ON THIS DAY
Born in 1803
196 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
librettist, abolitionist
- Hector Berlioz
librettist, music critic
- James Brooke
diplomat, writer
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
politician, poet
- Albert Sidney Johnston
soldier, army officer
- Robert Stephenson
politician, civil engineer
- Justus von Liebig
agronomist, chemist
- Prosper Mérimée
archaeologist, politician
- John Sutter
businessperson, explorer
- Charles Lucien Bonaparte
scientific collector, zoologist
- Sarah Childress Polk
politician
- Christian Dopplerr
academic, pedagogue
- Adolphe Adam
pianist, musician
- Sarah Yorke Jackson
First Lady
- Flora Tristan
writer, politician
- John Gorrie
physician, scientist
- Albrecht von Roon
soldier, politician
- Fyodor Tyutchev
writer, librettist
- John Ericsson
engineer, military personnel
- James Gamble
entrepreneur
- Black Kettle
traditional leader or chief
- Muhammad IV of Morocco
monarch
- Adèle Foucher
biographer, writer
- Peter Chanel
missionary, presbyter
- Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias
military personnel, politician
- Ferenc Deák
politician
- Juan Almonte
soldier, politician
- Princess Alexandrine of Prussia
aristocrat
- George Borrow
novelist, traveler
- Gottfried Semper
university teacher, teacher
- Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet
military commander, soldier
- Prudence Crandall
teacher, suffragist
- Maria Teresa of Savoy
aristocrat
- Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
writer, physician writer
- Ann Walker
land owner
- Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville
watercolorist, etcher
- William Smith O'Brien
politician
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk
politician, lawyer
- Joseph Marchand
Catholic priest, missionary
- Susanna Moodie
writer, poet
- Lucien Murat
diplomat, politician
- Maria W. Stewart
social reformer, journalist
- Theodore Dwight Weld
social reformer, writer
- Henry Darcy
hydraulic engineer, speleologist
- Friedrich von Amerling
painter
- Elisa Radziwill
aristocrat
- Sarah Helen Whitman
writer, poet
- Joseph K. Mansfield
military officer
- Pierre François Lacenaire
writer, bretteur
- Karl Gützlaff
lexicographer, Bible translator
- Edgar Quinet
linguist, translator
- Nathan Clifford
lawyer, judge
- Charles Sturm
university teacher, mathematician
- Adin Ballou
theologian
- James Clarence Mangan
prose writer, writer
- Christopher Memminger
politician
- Vladimir Odoevsky
composer, philosopher
- Alexander Jackson Davis
architect
- Paul Cullen
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- William Allen
politician, governor
- Anselm von Rothschild
banker, art collector
- Jacob Abbott
children's writer, writer
- Douglas William Jerrold
writer
- William Thoms
art historian, librarian
- Franz Lachner
composer, librettist
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
playwright, writer
- Carl Jacob Löwig
pharmacist, university teacher
- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
draftsperson, painter
- Hélène Jégado
serial killer, domestic worker cook
- Miles Joseph Berkeley
scientific collector, bryologist
- Ludwig Richter
draftsperson, painter
- Johann Jakob Kaup
ornithologist, ichthyologist
- Robert Walter Weir
painter
- Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg
Major, minister
- Heinrich Ewald
writer, biblical scholar
- Caroline Unger
opera singer
- José María Heredia y Heredia
politician, jurist
- Martinus Rørbye
graphic artist, painter
- Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
meteorologist, physicist
- João Maria Ferreira do Amaral
politician, military personnel
- Léon Faucher
economist, politician
- Eugène Isabey
lithographer, painter
- Thomas Sidney Cooper
painter, draftsperson
- Yevfimiy Vasilyevich Putyatin
diplomat, explorer
- Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
inventor, merchant
- Jacques-Désiré Laval
missionary
- Francis Grant
painter
- Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja
professor, mathematician
- Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
landscape painter, watercolorist
- Bernardo Berro
politician, writer
- Alexander Bunge
scientific collector, professor
- Aleksander Wielopolski
politician, diplomat
- George Bonham
diplomat, colonial administrator
- Henry Stanbery
politician, lawyer
- Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets
engineer, military personnel
- Giovanni Antonio Farina
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Mercator Cooper
explorer
- Christian Hansen
university teacher, architect
- Wilson Shannon
lawyer, governor
- Gustaaf Wappers
university teacher, artist
- Alexander von Nordmann
physician, scientific collector
- Arnold Adolph Berthold
zoologist, physician
- Gerald Griffin
journalist, poet
- James Edward Alexander
military officer, geographer
- Albert Smith White
politician, lawyer
- James Challis
physicist, astronomer
- Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen
head of government, politician
- Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey
military personnel, politician
- Paul Huet
publisher, printmaker
- Dimitrios Kallergis
military personnel, politician
- Miša Anastasijević
politician
- Lord Dudley Stuart
politician, diplomat
- Wolfgang Franz von Kobell
photographer, mineralogist
- Jules D'Anethan
diplomat, examining magistrate
- Manuel Felipe de Tovar
diplomat, politician
- Nikolay Yazykov
writer, philosopher
- Juan Bravo Murillo
politician, economist
- Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière
engineer, instrument maker
- Salomon Munk
translator, professor
- Charles Januarius Acton
Catholic priest
- Makhambet Otemisuly
poet, politician
- Jacques Crétineau-Joly
journalist, essayist
- António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Marquis of Tomar
judge, diplomat
- Domingo Nieto
military personnel, politician
- Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet
mathematician, banker
- George Walker
chess player, writer
- Gustav von Alvensleben
military personnel, diplomat
- Camille Roqueplan
painter, lithographer
- Itō Keisuke
physician, botanist
- Giusto Bellavitis
politician, mathematician
- Maurycy Mochnacki
historian, critic
- Anastasius Hartmann
Catholic bishop, missionary
- Robert Scott Lauder
painter
- Friedrich Ludwig Persius
architect, construction officer
- Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès
politician
- Doroteo Vasconcelos
politician
- Albert Küchler
visual artist, painter
- Edmund, Prince of Schwarzenberg
general field marshal, military personnel
- Julius Mosen
lawyer, writer
- Hermann Stilke
history painter, artist
- Ostap Veresai
folk musician, traditional folk singer
- Alphonse Royer
theatre director, playwright
- Amalia Assur
dentist
- William Starling Sullivant
scientific illustrator, businessperson