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Born in 1819

271 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Victoria

    diarist, monarch

    1819–1901 · aged 81

    May 24 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  2. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

    painter, conductor

    1819–1861 · aged 42

    August 26 · 1819

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  3. Walt Whitman

    poet, teacher

    1819–1892 · aged 72

    May 31 · 1819

    Source: Vegetti Catalog of Fantastic Literature

  4. George Eliot

    philosopher, poet

    1819–1880 · aged 61

    November 22 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  5. Herman Melville

    teacher, writer

    1819–1891 · aged 72

    August 1 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  6. John Ruskin

    poet, daguerreotypist

    1819–1900 · aged 80

    February 8 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  7. Gustave Courbet

    painter, communard

    1819–1877 · aged 58

    June 10 · 1819

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  8. Clara Schumann

    editor, music educator

    1819–1896 · aged 76

    September 13 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  9. Báb

    merchant, writer

    1819–1850 · aged 30

    October 20 · 1819

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  10. Georg V of Hanover

    politician, composer

    1819–1878 · aged 59

    May 27 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  11. Jacques Offenbach

    cellist, theatre manager

    Date disputed

    June 20 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  12. Maria II of Portugal

    1819–1853 · aged 34

    April 4 · 1819

    Source: FemBio database

  13. Allan Pinkerton

    army scout, writer

    1819–1884 · aged 64

    August 25 · 1819

    Source: GeneaStar

  14. Thomas A. Hendricks

    vice president, lawyer

    1819–1885 · aged 66

    September 7 · 1819

    Source: GeneaStar

  15. Prince George, Duke of Cambridge

    politician, military leader

    1819–1904 · aged 84

    March 26 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  16. Julia Ward Howe

    peace activist, songwriter

    1819–1910 · aged 91

    May 27 · 1819

    Source: Latter-day Saint Literature database

  17. Abner Doubleday

    soldier, military officer

    1819–1893 · aged 73

    June 26 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  18. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

    mathematician, university teacher

    1819–1903 · aged 83

    August 13 · 1819

    Source: La France savante

  19. William A. Wheeler

    politician, lawyer

    1819–1887 · aged 67

    June 30 · 1819

    Source: GeneaStar

  20. Joseph Bazalgette

    engineer, civil engineer

    1819–1891 · aged 71

    March 28 · 1819

    Source: Bazalgette, Sir Joseph

  21. Daniel Edgar Sickles

    soldier, lawyer

    1819–1914 · aged 94

    October 20 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  22. Charles Kingsley

    university teacher, poet

    1819–1875 · aged 55

    June 12 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  23. Preston Brooks

    politician, lawyer

    Date disputed

    August 5 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  24. Léon Foucault

    physicist, astronomer

    1819–1868 · aged 48

    September 18 · 1819

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  25. Eunice Newton Foote

    women's rights activist, physicist

    1819–1888 · aged 69

    July 17 · 1819

    Source: Library of Congress Authorities

  26. Theodor Fontane

    journalist, librettist

    1819–1898 · aged 78

    December 30 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  27. William Rosecrans

    diplomat, military officer

    1819–1898 · aged 78

    September 6 · 1819

    Source: GeneaStar

  28. Chlodwig, 3rd Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

    diplomat, politician

    1819–1901 · aged 82

    March 31 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  29. James Russell Lowell

    jurist, literary critic

    1819–1891 · aged 72

    February 22 · 1819

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  30. Elias Howe

    machinist, inventor

    1819–1867

    July 9 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  31. Christopher Latham Sholes

    editor, journalist

    1819–1890 · aged 71

    February 14 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  32. William T. G. Morton

    physician, surgeon

    1819–1868 · aged 48

    August 9 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  33. Samuel Brannan

    journalist, editor

    1819–1889 · aged 70

    March 2 · 1819

    Source: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps biographical dictionary of cartographers

