ON THIS DAY
Born in 1826
250 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Eugénie de Montijo
consort
- George Brinton McClellan
military officer, designer
- Bernhard Riemann
mathematician, university teacher
- Stephen Foster
singer-songwriter, writer
- Carl XV of Sweden
monarch, military personnel
- Carlo Collodi
children's writer, journalist
- Francisco Solano López
politician
- John Brown
domestic worker, house servant
- Gustave Moreau
painter, sculptor
- Frederic Edwin Church
traveler, landscape painter
- Varina Davis
journalist, writer
- Julia Grant
politician
- John Buford
military officer
- Cetshwayo kaMpande
monarch
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
suffragist, women's rights activist
- Wilhelm Liebknecht
opinion journalist, writer
- Walter Bagehot
businessperson, essayist
- John A. Logan
military officer, writer
- Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden
regent, aristocrat
- Spotted Elk
traditional leader or chief
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
writer, translator
- Richard Taylor
politician, army officer
- Princess Alexandra of Bavaria
benefactor, author
- Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
politician, diplomat
- Anthony Joseph Drexel
banker
- Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Alexander Afanasyev
literary critic, linguist
- Serizawa Kamo
samurai
- Joseph Wharton
entrepreneur, industrialist
- Hormuzd Rassam
assyriologist, paymaster
- William Mahone
civil engineer, politician
- Ludwig Minkus
composer, instrumentalist
- Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
theologian
- William Smith Clark
chemist, university teacher
- Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
politician, foreign minister
- Richard Christopher Carrington
astronomer
- Dinah Craik
poet, writer
- Romuald Traugutt
politician, military personnel
- Charles Hugo
opinion journalist, journalist
- George Frisbie Hoar
jurist, politician
- Stanislao Cannizzaro
university teacher, politician
- Alfred Ely Beach
inventor, publisher
- Adolf Bastian
geographer, ethnologist
- Theodore Judah
railway engineer, engineer
- George Johnstone Stoney
physicist, astronomer
- Andrew Jackson Davis
physician, clairvoyant
- Armand David
ornithologist, Catholic priest
- Rajnarayan Basu
writer, autobiographer
- Henri Mouhot
explorer, entomologist
- Sylvain Salnave
politician
- B. Gratz Brown
governor, lawyer
- Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg
philanthropist, founder
- Giuseppe Zanardelli
lawyer, politician
- Mariano Ignacio Prado
military officer, politician
- Marietta Alboni
opera singer
- Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
engineer, inventor
- Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook
politician, art collector
- Emily Blackwell
gynecologist, physician
- Mohamed Sherif Pasha
diplomat, civil servant
- Sheikh Ubeydullah
politician
- John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
politician, diplomat
- William Henry Waddington
historian, politician
- Edmund G. Ross
politician
- Zénobe Gramme
physicist, inventor
- Karl von Piloty
university teacher, lithographer
- James Z. George
lawyer, politician
- Gustave Moynier
jurist
- Svetozar Miletić
journalist, opinion journalist
- William Crowninshield Endicott
jurist, lawyer
- Francis Trevelyan Buckland
scientific collector, physician
- Marie Pasteur
amanuensis, chemist
- İbrahim Şinasi
journalist, writer
- John William De Forest
writer, military personnel
- Christopher Columbus Langdell
lawyer, jurist
- Martha Coston
inventor
- Robert Kingston Scott
politician, major general
- John P. Stockton
politician, lawyer
- William B. Bate
politician, lawyer
- Adile Sultan
poet, writer
- Johann Köler
painter, university teacher
- Matt Whitaker Ransom
lawyer, diplomat
- Mariano Escobedo
military personnel, politician
- Joseph Victor von Scheffel
poet, librarian
- Petar Vukotić
aristocrat, land owner
- Mary Cyrene Breckinridge
politician
- Utagawa Hiroshige II
ukiyo-e artist, painter
- Archduke Sigismund of Austria
politician, military personnel
- Pendleton Murrah
governor, lawyer
- Ralph T. H. Griffith
Indologist, translator
- John B. Henderson
lawyer, politician
- Henry John Stephen Smith
mathematician, university teacher
- Carl Bechstein
piano maker, musical instrument maker
- Edmund Evans
illustrator, painter
- Carlos de Haes
draftsperson, landscape painter
- Mahlon Loomis
stomatologist, inventor
- Joseph Roswell Hawley
politician, governor
- Thomas Alexander Browne
writer, novelist
- William Gifford Palgrave
writer, travel writer
- Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl
politician, lawyer
- Alphonse de Polignac
mathematician, Officer
- Henry Clifton Sorby
metallurgist, engineer
- Konstantin Trutovsky
engineer, painter
- Ahmed Hamdi Pasha
politician
- Silvestro Lega
painter
- Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann
chemist, physicist
- Lev Lagorio
painter, watercolorist
- Georg von Neumayer
geographer, astronomer
- Augustus Wollaston Franks
art historian, antiquarian seller
- Antonio Raimondi
botanist, geographer
- Fritz Melbye
painter, traveler
- Joseph-René Bellot
polar explorer, naval officer
- Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen
chemist, businessperson
- William Hugh Smith
governor, lawyer
- Carl Gegenbaur
university teacher, zoologist
- Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg
diplomat, politician
- José María Medina
head of state, politician
- Christian Almer
mountain guide
- Louis Favre
architect, civil engineer
- Sereno Watson
botanist, curator
- Julius Stockhausen
music educator, conductor
- Alfred Vulpian
anatomist, neurologist
- Adile Nesrin Hanımefendi
aristocrat
- Luigi Maria Bilio
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- August Ahlqvist
writer, literary critic
- Jovan Đorđević
musician, editor
- Alberto Pasini
painter
- Vojtěch Náprstek
journalist, ethnographer
- Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa
salonnière, journalist
- Georges Mathias
pianist, music educator
- Friedrich Chrysander
music critic, librettist
- Samuel Boden
chess player, chess composer
- Oscar Ferdinand Peschel
geographer, writer
- Franz Grashof
university teacher, mechanical engineer
- Giovanni Costa
painter, visual artist
- Mishkín-Qalam
calligrapher
- George Price Boyce
painter
- John Henry Kinkead
finance minister, governor
- Martin Wiberg
engineer, inventor
- Nathalie Lemel
anarchist, feminist
- Hermann von Schlagintweit
scientific collector, explorer
- Johanna Jachmann-Wagner
opera singer, stage actor
- Giovanni Battista Donati
astronomer
- Peter Leopold von Schrenck
naturalist, explorer
- Edward Byles Cowell
translator, university teacher
- Émile Lévy
painter, illustrator
