ON THIS DAY
Born in 1816
222 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Charlotte Brontë
governess, writer
- Arthur de Gobineau
anthropologist, diplomat
- Werner von Siemens
railway engineer, engineer
- George Henry Thomas
military officer
- Ferdinand II of Portugal
painter, consort
- Jubal Early
lawyer, army officer
- Carl Zeiss
physicist, photographer
- Paul Reuter
writer, journalist
- Nathaniel P. Banks
military officer, suffragist
- Akbar Khan
monarch, military officer
- Dalai Lama 10 Tsultrim Gyatso
politician, Dalai Lama
- Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet
physician, physiologist
- Emanuel Leutze
artist, painter
- John Charles Ryle
cricketer, bishop
- Morrison Waite
lawyer, politician
- Elihu B. Washburne
diplomat, jurist
- Luke Pryor Blackburn
physician, governor
- Samuel Rowbotham
writer, inventor
- Stephen Johnson Field
lawyer, judge
- Antoine Béchamp
chemistry teacher, biologist
- Gustav Freytag
docent, playwright
- Charlotte Cushman
actor, stage actor
- Frederic William Burton
painter, art historian
- Henry Hopkins Sibley
soldier, inventor
- Russell Sage
financier, politician
- Henry Laurens Dawes
lawyer, editor
- Stephen Allen Benson
judge, politician
- William Sterndale Bennett
conductor, organist
- Dmitry Milyutin
politician, non-fiction writer
- Franz Sacher
cook, confectioner
- Matías Ramón Mella
partisan, politician
- Eugène Pottier
communard, draftsperson
- Marie Lafarge
historian, memoirist
- John Frederick Kensett
painter
- Charles Denis Bourbaki
military officer, military personnel
- Sarah Fairbrother
film actor, actor
- James L. Alcorn
lawyer, politician
- Louis Wigfall
lawyer, politician
- Edward Johnson
soldier, military personnel
- Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
university teacher, chemist
- Moritz Steinschneider
university teacher, orientalist
- Paul Féval
lawyer, writer
- Malwida Freiin von Meysenbug
autobiographer, correspondent
- Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
scholar, rabbi
- Samuel Freeman Miller
lawyer, judge
- Hermann Goedsche
journalist, writer
- Francisco Bolognesi
military personnel
- Augustus Egg
painter
- Ion Ghica
diplomat, writer
- Giovanni Morelli
art collector, writer
- Joel Parker
jurist, prosecutor
- Ebenezer R. Hoar
lawyer, diplomat
- August Karl von Goeben
military personnel, military officer
- Daniel Gooch
engineer, locomotive designer
- Philip James Bailey
writer, barrister
- Carl Ludwig
physiologist, anatomist
- C. A. Rosetti
politician, actor
- Pope Cyril IV of Alexandria
presbyter
- Clement Claiborne Clay
judge, politician
- John Palmer Usher
lawyer
- Johan Sverdrup
lawyer, politician
- Paul Gervais
zoologist, entomologist
- William Batchelder Bradbury
musical instrument maker, composer
- Grace Aguilar
poet, theologian
- Lydia Moss Bradley
philanthropist
- Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra
professor, physician
- Charles Gavan Duffy
poet, politician
- Henri Dupuy de Lôme
military engineer, balloonist
- Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet
businessperson, chemist
- Sushun
politician
- Samuel C. Pomeroy
politician
- Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
physician, ophthalmologist
- Prince Antonio, Count of Lecce
aristocrat
- Richard Leach Maddox
physician, photographer
- John Godfrey Saxe
politician, writer
- José Santos Guardiola
head of state, politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Chrlstiam Gerstäcker
singer, traveler
- Yoshida Tōyō
samurai
- Amedeo Preziosi
painter
- Benjamin Flanders
politician
- Charles Lasègue
neurologist, psychiatrist
- Andrei Mureșanu
political activist, translator
- Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
astronomer, prosecutor
- Antoine-François Marmontel
musician, musicologist
- Nils Blommér
painter
- Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos
Catholic priest, Catholic deacon
- Antonio Salviati
glass artist, entrepreneur
- Charles Thomas Newton
university teacher, art historian
- Benjamin H. Brewster
politician, lawyer
- James W. Grimes
farmer, lawyer
- Charles-Eugène Delaunay
engineer, astronomer
- Edward Matthew Ward
painter
- Ekaterine Chavchavadze
politician
- Johann Baptist Franzelin
university teacher, Catholic priest
- Willis A. Gorman
lawyer, military officer
- Manuel Murillo Toro
journalist, writer
- Jean Cabanis
zoologist, scientific collector
- Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski
linguist, poet
- Macarius Bulgakov
metropolitan, archimandrite
- Prince Dimitrie Ghica
politician, diplomat
- Alfred Rethel
painter, draftsperson
- Daniel Huntington
painter
- Peter von Uslar
engineer, military personnel
- Rudolf von Gneist
member of parliament, university teacher
- Frances Browne
children's writer, writer
- Jozef Michal Poniatowski
conductor, diplomat
- Friedrich Gottlob Keller
inventor, technician
- Aniela Aszpergerowa
actor, stage actor
- Carl Olof Rosenius
preacher, newspaper editor
- Timothy O. Howe
jurist, lawyer
- Rudolf Wolf
mathematician, astronomer
- Jens Adolf Jerichau
painter, sculptor
- Antim I
politician, Eastern Orthodox priest
- William W. Eaton
judge, lawyer
- William Alexander Henry
politician, judge
- Jean Frédéric Frenet
mathematician, astronomer
- Jan Arnošt Smoler
linguist, philologist
- Henry Mower Rice
politician
- Jean Laurent
photographer
- Giovanni Simeoni
prelate, Catholic priest
- Robert Manning
engineer, civil engineer
- John Simon
pathologist, physician
- Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets
artist, painter
- Ernst Litfaß
printer, publisher
- Paola Elisabetta Cerioli
religious sister, nun
- Aleksander Zederbaum
journalist, writer
- Daniel Wilson
anthropologist, writer
- Hugo, 4th Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen
military officer, politician
- William Parker Foulke
lawyer, historian
- Thomas Russell Crampton
inventor, civil engineer
- Fritz Spindler
pianist, conductor
- Bogoslav Šulek
botanist, linguist
- Antoni Rovira i Trias
architect
- Catherine Wolfe Bruce
astronomer, patron of the arts
- Theodore Martin
biographer, poet
- Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen
military personnel, writer
- Kawatake Mokuami
playwright, writer
- Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt
diplomat, politician
- Alexander Bullock
judge, jurist
- Henry Massey Rector
politician, jurist
- August Wilhelm Ambros
writer, musicologist
- Edward MacCabe
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Hermann Schaaffhausen
anatomist, anthropologist
- Félix Douay
military officer
- Anders Sandøe Ørsted
explorer, marine biologist
- Johannes Verhulst
composer, conductor