ON THIS DAY
Born in 1798
183 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Auguste Comte
philosopher, sociologist
- Pedro I of Brazil
composer, poet
- Eugène Delacroix
muralist, photographer
- Adam Mickiewicz
librarian, professor
- Alexandra Feodorovna
aristocrat, tsar
- Claire Clairmont
writer, poet
- Giacomo Leopardi
philologist, philosopher
- Carlo Alberto I of Sardinia
regent, sovereign
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi
xylographer, illustrator
- Jules Michelet
writer, diarist
- Mirabeau B. Lamar
diplomat, journalist
- Abigail Fillmore
politician
- James Beckwourth
writer, mountain man
- Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer
aristocrat, politician
- Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
explorer, politician
- Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia
aristocrat
- Princess Maria Carolina, Duchess of Berry
art collector
- Anson Jones
businessperson, politician
- Charles Wilkes
botanical collector, scientific collector
- August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
musicologist, librettist
- František Palacký
writer, heraldist
- John Adams Dix
ambassador, lawyer
- Thomas Hodgkin
abolitionist, anatomist
- Dionysios Solomos
poet, writer
- George Don
botanical collector, horticulturist
- Levi Coffin
merchant, abolitionist
- Josiah Warren
economist, writer
- Samuel Cooper
military personnel, military officer
- Johan Rudolph Thorbecke
political scientist, university teacher
- Alexander Gorchakov
chancellor, politician
- Lady Mary Fox
writer, aristocrat
- Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
businessperson, violin maker
- Nakayama Miki
religious leader
- Massimo d'Azeglio
politician, painter
- Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud
military officer, military personnel
- Abel Hugo
journalist, writer
- Judah Alkalai
opinion journalist, rabbi
- Franz Ernst Neumann
crystallographer, military volunteer
- Albert Barnes
preacher, writer
- John Anthony Quitman
politician, judge
- Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera
statesperson, politician
- Princess Sophie Esterházy of Liechtenstein
lady-in-waiting, aristocrat
- Mathabar Singh Thapa
politician
- Alfred Victor du Pont
entrepreneur, chemist
- James Murray Mason
jurist, lawyer
- Alexander McDonnell
chess player
- José María Córdova
military personnel
- Ferenc Gyulay
governor, minister
- Robert Seymour
illustrator, etcher
- Marie Dorval
stage actor, actor
- Christoph Gudermann
mathematician
- Jules Armand Dufaure
lawyer, politician
- Thomas Crofton Croker
writer
- Carl Blechen
graphic artist, painter
- William Edmond Logan
geologist, geographer
- George W. Crawford
public prosecutor general, jurist
- Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
military officer
- Alessandro Antonelli
politician, architect
- José Hilario López
politician, military officer
- Thomas Holliday Hicks
politician, lawyer
- Joshua King
university teacher, mathematician
- Pierre Frédéric Sarrus
mathematician
- Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
university teacher, philologist
- Ciro Menotti
politician
- Alexei Lvov
violinist, writer
- Louise of Anhalt-Dessau
aristocrat
- Alexander Brullov
architect, painter
- Eduard Gans
philosopher, university teacher
- Charles-Philippe Larivière
draftsperson, graphic artist
- Anton Delvig
translator, poet
- Nalî
writer, poet
- Costantino Patrizi Naro
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- James Sevier Conway
farmer
- William Alcott
writer, children's writer
- Ivan Pushchin
jurist, judge
- Mustafa Naili Paşa
writer, politician
- John Clements Wickham
naval officer, cartographer
- Ditlev Blunck
painter
- Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton
politician
- Gregory VI
patriarch, Eastern Orthodox priest
- John Cochrane
lawyer, chess player
- William Cooper
zoologist, ornithologist
- Henri Bertini
composer, pianist
- Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov
entrepreneur, military personnel
- Thomas James Henderson
mathematician, astronomer
- Isaac da Costa
politician, theologian
- Gustav Rose
crystallographer, university teacher
- John Banim
playwright, writer
- James Semple
diplomat, politician
- Herman Wilhelm Bissen
sculptor
- Gustav Adolf Michaelis
obstetrician, physician
- Ivane Andronikashvili
military personnel
- Kyriakos Pittakis
classical archaeologist, military personnel
- Heinrich Scherk
mathematician, astronomer
- Macedonio Melloni
physicist
- Karl Georg Christian von Staudt
university teacher, secondary school teacher
- Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
statistician, politician
- Gabrio Casati
politician
- Luise Hensel
teacher, writer
- Klementyna Hoffmanowa
novelist, pedagogue
- Georg Friedrich Puchta
judge, university teacher
- Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui
political economist, politician
- Willibald Alexis
literary critic, bookseller
- Bonaventura Genelli
graphic artist, illustrator
- Félix Duban
restorer, architect
- Friedrich Eduard Beneke
philosopher, psychologist
- Sophronius III of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Carl Gottlieb Reissiger
violinist, conductor
- Francisco Zelaya y Ayes
head of state, politician
- David Macbeth Moir
writer, physician
- Marie-Félicité Brosset
archaeologist, translator
- Andrea Maffei
linguist, translator
- Konstantin Danil
painter
- Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont
mining engineer, professor
- John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
astronomer
- Dow Ber Meisels
rabbi, politician
- Eduard Friedrich Poeppig
mycologist, explorer
- Hendrik Scheffer
draftsperson, painter
- Aleksander Zawadzki
naturalist, physicist
- Richard Laming
philosopher, surgeon
- Karl Ludwig von Bruck
politician
- Ramón de la Sagra
botanical collector, botanist
- Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix
mathematician, engineer
- Wolfgang Menzel
poet, editing staff
- Daniel Frederik Eschricht
anatomist, scientific collector
- Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling
botanist, explorer
- Karl Eduard von Holtei
director, playwright
- John Smith
gardener, botanist
- Philarète Chasles
translator, critic
- Xavier Boniface Saintine
poet, librettist
- Joaquín María López y López
poet, military personnel
- Duncan Forbes
Indologist, museologist
- Harro Harring
poet, opinion journalist
- Joseph Anselm Feuerbach
art historian, philologist
- Paolo Savi
ornithologist, naturalist
- Gustav Parthey
art historian, classical philologist
- Edward Joshua Cooper
astronomer, politician
- Jacques Bernard Hombron
surgeon, botanist
- Luis Fernández de Córdova
diplomat, military personnel
- Melchior von Diepenbrock
Catholic priest, translator
- Richard M. Young
judge, lawyer
- Sámuel Brassai
newspaper editor, philologist
- Jacques Jasmin
poet, writer
- Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire
politician, sculptor
- Baptiste Capefigue
biographer, journalist