ON THIS DAY
Born in 1820
245 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Florence Nightingale
politician, writer
- Friedrich Engels
women's rights activist, economist
- William Tecumseh Sherman
writer, lawyer
- Anne Brontë
governess, poet
- Susan B. Anthony
civil rights advocate, women's rights activist
- Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
monarch, sovereign
- Jenny Lind
opera singer, stage actor
- Herbert Spencer
journalist, author
- Mary Surratt
businessperson, lawyer
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
playwright, writer
- George Hearst
politician, entrepreneur
- Fanny Crosby
writer, poet
- Prince Henri, Count of Chambord
politician
- Nadar
print collector, cartoonist
- Princess Alexandrine of Baden
aristocrat
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza
politician, diplomat
- Begum Hazrat Mahal
activist, freedom fighter
- Nana Sahib
rebel, politician
- John Tenniel
illustrator, painter
- Anna Sewell
children's writer, writer
- Julia Gardiner Tyler
politician
- John Tyndall
inventor, naturalist
- John F. Reynolds
major general, career officer
- Multatuli
colonial administrator, writer
- Earl Van Dorn
army officer
- Henry Jarvis Raymond
politician, journalist
- George Uglow Pope
head teacher, missionary
- Clement Vallandigham
politician, editor
- Jeanne Duval
muse, actor
- Yakub Beg
commander, soldier
- Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel
military officer
- William John Macquorn Rankine
inventor, university teacher
- Božena Němcová
editor, writer
- Alexander Cartwright
firefighter, athlete
- Mathilde Bonaparte
painter, salonnière
- Edmond Becquerel
university teacher, chemist
- Helene Demuth
housekeeper
- Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands
military personnel
- Henri Vieuxtemps
music educator, university teacher
- William Howard Russell
photographer, writer
- James Buchanan Eads
engineer, civil engineer
- George William Gordon
politician, businessperson
- Little Wolf
traditional leader or chief
- Anson Burlingame
politician, jurist
- Afanasy Fet
translator, poet
- Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Reinhart Dozy
linguist, orientalist
- Mirko Petrović-Njegoš
voivode, diplomat
- Şevkefza Sultan
valide sultan
- Avdotya Panaeva
novelist, salonnière
- Apollo Korzeniowski
playwright, linguist
- Mary Livermore
journalist, nurse
- Pellegrino Artusi
merchant, literary critic
- George Grove
musicologist, lexicographer
- Elisha Kent Kane
physician, explorer
- Oliver Mowat
politician, judge
- Tomás Mejía
military personnel
- Juan Crisóstomo Falcón
politician, soldier
- Pierre Nord Alexis
politician
- Lorenz Frølich
photographer, illustrator
- Gustave Le Gray
photographer, painter
- Juan N. Méndez
military personnel, politician
- Rafael de Izquierdo y Gutiérrez
politician, military personnel
- György Klapka
soldier, chemist
- Patrick Edward Connor
soldier, journalist
- Mariano Melgarejo
politician, soldier
- David C. Broderick
politician
- Cornelius Gurlitt
musician, music teacher
- Satanta
artist, traditional leader or chief
- George Frederick Root
music teacher, music educator
- Mayer Carl von Rothschild
banker, politician
- Sergey Solovyov
writer, poet
- James Halliwell-Phillipps
collector, literary scholar
- Katherine Plunket
artist, scientific illustrator
- Samuel Blatchford
lawyer, politician
- Josef Mánes
exlibrist, graphic artist
- Prince Alexander of Prussia
military personnel
- Henry Watkins Allen
governor, publisher
- Édouard Roche
astronomer, mathematician
- James Harlan
politician, lawyer
- Mohammad Azam Khan
politician
- Mkrtich Khrimian
Christian minister
- Thomas Baines
explorer, painter
- Eugène Fromentin
art historian, painter
- Neville Bowles Chamberlain
military officer, general field marshal
- Gillis Bildt
politician, diplomat
- Henry Yule
travel writer, writer
- Charles Devens
judge, lawyer
- John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
politician, lawyer
- Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois
geologist, chemist
- Horatio Wright
engineer, major general
- James Sant
portraitist, court painter
- John William Dawson
zoologist, botanist
- Theodoros Deligiannis
diplomat, jurist
- Concepción Arenal Ponte
poet, social worker
- Eagle Woman
peace activist, interpreter
- Azriel Hildesheimer
rabbi
- Carolina Coronado
editor, writer
- Leonardo Márquez
diplomat, military personnel
- Maria Severa Onofriana
prostitute, singer
- Johannes Rebmann
explorer
- Marcus Kann
chess player
- Worthington Whittredge
painter, photographer
- Pao-chen Shen
politician, artist
- Mikhail Dostoyevsky
translator, literary critic
- Duke Eugen of Württemberg
military officer, aristocrat
- Isaac Todhunter
historian of mathematics, mathematician
- Émile Augier
writer, poet
- Léonie d'Aunet
writer, polar explorer
- William Thomas Hamilton
lawyer, politician
- Joseph Wolf
draftsperson, ornithologist
- John Milton Thayer
politician, lawyer
- Nikolay Girs
diplomat
- Arvid Posse
estate owner, politician
- Maria Katharina Kasper
founder of Catholic religious community, nun
- Hardin Richard Runnels
politician, governor
- Jean Ingelow
novelist, poet
- Akshay Kumar Datta
writer
- Vilhelm Pedersen
illustrator, naval officer
- Alexander Serov
music critic, music educator
- Charles Heaphy
surveyor, explorer
- Jan Jonker Afrikaner
politician
- Rosalie von Rauch
lady-in-waiting
- Constantin Daniel Rosenthal
painter, sculptor
- Ghevont Alishan
translator, writer
- Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
writer, poet
- Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet
university teacher, urologist
- Béla Kéler
composer, chapelmaster
- Anthony W. Gardiner
lawyer, politician
- John Whiteaker
politician
- Edgar Bauer
writer, journalist
- William B. Washburn
politician
- Tomás Martínez Guerrero
politician
- Gheorghe Tattarescu
draftsperson, painter
- Rudolf Buchheim
physician, pharmacist
- James Nesmith
politician, lawyer
- José de la Gándara y Navarro
military personnel, politician
- Lewis A. Swift
astronomer, meteorological observer
- Moses G. Farmer
inventor
- Louis Köhler
editor, music educator
- Matilda Hays
editor, journalist
- Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
university teacher, playwright
- Sotirios Sotiropoulos
politician, economist
- Ivan Lazarev
military personnel
- Karl Wilhelm Scheibler
industrialist, factory owner