ON THIS DAY
Born in 1802
209 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Alexandre Dumas
playwright, novelist
- Victor Hugo
novelist, member of parliament
- Harriet Martineau
journalist, linguist
- Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
politician, aristocrat
- Lajos Kossuth
minister, economist
- Niels Henrik Abel
mathematician, university teacher
- Dorothea Dix
neurologist, botanical collector
- Miguel I of Portugal
sovereign
- Edwin Landseer
sculptor, architectural drafter
- Pavel Nakhimov
naval officer
- Elias Lönnrot
physician, hymnwriter
- Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
politician, military officer
- Charles Wheatstone
physicist, mathematician
- John L. Helm
lawyer, politician
- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
journalist, editor
- John Bullock Clark
politician, lawyer
- Lydia Maria Child
poet, novelist
- Husein Gradaščević
military officer
- János Bolyai
mathematician
- Gideon Welles
journalist, lawyer
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
novelist, poet
- Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte
painter, writer
- Wilhelm Hauff
writer, poet
- Frederick William, Elector of Hesse
sovereign
- Isaac R. Trimble
military personnel, railway engineer
- Marcus Whitman
missionary, physician
- Mariano Arista
politician, military personnel
- David Hunter
military officer, soldier
- Phineas Quimby
philosopher, clockmaker
- Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman
Catholic theologian, Catholic deacon
- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
writer, Catholic theologian
- Richard Parkes Bonington
lithographer, painter
- Sara Coleridge
writer, editing staff
- Manuel María Lombardini
military personnel, politician
- Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey
politician, secretary
- Nikolaus Lenau
poet, librettist
- Elias Boudinot
Bible translator, entrepreneur
- Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
politician, architect
- Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein
military officer, military personnel
- James Busby
politician, winegrower
- Heinrich Gustav Magnus
university teacher, chemist
- Carl Ritter von Ghega
railway engineer, civil engineer
- George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
poet, politician
- Ira Harris
politician, lawyer
- Johann Moritz Rugendas
draftsperson, lithographer
- Gowri Parvati Bayi
politician
- Alcide d'Orbigny
scientific collector, botanist
- Robert Chambers
historian, geologist
- Germain Henri Hess
physician, mineralogist
- Ion Heliade Rădulescu
linguist, diplomat
- Gheorghe Bibescu
politician
- Niccolò Tommaseo
historian, Dantist
- Arnold Ruge
member of parliament, journalist
- Mahmud al-Alusi
Qur'anic exegete, ulema
- Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
politician, entrepreneur
- Hugh Miller
botanist, stonemason
- Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
writer, philosopher
- Kamāmalu
politician
- Charles Auguste de Bériot
pianist, violinist
- Ignacy Domeyko
mining engineer, geologist
- Richard Upjohn
architect
- Casimir Lefaucheux
inventor, engineer
- David Octavius Hill
photographer, lithographer
- George Ripley
theologian, writer
- Johann Friedrich von Brandt
carcinologist, university teacher
- Félix-Jacques Moulin
photographer
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick
politician, governor
- Henri Herz
composer, pianist
- Friedrich Julius Stahl
legal historian, jurist
- Antoine-Jérôme Balard
chemist, professor
- Thomas Davenport
blacksmith, inventor
- Catharine Parr Traill
scientific illustrator, children's writer
- Solomon Foot
politician, lawyer
- Vincenza Maria Poloni
Christian nun, nun
- Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth
inventor, explorer
- Horace Bushnell
Christian minister, writer
- Cesare Pugni
composer, music educator
- Constantin Guys
painter, illustrator
- Marianna Marquesa Florenzi
art model, linguist
- Dimitrios Voulgaris
head of government, politician
- Émile de Girardin
politician, publisher
- Jean-Gabriel Perboyre
missionary, Catholic priest
- Leopold Fitzinger
herpetologist, zoologist
- Paul-Émile Botta
anthropologist, diplomat
- Thomas Walker Gilmer
governor, lawyer
- Gustave de Beaumont
opinion journalist, diplomat
- Peter Jones
Bible translator, linguist
- Proby Thomas Cautley
engineer, soldier
- Francis Libermann
Catholic theologian, missionary
- Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
journal editor, writer
- Jean-Baptiste Pompallier
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Félix Dupanloup
Catholic priest, politician
- Nils Ericson
military personnel, mechanical engineer
- Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet
politician, barrister
- Rosina Bulwer Lytton
poet, novelist
- Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek
historian, philologist
- Patriarch Joachim II of Constantinople
Christian minister, patriarch
- Hermann Goldschmidt
astronomer, painter
- Michael Seymour
admiral, politician
- Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
theologian, university teacher
- Karl von Urban
military officer
- François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau
explorer, writer
- Jean-Daniel Colladon
physicist, university teacher
- Sylvain Van de Weyer
librarian, diplomat
- Adolphe Nourrit
librettist, opera singer
- Adolphe Niel
military leader, politician
- Louis Niedermeyer
composer, music teacher
- Gerardus Johannes Mulder
physician, university teacher
- Thomas Fearnley
painter
- Théodore Gudin
graphic artist, etcher
- Richard Henry Horne
poet, writer
- Dixon Hall Lewis
lawyer, politician
- Alexander Dukhnovich
poet, pedagogue
- Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
aristocrat, pubblicista journalist
- Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Alexander Odoevsky
philosopher, military officer
- Félix Marie Charles Texier
historian, architect
- Charles S. Morehead
politician, lawyer
- Juan Galindo
anthropologist, military officer
- François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann
politician, diplomat
- Adolphe Monod
preacher, university teacher
- Amédée Méreaux
organist, composer
- Miguel de San Román
politician, military personnel
- Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
politician, lawyer
- José María Estrada
politician
- Benoît Fourneyron
politician, engineer
- Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol
diplomat, politician
- Jacob van Lennep
journalist, translator
- Andrei Stackenschneider
university teacher, architect
- Marie Theodor Ratisbonne
jurist, Catholic priest
- Karl Wilhelm Dindorf
literary historian, editor
- Józef Bohdan Zaleski
translator, writer
- Richard Thomas Lowe
malacologist, botanical collector
- Leon Sapieha
politician, farmer
- Stamatios Kleanthis
architect
- Richard Saunders Dundas
naval officer
- Léon Halévy
playwright, poet
- Karl II Prince of Schwarzenberg
military commander, military officer
- Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
printer, chemist
- Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes
archaeologist, classical scholar
- Bernhard Molique
music director, composer
- Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht
conductor, composer
- Archibald Dixon
lawyer, politician
- Louis Augustus, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen
aristocrat
- Julius von Kirchmann
judge, politician