ON THIS DAY
Born in 1808
225 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Napoleon III
illustrator, writer
- Andrew Johnson
politician, military officer
- Jefferson Davis
writer, politician
- Solomon Northup
farmer, writer
- Salmon P. Chase
writer, lawyer
- Antonio Meucci
inventor, physicist
- Frederick VII of Denmark
monarch
- Princess Ludovika of Bavaria
aristocrat
- Abdelkader El Djezairi
theologian, resistance fighter
- Mohammad Shah Qajar
politician
- Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria
composer, music promoter
- Thomas Cook
entrepreneur
- Honoré Daumier
illustrator, painter
- John Taylor
newspaper proprietor, translator
- Gérard de Nerval
poet, novelist
- Lionel de Rothschild
art collector, banker
- Thomas D. Rice
blackface minstrel performer, writer
- Mary Anna Custis Lee
socialite
- Hamilton Fish
politician, jurist
- Lysander Spooner
journalist, entrepreneur
- David Strauss
philosopher, writer
- Caroline Norton
composer, poet
- Henry Edward Manning
Lutheran archdeacon, Anglican priest
- William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
large estate owner, politician
- Mindon Min
monarch
- Princess Louise of Prussia
aristocrat
- Lord Charles Wellesley
politician
- Carl Spitzweg
writer, painter
- Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
opinion journalist, essayist
- Henry Cole
entrepreneur, writer
- Maria Malibran
actor, opera singer
- Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
aristocrat
- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
literary critic, editing staff
- Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark
aristocrat
- Wilhelm Weitling
writer, politician
- Caroline Chisholm
humanitarian
- Horace Smith
entrepreneur, inventor
- Venancio Flores
politician, military personnel
- Henrik Wergeland
playwright, journalist
- Eugénie de Beauharnais
aristocrat
- Nimattullah Kassab
Catholic priest, monk
- Pinklao
viceroy
- Rudolf Amandus Philippi
scientific explorer, draftsperson
- Johann Gustav Droysen
historian, philosopher
- Hugh McCulloch
writer, banker
- Michael William Balfe
singer, conductor
- Horatius Bonar
hymnwriter, writer
- Placide Cappeau
librettist, poet
- Urbano Rattazzi
politician, diplomat
- Empress Xiaoquancheng
writer, poet
- James Nasmyth
writer, inventor
- José de Espronceda
poet, politician
- John Scott Russell
physicist, civil engineer
- Karl Friedrich Lessing
artist, painter
- George Robert Gray
zoologist, lepidopterist
- Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso
salonnière, journalist
- Johann Benedict Listing
university teacher, mathematician
- Samuel Francis Smith
journalist, songwriter
- Hippolyte Pixii
physicist
- J. Pinckney Henderson
politician, lawyer
- Moritz Schreber
pedagogue, physician
- Patrul Orgyen Jigme Chokyi Wangpo
commentator, writer
- Frances Dana Barker Gage
suffragette, poet
- Manuel Isidoro Belzu
politician, diplomat
- James Fergusson
architect, architectural historian
- Victor Prosper Considerant
philosopher, politician
- Agustín Fernando Muñoz, 1st Duke of Riánsares
military personnel, politician
- Joseph Geefs
visual artist, sculptor
- Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval
politician, military officer
- Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duke of Persigny
politician, diplomat
- Raja Ali Haji
scholar, historian
- Auguste Franchomme
cellist, composer
- Constantin Negruzzi
writer, translator
- José Rufino Echenique
military personnel, politician
- Hugh Falconer
botanist, paleontologist
- Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe
Protestant theologian, theologian
- Robert Wilhelm Ekman
painter
- John Sartain
engraver
- Ferdinand Wüstenfeld
arabist, academic
- Johann Caspar Bluntschli
legal scholar, poet lawyer
- Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch
social reformer, writer
- José María Linares
soldier, politician
- Hans Lassen Martensen
archbishop, presbyter
- James Frederick Ferrier
lawyer, classical scholar
- James Madison Wells
farmer, governor
- John Hutton Balfour
botanist, university teacher
- James Hope Grant
soldier
- Agustín Morales
politician
- Solon Borland
politician, military officer
- Jan Prosper Witkiewicz
explorer, soldier
- Johann Hinrich Wichern
non-fiction writer, social worker
- Manuel Jimenes
politician
- Hyacinthe Klosé
university teacher, music teacher
- Ernst Kapp
pedagogue, geographer
- Elias Parish Alvars
composer
- August von Werder
military personnel
- William Lindley
engineer, civil engineer
- Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval
painter
- Caleb Blood Smith
politician, judge
- Kinsley S. Bingham
jurist, judge
- Wincenty Dunin-Marcinkiewicz
translator, poet
- Gustav Weil
university teacher, orientalist
- Simion Bărnuţiu
politician, philosopher
- Pierre Dumoulin-Borie
Catholic bishop, missionary
- José María Urbina
politician
- Lavrenty Zagoskin
explorer
- Qaani
poet, literary scholar
- Carl Werner
actor, university teacher
- Janez Bleiweis
politician, teacher
- William Ogilby
zoologist, naturalist
- Alexey Vassilievich Tyranov
painter
- Juan Crisóstomo Torrico
diplomat, military personnel
- Henry Miers Elliot
colonial administrator, writer
- Augustus C. French
jurist, governor
- Frederik Kaiser
university teacher, astronomer
- Antonio Arenas
judge, lawyer
- Mary Horner Lyell
collector, geologist
- Felice Matteucci
engineer, civil engineer
- Charles Merivale
translator, historian of religion
- Alberich Zwyssig
composer
- Knud Baade
marine painter, painter
- Robert Campbell
explorer, fur trader
- Wilhelm Philippe Schimper
biologist, librarian
- Hugh Welch Diamond
photographer, physician
- Wendela Hebbe
salonnière, writer
- Antoine Étex
sculptor, writer
- Charles Cardale Babington
journalist, editor
- Yusuf Kamil Pasha
politician
- Jørgen Roed
painter, sculptor
- Johannes Elias Teijsmann
botanical collector, botanist
- Johann Georg Kohl
law librarian, librarian
- Sofia Adlersparre
painter
- Manuel María Mallarino
jurist, lawyer
- Philipp Christoph Zeller
lepidopterist
- Ernst Richter
organist, choir director
- Friedrich Julius Richelot
mathematician, university teacher