  34. Wilhelm Marr

    opinion journalist, anarchist

    1819–1904 · aged 84

    November 16 · 1819

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  35. Edwin Drake

    businessperson, inventor

    1819–1880 · aged 61

    March 29 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  36. Franz von Suppè

    conductor, composer

    1819–1895 · aged 76

    April 18 · 1819

    Source: filmportal.de

  37. Princess Louise d'Artois

    1819–1864 · aged 44

    September 21 · 1819

    Source: Genealogics

  38. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo

    lawyer, composer

    1819–1874 · aged 54

    April 18 · 1819

    Source: Roglo

  39. John Couch Adams

    university teacher, astronomer

    1819–1892 · aged 72

    June 5 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  40. Marthinus Wessel Pretorius

    politician

    1819–1901 · aged 81

    September 17 · 1819

    Source: GeneaStar

  41. Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein

    correspondent, non-fiction writer

    1819–1887 · aged 68

    February 7 · 1819

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  42. Hippolyte Fizeau

    photographer, astronomer

    1819–1896 · aged 76

    September 23 · 1819

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  43. William Albert, 1st Prince of Montenuovo

    military officer, numismatist

    1819–1895 · aged 75

    August 8 · 1819

    Source: Genealogics

  44. Gottfried Keller

    novelist, writer

    1819–1890 · aged 70

    July 19 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  45. Roger Fenton

    war photographer, journalist

    1819–1869

    March 28 · 1819

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  46. Cyrus West Field

    financier, entrepreneur

    Date disputed

    October 20 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  47. Maria Wodzińska

    composer, painter

    1819–1896 · aged 77

    January 7 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  48. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia

    art collector

    1819–1876 · aged 56

    August 18 · 1819

    Source: Q21451632

  49. Estanislao Figueras

    politician, lawyer

    1819–1882 · aged 62

    November 13 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  50. Alexander Melville Bell

    linguist, university teacher

    1819–1905 · aged 86

    March 1 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  51. Sir Henry Tate

    patron of the arts, entrepreneur

    1819–1899 · aged 80

    March 11 · 1819

    Source: The Peerage

  52. Stanisław Moniuszko

    musicologist, composer

    1819–1872 · aged 53

    May 17 · 1819

    Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny

  53. Philip Schaff

    church historian, university teacher

    1819–1893 · aged 74

    January 1 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  54. Théodore Chassériau

    painter

    1819–1856 · aged 37

    September 20 · 1819

    Source: Roglo

  55. Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

    sovereign, Grand Duke

    1819–1904 · aged 84

    October 17 · 1819

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  56. Joseph M. Scriven

    poet, hymnwriter

    1819–1886 · aged 66

    September 10 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  57. John W. Geary

    military officer, major general

    1819–1873 · aged 53

    December 30 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  58. Tirimüjgan Kadın

    1819–1853 · aged 34

    August 16 · 1819

    No external source identified

  59. Martin Johnson Heade

    painter, traveler

    1819–1904 · aged 85

    August 11 · 1819

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  60. Ottilie Assing

    politician, writer

    1819–1884

    February 11 · 1819

    Source: WeChangEd

  61. Joseph Seligman

    banker, entrepreneur

    1819–1880 · aged 60

    November 22 · 1819

    No external source identified

  62. William Powell Frith

    painter

    1819–1909 · aged 90

    January 19 · 1819

    Source: Discogs

  63. John Bidwell

    environmentalist, mountaineer

    1819–1900 · aged 80

    August 5 · 1819

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  64. Felice Orsini

    writer

    1819–1858 · aged 38

    December 10 · 1819

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  65. Monier Monier-Williams

    lexicographer, translator

    1819–1899 · aged 79

    November 12 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  66. Alfred Escher

    politician, jurist

    1819–1882 · aged 63

    February 20 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  67. Carlotta Grisi

    ballet dancer, dancer

    1819–1899 · aged 79

    June 28 · 1819

    Source: FemBio database

  68. William Muir

    historian, writer

    1819–1905 · aged 86

    April 27 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  69. La Païva

    salonnière, courtesan

    1819–1884 · aged 64

    May 7 · 1819

    Source: Collective Biographies of Women

  70. Charlotte von Rothschild

    socialite

    1819–1884 · aged 64

    June 13 · 1819

    No external source identified

  71. William Wetmore Story

    writer, journalist

    1819–1895 · aged 76

    February 12 · 1819

    Source: Story, William Wetmore

  72. James Spriggs Payne

    politician

    1819–1882 · aged 62

    December 19 · 1819

    No external source identified

  73. George Salmon

    chess player, mathematician

    1819–1904 · aged 84

    September 25 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  74. Isaac Mayer Wise

    writer, university teacher

    1819–1900 · aged 80

    March 29 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  75. Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck

