ON THIS DAY
Born in 1809
247 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Abraham Lincoln
politician, farmer
- Edgar Allan Poe
author, science fiction writer
- Charles Darwin
botanical collector, travel writer
- Nikolai Gogol
writer, librettist
- Felix Mendelssohn
composer, musician
- William Ewart Gladstone
writer, diplomat
- Alfred Tennyson
politician, writer
- Kit Carson
military officer, explorer
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
writer, economist
- Albert Pike
lawyer, writer
- Hannibal Hamlin
lawyer, jurist
- Louis Braille
inventor, organist
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Praefectus, politician
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
physician writer, writer
- William B. Travis
military officer, lawyer
- Robert Cornelius
industrialist, photographer
- Bruno Bauer
theologian, philosopher
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts
politician
- Cyrus McCormick
farmer, entrepreneur
- Sterling Price
major general, politician
- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
poet, teacher
- Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine
military officer, aristocrat
- Edward FitzGerald
translator, writer
- Juliusz Słowacki
poet, writer
- Hermann Grassmann
mathematician, physicist
- Frances Anne Kemble
diarist, writer
- Louis Charles Delescluze
journalist, communard
- Prince Albert of Prussia
politician, military officer
- Joseph Liouville
university teacher, politician
- James Glaisher
balloonist, engineer
- Crown Prince Hyomyeong
writer
- Manuel Blanco Romasanta
serial killer, tailor
- Juan Donoso Cortés
diplomat, journalist
- Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan
military personnel, politician
- Raphael Semmes
judge, lawyer
- Bettino Ricasoli
diplomat, journalist
- Khachatur Abovian
poet, writer
- Shimazu Nariakira
samurai
- Ljudevit Gaj
poet, slavist
- Robert M. T. Hunter
lawyer, politician
- Benjamin Robbins Curtis
lawyer, politician
- Benjamin Peirce
statistician, astronomer
- Heinrich Hoffmann
children's writer, librettist
- Veer Surendra Sai
revolutionary
- Juan Bautista Alvarado
politician, governor
- Alexis Soyer
chef, cook
- Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
economist, diplomat
- William N. Pendleton
military personnel, Anglican priest
- William Huntington Russell
politician, businessperson
- Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
anatomist, ichthyologist
- Columbus Delano
politician, lawyer
- Owen Jones
architect, illuminator
- Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky
explorer, diplomat
- François Certain de Canrobert
military officer, politician
- Mariano José de Larra
writer, poet
- Karl Bodmer
draftsperson, illustrator
- Abel Douay
military officer, military personnel
- George Engelmann
mycologist, botanist
- Minna Planer
stage actor, actor
- Manuel Montt
lawyer, judge
- Luigi Federico Menabrea
scientist, politician
- Wilhelm Wolff
journalist, revolutionary
- Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel
general field marshal, governor
- Matsumura Sōkon
karateka
- Bogusław Fryderyk Radziwiłł
politician
- George Richmond
painter, poet
- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
politician, poet
- Hippolyte Flandrin
painter, draftsperson
- Sebastián Iradier
composer
- Fredrik Pacius
university teacher, conductor
- Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn
volcanologist, botanist
- Rutherford Alcock
diplomat, physician
- Francis Walker
entomologist, scientific collector
- James David Forbes
seismologist, glaciologist
- Jules Favre
lawyer, politician
- Malbim
rabbi
- Samuel Morton Peto
entrepreneur, politician
- Robert C. Schenck
lawyer, diplomat
- Svend Foyn
whaler, businessperson
- Elizabeth Eastlake
photographer, writer
- Bénédict Morel
psychiatrist, philosopher
- Robert Charles Winthrop
philanthropist, jurist
- Armand Barbes
politician, lawyer
- Hugo von Kirchbach
military personnel
- Thomas Swann
politician
- Santiago Derqui
politician, lawyer
- James C. Jones
politician, farmer
- William Penny Brookes
physician, magistrate
- Miguel García Granados
politician
- William King
geologist, prehistorian
- William Henry Bartlett
draftsperson, traveler
- Alexander William Kinglake
politician, writer
- Jean-Charles Cornay
missionary, Catholic priest
- Andrei Șaguna
metropolitan, Eastern Orthodox priest
- John Kirk Townsend
naturalist, botanist
- Philipp von Jolly
mathematician, university teacher
- Nestor Kukolnik
romanist, translator
- Ippolito Caffi
painter
- Arthur Kennedy
politician, colonial administrator
- Giuseppe Giusti
writer, poet
- William Forbes Skene
historian
- Eugène Flandin
painter, anthropologist
- Robert Bentley Todd
physiologist, physician
- Adolph E. Borie
politician, diplomat
- Stevan Knićanin
voivode, merchant
- Mark Lemon
writer, editor
- Charlotte von Hagn
stage actor
- Prince Antasari
revolutionary
- Petrus Borel
translator, poet
- Paula Frassinetti
founder of Catholic religious community, nun
- Juan Antonio Pezet
politician, military personnel
- Achille Guenée
entomologist, lawyer
- Edmond Le Bœuf
politician, military officer
- Karl Heinzen
poet, independent publisher
- Maria Micaela Desmaisieres
Christian nun
- John Stuart Blackie
essayist, biographer
- Aleksey Koltsov
poet, writer
- Peter Donders
Catholic priest, theologian
- Theodor Benfey
philologist, orientalist
- James MacCullagh
mathematician, physicist
- Maria Anna Blondin
master of novices, religious leader
- Nicolaas Pieneman
lithographer, painter
- Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
classical scholar, mathematician
- Alvan Wentworth Chapman
physician, botanist
- Léon Roches
politician, translator
- Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden
curator, paleontologist
- Karl Josef von Hefele
church historian, Catholic bishop
- Nicolae Golescu
politician, diplomat
- Edmund Sharpe
architect, engineer
- Fernando Fernández de Córdova, 2nd Marquis of Mendigorría
lieutenant general, politician
- John Francis Bray
trade unionist, socialist
- Travers Twiss
legal scholar, university teacher
- Alessandro Gavazzi
preacher, freedom fighter
- Karl Koch
writer, pteridologist
- Guglielmo Massaia
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Richard W. Thompson
politician, judge
- James Richardson
explorer
- Thomas Holley Chivers
writer, poet
- Margaret Gatty
scientific collector, botanist
- Mary Cowden Clarke
writer, editor
- François-Xavier Garneau
author, historian
- Theodore Edward Cantor
botanist, physician
- Morgan C. Hamilton
politician
- Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
archaeologist, scholar
- Teofil Kwiatkowski
painter
- Constantin von Alvensleben
military officer, soldier
- Ferdinand Redtenbacher
scientist, mechanical engineer
- Adolph Friedrich Hesse
conductor, organist
- Antoine-Pierre IX Hassoun
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Pieter Philip van Bosse
lawyer, politician
