ON THIS DAY
Born in 1817
269 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Henry David Thoreau
writer, translator
- Baháʼu'lláh
religious leader, orator
- William III of the Netherlands
art collector, politician
- Branwell Brontë
painter, poet
- Syed Ahmed Khan
knight, judge
- Louise of Hesse-Kassel
painter, consort
- Ivan Aivazovsky
visual artist, painter
- Braxton Bragg
military officer, army officer
- Theodor Mommsen
historian of classical antiquity, Germanist
- Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
sovereign
- Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
typographer, bookseller
- Richard Dadd
architectural drafter, painter
- Jind Kaur
regent, consort
- Debendranath Tagore
philosopher, autobiographer
- Lewis Armistead
military personnel
- Richard S. Ewell
military personnel
- Jung Bahadur Rana
military officer
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
writer, novelist
- George Frederic Watts
sculptor, painter
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
mycologist, scientific collector
- George Henry Lewes
naturalist, journalist
- Leonard Jerome
entrepreneur, financier
- Princess Clémentine, Princess of Koháry
watercolorist, draftsperson
- Austen Henry Layard
diplomat, painter
- Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen
military officer, politician
- Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
botanist, mineralogist
- Benjamin Jowett
university teacher, classical scholar
- Theodor Storm
novelist, jurist
- Richard B. Garnett
military personnel
- Táhirih
women's rights activist, poet
- Mihail Kogălniceanu
diplomat, historian
- John Leech
caricaturist, illustrator
- Charles-François Daubigny
painter, printmaker
- James W. Denver
politician, governor
- János Arany
poet, journalist
- George Holyoake
political economist, opinion journalist
- Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
politician, diplomat
- Princess Marie Amelie of Baden
aristocrat
- Antonio de Torres Jurado
musical instrument maker, musician
- Niels Gade
composer, classical composer
- Imdadullah Muhajir Makki
Sufi, poet
- Hermann Lotze
writer, university teacher
- Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
politician
- Otokichi
translator, sailor
- Mary Ann Bickerdyke
physician, nurse
- Edward Canby
military officer, major general
- Albert von Kölliker
neuroscientist, anatomist
- Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary
military personnel, politician
- Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
professor, neuroscientist
- Heinrich Graetz
rabbi, theologian
- William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley
cricketer, politician
- Sol Hachuel
historical figure
- Kalama
politician
- Carl Nägeli
mycologist, botanical collector
- Charles Adolphe Wurtz
chemist, physician
- Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès
chemist, pharmacist
- José Zorrilla
playwright, writer
- Carl Vogt
geologist, university teacher
- Mykola Kostomarov
historiographer, opinion journalist
- Rahmatullah Kairanawi
writer, researcher
- James J. Archer
military personnel
- Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet
civil engineer, engineer
- Ahmad Zayni Dahlan
Islamicist, writer
- Charles Piazzi Smyth
painter, astronomer
- Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
military personnel, politician
- LeRoy Pope Walker
lawyer, politician
- Nikoloz Baratashvili
writer, poet
- John M. Palmer
military officer, governor
- Alfred Francis Russell
politician
- Mustapha Khaznadar
politician
- Archduchess Hermine of Austria
abbess, aristocrat
- Richard Spruce
bryologist, entomologist
- C. H. D. Buys Ballot
director, cartographer
- Georgi Pulevski
bricklayer, lexicographer
- Henry Winter Davis
writer, politician
- Theophilus Shepstone
functionary, politician
- Karl Grün
teacher, historian
- Charles Cavendish-Bentinck
Anglican priest, priest
- Julius Springer
publisher
- Alexander Tilloch Galt
politician, diplomat
- Pierre Larousse
teacher, writer
- Georg Herwegh
politician, translator
- Edwards Pierrepont
judge, diplomat
- Adolphe Yvon
professeur des universités, painter
- John Bigelow
editor, journalist
- Francesco de Sanctis
literary critic, politician
- Benjamin Franklin Mudge
paleontologist, chemist
- Richard Strachey
army officer, geologist
- Ali III ibn al-Husayn
politician
- Alfred Lefébure-Wély
pianist, composer
- Alexander Wood
inventor, physician
- Adolphe Alphand
engineer, botanist
- Nunzio Sulprizio
artisan
- Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
university teacher, crystallographer
- Prince Waldemar of Prussia
military officer
- George Julian Harney
journalist
- James Thomas Fields
writer, publisher
- Ramón de Campoamor
writer, poet
- John Callcott Horsley
painter, illustrator
- Fanny Cerrito
dancer, choreographer
- Konstantin Aksakov
philologist, philosopher
- John Palliser
writer, justice of the peace
- Charles Dancla
music educator, violinist
- Gunnar Wennerberg
draftsperson, poet
- Palladiy
Eastern Orthodox priest, sinologist
- Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher
university teacher, political economist
- Bertrando Spaventa
philosopher, professor
- Joseph Poelaert
architect
- Manuel Robles Pezuela
politician, military personnel
- John Phillip
painter
- Jozef Miloslav Hurban
writer, journalist
- Wilhelm Griesinger
neurologist, university teacher
- Heinrich von Sybel
writer, politician
- Tomás Gutiérrez
military personnel, politician
- Jean-Baptiste André Godin
economist, politician
- William Ferrel
astronomer, meteorologist
- Alexander Wheelock Thayer
librarian, biographer
- Manuela Rosas
politician, activist
- Vincent, Count Benedetti
diplomat, politician
- Marcus Thrane
journalist, photographer
- John S. Carlile
businessperson, politician
- Edward Armitage
painter
- Thomas E. Bramlette
lawyer, judge
- Harris Flanagin
colonel, lawyer
- Mathilde Franziska Anneke
journalist, editor
- Lucas Velázquez
painter
- Ernest Hébert
painter
- Frederick McCoy
paleontologist, ichthyologist
- Robert Angus Smith
chemist
- Antonio F. Coronel
politician
- Alvin Saunders
politician
- Walter Hood Fitch
lithographer, botanist
- John Selden Roane
Brigadegeneral, politician
- George Henry Corliss
engineer, inventor
- János Irinyi
inventor, engineer
- Lothar von Faber
politician, entrepreneur
- Giacomo Medici
politician, military officer
- Jean-Marie Le Bris
aircraft pilot
- Florian Ceynowa
writer, linguist
- James E. Buttersworth
painter
- P. C. Skovgaard
painter, university teacher
- Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs
diplomat, politician
- François Bonvin
printmaker, painter
- George Webbe Dasent
barrister, writer
- Dervish Ibrahim Pasha
military leader, politician
- James A. McDougall
lawyer, politician
- Bernhard Windscheid
university teacher, jurist