ON THIS DAY
Born in 1822
252 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Ulysses S. Grant
politician, writer
- Rutherford B. Hayes
politician, military officer
- Louis Pasteur
portrait painter, chemist
- Gregor Mendel
naturalist, Catholic priest
- Francis Galton
explorer, photographer
- Heinrich Schliemann
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Frederick Law Olmsted
journalist, landscape architect
- Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
writer
- Matthew Arnold
literary critic, university teacher
- Red Cloud
politician
- Prince Napoléon-Jérôme, Prince Napoléon
politician, diplomat
- Mathew Benjamin Brady
war photographer, photographer
- Rosa Bonheur
painter, sculptor
- César Franck
pianist, organist
- Rudolf Clausius
university teacher, mathematician
- Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies
art collector
- James Pierpont
composer, songwriter
- Princess Augusta of Cambridge
aristocrat
- Alexander Mackenzie
businessperson, stonemason
- Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi
politician
- Wajid Ali Shah
monarch, writer
- Sa'id of Egypt
politician, governor
- George Crum
inventor, chef
- John Pope
military officer, major general
- Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
painter, estate owner
- Charles Hermite
senior lecturer, university teacher
- George Stoneman
major general, soldier
- Midhat Pasha
kingmaker, politician
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz
politician, pharmacist
- Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo
politician
- Dion Boucicault
playwright, actor
- John Strong Newberry
geologist, botanist
- William Hayden English
lawyer, member of parliament
- Étienne Lenoir
marine architect, merchant
- Frédéric Passy
politician, diplomat
- Edward Everett Hale
novelist, theologian
- Charles Crocker
entrepreneur
- Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa
military officer
- Paul Bogle
national hero, deacon
- Thomas Hughes
poet lawyer, judge
- Gardiner Greene Hubbard
businessperson, jurist
- Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale
military personnel, historian
- Fitz John Porter
military officer, military personnel
- Edmond de Goncourt
art collector, writer
- Joachim Raff
musicographer, composer
- Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz
aristocrat
- Ahmet Cevdet Pasha
politician, historian
- Juan de Borbón y Bragança
photographer
- Henry James Sumner Maine
law professor, jurist
- Henri Murger
poet, writer
- Galusha A. Grow
politician, lawyer
- Abram Stevens Hewitt
mayor, entrepreneur
- Hong Rengan
writer, translator
- William B. Taliaferro
politician, judge
- Frances Power Cobbe
editor, philosopher
- Franz Strauss
university teacher, composer
- Nikolay Danilevsky
naturalist, writer
- Joseph Bertrand
economist, mathematician
- George Sykes
politician, military officer
- James Strong
theologian
- Gerson von Bleichröder
banker
- Hayreddin Pasha
politician, historian
- Francis Frith
photographer
- Apollonie Sabatier
model, salonnière
- Robert William Thomson
businessperson, inventor
- Hugues Merle
painter
- Maxime Du Camp
poet, literary critic
- Princess Januária, Countess of Aquila
aristocrat
- Albrecht Ritschl
university teacher, philosopher
- Julius von Haast
explorer, scientific collector
- James Thomson
physicist, glaciologist
- Fritz Müller
biologist, zoologist
- Darius N. Couch
naturalist, ornithologist
- Joseph B. Kershaw
lawyer, politician
- Adolf Kußmaul
physician writer, surgeon
- Eliza Lynn Linton
novelist, writer
- Lilly Martin Spencer
artist, painter
- Nadezhda Stasova
women's rights activist, feminist
- Jules Antoine Lissajous
physicist
- James Lawrence Orr
judge, ambassador
- Henry Morley
literary scholar, writer
- Theodor Uhlig
musicologist, violinist
- Dmitry Grigorovich
engineer, art critic
- Marie-Jean-Léon d'Hervey de Saint Denys
translator, folklorist
- Alfred Józef Potocki
politician
- Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
naturalist, writer
- Wilhelm Bauer
technician, submariner
- Luis Sáenz-Peña
lawyer, jurist
- Eppa Hunton
lawyer, politician
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
university teacher, astronomer
- Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński
Catholic bishop, Catholic deacon
- Cornelius Cole
politician, lawyer
- August Heinrich Petermann
opinion journalist, scientific illustrator
- Frederick Goodall
autobiographer, horticulturist
- Alfred Dehodencq
draftsperson, painter
- Hannibal Goodwin
Anglican priest, inventor
- Adolph Strecker
chemist, university teacher
- Ferdinand von Wright
painter, animalier
- Charles Frédéric Girard
zoologist, physician
- Alfredo Piatti
composer, cellist
- Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden
photographer, painter
- Jorge Córdova
politician
- Alexander Bogoridi
governor-general, politician
- Elizabeth Smith Miller
philanthropist, suffragette
- Edwin Smith
adventurer, archaeologist
- Henry Baker Tristram
traveler, cleric
- Luigi Arditi
violinist, conductor
- Menyhért Lónyay
economist, politician
- Rudolf Leuckart
university teacher, bryologist
- Pyotr Vannovskiy
statesperson, military personnel
- George French Angas
painter, naturalist
- Jacob Moleschott
physiologist, university teacher
- Edward Dembowski
literary critic, philosopher
- Janko Kráľ
politician, writer
- Sherard Osborn
naval officer, explorer
- Charles Godfrey Gunther
politician
- Willem Roelofs
printmaker, visual artist
- José Valverde
politician
- Conrad Schick
architect, archaeologist
- Adelaide Ristori
stage actor, actor
- Alexander Campbell
politician, lawyer
- Carl Schmidt
pharmacologist, pharmacist
- Mathurin Moreau
politician, artist
- Thrasivoulos Zaimis
diplomat, minister
- Mary Elizabeth Banning
mycologist, botanical illustrator
- Dorži Banzarov
historian
- Robert Luther
astronomer, discoverer of asteroids
- Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti
scientist, physician
- Maria Kalergis
salonnière, pianist
- William Henry Edwards
writer, academic
- John Adams Whipple
photographer, inventor
- Thomas Buchanan Read
painter, poet
- James B. Beck
politician, lawyer
- John Joseph Williams
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Rodolphe Bresdin
lithographer, draftsperson
- John Fritz
inventor, metallurgist
- Augustin Schoeffler
missionary, Catholic priest
- Ernst Förstemann
Germanist, americanist
- George Vasey
scientific collector, botanical collector
- Félix-Joseph Barrias
painter
- Apollon Grigoryev
writer, poet
- Caroline Healey Dall
economist, women's rights activist