ON THIS DAY
Born in 1810
250 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Frédéric Chopin
virtuoso, composer
- P. T. Barnum
businessperson, circus performer
- Leo XIII
nuncio, Monsignor
- Robert Schumann
composer, pianist
- Elizabeth Gaskell
writer, novelist
- Camillo Benso di Cavour
diplomat, businessperson
- Margaret Fuller
literary critic, women's rights activist
- Eliphas Levi
non-fiction writer, occultist
- Diogo Alves
serial killer
- Cassius M. Clay
politician, military officer
- Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
politician
- Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
writer, diplomat
- William Rockefeller Sr.
entrepreneur
- Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans
military officer, politician
- William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
lawyer, entrepreneur
- Alfred de Musset
chess composer, novelist
- Eliza McCardle Johnson
president, politician
- Theodor Schwann
botanist, anatomist
- Horatio Seymour
governor, politician
- Alphonso Taft
businessperson, lawyer
- Asa Gray
university teacher, scientific collector
- David Levy Yulee
politician, lawyer
- Oliver Winchester
entrepreneur, carpenter
- Howard Staunton
non-fiction writer, literary historian
- James W. Marshall
joiner, carpenter
- Theodore Parker
theologian, writer
- Princess Marianne of the Netherlands
aristocrat, philanthropist
- Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala
politician, military personnel
- Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre
diplomat, soldier
- August Willich
carpenter, politician
- Robert Toombs
lawyer, soldier
- Thaóyate Dúta
traditional leader or chief, politician
- Ernst Kummer
university teacher, mathematician
- Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
diplomat, politician
- Nikolai Pirogov
physician, anatomist
- Ole Bull
violinist, academic musician
- Abraham Geiger
historian, theologian
- Auguste de Beauharnais
consort, aristocrat
- Karl Richard Lepsius
philologist, anthropologist
- Juan Bautista Alberdi
philosopher, lawyer
- Alexander Bain
inventor
- John McCloskey
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Hōne Heke
rangatira, politician
- Edward Blyth
scientific collector, curator
- Karel Hynek Mácha
prose writer, visual artist
- Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea
politician
- Andrés Pico
military personnel, politician
- Philip Henry Gosse
botanical collector, scientific collector
- Fanny Elssler
choreographer, dancer
- Samuel Sebastian Wesley
instrumentalist, choir director
- L. L. Langstroth
beekeeper, inventor
- Otto Nicolai
composer, music arranger
- Jeremiah S. Black
jurist, lawyer
- Paul Kane
writer, painter
- Ferenc Erkel
music educator, chess player
- Johann Ludwig Krapf
missionary, translator
- Alexandre Herculano
writer, journalist
- Charles de Montalembert
writer, count
- Francesco Maria Piave
writer, songwriter
- Ernestine Rose
social activist, writer
- Ferdinand David
composer, music director
- Louise Colet
poet, editor
- Morning Star
traditional leader or chief
- Andrew A. Humphreys
major general, soldier
- Sarah Elmira Royster
writer
- Wilhelm, Duke of Urach
architect, art collector
- Giovanni Lanza
Catholic priest, politician
- Justin Smith Morrill
politician
- Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie
patron of the arts, cartographer
- Andrew Scott Waugh
geodesist, major general
- Jules Perrot
librettist, Theaterintendant
- James Freeman Clarke
writer, theologian
- Nissage Saget
politician
- William Froude
physicist, marine architect
- Hans Christian Lumbye
conductor, chapelmaster
- Israel Salanter
talmudist, rabbi
- Ferdinand Freiligrath
revolutionary, translator
- Christen Købke
portrait painter, graphic artist
- Donald McKay
shipbuilder, engineer
- Pierre Bosquet
politician, military personnel
- Jaime Balmes
writer, philosopher
- Thomas Bragg
jurist, governor
- Fritz Reuter
writer, poet lawyer
- Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal
military personnel, military officer
- Julian Fontana
pianist, music educator
- Wilhelm Marstrand
painter, university teacher
- Hermann Heinrich Gossen
economist
- Constant Troyon
painter
- Simon Sinas
diplomat, politician
- Ogata Kōan
physician
- Johann Löwenthal
chess player
- Martin Farquhar Tupper
barrister, poet
- Aristide Boucicaut
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Henry B. Payne
lawyer, politician
- Jacob Thompson
politician
- Thomas Adolphus Trollope
journalist, novelist
- Grigory Gagarin
diplomat, major general
- Henry Alford
hymnwriter, pastor
- Alpheus S. Williams
military officer, lawyer
- Alexandre Calame
draftsperson, printmaker
- Robert Mallet
seismologist, civil engineer
- Peter Andreas Munch
philologist, regional historian
- Ward Hunt
lawyer, politician
- Ernest Courtot de Cissey
military officer, military personnel
- Louis Gallait
painter, draftsperson
- Zhang Lexing
military personnel
- Miklós Barabás
lithographer, photographer
- Nísia Floresta
writer, poet
- Philip Francis Thomas
politician, finance minister
- Francisco Dueñas Díaz
politician
- Edmond Boissier
scientific collector, traveler
- Hotta Masayoshi
samurai
- Lorenzo Batlle y Grau
military personnel, politician
- Martin John Spalding
Catholic priest, writer
- Samuel Ferguson
archaeologist, archivist
- Norbert Burgmüller
pianist, music teacher
- Eduard von Simson
politician, judge
- George Robert Waterhouse
entomologist, geologist
- Zahari Zograf
painter, artist
- Julián Castro
politician, military personnel
- Thomas Wright
historian, writer
- Félicien-César David
composer
- James Pollock
politician, lawyer
- José María de Achá
politician
- Vladimir Istomin
military personnel
- Stanko Vraz
writer, poet
- Vasily Zavoyko
explorer, military officer
- Alicia Ann Spottiswoode
songwriter, composer
- Jules Malou
politician, lawyer
- Ann S. Stephens
novelist, writer
- Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
anatomist, zoologist
- Bernhard von Langenbeck
military physician, university teacher
- Eugène Belgrand
hydrologist, engineer
- Franz Xaver Schönwerth
linguist, children's writer
- Paul Émile de Puydt
writer, botanist
- Maurice de Guérin
diarist, writer
- Ferdinand Barbedienne
founder, engineer
- Giovanni Matteo Mario
opera singer
- Josef Hyrtl
professor, biologist
- Félix Pyat
journalist, playwright
- Ma Hualong
imam
- Alfred de Dreux
painter
- Uno Cygnaeus
pedagogue, Lutheran pastor
- Francisco Robles
politician
- William Griffith
naturalist, botanical collector
- Hector-Martin Lefuel
architect
- Henri Martin
historian, politician
