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Born in 1808

225 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Edward Hallowell

    zoologist, herpetologist

    1808–1860 · aged 51

    September 14 · 1808

    No external source identified

  2. Theodor Mundt

    philosopher, university teacher

    1808–1861 · aged 53

    September 19 · 1808

    Source: BnF authorities

  3. Carlo Sacconi

    Catholic priest, cardinal of the Roman Curia

    1808–1889 · aged 80

    May 9 · 1808

    Source: SNAC

  4. Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha

    politician, military officer

    1808–1874 · aged 66

    April 25 · 1808

    No external source identified

  5. Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez

    Officer of the French Navy, explorer

    1808–1871

    April 24 · 1808

    Source: Léonore database

  6. Juan Bustamante Dueñas

    writer, politician

    1808–1868 · aged 59

    June 24 · 1808

    Source: repositorio.ucv.edu.pe

  7. Joaquín Francisco Pacheco y Gutiérrez-Calderón

    minister, historian

    1808–1865 · aged 57

    February 22 · 1808

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  8. György Apponyi

    diplomat, beamter

    1808–1899 · aged 90

    December 29 · 1808

    Source: Apponyi, Georg Graf (BLKÖ)

  9. Pierre-Louis Dietsch

    composer, conductor

    1808–1865 · aged 56

    March 17 · 1808

    Source: SNAC

  10. Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein

    opinion journalist, translator

    1808–1887 · aged 78

    November 20 · 1808

    Source: BnF authorities

  11. Joseph Gabet

    missionary, explorer

    1808–1853 · aged 44

    December 4 · 1808

    Source: BnF authorities

  12. Pyotr Chikhachyov

    traveler, geographer

    1808–1890 · aged 82

    August 28 · 1808

    No external source identified

  13. Eduard Fenzl

    botanical collector, botanist

    1808–1879 · aged 71

    February 15 · 1808

    Source: Fenzl, Eduard (BLKÖ)

  14. William Cureton

    orientalist, librarian

    1808–1864

    1808

    Source: SNAC

  15. Carl Anton Bretschneider

    historian of mathematics, notary

    1808–1878 · aged 70

    May 27 · 1808

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  16. Xavier Marmier

    writer, translator

    1808–1892

    June 22 · 1808

    Source: Babelio

  17. Pauline Marie Armande Craven

    writer, novelist

    1808–1891 · aged 82

    April 12 · 1808

    Source: FemBio database

  18. Charles Pritchard

    astronomer

    1808–1893 · aged 85

    February 29 · 1808

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  19. Eugenia Tadolini

    opera singer

    1808–1872 · aged 64

    July 9 · 1808

    Source: Archivio Storico Ricordi

  20. Károly Knezić

    military officer

    1808–1849 · aged 41

    September 6 · 1808

    Source: Knezich, Karl (BLKÖ)

  21. Osip Bodyansky*

    writer, philologist

    Date disputed

    November 12 · 1808

    Source: Q24349711

  22. Szymon Konarski

    military officer, politician

    1808–1839 · aged 30

    March 5 · 1808

    Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny

  23. Everhardus Johannes Potgieter*

    writer, poet

    Date disputed

    June 17 · 1808

    No external source identified

  24. Anton Martin Schweigaard

    politician, professor

    1808–1870 · aged 61

    April 11 · 1808

    Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon

  25. Heinrich Ahrens

    university teacher, state political scientist

    1808–1874 · aged 66

    July 14 · 1808

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  26. Caterina Scarpellini

    astronomer, scientist

    1808–1873 · aged 65

    October 29 · 1808

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  27. Moses Ashley Curtis

    botanist

    1808–1872 · aged 63

    May 11 · 1808

    Source: SNAC

  28. Karl Andree

    opinion journalist, consul

    1808–1875 · aged 66

    October 20 · 1808

    Source: ACAB / Andree, Karl Theodor

  29. Camillo Rondani

    entomologist

    1808–1879 · aged 70

    November 21 · 1808

    No external source identified

  30. Bernard du Bus de Gisignies

    draftsperson, politician

    1808–1874 · aged 66

    June 21 · 1808

    Source: ODIS

  31. Johann Ritter von Oppolzer

    teacher, physician

    1808–1871 · aged 62

    August 4 · 1808

    Source: Oppolzer, Johann (BLKÖ)

