ON THIS DAY
Born in 1824
251 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Stonewall Jackson
teacher, military personnel
- Alexandre Dumas fils
dramaturge, film screenwriter
- Winfield Scott Hancock
politician, military officer
- Wilkie Collins
writer, barrister
- William Magear Tweed
political boss, politician
- Dayananda Saraswati
Swami, priest
- Anton Bruckner
composer, university teacher
- Leland Stanford
politician, businessperson
- Bedřich Smetana
musician, conductor
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
teacher, sculptor
- George MacDonald
poet, philosopher
- William Walker
physician, lawyer
- Ambrose Burnside
governor, military officer
- Levi P. Morton
statesperson, governor
- Liver-Eating Johnson
trapper, explorer
- Gustav Kirchhoff
university teacher, chemist
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
poet, barrister
- Marie Duplessis
demi-mondaine
- John Chisum
poker player, rancher
- Tokugawa Iesada
shogun
- Edmund Kirby Smith
scientific collector, army officer
- Eugène Louis Boudin
painter
- Charles Pfizer
chemist, entrepreneur
- Franz Sigel
military officer, opinion journalist
- Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier
bretteur, military officer
- Paul Broca
anthropologist, politician
- Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
cricketer, aristocrat
- Charles Blondin
circus performer, tightrope walker
- William Palmer
serial killer, physician
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
photographer, painter
- Princess Francisca of Brazil
aristocrat
- Johanna von Puttkamer
aristocrat
- Princess Sophie of the Netherlands
editor, aristocrat
- Pierre Janssen
geologist, inventor
- Calvert Vaux
landscape architect, architect
- Carl Reinecke
pianist, music educator
- Léopoldine Hugo
socialite
- Avram Iancu
jurist, lawyer
- Samuel Plimsoll
politician
- Jozef Israëls
illustrator, poet
- Hiram Berdan
military personnel, inventor
- Kuni Asahiko
politician
- Alfred Pleasonton
military officer
- Francisco Pi y Margall
journalist, writer
- Heinrich Hofmann
illustrator, university teacher
- Karl-Maria Kertbeny
translator, writer
- Charles Godfrey Leland
journalist, editor
- Eastman Johnson
photographer, painter
- Gustave Boulanger
painter
- James Mitchell Ashley
politician
- Barnard Elliott Bee
military personnel
- Ōmura Masujirō
military scientist, military personnel
- Henry Chadwick
journalist, baseball player
- Richard J. Oglesby
military officer, governor
- Peter Cornelius
music critic, actor
- Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
military personnel
- Sam Browne
art collector, inventor
- Mikhail Loris-Melikov
writer, statesperson
- Sarah Parker Remond
suffragist, autobiographer
- William Huggins
astronomer, photographer
- Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
politician
- John Tyler Morgan
politician, soldier
- Ludwig Büchner
neuroscientist, writer
- William Morris Hunt
sculptor, graphic artist
- Duke George August of Mecklenburg
military personnel
- William Barak
painter
- Wilhelm Hofmeister
biologist, botanist
- Stanley Matthews
editor, judge
- William Allingham
writer, poet
- Vladimir Stasov
art critic, archivist
- Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski
politician, engineer
- Pope Cyril V of Alexandria
presbyter
- Theodore M. Pomeroy
banker, lawyer
- Francisco González Bocanegra
poet, writer
- Alfred H. Colquitt
Brigadegeneral, governor
- Phoebe Caryary
writer, poet
- William Farrar Smith
military officer, soldier
- Alexey Bogolyubov
painter, art educator
- Alexander William Williamson
chemist, university teacher
- Duchess Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
aristocrat
- Juliusz Kossak
draftsperson, illustrator
- George Edmund Street
architect, art historian
- Washington Bartlett
lawyer, politician
- Samuel S. Cox
editor, lawyer
- Richard Doyle
illustrator, painter
- Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este
Christian nun
- Branko Radičević
writer, poet
- Bernhard von Gudden
psychiatrist, university teacher
- Kuno Fischer
university teacher, philosopher
- Hugh Low
naturalist, botanist
- Dietrich Brandis
forester, naturalist
- George William Curtis
essayist, writer
- Cadmus M. Wilcox
military personnel
- Archduke Ernest of Austria
politician, military personnel
- Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
chemist, university teacher
- Rajendralal Mitra
Indologist
- Rainivoninahitriniony
politician
- Nelson H. Barbour
pastor, adventist
- Emmanuel Frémiet
painter, sculptor
- Juan Valera
poet, politician
- John Kerr
cleric, physicist
- George T. Anderson
military personnel
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
sculptor
- Isabel Maria de Alcântara, Duchess of Goiás
chamberlain
- Tēvita ʻUnga
politician
- William Burnham Woods
military officer, judge
- Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
military leader
- Martin Gropius
architect
- Rudolf von Bennigsen
member of parliament, jurist
- Benjamin Apthorp Gould
astronomer, writer
- Lucy Larcom
writer, poet
- Antonio Ghislanzoni
science fiction writer, opera singer
- Jaume Nunó
composer
- Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky
numismatist, politician
- Thomas James Churchill
major general, governor
- Aniceto Arce
politician, entrepreneur
- Nguyen Van Tuong
politician
- David M. Key
judge, lawyer
- John Hall
politician
- Francesco Brioschi
mathematician, politician
- Choe Je-u
Christian minister, religious leader
- Antonio Stoppani
geologist, botanist
- Atiye Sultan
aristocrat
- Georg Goltermann
cellist, conductor
- Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša
writer, politician
- Samuel Mohilever
rabbi
- Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet
screenwriter, military personnel
- Ferdinand Carré
inventor, engineer
- Zacharias Dase
mathematician
- Joseph Hergenröther
theologian, university teacher
- Moritz Lazarus
philosopher, university teacher
- George Marsden Waterhouse
politician, merchant
- Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch
draftsperson, etcher
- Svend Grundtvig
writer, literary critic
- William Balfour Baikie
entomologist, linguist
- Francis Turner Palgrave
writer, literary critic
- Aristotelis Valaoritis
writer, poet
- Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
soldier, politician
- Céleste Mogador
playwright, novelist
- Gabriel Davioud
architect
- Christen Dalsgaard
painter
- Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
pteridologist, botanist