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Born in 1821

282 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Robert E. Withers

    diplomat, politician

    1821–1907 · aged 86

    September 18 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  2. Franz von Leydig

    university teacher, physician

    1821–1908 · aged 86

    May 21 · 1821

    Source: Who Named It?

  3. John Turtle Wood

    engineer, anthropologist

    1821–1890 · aged 69

    February 13 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  4. Isabella Banks

    novelist, poet

    1821–1897 · aged 76

    March 25 · 1821

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  5. Ashig Alasgar

    poet, ashik

    1821–1926 · aged 104

    March 22 · 1821

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  6. Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet

    anthropologist, university teacher

    1821–1898 · aged 77

    August 29 · 1821

    Source: La France savante

  7. François-Léon Benouville

    painter

    1821–1859 · aged 37

    March 30 · 1821

    Source: GeneaStar

  8. Frederick Heiden

    politician, military personnel

    1821–1900 · aged 78

    September 27 · 1821

    Source: Erik Amburger database

  9. Charles Landelle*

    painter

    Date disputed

    June 2 · 1821

    Source: Léonore database

  10. Benjamin Chew Tilghman

    chemist, engineer

    1821–1901

    October 26 · 1821

    Source: Find a Grave

  11. Charlotte Maria Tucker

    missionary, poet

    1821–1893 · aged 72

    May 8 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  12. Ramchundra*

    mathematician, writer

    Date disputed

    1821

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  13. Janko Matúška

    writer, poet

    1821–1877 · aged 56

    January 10 · 1821

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  14. William Hillebrand

    biologist, botanical collector

    1821–1886 · aged 64

    November 13 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  15. Louis Bouilhet*

    literary critic, playwright

    Date disputed

    May 27 · 1821

    Source: GeneaStar

  16. Eleni Boukoura-Altamoura

    artist, painter

    1821–1900

    1821

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  17. Medo Pucić

    writer, poet

    1821–1882 · aged 61

    March 12 · 1821

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  18. Ephraim King Wilson II

    politician, lawyer

    1821–1891 · aged 69

    December 22 · 1821

    Source: Find a Grave

  19. John Ross Browne

    artist, journalist

    1821–1875 · aged 54

    February 11 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  20. Nikolai Zaremba*

    music teacher, music educator

    Date disputed

    June 15 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  21. Andrei Alexandrovich Popov*

    military personnel, engineer

    Date disputed

    September 21 · 1821

    No external source identified

  22. Emilio Arrieta*

    teacher, composer

    Date disputed

    October 21 · 1821

    No external source identified

  23. Charles R. Buckalew

    politician, diplomat

    1821–1899 · aged 77

    December 28 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  24. Thomas Seddon

    painter

    1821–1856 · aged 35

    August 28 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  25. Dmitry Ivanovich Zhuravsky

    train driver, engineer

    1821–1891 · aged 69

    December 29 · 1821

    No external source identified

  26. Thomas Bateman

    archaeologist, anthropologist

    1821–1861

    1821

    Source: Art UK painters database

  27. Cesare Dell'Acqua

    painter, watercolorist

    1821–1905 · aged 83

    July 22 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  28. Henri Cernuschi

    politician, economist

    1821–1896 · aged 75

    February 19 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  29. William Hepworth Dixon

    writer, historian

    1821–1879 · aged 58

    June 30 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  30. Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel

    pharmacist, botanist

    1821–1876 · aged 55

    February 3 · 1821

    No external source identified

  31. Alexander Abaza*

    politician, military personnel

    Date disputed

    August 5 · 1821

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia

  32. Rudolf von Roth

    translator, librarian

    1821–1895 · aged 74

    April 3 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  33. Heinrich Moritz Willkomm

    botanist, university teacher

    1821–1895 · aged 74

    June 29 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  34. Ferdinand Kürnberger*