    politician

    1819–1894

    October 10 · 1819

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  76. Arthur Hugh Clough

    writer, pedagogue

    1819–1861 · aged 42

    January 1 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  77. Milan Obrenović II

    sovereign

    1819–1839 · aged 19

    October 21 · 1819

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  78. Charles Anderson Dana

    linguist, lexicographer

    1819–1897 · aged 78

    August 8 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  79. Alexander Crummell

    religious leader, university teacher

    1819–1898

    March 3 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  80. Pieter Bleeker

    zoologist, physician

    1819–1878 · aged 58

    July 10 · 1819

    Source: Base biographique

  81. Charles-Louis Hanon

    composer, theorist

    1819–1900 · aged 80

    July 2 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  82. Butrus al-Bustani

    journal editor, linguist

    1819–1883

    1819

    Source: Sapere Encyclopedia

  83. Gustave de Molinari

    philosopher, journalist

    1819–1912 · aged 92

    March 3 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  84. Johan Jongkind

    painter, printmaker

    1819–1891 · aged 71

    June 3 · 1819

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  85. Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol

    engineer, politician

    1819–1885 · aged 65

    September 28 · 1819

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  86. Francis Xavier Seelos

    Catholic priest

    1819–1867 · aged 48

    January 11 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  87. Louis-Nicolas Flobert

    inventor, designer

    1819–1894

    1819

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  88. Henry Jackson Hunt

    soldier, military officer

    1819–1889 · aged 69

    September 14 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  89. Panteleimon Kulish

    publisher, Bible translator

    Date disputed

    August 7 · 1819

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia

  90. Nicolae Bălcescu

    politician, historian

    1819–1852 · aged 33

    June 29 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  91. Reuben Fenton

    politician

    1819–1885 · aged 66

    July 4 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  92. Mōri Takachika

    samurai

    1819–1871 · aged 52

    March 5 · 1819

    No external source identified

  93. Josiah Whitney

    metallurgist, explorer

    1819–1896 · aged 76

    November 23 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  94. Annibale de Gasparis

    mathematician, astronomer

    1819–1892 · aged 72

    November 9 · 1819

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  95. Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier

    politician, art collector

    1819–1898 · aged 79

    September 15 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  96. Thomas Leonidas Crittenden

    lawyer, military officer

    1819–1893 · aged 74

    May 15 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  97. Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford

    aristocrat, politician

    1819–1891 · aged 71

    October 16 · 1819

    Source: The Peerage

  98. Abe Masahiro

    samurai, politician

    1819–1857 · aged 37

    December 3 · 1819

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  99. Isaac Thomas Hecker

    Catholic priest, founder of Catholic religious community

    1819–1888 · aged 69

    December 18 · 1819

    Source: archive.org

  100. Thomas H. Watts

    lawyer, politician

    1819–1892

    January 3 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  101. Horace Jones

    architect

    1819–1887 · aged 68

    May 20 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  102. Johann Voldemar Jannsen

    poet, writer

    1819–1890 · aged 71

    May 16 · 1819

    Source: Estonian biographical database

  103. Edward Stafford

    politician

    1819–1901 · aged 81

    April 23 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  104. Leopold McClintock

    seafarer, admiral

    1819–1907 · aged 88

    July 8 · 1819

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  105. Charles Hallé

    composer, conductor

    1819–1895 · aged 76

    April 11 · 1819

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  106. Edward Watkin

    politician, bibliophile

    1819–1901 · aged 81

    September 26 · 1819

    Source: The Peerage

  107. Joseph E. McDonald

    lawyer, politician

    1819–1891 · aged 71

    August 29 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  108. Eugène Disdéri

    actor, painter

    1819–1889 · aged 70

    March 28 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  109. Thomas Sutton

    inventor, photographer

    1819–1875 · aged 55

    September 22 · 1819

    Source: RKDartists

  110. Karol Mikuli

    conductor, composer

    1819–1897 · aged 77

    October 20 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  111. Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger

