
optician, mineralogist
- Arthur Morin
military officer, inventor
- William S. Fulton
politician, jurist
- Lazarus von Mamula
military officer
- Rudolf von Auerswald
politician
- James Oliver Van de Velde
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Thaddeus William Harris
botanical collector, botanist
- Heinrich Hübsch
architect, university teacher
- Joseph Rodman Drake
poet, writer
- William Jack
botanical collector, surgeon
- Prospero Caterini
Catholic priest, Catholic theologian
- Luigi Canina
university teacher, anthropologist
- Fulgence Fresnel
orientalist, translator
- Edward Kavanagh
diplomat, lawyer
- Just Mathias Thiele
autobiographer, poet
- Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard
university teacher, art historian
- Giovanni Merlini
missionary, Catholic priest
- Moritz Gottlieb Saphir
playwright, writer
- Johann Friedrich Böhmer
historian, archivist
- James Gates Percival
writer, poet
- Helene Liebmann
pianist, singer
- Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker
pathologist, historian
- Thomas Leverton Donaldson
architect, writer
- Benjamin Wegner
timber merchant, industrialist
- Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos
journalist, politician
- Joseph Toussaint Reinaud
librarian, historian
- François Nicholas Madeleine Morlot
Catholic bishop, politician
- Anders Fryxell
Protestant theologian, philosopher
- Karl Philipp Fohr
landscape painter, graphic artist
- Ludwig Bledow
chess player
- Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe
opinion journalist, journalist
- Johann Georg Ramsauer
archaeologist, prehistorian
- Lorenzo Arrazola y García
minister, magistrate
- Friedrich August von Alberti
engineer, geologist
- Amable Tastu
poet, librettist
- Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe
bryologist, botanist
- Edward Douglass White
judge, governor