    playwright, writer

    Date disputed

    July 3 · 1821

    Source: gutenberg.spiegel.de

  35. Fortuné du Boisgobey

    journalist, writer

    1821–1891 · aged 69

    September 11 · 1821

    Source: GeneaStar

  36. Dora Greenwell

    poet, writer

    1821–1882 · aged 60

    December 6 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  37. Carl Culmann

    executive, engineer

    1821–1881 · aged 60

    July 10 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  38. Angelo Mariani

    composer, conductor

    1821–1873 · aged 51

    October 11 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  39. Graceanna Lewis

    botanist, scientific illustrator

    1821–1912 · aged 90

    August 3 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  40. Mariano Herencia Zevallos

    military personnel, politician

    1821–1873 · aged 51

    October 15 · 1821

    No external source identified

  41. Samuel G. Arnold

    politician, historian

    1821–1880 · aged 58

    April 12 · 1821

    Source: Find a Grave

  42. Martin Hattala

    university teacher, slavist

    1821–1903 · aged 82

    November 4 · 1821

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  43. Adonijah Welch

    jurist, writer

    1821–1889 · aged 67

    April 12 · 1821

    Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa

  44. Joseph Hubert Reinkens

    Catholic priest, writer

    1821–1896 · aged 74

    March 1 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  45. Carl August Bolle

    writer, independent scholar

    1821–1909 · aged 87

    November 21 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  46. Ilija Plamenac

    civil servant

    1821–1916

    1821

    Source: Open Library

  47. Auguste Cain

    sculptor, medalist

    1821–1894 · aged 72

    November 10 · 1821

    Source: Archives de Paris

  48. Victor Chocquet

    art collector

    1821–1891 · aged 69

    December 19 · 1821

    Source: RKDartists

  49. Ludmilla Assing*

    salonnière, writer

    Date disputed

    February 22 · 1821

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  50. Friedrich Küchenmeister

    mycologist, physician

    1821–1890 · aged 69

    January 22 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  51. Francis Thomas Gregory

    politician, explorer

    1821–1888 · aged 67

    October 19 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  52. Churchill Babington

    botanist, historian

    1821–1889 · aged 67

    March 11 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  53. Samuel Washington Woodhouse

    zoologist, explorer

    1821–1904 · aged 83

    June 27 · 1821

    Source: Base biographique

  54. Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin

    writer, folklorist

    1821–1910 · aged 88

    November 9 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  55. Thomas Moore

    gardener, botanist

    1821–1887 · aged 65

    May 21 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  56. Moritz Hartmann

    editing staff, writer

    1821–1872 · aged 50

    October 15 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  57. Rudolf Haym

    opinion journalist, politician

    1821–1901 · aged 79

    October 5 · 1821

    Source: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog

  58. Ponciano Leiva

    politician, head of state

    1821–1896

    1821

    No external source identified

  59. Francisco Diez Canseco

    politician, military officer

    1821–1884 · aged 63

    March 21 · 1821

    No external source identified

  60. Paul Joseph Nardini

    Catholic priest, presbyter

    1821–1862 · aged 40

    July 25 · 1821

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  61. Jean-Louis Hamon

    artist, painter

    1821–1874 · aged 53

    May 5 · 1821

    Source: GeneaStar

  62. Charles Philippe Robin

    physician, professor

    1821–1885 · aged 64

    June 4 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  63. Louis-Adolphe Bertillon

    physician, mycologist

    1821–1883 · aged 61

    April 2 · 1821

    Source: birth certificate

  64. Elies Rogent

    architect, university teacher

    1821–1897 · aged 75

    July 6 · 1821

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  65. Baldassarre Boncompagni

    historian of mathematics, mathematician

    1821–1894 · aged 72

    May 10 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  66. Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers

    anatomist, malacologist

    1821–1901 · aged 80

    May 15 · 1821

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  67. Heinrich Hansen

    watercolorist, furniture designer

    1821–1890

    November 23 · 1821

    Source: RKDartists

  68. Karl von Scherzer

    consul general, botanical collector

    1821–1903 · aged 81

    May 1 · 1821

    Source: Scherzer, Karl Ritter von (BLKÖ)

