ON THIS DAY
Born in 1823
248 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Phineas Gage
railroad construction foreman
- Alfred Russel Wallace
geographer, world traveler
- John Sherman
jurist, writer
- Abdülmecid I
ruler
- Schuyler Colfax
writer, politician
- Alexandre Cabanel
university teacher, painter
- Friedrich Max Müller
translator, Indo-Europeanist
- Li Hongzhang
mandarin, diplomat
- Ernest Renan
philosopher, historian
- Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
military officer
- Henry Wirz
military personnel, military officer
- Simon Bolivar Buckner
military personnel, journalist
- Sándor Petőfi
actor, philologist
- Gyula Andrássy
politician, revolutionary
- Ramalinga Swamigal
cleric, poet
- Thomas Francis Meagher
governor, military officer
- Leopold Kronecker
mathematician, university teacher
- Katsu Kaishū
university teacher, politician
- Mary Boykin Chesnut
diarist, writer
- Karl I of Württemberg
politician
- Mackenzie Bowell
printer, journalist
- Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
politician, judge
- Jean-Henri Fabre
botanist, entomologist
- Mihailo Obrenović III
sovereign
- Alexander Ostrovsky
theatre director, librettist
- Francis Parkman
horticulturist, writer
- Edouard Lalo
violinist, composer
- James L. Kemper
soldier, major general
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
writer, botanical collector
- Ante Starčević
politician, writer
- Gotthold Eisenstein
university teacher, scientist
- George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
scientist, economist
- Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
statesperson, aristocrat
- Mary Ann Shadd
civil rights advocate, lawyer
- Spotted Tail
politician
- Frederick Francis II
monarch
- Charlotte Mary Yonge
editor, historian
- Carl Wilhelm Siemens
businessperson, electrical engineer
- Maurice Sand
entomologist, marionetteist
- José María Iglesias Inzárruga
lawyer, jurist
- Sophie Gengembre Anderson
artist, painter
- Robert Whitehead
inventor
- Infante Enrique of Spain
aristocrat
- Joseph Leidy
physician, botanist
- Oliver P. Morton
governor, jurist
- Jasper Francis Cropsey
painter
- Pyotr Lavrov
opinion journalist, philosopher
- Henry G. Davis
businessperson, politician
- Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria
politician
- Spencer Fullerton Baird
ornithologist, university teacher
- Alfred Stevens
painter
- Coventry Patmore
writer, poet
- William H. Hunt
politician, diplomat
- Ludwig Bamberger
writer, politician
- Edward Augustus Freeman
historian, politician
- François Bertrand
military personnel
- William B. Franklin
engineer, entrepreneur
- John Braxton Hicks
gynecologist, botanist
- Sanford Robinson Gifford
painter
- Li Xiucheng
military commander
- Sara Jane Lippincott
women's rights activist, poet
- Théodore de Banville
writer, playwright
- Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska
pianist, composer
- Joseph Medill
journalist, politician
- Imre Madách
lawyer, politician
- Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
general field marshal, military personnel
- Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
writer, politician
- Sylvester H. Roper
inventor
- Frederick Weld
politician
- Joseph Monier
engineer
- Giuseppe Fiorelli
professor, archaeologist
- Jean Auguste Margueritte
military personnel
- Lascăr Catargi
politician
- Elijah Benamozegh
biblical scholar, rabbi
- Goldwin Smith
historian, pamphleteer
- Enrico Betti
mathematician, topologist
- Benjamin Harvey Hill
politician
- William Simpson
architect, war correspondent
- George Henry Williams
politician, lawyer
- Domenico Morelli
university teacher, painter
- Manuel Baquedano
military officer, politician
- Guillermo Tell Villegas
lawyer, politician
- Hu Xueyan
official, banker
- Joseph LeConte
geologist, physicist
- Johannes Brand
politician, barrister
- John Bacchus Dykes
composer, cleric
- Dmitry Tolstoy
historian, politician
- Konstantin Ushinsky
writer, teacher
- Gonçalves Dias
historian, ethnologist
- Wei Changhui
military leader
- Ulises Francisco Espaillat
politician
- Friedrich von Esmarch
military physician, surgeon
- Ahmed Vefik Pasha
politician, diplomat
- Arthur I. Boreman
politician, lawyer
- William Hart
painter
- Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
judge, barrister
- Thomas J. Wood
politician, soldier
- Ivan Aksakov
journalist, politician
- John Evans
geologist, numismatist
- Jemima Blackburn
illustrator, painter
- John Strachey
historian, official
- Paul Janet
philosopher, writer
- John Russell Hind
astronomer, writer
- Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
journalist, folklorist
- Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev
Kuishi, composer
- Pascal Sebah
photographer
- Prilidiano Pueyrredón
engineer, architect
- Nikolay Bunge
economist, statistician
- Władysław Syrokomla
literary scholar, poet
- Francisco Bilbao
politician, philosopher
- Augustin Théodule Ribot
graphic artist, visual artist
- Bethel Henry Strousberg
politician, entrepreneur
- Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
barrister, politician
- Arnold Rikli
dyer, physician
- Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens
composer, musician
- Ali Mubarak
politician, writer
- Francisco Asenjo Barbieri
music historian, restaurateur
- Archibald Alexander Hodge
theologian, university teacher
- Nathanael Pringsheim
botanical collector, university teacher
- Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau
military officer, military personnel
- Heymann Steinthal
philosopher, editing staff
- Joseph Edkins
orientalist, Bible translator
- Félix du Temple de la Croix
aircraft pilot, military officer
- Richard Belcredi
judge, jurist
- Charles B. Farwell
politician
- Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Gregorio Pacheco
politician, businessperson
- Antoine Chanzy
military personnel, military officer
- Charles Buxton
politician
- José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
naturalist, politician
- Thomas Tellefsen
pianist, composer
- Ernest Reyer
composer, music critic
- Hansen 'Ole Peter' Balling
photographer, lithographer
- Karl Schenk
counsel, Protestant theologian
- Gustave Paul Cluseret
military personnel, military officer
- Theodor Kirchner
classical composer, organist
- Sophie Adlersparre
newspaper editor, women's rights activist
- La Fayette Grover
lawyer, prosecutor
- Paul Weber
painter, landscape painter
- Marcellin Desboutin
painter, writer
- John Kells Ingram
university teacher, scholar
- John Elliott Cairnes
economist, university teacher
- Ernest Doudart de Lagrée
naval officer, explorer
- Xavier de Montépin
novelist, writer
- August Dillmann
theologian, university teacher
- Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
writer, poet
- Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault
hypnotist, physician