ON THIS DAY
Born in 1811
250 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Franz Liszt
classical composer, virtuoso
- Napoleon II
military officer, draftsperson
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
novelist, social activist
- William Makepeace Thackeray
writer, prose writer
- Évariste Galois
mathematician, revolutionary
- Horace Greeley
writer, editing staff
- Charles Sumner
lawyer, politician
- Isaac Singer
inventor, stage actor
- Judah P. Benjamin
politician, businessperson
- Maximilian II of Bavaria
statesperson, politician
- Elisha Otis
elevator mechanic, entrepreneur
- Robert Bunsen
teacher, inventor
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
historian, diplomat
- John Neumann
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
composer, consort
- Zeng Guofan
writer, politician
- John Humphrey Noyes
religious leader, preacher
- George Gilbert Scott
architect
- Urbain Le Verrier
mathematician, politician
- Vissarion Belinsky
opinion journalist, literary theorist
- James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
diplomat, governor
- Wendell Phillips
lawyer, writer
- Louis Blanc
writer, journalist
- François Achille Bazaine
military officer, marshal
- James Young Simpson
university teacher, physician
- William Brydon
physician, surgeon
- John Bright
writer, politician
- Edward Dickinson Baker
lawyer, politician
- Henry Liddell
grammarian, lexicographer
- John William Draper
physiologist, historian
- Frances Sargent Osgood
writer, poet
- Benjamin Davis Wilson
politician, mayor
- Sakuma Shōzan
inventor, political scientist
- George Caleb Bingham
university teacher, graphic artist
- Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye
opinion journalist, writer
- Edwin D. Morgan
governor, military officer
- John Lawrence
politician
- Friedrich Hecker
jurist, politician
- James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
politician
- Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern
politician, jurist
- Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain
military personnel
- Mohammad Afzal Khan
politician
- Sengge Rinchen
military personnel
- Benjamin McCulloch
politician
- Stevens T. Mason
politician
- Jón Sigurðsson
philologist, historian
- Ambroise Thomas
university teacher, music educator
- Charles de Morny, Duke of Morny
politician, financier
- Peter Julian Eymard
Catholic priest, founder of Catholic religious community
- J. C. Jacobsen
member of the Folketing, entrepreneur
- Princess Louise Amelie of Baden
politician
- John Archibald Campbell
politician, jurist
- Kurmanjan Datka
diplomat, politician
- George Jones
journalist
- William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton
politician
- Pagan Min
monarch
- Henry Bergh
social reformer, writer
- Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
musical instrument maker, organ builder
- Otto Hesse
mathematician, university teacher
- Prince Adalbert of Prussia
naval officer, explorer
- Ferdinand Hiller
pianist, musician
- William Robert Grove
naturalist, photographer
- C. F. W. Walther
writer, editor
- Karel Jaromír Erben
prose writer, librettist
- Fanny Fern
writer, journalist
- Robert Lowe
politician, barrister
- Joseph Cafasso
Catholic priest
- Washington Hunt
lawyer, judge
- Georg August Wallin
professor, explorer
- Auguste Bravais
university teacher, mathematician
- François Delsarte
musicologist, pedagogue
- Marie Pleyel
composer, music educator
- Mütercim Rüşdü Paşa
politician, jurist
- Jules Sandeau
poet, playwright
- Ditlev Gothard Monrad
diplomat, farmer
- Juan Bautista Ceballos
politician, lawyer
- William Bell Scott
writer, graphic artist
- William H. Emory
botanist, politician
- Delia Bacon
writer
- Abby Kelley Foster
suffragette, women's rights activist
- Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen
military officer, military personnel
- James Young
chemist, businessperson
- Owen Lovejoy
abolitionist, politician
- Jules Dupré
painter, graphic artist
- Saliha Sultan
aristocrat
- Karl Gutzkow
poet, opinion journalist
- Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler
Catholic priest, writer
- Johann Georg von Hahn
consul, balkanologist
- Emmanuel de Rougé
curator, orientalist
- Francisco Palau
Catholic priest
- William Kelly
inventor
- Adam Clark
civil engineer
- William Colenso
explorer, missionary
- Johann Dzierzon
Catholic priest, entomologist
- Alfred Domett
barrister, writer
- Oun Kham
monarch
- George S. Houston
politician
- Elias Loomis
astronomer, mathematician
- Ulrich Ochsenbein
military officer, politician
- Antónia Ferreira
businessperson
- Muhammad II ibn al-Husayn
politician
- Sālote Lupepauʻu
queen consort
- James Hall
geologist, zoologist
- Hoca Tahsin
mathematician, physicist
- Victor Duruy
historian, politician
- Henry Barnard
writer, politician
- Edward William Cooke
illustrator, landscape painter
- Trusten Polk
jurist, colonel
- Noah Porter
philosopher, theologian
- James Bateman
botanist, horticulturist
- William H. Harvey
botanist, treasurer
- Thomas Caverhill Jerdon
physician, ornithologist
- William Alexander Richardson
politician, lawyer
- Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
botanical collector, university teacher
- Béla Wenckheim
politician, diplomat
- William Henry Bissell
jurist, governor
- Robert Scott
linguist, classical philologist
- Henry Smith Lane
banker, governor
- Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
journalist, lawyer
- Adolphe d'Ennery
composer, writer
- Constance Fox Talbot
photographer
- Richard Dybeck
historian, lyricist
- Dimitrios Demeter
writer, poet
- Eldred Pottinger
diplomat
- John Lort Stokes
explorer, naval officer
- Joseph Kleutgen
philosopher, Catholic theologian
- John Kilian
librettist, writer
- Hugh Edwin Strickland
paleontologist, zoologist
- Li Shanlan
translator, calligrapher
- Carl Johan Thyselius
politician, mill owner
- Leopold, Count von Thun und Hohenstein
philanthropist, education activist
- Richard Collinson
surveyor, naval officer
- John William Casilear
photographer, painter