ON THIS DAY
Born in 1812
229 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Charles Dickens
playwright, parliamentary stenographer
- Robert Browning
writer, poet
- Kaspar Hauser
writer, painter
- Truganini
guide
- Alexander H. Stephens
politician, writer
- Cochise
military leader, traditional leader or chief
- Edward Lear
comedian, poet
- Louise of Orléans
aristocrat, watercolorist
- Henry Wilson
editor, historian
- Alexander Herzen
opinion journalist, philosopher
- Zuo Zongtang
warrior, politician
- Augustus Pugin
designer, art historian
- Moses Hess
politician, editing staff
- Ivan Goncharov
opinion journalist, novelist
- Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning
politician
- Natalia Pushkina
socialite, celebrity
- Melchora Aquino
revolutionary
- Antoine Patek
entrepreneur, watchmaker
- Abbas I of Egypt
politician, monarch
- Amélie of Leuchtenberg
consort
- Charles Lewis Tiffany
entrepreneur, merchant
- Fernando Wood
politician
- George Grey
governor, politician
- Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès
military personnel, military officer
- Samuel Smiles
journalist, philosopher
- Johann Gottfried Galle
astronomer, university teacher
- Martin R. Delany
novelist, journalist
- Alfred Krupp
business magnate, inventor
- Ignacio Comonfort
politician, minister
- Mirza Fatali Akhundov
philosopher, translator
- Théodore Rousseau
photographer, visual artist
- Buenaventura Báez
politician
- Emilie Mayer
composer, sculptor
- Ascanio Sobrero
chemist, inventor
- Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
mythologist, marine biologist
- Rudolf von Alt
engraver, watercolorist
- Zygmunt Krasiński
writer, philosopher
- John Alexander McClernand
military officer, lawyer
- Nathaniel de Rothschild
banker, businessperson
- Sigismond Thalberg
composer, pianist
- Duke Peter of Oldenburg
composer
- Stephen Mallory
politician, judge
- Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde
aristocrat
- Henry Mayhew
journalist, writer
- Charlotte Guest
writer, translator
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
literary critic, artist
- James Speed
university teacher, politician
- Kirkpatrick Macmillan
inventor, blacksmith
- Ilija Garašanin
statesperson, politician
- Thomas Lanier Clingman
lawyer, politician
- George B. Crittenden
military personnel, jurist
- Empress Xiaojingcheng
politician
- John Forster
journalist, writer
- Hendrik Conscience
writer, military personnel
- William Shanks
mathematician
- Friedrich von Flotow
choreographer, theatre manager
- Berthold Auerbach
poet, writer
- William Fox
barrister, politician
- Herschel V. Johnson
judge, jurist
- John B. Weller
governor, lawyer
- Édouard Séguin
physician, psychiatrist
- Louis Leroy
journalist, painter
- George Rawlinson
historian, cricketer
- Karl Schapper
forester, revolutionary
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
composer, violinist
- Elisha M. Pease
politician, lawyer
- Humphrey Marshall
lawyer, politician
- Ludwig Windthorst
lawyer, politician
- Ambrose of Optina
monk, Eastern Orthodox priest
- Paul Abadie
architect, restorer
- Yevgeny Grebyonka
publisher, translator
- Luigi Carlo Farini
politician, physician
- Samuel Wells Williams
botanical collector, lexicographer
- Walthère Frère-Orban
politician, jurist
- Stephen Pearl Andrews
journalist, philosopher
- Jesse D. Bright
lawyer, judge
- Adolphe Braun
photographer, art historian
- Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato
scientific explorer, art collector
- Bertalan Szemere
jurist, writer
- Peter Hansborough Bell
politician
- Filippo Pacini
anatomist
- Carol Szathmari
draftsperson, war photographer
- Archibald McMurdo
explorer, naval officer
- Ishwar Chandra Gupta
literary critic, poet
- John W. Stevenson
lawyer, politician
- Mihrimah Sultan
aristocrat
- Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
barrister, jurist
- Vincent Wallace
conductor, music educator
- Frederick Whitaker
lawyer, politician
- Nino Chavchavadze
painter
- Fyodor Trepov
military personnel, politician
- Nicolae Crețulescu
translator, linguist
- Bruno Hildebrand
state political scientist, economist
- Augustus C. Dodge
diplomat, politician
- Edward Shepherd Creasy
jurist, university teacher
- Richard March Hoe
businessperson, inventor
- Johanne Luise Heiberg
stage actor, actor
- William K. Sebastian
lawyer, politician
- Thomas Gold Appleton
writer, art historian
- Hermann von Fehling
chemist, university teacher
- Juraj Dobrila
Catholic bishop, printer
- Aaron Bernstein
opinion journalist, social activist
- Auguste Duméril
entomologist, herpetologist
- Carl Christian Hall
diplomat, politician
- James E. English
politician
- William Samuel Henson
inventor, engineer
- Joseph Günzburg
banker
- Emilie Högquist
stage actor, actor
- Nikolay Zinin
inventor, organic chemist
- David Dadiani
military personnel
- Francisco Coll Guitar
friar, founder of Catholic religious community
- Charles Grafton Page
inventor, physicist
- Ivan Panaev
journalist, writer
- Louisa Anne Meredith
photographer, botanist
- Eduard van der Nüll
professor, architect
- John A. Winston
politician, governor
- William James Linton
painter, poet
- Cirilo Villaverde
writer, teacher
- Jean-Baptiste Singelée
music educator, violinist
- Stuart Donaldson
businessperson, politician
- Knud Knudsen
pedagogue, philologist
- William George Ward
philosopher, Catholic theologian
- Louis-Antoine Jullien
conductor, composer
- Carl Rahl
copper engraver, painter
- John Gilbert
ornithologist, zoological collector
- Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani
singer, music educator
- Aleardo Aleardi
poet, politician
- Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ
mathematician, politician
- Robert Gordon Latham
writer, teacher
- Izmail Sreznevsky
lexicographer, linguist
- Julius Rietz
conductor, composer
- Pierre De Decker
writer, journalist
- Charles Duclerc
politician, journalist
- Ludvig Mathias Lindeman
folk song collector, musicologist
- Arthur Purves Phayre
zoologist, politician
- Michael Pakenham Edgeworth
scientific collector, photographer
- Abraham Dee Bartlett
zoologist, ornithologist
- Joshua Hill
lawyer, politician
- Ellen Sturgis Hooper
poet, writer
- Samo Chalupka
poet, writer
- Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi
politician, lawyer
- Agostino Bertani
politician, physician
- Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg
poet lawyer, writer
- Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski
politician, land owner
- Henri Wallon
historian of Modern Age, politician
- Louis Gurlitt
painter, landscape painter