ON THIS DAY
Born in 1804
222 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Franklin Pierce
military officer, politician
- Benjamin Disraeli
novelist, writer
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
writer, science fiction writer
- George Sand
salonnière, playwright
- Mongkut
monarch
- Jim Bridger
explorer, trapper
- Ludwig Feuerbach
writer, theologian
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
mathematician, physicist
- Richard Owen
zoologist, paleontologist
- Johann Strauss I
composer, conductor
- John Deere
politician, inventor
- Osceola
politician, traditional leader or chief
- Michael Glinka
composer
- Allan Kardec
head teacher, occultist
- Emma Smith
composer, religious leader
- Prince Karl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen
politician, aristocrat
- Napoleon Louis Bonaparte
aristocrat
- Joseph Paxton
politician, illustrator
- Matthias Jacob Schleiden
botanist, writer
- John Gould
painter, ornithologist
- John Scott Harrison
politician
- Duke Alexander of Württemberg
aristocrat, military officer
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg
journalist, poet
- Marie Taglioni
choreographer, ballet dancer
- Richard Cobden
businessperson, economist
- Alfonso La Marmora
diplomat, politician
- Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
literary historian, politician
- Eugène Sue
physician, novelist
- Joseph Whitworth
designer, inventor
- Louise Farrenc
composer, classical pianist
- Wilhelm Eduard Weber
physicist, philosopher
- William Barton Rogers
founder, geologist
- Jane Stirling
composer, pianist
- Neal S. Dow
autobiographer, politician
- Carl von Rokitansky
politician, professor
- Jane Irwin Harrison
First Lady
- Eduard Mörike
teacher, poet
- Aloisius Scrosoppi
Catholic priest
- Townsend Harris
diplomat
- William Alexander Graham
lawyer, politician
- Ludwig von Benedek
politician, military personnel
- Emil Lenz
engineer, physicist
- Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
aristocrat
- Victor Schoelcher
secretary of state, abolitionism
- Elizabeth Peabody
writer
- Grigore Alexandru Ghica
politician
- Alexei Khomyakov
writer, theologian
- Duke Alexander of Württemberg
aristocrat, construction client
- Daniele Manin
politician, lawyer
- Eliza Roxcy Snow
lyricist, writer
- Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel
aristocrat
- Joseph Howe
newspaper editor, politician
- Ulrike von Levetzow
philanthropist, writer
- Robert Baldwin
jurist, politician
- Josiah C. Nott
physician, anthropologist
- Henry S. Foote
politician, lawyer
- Oakes Ames
manufacturer, politician
- Richard Lemon Lander
writer, explorer
- Moritz von Schwind
university teacher, graphic artist
- Mariana de Pineda Muñoz
revolutionary
- János Damjanich
military officer, military leader
- Fitz Henry Lane
painter, lithographer
- Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg
military personnel
- Paul Gavarni
illustrator, watercolorist
- Eduard de Stoeckl
diplomat
- Hermann Schlegel
university teacher, zoologist
- Pierre François Verhulst
university teacher, mathematician
- Claude-Étienne Minié
military personnel, inventor
- William Denison
engineer, military personnel
- Elizabeth Gould
naturalist, scientific illustrator
- Robert Hermann Schomburgk
explorer, cartographer
- August Borsig
entrepreneur, mechanical engineer
- Abdul Samad of Selangor
sovereign
- Élie Frédéric Forey
military personnel, politician
- Fruto Chamorro
politician
- Viktor Bunyakovsky
teacher, mathematician
- Delphine de Girardin
writer, playwright
- Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley
diplomat, politician
- Franz Hanfstaengl
painter, lithographer
- Anna Plochl
aristocrat
- Peder Balke
painter, lithographer
- Thomas Ustick Walter
architect
- Alexandre Mouton
governor, lawyer
- Michał Czajkowski
poet, novelist
- Zerah Colburn
mathematician, university teacher
- Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient
singer, writer
- Tomás de Herrera
politician
- Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne
diplomat, politician
- Constantin Hansen
painter
- Robert Davidson
inventor
- Hércules Florence
inventor, patent inventor
- Tomás Frías Ametller
politician, diplomat
- Charles Magill Conrad
lawyer, politician
- Stephan Endlicher
archaeologist, historian
- William Stokes
physician, cardiologist
- Julius Benedict
conductor, pianist
- Thomas Overton Moore
farmer, politician
- Shlomo Ganzfried
rabbi
- Wilhelm Bendz
painter
- Jacques Joseph Moreau
psychiatrist
- Thomas Allom
painter, draftsperson
- George W. Jones
diplomat, politician
- Jules Dupuit
engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads, economist
- Theophilus H. Holmes
lieutenant general, army officer
- Mariano Rivera Paz
politician
- Grigol Orbeliani
poet, military personnel
- Jules Janin
critic, literary historian
- Alvan Clark
businessperson, painter
- Émile Signol
history painter, painter
- Cesare Cantù
historian, politician
- Alpheus Felch
lawyer, jurist
- Mykhailo Maksymovych
professor, ethnologist
- Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset
politician
- Jan Adam Kruseman
painter, draftsperson
- Auguste Raffet
lithographer, graphic artist
- Józef Dietl
physician, politician
- Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
physician, physiologist
- Manuel de Ascásubí
politician
- Francisco Manuel Barroso, Baron of Amazonas
military officer
- Salomon Müller
naturalist, explorer
- Carl Timoleon von Neff
university teacher, painter
- Johann Carl Fuhlrott
prehistorian, naturalist
- Janet Taylor
scientist, author
- Aleksander Chodźko
writer, diplomat
- Samuel Dyer
missionary, Bible translator
- Charles G. Atherton
lawyer, politician
- Handrij Zejler
poet, librettist
- Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
writer, politician
- Alexander Keith Johnston
geographer, linguist
- Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel
visual artist, university teacher
- Louis-François-Clement Breguet
physicist, watchmaker
- Juan de Zavala, 1st Marquis of Sierra Bullones
minister, politician
- Theodor Hildebrandt
painter, entomologist
- Kim Jeong-ho
cartographer, writer
- Dorothea de Ficquelmont
salonnière, diarist
- Salomon Sulzer
hazzan, voice teacher
- Thomas Pratt
politician, lawyer
- Franz Meyen
military physician, university teacher
- Vasily Andreyevich Dolgorukov
military personnel, politician
- Antoni Edward Odyniec
linguist, German–Polish translator
- Mykola Markevych
anthropologist, ethnographer
- Alfred Moquin-Tandon
university teacher, physiologist
- William Alfred Buckingham
politician