ON THIS DAY
Born in 1821
282 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
philosopher, poet
- Harriet Tubman
human rights defender, freedom fighter
- Charles Baudelaire
essayist, critic
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
railway executive, planter
- Gustave Flaubert
novelist, writer
- James Longstreet
military officer, army officer
- Clara Barton
author, humanitarian
- John C. Breckinridge
lawyer, university teacher
- Richard Francis Burton
explorer, ethnologist
- Mary Baker Eddy
writer, theologian
- Louis Vuitton
businessperson, designer
- William Henry Vanderbilt
entrepreneur
- Lola Montez
dancer, socialite
- Elizabeth Blackwell
physician, women's rights activist
- Rudolf Virchow
writer, physician
- Hermann von Helmholtz
anatomist, music theorist
- Marcus Goldman
entrepreneur, emigrant
- Pafnuty Chebyshev
university teacher, mathematician
- John Abbott
dean, politician
- Old Tom Morris
golfer
- Charles Tupper
physician, politician
- Ford Madox Brown
designer, painter
- Bartolomé Mitre
translator, historian
- Andrew Kim Taegon
Catholic priest
- Heungseon Daewongun
writer, king
- Arthur Cayley
barrister, university teacher
- Anita Garibaldi
politician
- Jane Wilde
translator, journalist
- John Chivington
editor, military personnel
- Nikolay Nekrasov
opinion journalist, autobiographer
- Gordon Granger
military officer
- Nau Nihal Singh
sovereign
- Collis Potter Huntington
industrialist, entrepreneur
- Pauline Viardot
composer, singer
- William Still
abolitionist, writer
- Daniel Harvey Hill
university teacher
- Mary Burns
housewife, spinner
- Samuel Baker
writer, army officer
- Alexander Gardner
war photographer, photographer
- Francis Preston Blair Jr.
jurist, politician
- Gabriel García Moreno
poet, journalist
- Tuone Udaina
sexton, organist
- Edmund Pettus
jurist, lawyer
- Sebastian Kneipp
hydrotherapist, cleric
- John Nicholson
military personnel
- George Williams
merchant, psychologist
- Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este
military officer, politician
- Charles Francis Hall
arctic explorer, writer
- William Barksdale
editor, politician
- Leon Pinsker
political activist, writer
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
philosopher, poet
- Heinrich Barth
geographer, historian
- Auguste Mariette
classical scholar, archaeologist
- Cyprian Norwid
painter, writer
- Antonio Ciseri
university teacher, painter
- Robert O'Hara Burke
police officer, explorer
- Yang Xiuqing
politician
- August Schleicher
slavist, philologist
- Joseph E. Brown
lawyer, jurist
- Vasile Alecsandri
writer, folklorist
- Rachel Félix
stage actor, actor
- Frederick Temple
archbishop, Anglican theologian
- Henry Thomas Buckle
philosopher, author
- Richard H. Anderson
military personnel
- Robert Seldon Duncanson
photographer, painter
- Lafayette McLaws
military personnel, politician
- Princess Katharina of Württemberg
aristocrat
- Gustavus Woodson Smith
politician, military personnel
- Henriëtte Ronner-Knip
painter, animalier
- Karel Havlíček Borovský
opinion journalist, publisher
- James S. White
Seventh-day Adventist minister, writer
- Giovanni Bottesini
double-bassist, conductor
- Benjamin Tyler Henry
inventor
- Ned Buntline
bretteur, journalist
- Joseph Noel Paton
painter
- Joseph Déjacque
poet, writer
- Amos T. Akerman
lawyer, politician
- Archduke Friedrich of Austria
military personnel
- Friedrich Engelhorn
entrepreneur
- Georgi Rakovski
freedom fighter, opinion journalist
- Linus Yale
inventor, engineer
- Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe
aristocrat
- Ion C. Brătianu
politician
- Eduard Heine
university teacher, mathematician
- Charles of Mount Argus
regular priest, Catholic priest
- Évariste-Vital Luminais
painter
- Johann Josef Loschmidt
chemist, professor
- George Bowen
politician
- Ephraim George Squier
diplomat, archaeologist
- Henry Ayers
business executive, carpenter
- Alexander P. Stewart
meteorological observer, university teacher
- Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton
politician
- Ernst Engel
statistician, economist
- Apollon Maykov
literary critic, poet
- Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg
aristocrat
- Josip Runjanin
soldier, composer
- Mikhail Petrashevsky
linguist, translator
- Albert, 4th duc de Broglie
writer, journalist
- W. H. L. Wallace
lawyer, military officer
- Franz Doppler
composer, conductor
- Adolf Jellinek
rabbi, orientalist
- Nino Bixio
military personnel, politician
- Ferdinand Gregorovius
journalist, writer
- William Loftus
anthropologist, explorer
- Victor Guérin
geographer, ethnologist
- James Croll
climatologist, scientist
- John Conness
politician
- Émile-Louis Burnouf
linguist, philologist
- Frank Leslie
publisher, businessperson
- Giuseppe Saracco
politician, lawyer
- Charles Méryon
draftsperson, engraver
- William Sharon
lawyer, politician
- Aleksey Pisemsky
playwright, writer
- Louis Lewandowski
composer
- Philipp Ludwig von Seidel
university teacher, optician
- Champfleury
novelist, art critic
- Anne Whitney
artist, printmaker
- Wilhelm Tempel
discoverer of asteroids, astronomer
- Guillermo Rawson
physician, politician
- Frederick W. Lander
civil engineer, writer
- Napoleon Sarony
photographer, lithographer
- John Francis Campbell
barrister, philologist
- Henri Alexis Brialmont
military engineer, military officer
- Juan Bautista Topete
politician, military personnel
- Mathilde Marchesi
opera vocal coach, voice teacher
- Félix Ziem
architect, landscape painter
- Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester
naval officer
- Eugenio Barsanti
inventor, Latin Catholic priest
- Mary Lee
suffragette
- Prince Adolf of Auersperg
politician, civil servant
- Arthur Saint-Léon
composer, violinist
- Gustavus Fox
diplomat, military officer
- Pierre Dupont
chansonnier, goguettier
- Ardant du Picq
military theorist, military personnel
- Michel Carré
playwright, librettist
- Karl Otto Georg von Meck
entrepreneur
- Daniel Harrwitz
chess composer, chess player
- Octave Feuillet
writer, playwright
- Amalie Dietrich
zoologist, botanist
- Karl Knies
economist, university teacher
- Lintorn Simmons
diplomat, engineer
- Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
writer, prehistorian
- William Adams Richardson
judge, military officer
- Friedrich Kiel
composer, music educator
- Robert Adamson
chemist, photographer
- Henry Dunning Macleod
economist, barrister