  32. Jean-Charles Chenu

    physician, naturalist

    1808–1879 · aged 71

    August 30 · 1808

    Source: BnF authorities

  33. Kálmán Ghyczy

    economist, minister

    1808–1888 · aged 80

    February 12 · 1808

    No external source identified

  34. Pyotr Kireevsky

    linguist, philosopher

    1808–1856 · aged 48

    February 23 · 1808

    No external source identified

  35. Luigi Nazari di Calabiana

    Catholic priest, politician

    1808–1893 · aged 85

    July 27 · 1808

    Source: BnF authorities

  36. Giovanni Cavalli

    inventor, engineer

    1808–1879

    July 3 · 1808

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  37. Henry Doubleday

    ornithologist, entomologist

    1808–1875 · aged 66

    July 1 · 1808

    No external source identified

  38. Alban Stolz

    Catholic theologian, pedagogue

    1808–1883 · aged 75

    February 3 · 1808

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  39. Bernhard von Cotta

    mineralogist, botanist

    1808–1879 · aged 70

    October 24 · 1808

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  40. Moriz Haupt

    latinist, Germanist

    1808–1874 · aged 65

    July 27 · 1808

    Source: SNAC

  41. Gábor Egressy*

    literary translator, drama teacher

    Date disputed

    November 3 · 1808

    Source: BnF authorities

  42. Konráð Gíslason

    university teacher, philologist

    1808–1891 · aged 82

    July 3 · 1808

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  43. Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche

    literary critic, art historian

    1808–1857 · aged 49

    February 16 · 1808

    Source: La France savante

  44. Ludwig Lange

    university teacher, draftsperson

    1808–1868

    March 22 · 1808

    Source: BnF authorities

  45. Francesco Dall'Ongaro*

    poet, playwright

    Date disputed

    June 19 · 1808

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  46. Elisabeth Kulmann

    translator, writer

    1808–1825 · aged 17

    July 17 · 1808

    Source: BnF authorities

  47. August Giacomo Jochmus

    military personnel, politician

    1808–1881 · aged 73

    February 27 · 1808

    No external source identified

  48. Edouard De Bièfve

    painter

    1808–1882 · aged 73

    December 4 · 1808

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  49. Antonio Maria Panebianco

    Catholic priest

    1808–1885 · aged 77

    August 13 · 1808

    No external source identified

  50. Teréz Karacs

    pedagogue, writer

    1808–1892 · aged 84

    April 18 · 1808

    Source: BnF authorities

  51. Somdet Chaophraya Borommahasisuriwong (Chuang Bunnak)

    monarch

    1808–1883 · aged 74

    December 23 · 1808

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  52. Alexis Damour

    geologist, anthropologist

    1808–1902 · aged 94

    July 19 · 1808

    Source: Léonore database

  53. Jean Charles Marie Grenier

    university teacher, botanical collector

    1808–1875 · aged 67

    November 4 · 1808

    Source: La France savante

  54. Georg Fresenius

    mycologist, botanist

    1808–1866 · aged 58

    September 25 · 1808

    Source: Base biographique

  55. Johann Baptist Alzog*

    theologian, church historian

    Date disputed

    June 8 · 1808

    No external source identified

  56. Albert Grisar*

    composer

    Date disputed

    December 25 · 1808

    Source: register office

  57. Franz Anton Menge

    botanist, arachnologist

    1808–1880 · aged 71

    February 15 · 1808

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  58. Alfred von Reumont

    philologist, diplomat

    1808–1887 · aged 78

    August 15 · 1808

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  59. Giovanni Battista Pioda

    diplomat, politician

    1808–1882 · aged 74

    October 4 · 1808

    Source: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

  60. August Stöber

    teacher, collector of fairy tales

    1808–1884 · aged 75

    July 8 · 1808

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  61. Antoine Elwart*

    musicologist, music educator

    Date disputed

    November 19 · 1808

    Source: Léonore database

  62. Johann Konrad Kern

    lawyer, politician

    1808–1888 · aged 79

    June 11 · 1808

    Source: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

  63. Henri Hureau de Sénarmont

    mineralogist, physicist

    1808–1862 · aged 53

    September 6 · 1808

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  64. Hermann Friedrich Stannius

    zoologist, physician

    1808–1883 · aged 74

    March 15 · 1808

    Source: Base biographique

  65. Georg Weber

    historian, classical philologist

    1808–1888 · aged 80

    February 10 · 1808

    Source: Find a Grave

  66. Franz Schubert

    violinist, concertmaster

    1808–1878 · aged 69

    July 22 · 1808

    Source: Discogs

  67. Johann Wilhelm Sturm

    copper engraver, botanist

    1808–1865 · aged 56

    July 19 · 1808

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  68. Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch

    classical philologist, editor

    1808–1887 · aged 78

    August 16 · 1808

    Source: CERL Thesaurus

  69. Luigi Serafini

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1808–1894 · aged 85

    June 6 · 1808

    No external source identified

  70. Julie von May

    activist, suffragist

    1808–1875 · aged 67

    February 26 · 1808

    Source: portraitarchiv.ch

  71. Fernando de la Puente y Primo de Rivera

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1808–1867

    August 28 · 1808

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  72. William Strong

    lawyer, judge

    1808–1895 · aged 87

    May 6 · 1808

    Source: Find a Grave

  73. Hubert Joseph Dolez

    politician, lawyer

    1808–1880 · aged 72

    March 16 · 1808

    No external source identified

  74. Albert Jacquemart

    naturalist, writer

    1808–1875 · aged 67

    January 1 · 1808

    Source: birth certificate

  75. Johann Christoph Döll

    librarian, botanist

    1808–1885 · aged 76

    July 21 · 1808

    No external source identified

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