    Catholic priest, Catholic theologian

    1819–1883 · aged 63

    October 10 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  112. Gustav Becker

    watchmaker, entrepreneur

    1819–1885 · aged 66

    May 2 · 1819

    No external source identified

  113. Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke

    psychiatrist, politician

    1819–1892 · aged 72

    June 6 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  114. Vatroslav Lisinski

    composer, academic musician

    Date disputed

    July 8 · 1819

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  115. Josiah Gilbert Holland

    novelist, journalist

    1819–1881 · aged 62

    July 24 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  116. John Anster Fitzgerald

    painter

    1819–1906

    September 19 · 1819

    No external source identified

  117. Susan Warner

    novelist, writer

    1819–1885 · aged 65

    July 11 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  118. Jón Árnason

    librarian, writer

    1819–1888 · aged 69

    August 17 · 1819

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  119. Aurelio Saffi

    politician

    1819–1890 · aged 70

    August 13 · 1819

    No external source identified

  120. Sergey Lvovich Levitsky

    photographer

    1819–1898 · aged 78

    August 17 · 1819

    Source: Union List of Artist Names

  121. José Maria da Silva Paranhos

    politician, teacher

    1819–1880 · aged 60

    December 16 · 1819

    No external source identified

  122. Cowper Phipps Coles

    naval officer, inventor

    1819–1870 · aged 51

    July 9 · 1819

    Source: Kindred Britain

  123. Bogdan Willewalde

    portrait painter, battle painter

    1819–1903 · aged 84

    January 12 · 1819

    No external source identified

  124. George Foster Shepley

    lawyer, military officer

    1819–1878 · aged 59

    January 1 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  125. Princess Caroline Amalie of Hesse-Homburg

    politician

    1819–1872 · aged 52

    March 19 · 1819

    Source: The Peerage

  126. Hussein Avni Pasha

    writer, grand vizier

    1819–1876

    1819

    No external source identified

  127. Maria Rosetti

    journalist, editor

    1819–1893

    September 14 · 1819

    No external source identified

  128. Thomas Ball

    sculptor, singer

    1819–1911 · aged 92

    June 3 · 1819

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  129. Otto Wilhelm von Struve

    astronomer

    1819–1905 · aged 85

    May 7 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  130. Hermann Blumenau

    naturalist, pharmacist

    1819–1899 · aged 79

    December 26 · 1819

    Source: Q110490079

  131. George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby

    politician

    1819–1890 · aged 70

    July 23 · 1819

    Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography

  132. Louise Otto-Peters

    opinion journalist, writer

    1819–1895 · aged 75

    March 26 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  133. Louis Figuier

    chemist, pharmacist

    1819–1894 · aged 75

    February 15 · 1819

    Source: Médias 19

  134. Herbert Benjamin Edwardes

    military personnel

    1819–1868 · aged 49

    November 12 · 1819

    No external source identified

  135. Fontes Pereira de Melo

    military personnel, politician

    1819–1887 · aged 67

    September 8 · 1819

    Source: BnF authorities

  136. Louis Théodore Gouvy

    composer

    1819–1898 · aged 78

    July 3 · 1819

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  137. Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb

    parson, writer

    1819–1909 · aged 90

    March 25 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  138. Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns

    politician, barrister

    1819–1885 · aged 65

    December 27 · 1819

    Source: The Peerage

  139. Augustus Charles Gregory

    explorer, surveyor

    1819–1905 · aged 85

    August 1 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  140. Thomas Dunn English

    writer, playwright

    1819–1902 · aged 82

    June 29 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  141. François-Marie-Benjamin Richard

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1819–1908

    March 1 · 1819

    Source: GeneaStar

  142. Lucile Grahn

    ballet dancer, dancer

    Date disputed

    June 30 · 1819

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  143. Henri Harpignies

    printmaker, painter

    Date disputed

    July 24 · 1819

    Source: Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon

  144. Alexander Randall

    diplomat, lawyer

    1819–1872 · aged 52

    October 31 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  145. William Batchelder Greene

    pastor, mathematician

    1819–1878 · aged 59

    April 4 · 1819

    Source: SNAC

  146. George N. Barnard

    photographer

    1819–1902 · aged 82

    December 23 · 1819

    Source: Find a Grave

  147. Franz Abt

    choir director, poet

    1819–1885 · aged 65

    December 22 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  148. Ossian Bonnet

    university teacher, mathematician

    1819–1892 · aged 72

    December 22 · 1819

    Source: Departmental archives of Hérault

  149. Edouard Louis Dubufe

    painter

    Date disputed

    March 31 · 1819

    Source: Léonore database

  150. August Wöhler

    railway engineer, engineer

    1819–1914 · aged 94

    June 22 · 1819

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

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