ON THIS DAY
Born in 1796
189 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Nicholas I of Russia
tsar, ruler
- James Bowie
botanist, slave trader
- Horace Mann
lawyer, politician
- Nicolas Carnot
military engineer, physicist
- Junius Brutus Booth
actor, stage actor
- Sangolli Rayanna
poet, revolutionary
- Philipp Franz von Siebold
explorer, diplomat
- John Bell
politician, lawyer
- Ang Duong
poet, writer
- Adolphe Quetelet
criminologist, writer
- William Hickling Prescott
hispanist, jurist
- David Roberts
painter
- Walter Hunt
designer, inventor
- Lilburn Boggs
governor, banker
- Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg
consort, composer
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield
settler, economist
- Adolphe Crémieux
lawyer, jurist
- Asher Brown Durand
painter, photographer
- Manto Mavrogeni
politician, military personnel
- John M. Clayton
lawyer, politician
- Michael Thonet
entrepreneur, industrialist
- Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony
politician
- James Matheson
entrepreneur, politician
- Jakob Steiner
university teacher, mathematician
- Peter Fendi
painter, caricaturist
- Franz Berwald
violist, violinist
- Reverdy Johnson
lawyer, politician
- Charles Cousin-Montauban
politician, military officer
- Andrew Butler
lawyer, jurist
- Jean-Gaspard Deburau
actor, mime artist
- George, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
military personnel
- Karl Ernst Claus
botanist, pharmacist
- Thomas Bulfinch
mythographer, banker
- James Lick
large estate owner, businessperson
- Baden Powell
mathematician, theologian
- Carl Loewe
composer, secondary school teacher
- Henry De la Beche
writer, geologist
- Anton Pann
teacher, lexicographer
- John Stevens Henslow
geologist, priest
- Matteo Carcassi
classical guitarist, musician
- August von Platen-Hallermünde
librarian, librettist
- Frederick William Beechey
scientific collector, naval officer
- Charles FitzRoy
politician
- Stephan Ludwig Roth
pastor, teacher
- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
founder of Catholic religious community, religious
- Hartley Coleridge
writer, teacher
- Evgenii Petrovich Obolenskii
military personnel, military officer
- Pavel Liprandi
military officer
- Alexandru II Ghica
politician
- Carl Ludwig Blume
pteridologist, bryologist
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
politician, historian
- William Pennington
jurist, politician
- Agnes Strickland
editor, writer
- Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont
politician
- Immanuel Hermann Fichte
writer, theologian
- John Torrey
scientific collector, mycologist
- Andreas von Ettingshausen
university teacher, physicist
- Francesco Zola
engineer, military personnel
- Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld
politician, military personnel
- Antonios Kriezis
military personnel, head of government
- Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia
aristocrat
- Phan Thanh Gian
poet, historian
- Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin
writer, entrepreneur
- François Mignet
jurist, historian
- Richard Harlan
herpetologist, botanist
- François-Louis Cailler
entrepreneur, chocolatier
- Walter Henry Medhurst
translator, dictionary author
- Antun Mihanović
diplomat, lyricist
- Alexander Stroganov
politician
- Hacıye Hoşyar Kadın
aristocrat
- George Storrs
theologian
- Francis Kenrick
bishop, translator
- George N. Briggs
politician, judge
- James Planché
writer, author
- Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Nikolai Brashman
pedagogue, mathematician
- Johann Adam Möhler
Catholic theologian, church historian
- Leopold Kupelwieser
painter
- Miklós Wesselényi
politician
- Juan Esteban Pedernera
military personnel, politician
- Philippe Buchez
journalist, physician
- Christina Robertson
editor, painter
- Ottilie von Goethe
writer, editor
- Anders Retzius
biologist, anthropologist
- Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook
politician
- Irénée-Jules Bienaymé
university teacher, mathematician
- Antonio Gutiérrez de la Fuente
politician, military personnel
- Robert Wight
surgeon, botanist
- William MacGillivray
paleobotanist, naturalist
- Stefano Franscini
politician, mathematician
- Armand Joseph Bruat
politician
- Prince George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau
aristocrat
- Joseph Meyer
bookseller, author
- Richard H. Bayard
lawyer, politician
- Julien-Léopold Boilly
painter, lithographer
- Carl Axel Gottlund
explorer, translator
- Pyotr Anjou
military personnel, explorer
- Karl Leberecht Immermann
jurist, judge
- Marcin Zaleski
painter, artist
- Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
lawyer, politician
- George Vincent
painter
- August Pauly
linguist, translator
- Johann Ludwig Casper
pediatrician, medical examiner
- Beaubrun Ardouin
historian, politician
- Suzuki Kiitsu
illustrator, painter
- Tomasz Zan
inventor, playwright
- Alexis Bachelot
Catholic priest
- Jared W. Williams
governor, lawyer
- Nikolai Polevoy
prose writer, journalist
- Achille Etna Michallon
painter
- Wilhelm Hemprich
entomologist, scientific collector
- Johann Baptist Streicher
musical instrument maker, piano maker
- Henry Foster
physicist, explorer
- Giorgio Pallavicino Trivulzio
politician
- Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
poet, literary critic
- Eugénie Niboyet
writer, journalist
- Christian Winther
prose writer, translator
- Orra White Hitchcock
scientific illustrator, artist
- Johannes von Geissel
lyricist, Catholic priest
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher
parson, Protestant theologian
- Nikolai Turczaninov
botanist, botanical collector
- Franz Anton von Gerstner
mathematician, professor
- Robert Strange
judge, lawyer
- August Wilhelm Bach
composer, organist
- Prince Alois II, Prince of Liechtenstein
patron of the arts, politician