  69. Vicente Herrera Zeledón

    judge, lawyer

    1821–1888 · aged 67

    January 20 · 1821

    No external source identified

  70. François-Marie Luzel

    linguist, collector of fairy tales

    1821–1895 · aged 73

    June 6 · 1821

    Source: La France savante

  71. Ernest-Aimé Feydeau

    archaeologist, poet

    1821–1873 · aged 52

    March 16 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  72. Hermann Gruson*

    entrepreneur, inventor

    Date disputed

    March 13 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  73. Theodor Möbius

    university teacher, philologist

    1821–1890 · aged 68

    June 22 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  74. Heinrich Band

    musical instrument maker, music educator

    1821–1860 · aged 39

    April 4 · 1821

    No external source identified

  75. Aaron H. Cragin

    lawyer, politician

    1821–1898 · aged 77

    February 3 · 1821

    Source: Find a Grave

  76. Hermann von Mallinckrodt

    politician, jurist

    1821–1874 · aged 53

    February 5 · 1821

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  77. Salomon Hermann Mosenthal

    writer, poet

    1821–1877 · aged 56

    January 14 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  78. Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin

    iconographer, painter

    1821–1892 · aged 70

    December 18 · 1821

    No external source identified

  79. Nils Johan Andersson

    university teacher, scientific collector

    1821–1880 · aged 59

    February 20 · 1821

    Source: Biographical Database of Southern African Science

  80. Auguste Pomel

    botanist, politician

    1821–1898

    September 20 · 1821

    Source: Léonore database

  81. Théodore Barrière

    playwright, actor

    1821–1877 · aged 56

    April 16 · 1821

    Source: Léonore database

  82. Vincențiu Babeș

    politician, lawyer

    1821–1907 · aged 86

    January 21 · 1821

    No external source identified

  83. Heinrich Landesmann

    philosopher, prose writer

    1821–1902 · aged 81

    August 9 · 1821

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  84. Julius Hermann Moritz Busch

    journalist, editing staff

    1821–1899 · aged 78

    February 13 · 1821

    Source: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog

  85. Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow

    military personnel, military writer

    1821–1878 · aged 57

    May 25 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  86. Viggo Fausböll

    translator, theologian

    1821–1908 · aged 86

    September 22 · 1821

    Source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon

  87. Ernest Picard

    lawyer, politician

    1821–1877 · aged 55

    December 24 · 1821

    Source: Sycomore

  88. María del Tránsito Cabanillas

    nun, religious

    1821–1885 · aged 64

    August 15 · 1821

    Source: GCatholic.org

  89. August Becker*

    painter, draftsperson

    Date disputed

    January 27 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  90. Manó Andrássy

    politician, painter

    1821–1891 · aged 70

    March 3 · 1821

    Source: The Peerage

  91. Paulus Cassel

    preacher, Protestant theologian

    1821–1892 · aged 71

    February 27 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  92. Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez

    scientific collector, Fregattenkapitän

    1821–1892 · aged 70

    August 24 · 1821

    Source: Léonore database

  93. Bernard Bernard

    apostolic prefect, Catholic priest

    1821–1895 · aged 74

    July 21 · 1821

    Source: web.archive.org

  94. Erich Correns

    painter, artist

    1821–1877 · aged 56

    March 3 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  95. Albert Wigand

    mycologist, botanist

    1821–1886 · aged 65

    April 21 · 1821

    Source: Marburger Professorenkatalog

  96. Jens Andreas Friis

    philologist, linguist

    1821–1896 · aged 74

    May 2 · 1821

    Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon

  97. Hermann Theodor Hettner

    art historian, philologist

    1821–1882 · aged 61

    March 12 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  98. Robert Bentley

    botanist, physician

    1821–1893 · aged 72

    March 25 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  99. Abel Pavet de Courteille

    professor, translator

    1821–1889 · aged 68

    June 23 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  100. Agostino Bausa*

