ON THIS DAY
Born in 1797
195 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Mary Shelley
poet, biographer
- Franz Schubert
pianist, composer
- Sojourner Truth
feminist, religious leader
- Wilhelm I
politician, monarch
- Heinrich Heine
poet, theatre critic
- Mirza Ghalib
prose writer, historian
- Shamil
resistance fighter, imam
- Utagawa Hiroshige
xylographer, artist
- Maria Leopoldina of Austria
monarch
- Gaetano Donizetti
composer
- Kamehameha II
sovereign
- Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi
writer, mufti
- Charles Lyell
writer, geologist
- Manuela Sáenz
military officer, revolutionary
- James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
politician, military personnel
- Paul Delaroche
photographer, draftsperson
- Joseph Henry
physicist, art historian
- George Tupou I
monarch
- Friedrich August II of Saxony
regent, botanical collector
- Karl Otfried Müller
historian of classical antiquity, classical philologist
- Grigory Zass
military personnel, military officer
- Prince Frederik of the Netherlands
military personnel
- Alfred de Vigny
writer, poet
- Innocent of Alaska
linguist, priest
- Bakht Khan
revolutionary
- Gerrit Smith
social reformer, lawyer
- Queen Maria Isabel of Spain
consort, aristocrat
- Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg
aristocrat
- ʿUmar Tal
ulema, sheikh
- Paweł Strzelecki
journalist, scientist
- Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg
aristocrat
- Charles Hodge
university teacher, theologian
- Adele Schopenhauer
writer
- Narciso López
military personnel, politician
- Ramón Castilla
military personnel, politician
- Mary Lyon
principal, pedagogue
- Antonio Rosmini
writer, Catholic priest
- Frederic Baraga
linguist, missionary
- Benjamin Bonneville
military officer, businessperson
- Ida Laura Pfeiffer
ethnographer, travel writer
- Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
plantation owner, politician
- Edwin Vose Sumner
merchant, major general
- Emily Eden
writer, poet
- John Joseph Hughes
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Pierre Leroux
politician, economist
- Giuseppe Ferlini
explorer, anthropologist
- Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
governor, entomologist
- Abraham Pineo Gesner
geologist, physician
- Jeremias Gotthelf
parson, novelist
- José Mariano Salas
military personnel, politician
- Ioannis Makriyannis
military personnel, freedom fighter
- Nezumi Kozō
ninja, thief
- Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
physicist, physiologist
- Juan Lavalle
politician, military personnel
- Richard Hawes
judge, lawyer
- January Suchodolski
painter
- José de Urrea
military personnel
- Mariano Paredes
minister, politician
- Hamilton Hume
traveler, explorer
- Emily de Vialar
founder of Catholic religious community, nun
- Andrew Smith
physician, surgeon
- Naum Veqilharxhi
lawyer, translator
- Philippe Suchard
entrepreneur
- Carl Gustaf Mosander
pharmacologist, mineralogist
- Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg
explorer, major general
- Anthony Panizzi
librarian, politician
- Wilhelm Fürst von Radziwill
politician, military personnel
- John Gardner Wilkinson
explorer, archaeologist
- Antoine Claudet
photographer
- Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
politician, diplomat
- Wilhelm Küchelbecker
poet, pedagogue
- Joseph-Désiré Court
curator, conservator
- Dong Haichuan
martial artist
- Buşatlı Mustafa Paşa
politician
- Alexander Bestuzhev
opinion journalist, writer
- Charles Anthon
classical philologist, university teacher
- Heinrich Kuhl
ornithologist, traveler
- Archibald Yell
jurist, politician
- Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke
explorer, land owner
- Francisco Javier Echeverría
politician, minister
- Yohannes III
politician
- Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
actor-manager, theatre manager
- Wilhelm Beer
astronomer, selenographer
- Piotr Wysocki
colonel, military officer
- Hugh S. Legaré
diplomat, politician
- Jean-Marie Duhamel
mathematician, physicist
- Hadi Sabzavari
poet, philosopher
- Edwin James
botanical collector, botanist
- Joseph von Radowitz
politician, diplomat
- Edward Turner Bennett
zoologist, ichthyologist
- Barthélémy Du Mortier
naturalist, pomologist
- Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant
literary translator, engineer
- Joseph Othmar Rauscher
politician, Catholic bishop
- John M. Patton
lawyer, governor
- Carlo Blasis
choreographer, ballet master
- John Fairfield
jurist, politician
- Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
lithographer, visual artist
- Jan Jacob Rochussen
politician, diplomat
- Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
politician, sovereign
- Thomas Drummond
civil engineer, inventor
- Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein
politician, topographer
- Johann Andreas Wagner
archaeologist, zoologist
- Juan José Guzmán
politician
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff
pedagogue, university teacher
- Ludwig Förster
professor, architect
- Georg Gerlach
military officer
- Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
botanical collector, botanist
- Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
politician
- Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
botanical collector, university teacher
- Étienne Mulsant
naturalist, librarian
- Peter Georg Bang
university teacher, jurist
- Michael Garicoits
founder of Catholic religious community, Catholic priest
- Carl Rottmann
painter, landscape painter
- Gotthilf Hagen
mathematician, civil servant
- Cornelis Kruseman
lithographer, printmaker
- Heinrich Berghaus
cartographer, botanist
- Mary Buckland
paleontologist, marine biologist
- Alexandre Vinet
writer, journalist
- Joseph Méry
poet, novelist
- Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
zoologist, arachnologist
- George Julius Poulett Scrope
volcanologist, mineralogist
- Sophie Fremiet
painter
- Joseph Guislain
university teacher, physician
- Matija Čop
linguist, librarian
- Franz Graf von Wimpffen
military officer
- Frederick William Hope
zoologist, carcinologist
- Friedrich August Kummer
cellist, oboist
- Léonard Charner
politician
- George Evans
jurist, politician
- Jean Victor Audouin
arachnologist, naturalist
- John Braithwaite
railway engineer, civil engineer