ON THIS DAY
Born in 1815
250 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Otto von Bismarck
diplomat, volunteer serving one year
- Ada Lovelace
translator, mathematician
- John A. Macdonald
lawyer, politician
- John Bosco
Catholic priest, social pedagogue
- George Boole
philosopher, university teacher
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
actor, abolitionist
- Anthony Trollope
autobiographer, novelist
- Otto of Greece
politician, monarch
- George Meade
military personnel, engineer
- Catherine Dickens
writer
- Karl Weierstraß
physicist, university teacher
- Harriet Jacobs
autobiographer, nanny
- Julia Margaret Cameron
artist, writer
- Henry Halleck
major general, lawyer
- Henry Box Brown
abolitionist, docent
- Grace Darling
lighthouse keeper
- James Curtis Hepburn
translator, missionary
- Adolph von Menzel
painter, printmaker
- Henry Parkes
journalist, writer
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold
journalist, poet
- Edward John Eyre
colonial administrator, explorer
- Ľudovít Štúr
journalist, politician
- Richard Henry Dana
poet lawyer, writer
- Princess Elisabeth of Prussia
aristocrat
- Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
sculptor, miniature painter
- Ii Naosuke
politician
- Howell Cobb
lawyer, major general
- Arthur MacArthur
politician, governor
- William Joseph Hardee
military officer, military personnel
- William Wilde
physician, local historian
- Ildefons Cerdà
politician, architect
- Dan Emmett
composer, songwriter
- Seru Epenisa Cakobau
sovereign
- Theophan the Recluse
bishop, Eastern Orthodox priest
- Louis Jules Trochu
politician, writer
- Crawford Williamson Long
pharmacist, physician
- Henry Bartle Frere
botanical collector, politician
- David Davis
jurist, national supreme court judge
- John Mitchel
politician, journalist
- Hablot Knight Browne
printmaker, watercolorist
- Rafael Carrera
politician, military personnel
- Henry Highland Garnet
diplomat, religious leader
- Thomas Couture
teacher, painter
- John McDouall Stuart
botanical collector, explorer
- James Legge
sinologist, missionary
- Horace Wells
dentist, scientist
- Alexander Ramsey
politician
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
aristocrat, politician
- Constantin von Tischendorf
New Testament scholar, editor
- Johann Jakob Bachofen
philosopher, university teacher
- Josip Juraj Strossmayer
diplomat, bishop
- Edward James Roye
judge, politician
- Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
politician
- Louise Rasmussen
actor, stage actor
- Georgios Averoff
merchant, businessperson
- John Bingham
judge, politician
- Mehmed Emin Âli Paşa
diplomat, grand vizier
- Ang Mey
queen regnant
- Andrew Jackson Downing
gardener, horticulturist
- Wong Kei-ying
physician, martial artist
- Giuseppina Strepponi
opera singer
- Emma Stebbins
artist, sculptor
- Daniel Bashiel Warner
politician
- Andreas Achenbach
printmaker, painter
- Feng Yunshan
military leader
- Princess Therese of Nassau
benefactor
- Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen
military personnel
- James Seddon
politician, lawyer
- James Chesnut Jr.
politician
- Cornelius Krieghoff
painter, artist
- Francis Lubbock
governor, businessperson
- Robert Remak
botanist, physician
- Raffaele Cadorna
military officer, politician
- Alexandros Koumoundouros
diplomat, politician
- Warren De la Rue
naturalist, lens designer
- Andrew Gregg Curtin
diplomat, politician
- Henry Bibb
writer, abolitionist
- Edward Forbes
botanical collector, microbiologist
- Lorenz von Stein
constitutional lawyer, sociologist
- Charles Bernard Renouvier
philosopher
- Wilhelm Peters
naturalist, curator
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
priest, writer
- Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux
painter, illustrator
- Johann Gottfried Piefke
composer, oboist
- Aleksandr Baryatinsky
politician, soldier
- Andrew Jackson Hamilton
governor, politician
- Alexander von Middendorff
traveler, university teacher
- Lysius Salomon
politician
- James Bicheno Francis
inventor, civil engineer
- William Dennison Jr.
lawyer, politician
- Pavel Fedotov
draftsperson, painter
- Eugène Labiche
journalist, playwright
- James W. Nye
lawyer, politician
- Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
politician, barrister
- Ernest Boulanger
composer, conductor
- Temistocle Solera
librettist, poet
- Beriah Magoffin
lawyer, judge
- Richard Ansdell
printmaker, painter
- Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos
journalist, historian
- Marguerite Bays
dressmaker
- Henry B. Anthony
politician, journalist
- Emanuel Geibel
translator, poet
- John Wentworth
journalist, politician
- Robert Milligan McLane
politician, lawyer
- Pyotr Yershov
writer, prose writer
- Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz
journalist, writer
- Giovanni Caselli
inventor, physicist
- Mykhailo Verbytskyi
composer, choir director
- Robert Volkmann
composer, music educator
- Oran Milo Roberts
politician, lawyer
- Karl von Blaas
teacher, artist
- Clotilde de Vaux
writer, poet
- Otto von Böhtlingk
Indologist, linguist
- Anna Ella Carroll
politician, opinion journalist
- Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie
travel writer, explorer
- Henry Barkly
botanical collector, politician
- Camillo Sivori
composer, violinist
- Carlo Bossoli
draftsperson, painter
- John J. McRae
politician, lawyer
- Josephine Lang
pianist, composer
- Pedro Diez Canseco
military officer, politician
- Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
politician, diplomat
- James Rood Doolittle
politician, lawyer
- Jan August Hendrik Leys
visual artist, etcher
- Gottfried Kinkel
editor, playwright
- Rafael Echagüe
politician, military personnel
- Anne Lynch Botta
socialite, poet
- Alphonse Beau de Rochas
railway engineer, inventor
- Eliza Farnham
physician, philanthropist
- Robert Franz
music director, musician
- William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher
judge, rower
- Samuel Hirsch
rabbi, philosopher of religion
- Isidore Pils
painter
- Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich
university teacher, physician
- Vicente Cerna Sandoval
politician
- Jakob Dont
composer, music educator
- Herman Severin Lovenskjold
composer
- Richard Yates
lawyer, jurist
- Louis Le Chatelier
engineer, chemist
- Alexander von Kotzebue
military officer, poet
- Lucien Petipa
ballet dancer, librettist
- Athanasios Miaoulis
military personnel, politician
- Jean-Delphin Alard
music educator, composer
- Pyotr Valuyev
politician, poet
- Vicente Fidel López
historian, journalist