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    Date disputed

    February 25 · 1821

    Source: webdept.fiu.edu

  101. Luise Büchner

    writer, poet

    1821–1877 · aged 56

    June 12 · 1821

    Source: FemBio database

  102. Jan van Beers

    poet, writer

    1821–1888 · aged 67

    February 22 · 1821

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  103. Hermann Allmers

    historian, geographer

    1821–1902 · aged 81

    February 11 · 1821

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  104. Charlotte Sainton-Dolby

    music educator, composer

    1821–1885 · aged 63

    May 17 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  105. Emelie Holmberg

    composer, pianist

    1821–1854 · aged 32

    May 6 · 1821

    Source: FemBio database

  106. Franz Brünnow

    astronomer, university teacher

    1821–1891 · aged 69

    November 18 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  107. Nikolay Sherbina

    poet

    1821–1869 · aged 47

    December 14 · 1821

    No external source identified

  108. Marian Kowalski

    astronomer

    1821–1884 · aged 62

    October 3 · 1821

    Source: Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia

  109. August Conradi

    composer, chapelmaster

    1821–1873 · aged 51

    June 27 · 1821

    Source: SNAC

  110. Vladimir Cherkassky

    jurist, politician

    1821–1878 · aged 56

    April 13 · 1821

    No external source identified

  111. Carlo Laurenzi

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1821–1893 · aged 72

    January 12 · 1821

    No external source identified

  112. Luigia Abbadia

    opera singer

    1821–1896

    1821

    Source: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales

  113. Jules Adenis

    librettist, writer

    1821–1900 · aged 78

    June 28 · 1821

    Source: archives.paris.fr

  114. Jakob Frohschammer

    Catholic theologian, writer

    1821–1893 · aged 72

    January 6 · 1821

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  115. Henri Baudrillart

    economist, journalist

    1821–1892 · aged 70

    November 28 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  116. Karel Dežman

    botanist, politician

    1821–1889 · aged 68

    January 3 · 1821

    No external source identified

  117. Julius Lederer

    lepidopterist

    1821–1870 · aged 48

    June 24 · 1821

    Source: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World

  118. Roderich von Erckert

    ethnographer, linguist

    1821–1900 · aged 78

    December 15 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  119. Friedrich Alexander Buhse

    botanist, biologist

    1821–1898 · aged 77

    November 30 · 1821

    Source: La France savante

  120. Thora Hallager

    writer, photographer

    1821–1884 · aged 63

    February 3 · 1821

    No external source identified

  121. Francesco Ambrosi

    naturalist, anthropologist

    1821–1897 · aged 75

    November 17 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  122. Laura Beatrice Mancini

    librettist, educator

    1821–1869 · aged 48

    January 17 · 1821

    Source: FemBio database

  123. Karl Elze

    literary scholar, man of letters

    1821–1889 · aged 67

    May 22 · 1821

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  124. Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Jessen

    botanist, university teacher

    1821–1889 · aged 67

    September 15 · 1821

    No external source identified

  125. Adrien Decourcelle

    chansonnier, writer

    1821–1892 · aged 70

    October 28 · 1821

    Source: BnF authorities

  126. Camille Rousset

    historian, librarian

    1821–1892 · aged 71

    February 15 · 1821

    Source: GeneaStar

  127. Ausonio Franchi

    Catholic priest, writer

    1821–1895 · aged 74

    February 27 · 1821

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  128. Adam Prazmowski

    astrophysicist, teacher

    1821–1885

    March 15 · 1821

    Source: Sejm-Wielki.pl

  129. Giuseppe Campori

    writer, politician

    1821–1887 · aged 66

    January 17 · 1821

    Source: Campori, Giuseppe, Marchese

  130. Dominique Clos

    botanist, physician

    1821–1908 · aged 87

    May 25 · 1821

    Source: general catalog of BnF

  131. Leopold III, Prince of Lippe

    military officer

    1821–1875 · aged 54

    September 1 · 1821

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  132. José Melchor García-Sampedro Suárez

    Catholic bishop, friar

    1821–1858 · aged 37

    April 26 · 1821

    No external source identified

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