ON THIS DAY
Born in 1805
206 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Joseph Smith
politician, prophet
- Hans Christian Andersen
autobiographer, librettist
- Alexis de Tocqueville
jurist, politician
- Princess Sophie of Bavaria
politician
- Giuseppe Mazzini
lawyer, journalist
- Mary Seacole
nurse, traditional healer
- William Rowan Hamilton
physicist, mathematician
- Ferdinand de Lesseps
diplomat, engineer
- George Müller
theologian, missionary
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
university teacher, mathematician
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter
draftsperson, painter
- Marie d'Agoult
salonnière, writer
- Carl Nebel
draftsperson, engineer
- Efunroye Tinubu
politician, slave trader
- Robert Anderson
military officer, major general
- Fanny Mendelssohn
composer, university teacher
- Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
inventor, magician
- Dalai Lama 09 Lungtok Gyatso
politician
- Louis Auguste Blanqui
politician, journalist
- Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara
Catholic priest
- Henry Wells
entrepreneur
- Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte
merchant
- William Harrison Ainsworth
journalist, writer
- Adalbert Stifter
preservationist, writer
- Samuel Wilberforce
Anglican priest, writer
- James Wilson
politician, businessperson
- Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
poet, lyricist
- Alexander Burnes
traveler, diplomat
- Ewelina Hańska
novelist
- Malek Jahan Khanom
royal consort
- Eugène Schneider
politician, businessperson
- Parson Brownlow
writer, governor
- Prosper Guéranger
Catholic priest
- Thomas Brassey
civil engineer, architect
- David Whitmer
politician
- John Lloyd Stephens
travel writer, archaeologist
- Jacob M. Howard
lawyer, politician
- Orson Hyde
missionary
- Maria Anna of Bavaria
monarch
- Constantino Brumidi
interior designer, painter
- Frederick Denison Maurice
theologian, writer
- Jonas Furrer
mayor, politician
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens
lawyer, diplomat
- Samuel Curtis
military officer, politician
- Princess Amalia of Sweden
aristocrat
- John Bigler
lawyer, ambassador
- Albrecht Gustav von Manstein
military personnel
- August Bournonville
ballet master, ballet dancer
- Hiram Powers
sculptor
- Manuel García
singer, opera singer
- David Urquhart
politician, diplomat
- Horatio Greenough
artist, sculptor
- Harriot Kezia Hunt
physician, suffragist
- Wilhelm von Kaulbach
painter, visual artist
- Francis William Newman
writer, translator
- Esteban Echeverría Mamani
writer, poet
- Guillaume Geefs
visual artist, politician
- Pedro de Ampudia
military personnel, politician
- Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
anatomist, naturalist
- Maria da Assunção of Portugal
aristocrat
- Karl Rosenkranz
university teacher, literary historian
- Johann Blumhardt
vicar, pastor
- Carlo Marochetti
sculptor, painter
- Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann
conductor, organist
- Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg
aristocrat
- Mariano Ospina Rodríguez
entrepreneur, jurist
- Joseph Locke
politician, railway engineer
- José Ballivián
politician
- Mah Şeref Han
historian, calligrapher
- Johann Karl Rodbertus
writer, opinion journalist
- James Martineau
pastor, writer
- Fatte Jang Shah
politician
- Johann Eduard Erdmann
university teacher, non-fiction writer
- Napoléon Coste
guitarist, classical guitarist
- Otto Theodor von Manteuffel
diplomat, politician
- Benildus Romançon
teacher, friar
- William M. Gwin
politician, physician
- Joseph Škoda
professor, researcher
- Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann
double-bassist, musician
- José Trinidad Cabañas
head of state, politician
- Louise Bertin
painter, poet
- Anton von Schmerling
minister, member of parliament
- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
pedagogue, writer
- David Dudley Field II
politician, jurist
- Gustav Struve
politician, journalist
- John Obadiah Westwood
zoologist, entomologist
- Charles J. Jenkins
politician, lawyer
- Charles Thomas Jackson
chemist, physician
- David Tod
governor, politician
- Jean Laborde
factory owner, industrialist
- Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire
writer, philologist
- Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
politician, writer
- Eugène Rousseau
chess player
- Alexander Braun
bryologist, university teacher
- Thérèse Couderc
religious
- John Russell Bartlett
librarian, explorer
- Hugo von Mohl
physiologist, botanist
- Maria De Mattias
religious, founder
- Friedrich Kasiski
cryptographer, archaeologist
- Georg Gottfried Gervinus
university teacher, historian
- Jean-Baptiste Nothomb
diplomat, writer
- Charles Durkee
politician
- Victor Baltard
architect
- James Pearce
politician
- Eduard Clam-Gallas
military officer, politician
- Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg
sculptor, artist
- Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys
politician, diplomat
- Jeanne Deroin
lingère, journalist
- John Henni
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Michael Sars
carcinologist, professor
- Philipp Foltz
painter, historian
- Elizabeth Twining
painter, lithographer
- Karl Ferdinand Sohn
university teacher, painter
- Frederick Smith
entomologist, scientific collector
- Lodovico Altieri
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Eusebio Guilarte Mole
military personnel, diplomat
- Johann von Lamont
university teacher, astronomer
- Peter Kierkegaard
bishop, politician
- Charles Pickering
physician, scientific collector
- Ida von Hahn-Hahn
writer
- Johann Jacoby
member of parliament, physician
- Samuel Price
lawyer, politician
- Jacob Venedey
politician, journalist
- Augustus Addison Gould
zoologist, malacologist
- Samuel Earnshaw
mathematician, university teacher
- Dmitry Venevitinov
literary critic, philosopher
- Magnus von Wright
ornithologist, draftsperson
- Julius Fürst
writer, historian
- Solomon Dodashvili
teacher, philosopher
- Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor
photographer, chemist
- Tomás Villalba
businessperson
- Domingo Elías
politician, diplomat
- Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz
philosopher, politician
- Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer
pathologist, zoologist
- Friedrich Drake
visual artist, sculptor