ON THIS DAY
Born in 1818
273 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Karl Marx
poet, economist
- Emily Brontë
teacher, poet
- Frederick Douglass
caulker, slave
- Alexander II of Russia
statesperson, monarch
- Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady
- Ignaz Semmelweis
botanist, physician
- Ivan Turgenev
playwright, dramaturge
- Christian IX of Denmark
monarch, military officer
- P. G. T. Beauregard
artillerist, army officer
- James Prescott Joule
physicist
- Tewodros II
politician, military personnel
- Jacob Burckhardt
cultural historian, philosopher
- Charles Gounod
musicologist, composer
- Benjamin Franklin Butler
governor, politician
- Wade Hampton III
politician
- Sophie of Württemberg
art collector, collector
- Lucy Stone
journalist, suffragist
- Adolf Anderssen
non-fiction writer, mathematician
- Marius Petipa
dancer, teacher
- Don Carlos Buell
military personnel
- Maria Mitchell
naturalist, university teacher
- Richard Jordan Gatling
gunsmith, engineer
- Francesco Crispi
politician, lawyer
- Prince August, 3rd Prince of Koháry
politician, military officer
- Nathaniel Lyon
military officer
- Amalia of Oldenburg
consort
- Lewis H. Morgan
archaeologist, writer
- Irvin McDowell
military officer, major general
- John W. Johnston
judge, lawyer
- Angelica Singleton Van Buren
politician
- Elizabeth Keckley
modiste, writer
- Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria
ruler, politician
- Amelia Bloomer
women's rights activist, writer
- William Fargo
politician, entrepreneur
- George Brown
businessperson, editing staff
- Marie of Saxe-Altenburg
composer
- Carl Alexander I, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
jurist, writer
- Thomas Mayne Reid
novelist, children's writer
- Prince Alexander of the Netherlands
military personnel
- James Anthony Froude
priest, novelist
- Giovanni Strazza
sculptor
- Cecil Frances Alexander
hymnwriter, writer
- George S. Boutwell
politician, member of parliament
- Manuelito
traditional leader or chief
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann
chemist, university teacher
- Prince François, Prince of Joinville
writer, Officer of the French Navy
- Elizabeth F. Ellet
writer, essayist
- William M. Evarts
politician, foreign minister
- Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
politician, banker
- Isaac Stevens
politician, military officer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen
social reformer, politician
- Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet
politician, art collector
- John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland
statesperson, aristocrat
- Rudolf von Jhering
jurist, university teacher
- Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
military officer, military commander
- Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond
cricketer, aristocrat
- John Mason Neale
librettist, theologian
- George Wythe Randolph
jurist, military personnel
- Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle
literary critic, writer
- Artúr Görgey
military personnel, military leader
- Josh Billings
writer, humorist
- John Albion Andrew
politician, lawyer
- Martin Hertz
university teacher, classical philologist
- Emil du Bois-Reymond
university teacher, physician
- Alexander Bain
psychologist, writer
- Cadwallader C. Washburn
entrepreneur, major general
- Marco Minghetti
politician, minister
- Zachris Topelius
historian, children's writer
- Angelo Secchi
physicist, astronomer
- John Henninger Reagan
politician, lawyer
- Thomas Stevenson
civil engineer, engineer
- Ibrahim Edhem Pasha
writer, grand vizier
- Thomas Francis Wade
linguist, sinologist
- Sarah Bradford
children's writer, historian
- Eduard Totleben
military engineer, military officer
- Elisabeth Baumann
biographer, artist
- Louis de Geer the Elder
writer, jurist
- Joseph Weydemeyer
journalist, socialist
- Isham G. Harris
lawyer, jurist
- Louis Faidherbe
military officer, colonial administrator
- Sikandar Begum
begum, monarch
- Konstantin von Kaufman
governor-general, politician
- Raffaele Monti
sculptor, art historian
- Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
university teacher, chemist
- Albert Abdullah David Sassoon
businessperson
- William Woods Holden
governor, peace activist
- Petar Preradović
soldier, military personnel
- José María Castro Madriz
politician, diplomat
- Eliza Cook
writer, poet
- Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
politician, barrister
- Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
chemist, physician
- George Pomutz
lawyer, diplomat
- Josip Filipović
military officer, politician
- Henry Litolff
music publisher, composer
- Carlo Pisacane
historian, patriot
- William Ellery Channing
writer, poet
- Charles L. Robinson
governor, politician
- Charles J. Folger
lawyer, judge
- Louis Le Breton
lithographer, painter
- Mikhail Katkov
literary critic, politician
- Walther Wolfgang von Goethe
jurist, chamberlain
- Heinrich Göbel
watchmaker, mechanic
- John McDougall
politician, governor
- Shigabutdin Marjani
writer, historian
- William Edward Forster
politician
- Antonio Bazzini
musicologist, musician
- Franciscus Donders
ophthalmologist, university teacher
- Ignacio Ramírez
poet, jurist
- Adandozan
monarch
- Louise de Broglie, comtesse d'Haussonville
historian, biographer
- Wilhelm Camphausen
painter, Düsseldorf school of painting
- Josiah Gorgas
army officer, academic
- Theodor Kullak
musicologist, music teacher
- Charles III, Prince of Monaco
politician
- Michele Novaro
conductor, maestro
- Edward A. O'Neal
politician, military officer
- Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford
watercolorist, painter
- Bam Bahadur Rana
politician
- John Henry Foley
sculptor
- Austin Blair
politician, governor
- Date Munenari
politician
- Ambroise Auguste Tardieu
criminologist, physician
- Paul Octave Hébert
politician, engineer
- Mary H. Eastman
historian, poet
- Louis Appia
military physician, physician
- Mahmud Nedim Pasha
politician, writer
- Jan Heemskerk Azn.
politician, lawyer
- Ivan Franjo Jukić
writer, folklorist
- Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville
professor, chemist
- Perucho Figueredo
composer, poet
- Ernest Malinowski
engineer
- Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair
university teacher, politician
- Jean-François Portaels
painter, teacher
- John Ball
mountaineer, scientific collector
- Johann Jakob von Tschudi
explorer, diplomat
- Juana Manuela Gorriti
journalist, writer
- Matija Ban
diplomat, playwright
- Nikolay Milyutin
politician
- Henry Jacob Bigelow
surgeon, university teacher
- John Stuart Williams
lawyer, politician
- David T. Patterson
judge, lawyer
- Guo Songtao
diplomat, politician
- Heinrich Kiepert
topographer, geographer
- Thomas Adams
scientist, inventor
- Catherine Hayes
opera singer
- Filippo Palizzi
painter, graphic artist
- Aasmund Olavsson Vinje
journalist, writer
- Guillermo Prieto
politician, playwright