ON THIS DAY
Born in 1814
244 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Mikhail Bakunin
writer, anarchist
- Hong Xiuquan
politician, teacher
- Taras Shevchenko
painter, playwright
- Samuel Colt
weapons manufacturing company, design engineer
- Adolphe Sax
music educator, musical instrument maker
- Mikhail Lermontov
playwright, bretteur
- Edwin M. Stanton
judge, jurist
- Sheridan Le Fanu
librettist, journalist
- Jenny von Westphalen
sociologist, politician
- Samuel J. Tilden
lawyer, politician
- Jean-François Millet
plower, engraver
- Henri Nestlé
pharmacist, chemist
- Kamehameha III
judge
- Joseph Hooker
military officer, military personnel
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
preface author, writer
- Tatya Tope
freedom fighter, soldier
- Mary Ellen Pleasant
entrepreneur, civil rights advocate
- Alexander Cunningham
numismatist, art historian
- Joseph Cinqué
Slave rebellion leader
- Lorenzo Snow
writer, prophet
- John C. Pemberton
military personnel
- Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours
military officer
- Narsinh Mehta
poet
- Wilmer McLean
farmer
- Gustav Fabergé
goldsmith, jeweler
- James Joseph Sylvester
mathematician, actuary
- George-Étienne Cartier
politician, statesperson
- Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts
patron of the arts, philanthropist
- Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
aristocrat
- John Hughes
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Rasoherina I of Madagascar
politician
- Charles Mackay
journalist, writer
- Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos
politician, soldier
- Anders Jonas Ångström
physicist, university teacher
- Bhanubhakta Acharya
writer, poet
- Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
military personnel
- William Wells Brown
novelist, writer
- Robert Mayer
physician, physicist
- Robert Caldwell
missionary, Dravidologist
- Frederick William Faber
hagiographer, Catholic priest
- Auguste Chapdelaine
missionary, Catholic priest
- Sekhukhune I
king
- Théodolinde de Beauharnais
aristocrat
- Eugène Charles Catalan
university teacher, mathematician
- John Evans
politician, governor
- James Paget
pathologist, surgeon
- Charles Reade
playwright, writer
- Jérôme Napoléon Charles Bonaparte
military officer
- Hermann Gundert
linguist, Indologist
- James Henry Lane
lawyer, jurist
- Jules Hetzel
translator, politician
- George W. M. Reynolds
writer, novelist
- Glele
monarch
- Elbridge G. Lapham
lawyer, politician
- Muhammad III as-Sadiq
politician, bey
- Ellen Wood
writer, novelist
- David Wilmot
politician, lawyer
- John Lothrop Motley
diplomat, academic
- Mehmed Fuad Paşa
writer, politician
- Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne
lawyer, Catholic priest
- Ludwik Mierosławski
politician, military historian
- Auguste Clésinger
visual artist, painter
- Thomas Davis
poet, journalist
- Ivan Mažuranić
writer, linguist
- John Colenso
mathematician, presbyter
- Francis Harrison Pierpont
politician, lawyer
- Jean-Baptiste Lamy
theologian, Catholic priest
- Esther Hobart Morris
judge, suffragist
- Charles de Lorencez
military officer
- Josif Pančić
university teacher, botanical collector
- Adolph Tidemand
genre painter, draftsperson
- Thomas Crawford
painter, sculptor
- James Roosevelt Bayley
Anglican priest, Catholic priest
- Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
playwright, poet
- Melchor Ocampo
lawyer, diplomat
- Ludwig Schläfli
mathematician, theologian
- Adolf von Henselt
composer, pianist
- Eduard Zeller
philosophy historian, writer
- Alexander John Ellis
mathematician, writer
- Juan Rafael Mora Porras
politician, president
- Girolamo de Rada
historian, poet
- Prince Hermann, 4th Prince of Wied
politician, aristocrat
- Galen Clark
surveying engineer, botanist
- Conrad of Parzham
lay brother
- Abdullah II Al-Sabah
politician, Amir
- Ernst Curtius
historian, writer
- Jules Simon
politician, biographer
- Henri Lehmann
painter
- Miklós Ybl
architect
- Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook
barrister, politician
- Horace Maynard
jurisprudence, diplomat
- Arsène Houssaye
literary critic, journalist
- Pierre Wantzel
mathematician
- August Cieszkowski
land owner, historian
- Johann Georg Halske
building contractor, entrepreneur
- Henri Tresca
physicist, highway engineer
- Prince Karl, 8th Prince of Auersperg
politician, civil servant
- William Henry Giles Kingston
linguist, writer
- Adams George Archibald
politician, lawyer
- Maria del Rosario Weiss
painter, draftsperson
- Mirza Shirazi
marji', Islamic jurist
- Ábrahám Ganz
inventor, engineer
- Yelena Hahn
writer, novelist
- Peary Chand Mitra
librarian, novelist
- Golding Bird
physician, urologist
- Louis Janmot
painter, poet
- Cornélie Falcon
opera singer
- William Bigler
politician
- Richard MacDonnell
politician, judge
- José Balta
politician, military personnel
- John Bennet Lawes
agronomist, inventor
- Oskar Kolberg
ethnologist, composer
- Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
ethnographer, anthropologist
- William D. Kelley
lawyer, politician
- Heinrich Geißler
inventor, scientific glassblower
- Theodoros Vryzakis
painter
- Eugène Rouher
lawyer, politician
- Joseph Sadoc Alemany
missionary, Latin Catholic priest
- Robert Ward Johnson
planter class, lawyer
- Antoni Aleksander Iliński
diplomat
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin
priest, writer
- Siméon-François Berneux
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Carl Bergmann
physiologist, anatomist
- Ludwig von Gablenz
military officer, military personnel
- Amalia Lindegren
painter
- Alexander von Stieglitz
banker, benefactor
- Nicolaas Beets
poet, university teacher
- Konstantinos Zappas
benefactor, businessperson
- Saffet Paşa
politician, writer
- Daniel Kirkwood
mathematician, astronomer
- August Grisebach
naturalist, scientific collector
- Ludovico of Casoria
founder of Catholic religious community, Catholic priest
- James Dixon
lawyer, politician
- James C. Dobbin
politician, lawyer
- Louis Buvelot
painter, photographer
- François-Louis Français
illustrator, lithographer
- Gustav Hartlaub
ornithologist, zoologist
- Felix Lichnowsky
writer, military officer
- Jeremiah Clemens
novelist, politician
- Samuel Kleinschmidt
linguist, missionary
- Matei Millo
playwright, actor
- Aleksander Lesser
illustrator, painter
- Ana Néri
nurse, military nurse
- Hippolyte Lucas
arachnologist, biologist
- Ferenc Pulszky
art collector, classical scholar
- Manuel Pavía y Lacy, 1st Marquis of Novaliches
military personnel, politician
