ON THIS DAY
Born in 1806
214 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- John Stuart Mill
philosopher, writer
- Benito Juárez
judge, lawyer
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
mechanical engineer, engineer
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
translator, screenwriter
- Max Stirner
journalist, writer
- Lady Flora Hastings
lady-in-waiting, writer
- Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies
politician, monarch
- Catherine Labouré
religious sister, nun
- Stand Watie
traditional leader or chief, politician
- Jane Pierce
politician
- John Augustus Roebling
engineer, civil engineer
- Leonidas Polk
bishop, army officer
- Augustus De Morgan
university teacher, philosopher
- William Webb Ellis
cleric, cricketer
- Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
Mistress of the Robes
- Emilia Plater
freedom fighter, soldier
- Ömer Lütfi Pasha
military leader, writer
- Oliver Cowdery
editor
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
poet, writer
- Ludwig Ross
art historian, university teacher
- John B. Floyd
governor, major general
- Henry Montgomery Lawrence
military personnel, soldier
- Hermann Brockhaus
editor, orientalist
- Henry A. Wise
historian, governor
- Juliette Drouet
actor
- William, Duke of Brunswick
military personnel
- Alexander Ivanov
painter
- Fabre Geffrard
politician
- Johan Vilhelm Snellman
editor, writer
- Friedrich Burgmüller
pianist, composer
- James Shields
politician, lawyer
- Antoine Wiertz
lithographer, sculptor
- Alexander Dallas Bache
chemist, surveyor
- Charles Gleyre
painter
- Andrew Hull Foote
Konteradmiral, military officer
- Daniel Maclise
graphic artist, illustrator
- John P. Hale
diplomat, jurist
- Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
composer
- Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne
physiologist, neurologist
- William Gilmore Simms
novelist, lawyer
- William P. Fessenden
lawyer, politician
- Martín Carrera
politician, military personnel
- Giacomo Antonelli
diplomat, Catholic deacon
- Alexander Duff
missionary, theologian
- Edwin Forrest
stage actor, actor
- Henriette Sontag
actor, vocalist
- Claiborne Fox Jackson
governor, politician
- Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play
political economist, engineer
- Lionel Kieseritzky
chess player, conductor
- Johann Kaspar Mertz
composer, classical guitarist
- Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg
translator, statesperson
- George Cornewall Lewis
writer, classical scholar
- Felipe Santiago Salaverry
military personnel, politician
- Ramón Cabrera y Griñó
military personnel
- Michel Chevalier
writer, engineer
- Ahmad I ibn Mustafa
politician
- William Dyce
painter, university teacher
- William Fothergill Cooke
inventor
- Lorenz Diefenbach
linguist, writer
- Lafayette S. Foster
lawyer, politician
- Teodolfo Mertel
judge, theologian
- Ioannis Gennaios Kolokotronis
freedom fighter, politician
- Ivan Kireyevsky
literary critic, philosopher
- William Aiken
politician
- Charles Stoddart
diplomat
- Sarah Mapps Douglass
writer, author
- Sarah Bagley
trade unionist, writer
- Petrus van Schendel
painter
- John O'Donovan
linguist, historian
- Jovan Sterija Popović
writer, poet
- Friedrich Welwitsch
botanical collector, botanist
- Martha Coffin Wright
suffragist
- Maria Weston Chapman
writer, social reformer
- Orville Hickman Browning
politician, lawyer
- Charles Lever
writer, physician
- Karl Friedrich Mohr
university teacher, chemist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl
latinist, classical philologist
- Carlo Pellion di Persano
politician, soldier
- Mikhail, Prince of Abkhazia
military officer, military personnel
- Julius Weisbach
mechanical engineer, university teacher
- Henry Kellett
hydrographer, naval officer
- Gilbert Duprez
voice teacher, music educator
- Preston King
politician, lawyer
- Théodore Maunoir
surgeon
- Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen
diplomat, politician
- Louis Joseph César Ducornet
painter
- Michele Amari
university teacher, academic
- Spencer Horatio Walpole
politician, barrister
- Maria Adeodata Pisani
mystic, nun
- Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco
diplomat, politician
- Samuel Holdheim
rabbi, writer
- António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama
politician, diplomat
- Peter Richard Kenrick
writer, Catholic priest
- Thomas Hare
lawyer, political scientist
- Émile Souvestre
teacher, children's writer
- Robert Montgomery Bird
physician, writer
- Julius Hübner
draftsperson, art historian
- Franz Eybl
painter, lithographer
- Anne Pratt
botanical illustrator, ornithologist
- Augustus Bradford
lawyer, politician
- Eduard Marxsen
music teacher, pianist
- Antonio María Esquivel
painter
- Heinrich Laube
theatre critic, editing staff
- Thomas Kirkman
parson, mathematician
- Francisco Malespín
politician
- François Jouffroy
artist, sculptor
- Louis Haghe
lithographer, artist
- Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
physician, physicist
- Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen
librarian, writer
- Camillo di Pietro
Catholic deacon, nuncio
- Gaetano Bedini
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Pascual Madoz
lawyer, journalist
- Antonio Ranieri
politician, lawyer
- Heinrich Bürger
botanical collector, physicist
- Blanka Teleki
painter, sculptor
- José de Obaldía
politician, lawyer
- Anna Thynne
inventor, marine biologist
- Johann Kaspar Zeuss
linguist, celticist
- George Newbold Lawrence
zoologist, businessperson
- William Quarter
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Désiré Nisard
translator, journalist
- Leo Lesquereux
scientific collector, botanical collector
- Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch
journalist, translator
- Eugène Giraud
painter, printmaker
- Aristidis Moraitinis
politician, judge
- Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst
biologist, botanist
- Jean Gigoux
painter, art collector
- William Chapman Hewitson
lepidopterist, naturalist
- Stepan Shevyryov
philosopher, literary historian
- Ernst von Bibra
naturalist, chemist