ON THIS DAY
Born in 1799
172 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Alexander Pushkin
poet, book collector
- Honoré de Balzac
literary critic, dramaturge
- Mary Anning
scientific collector, paleontologist
- Oscar I of Sweden
monarch, composer
- Dred Scott
activist, slave
- Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
politician
- Jedediah Smith
historian, cartographer
- Amos Bronson Alcott
writer, teacher
- Simon Cameron
banker, politician
- Gustav, Prince of Vasa
military officer
- Anna Atkins
botanical collector, illustrator
- James Prinsep
numismatist, colonial administrator
- Karl Bryullov
painter, architect
- Thomas Hood
editor, poet
- Josiah Harlan
military personnel
- David Douglas
botanical collector, biologist
- Duchess Marie of Württemberg
aristocrat
- Samuel George Morton
anthropologist, botanist
- David Don
botanist, botanical collector
- Omar Ali Saifuddin II of Brunei
politician
- Duchess Amelia of Württemberg
aristocrat
- Fromental Halévy
composer, academic musician
- Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur
writer, children's writer
- Rodolphe Töpffer
illustrator, teacher
- Hanaya Yohei
cook
- Mariano Gomes
priest, writer
- Eliza Acton
cook, poet
- Almeida Garrett
playwright, writer
- John Lindley
botanist, scientific collector
- William Lassell
physicist, merchant
- Ignaz von Döllinger
politician, librarian
- Tanaka Hisashige
inventor
- Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
engineer, university teacher
- Nathaniel Palmer
explorer, naval officer
- Mary Howitt
editor, linguist
- René Caillié
travel writer, explorer
- Frederick Catherwood
lithographer, photographer
- Rufus Choate
politician, lawyer
- Petrache Poenaru
physicist, engineer
- Edward Belcher
surveyor, naval officer
- Pauline Jaricot
layperson, missionary
- Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei
politician
- Manuel Bulnes
military personnel, politician
- Basil Moreau
Catholic priest
- John Y. Mason
politician, lawyer
- Christian Friedrich Schönbein
university teacher, chemist
- Yang Lu-ch'an
martial artist
- Vincenz Priessnitz
farmer, hydrotherapist
- George Finlay
historian, writer
- Princess Maria Anna of Saxony
classical scholar
- Prosper Menière
physician
- Alexander Petrov
chess player, chess composer
- Ludwig Rellstab
librettist, music critic
- François-Auguste Biard
painter, draftsperson
- John Stringfellow
engineer
- Titian Peale
zoologist, naturalist
- Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau
aristocrat, military officer
- Morteza Ansari
marji', ulema
- George Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle
writer, politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
astronomer, university teacher
- Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
military personnel, politician
- Gabriel Valencia
military personnel, politician
- William M. Meredith
lawyer, politician
- James A. Bayard Jr.
politician, lawyer
- Robert von Mohl
university teacher, philosopher
- John Wesley Davis
diplomat, politician
- Heinrich von Gagern
military personnel, member of parliament
- Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
politician
- Alois Negrelli
engineer, architect
- Petar Beron
writer, naturalist
- Catherine Gore
novelist, writer
- Isaac Babbitt
businessperson, engineer
- Alessandro Ferrero La Marmora
military officer
- George Payne Rainsford James
diplomat, novelist
- Wojciech Jastrzębowski
university teacher, botanist
- Jean Baptiste Boisduval
zoological collector, entomologist
- Joachim Barrande
botanist, geologist
- Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds
engineer, draftsperson
- Andrzej Towiański
philosopher, religious leader
- Maria Ann Smith
farmer
- Karl Adolph von Basedow
physician
- Isaac Murphy
lawyer, jurist
- Samuel Gobat
Anglican priest, Bible translator
- Stanislas Julien
professor, translator
- Henri Druey
lawyer, philosopher
- Felipe Poey
writer, zoological collector
- Ferdinand Reich
university teacher, Bergbeamter
- Paula Montal Fornés
founder of Catholic religious community, religious sister
- Joseph Saxton
physicist, inventor
- Reuben Chapman
politician
- Ebenezer Emmons
scientific collector, botanist
- Ernő Kiss
revolutionary, military officer
- Charles II, Duke of Parma
sovereign
- Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
playwright, lyricist
- Mihály Táncsics
writer, politician
- John Forbes Royle
botanical collector, physician
- Francis Thomas
diplomat, lawyer
- August Tholuck
Protestant theologian, theologian
- Claire Démar
journalist, writer
- Félix Guérin-Méneville
ichthyologist, naturalist
- František Čelakovský
editing staff, linguist
- Líbero Badaró
journalist, botanist
- Joshua Baker
lawyer, governor
- Arvid Adolf Etholén
politician, explorer
- Joshua L. Martin
judge, politician
- August Kopisch
poet, painter
- Michael Thomas Bass
politician, entrepreneur
- Priscilla Susan Bury
botanist, scientific illustrator
- Avdotia Istomina
ballet dancer, actor
- Suzanne Voilquin
journalist, editor
- Olivia Buckley
composer, pianist
- Imre Frivaldszky
naturalist, botanist
- William Rutter Dawes
astronomer
- Heinrich Leo
Germanist, opinion journalist
- Yosyf Semashko
Eastern Orthodox priest, Catholic bishop
- Thomas Witlam Atkinson
painter, writer
- Henri Decaisne
visual artist, painter
- Alexey Verstovsky
playwright, composer
- John Gray
economist, writer
- Henrik Nikolai Krøyer
carcinologist, scientific collector
- Henry Monnier
caricaturist, writer
- Eduard Magnus
university teacher, painter
- José María Alfaro Zamora
judge, politician
- Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher
explorer, entomologist
- Friedrich Eduard Schulz
philosopher, assyriologist
- Adolphe Pictet
Indo-Europeanist, writer
- Terenzio, Count Mamiani della Rovere
diplomat, writer
- Heinrich von Kittlitz
naturalist, illustrator
- Anosov Pavel Petrovich
mining engineer, metallurgist
- Gu Taiqing
writer, poet
- François-Isidore Gagelin
Catholic priest, missionary
- Samuel Dickinson Hubbard
politician, lawyer
- Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn
music theorist, musicographer
- George Arnott Walker Arnott
botanist, scientific collector
- Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy
entomologist, naturalist
- August Riedel
painter
- Adolph Kupffer
physicist, meteorologist
- Giuseppe Persiani
composer
- Marie Roch Louis Reybaud
writer, politician
- Emil Bærentzen
lithographer, painter
- Anders Edvard Ramsay
military personnel
- Robert Hay
traveler, Egyptologist
- Fyodor Matyushkin
explorer, military personnel
- Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat
botanical collector, zoologist
- Serafín Estébanez Calderón
politician, literary historian
- Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer
botanist, lepidopterist
- Eugène Verboeckhoven
painter, sculptor
- Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot
entomologist, zoologist
