ON THIS DAY
Born in 1813
233 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Richard Wagner
librettist, conductor
- Søren Kierkegaard
literary critic, philosopher
- Giuseppe Verdi
writer, politician
- David Livingstone
writer, explorer
- John C. Frémont
politician, explorer
- Stephen A. Douglas
lawyer, politician
- John Snow
epidemiologist, anesthesiologist
- J. Marion Sims
physician, surgeon
- Henry Ward Beecher
journalist, writer
- Auguste Maquet
playwright, writer
- John Sedgwick
military officer
- Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
philosopher, writer
- Junius Spencer Morgan
financier, banker
- Claude Bernard
physiologist, physician
- Juan Pablo Duarte
politician, freedom fighter
- Henry Bessemer
engineer, businessperson
- Charles-Valentin Alkan
organist, music arranger
- Georg Büchner
physician writer, playwright
- James Strang
politician, editor
- Ludwig Leichhardt
traveler, explorer
- Franz Miklosich
slavist, linguist
- Svati Tirunal
composer
- David Dixon Porter
military officer, writer
- John Rae
explorer, surgeon
- Robert Fortune
scientific collector, writer
- August Belmont
politician, banker
- Radhanath Sikdar
mathematician
- Josephine of Baden
aristocrat
- Julius Friedländer
numismatist
- Isaac Butt
politician, barrister
- Princess Marie of France
painter, sculptor
- James McCune Smith
writer, physician
- Montgomery Blair
judge, politician
- Frédéric Ozanam
writer, jurist
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
parson, theologian
- John L. O'Sullivan
diplomat, journalist
- Agostino Depretis
diplomat, politician
- Karl von Hegel
editor, historian
- Isaac Pitman
publisher, stenographer
- Ivar Andreas Aasen
diarist, botanist
- Baron Alexander von Bach
diplomat, jurist
- Lyman Trumbull
judge, lawyer
- Louis Lucien Bonaparte
politician, linguist
- Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria
aristocrat, painter
- Georges Darboy
archbishop, Catholic theologian
- Allen G. Thurman
jurist, politician
- James Dwight Dana
botanist, university teacher
- Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
compiler, philosopher
- Pōmare IV
politician
- Joseph Glidden
businessperson, inventor
- Sándor Rózsa
robber
- Zachariah Chandler
politician, businessperson
- Theophil Hansen
university teacher, architect
- George Peter Alexander Healy
painter
- William Smith
literary editor, writer
- Friedrich Hebbel
writer, playwright
- Samuel J. Kirkwood
lawyer, politician
- Franz Delitzsch
Protestant theologian, theologian
- Oscar Gustave Rejlander
painter, photographer
- Alexander Dargomyzhsky
composer, pianist
- Alexander Parkes
chemist, inventor
- Camilla Collett
women's rights activist, essayist
- Joseph P. Bradley
judge, lawyer
- Stephen Heller
teacher, pianist
- Adolph Kolping
Catholic priest, theologian
- Louis Veuillot
writer, journalist
- Krishna Mohan Banerjee
writer, teacher
- Félix María Zuloaga
military personnel, politician
- Josef Groll
brewer, brewmaster
- Jørgen Moe
prose writer, ethnologist
- Gerardo Barrios
politician
- Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
university teacher, physicist
- John Letcher
editor, journalist
- József Eötvös
writer, politician
- William Benjamin Carpenter
botanist, naturalist
- Frederick Scott Archer
inventor, sculptor
- Matthias Alexander Castrén
philologist, explorer
- Prince August of Württemberg
military personnel
- Milledge Luke Bonham
lawyer, governor
- Eduard Riedel
architect
- Lot M. Morrill
governor, finance minister
- Albert G. Brown
judge, lawyer
- Félix Ravaisson-Mollien
anthropologist, art historian
- Giovanni Luppis
inventor, naval officer
- Pierre Alphonse Laurent
mathematician, military engineer
- Shō Iku
king
- William Otis
inventor
- John Cassin
writer, botanist
- Susan Fenimore Cooper
writer, naturalist
- Narciso Campero
politician, military personnel
- William Bullock
inventor
- Irineu Evangelista de Sousa
businessperson, bank officer
- Manuel Antonio Sanclemente
politician, military personnel
- Pierre Michaux
businessperson, inventor
- Nikolay Ogarev
newspaper proprietor, composer
- Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
politician, barrister
- Otto Jahn
musicologist, musicographer
- James Robertson
journalist, photographer
- Michel Domingue
politician
- Japetus Steenstrup
malacologist, scientific collector
- Évariste Régis Huc
writer, missionary
- John Burgon
theologian, poet
- Maria Crocifissa di Rosa
nun, founder
- Nicaise de Keyser
painter, lithographer
- Jones Very
pastor, philosopher
- Thomas Andrews
physicist, chemist
- Charles Blanc
art critic, journalist
- Cezar Bolliac
poet, historian
- George Alexander Macfarren
musicologist, music educator
- Damat Mehmet Ali Paşa
diplomat
- Antonio García Gutiérrez
playwright, librettist
- Timofey Granovsky
sociologist, medievalist
- Rafael Campo
politician
- Charles Jacque
painter, animal painter
- Peter Egerton-Warburton
police officer, writer
- John Shae Perring
engineer, archaeologist
- Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
theologian, priest
- Johan August Gripenstedt
politician, military personnel
- Carl Jaenisch
military officer, chess composer
- Nicholas Benois
architect
- Edmond de Selys Longchamps
botanist, ornithologist
- Anselme Bellegarrigue
anarchist, writer
- Ann Preston
physician, educator
- Samo Tomášik
poet, writer
- Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Paşa
politician
- Auguste André Thomas Cahours
chemist
- Moritz Wagner
naturalist, geographer
- Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly, Prince Dietrichstein von Nicolsburg
statesperson, politician
- Gennady Nevelskoy
explorer, military officer
- Aloys Sprenger
orientalist, translator
- Arthur Helps
biographer, writer
- Louise-Victorine Ackermann
poet, writer
- Mary Rosse
artist, astronomer
- Luigi Settembrini
jurist, literary historian
- Samuel Birch
Egyptologist, archaeologist
- Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
philologist, theologian
- Daniel Pollen
politician
- Gaëtan de Rochebouët
military officer, politician
- Henry Bence Jones
chemist, physician
- Karel Sabina
politician, journalist
- Daniel D. Pratt
politician, lawyer
- Semen Hulak-Artemovsky
playwright, composer
- Otto Ludwig
playwright, writer
- Nikolai Stankevich
poet, writer
- Paulina Wright Davis
suffragette, women's rights activist
- Charles Davidson Bell
painter