ON THIS DAY
Born in 1828
258 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Leo Tolstoy
essayist, prose writer
- Jules Verne
futurist, Esperantist
- Henrik Ibsen
poet, writer
- Charbel Makhluf
monk, presbyter
- Saigō Takamori
politician, military personnel
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
draftsperson, translator
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Brigadegeneral, businessperson
- Henry Dunant
entrepreneur, merchant
- Effie Gray
model, painter
- Anarcha Westcott
research participant
- John Langdon Down
physician, psychiatrist
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
literary critic, novelist
- Horatio Spafford
lawyer, composer
- James Roosevelt
entrepreneur
- Joseph Swan
chemist, physicist
- George Crook
military officer
- George Meredith
poet, writer
- Louise of the Netherlands
translator, consort
- Hippolyte Taine
philosopher, art historian
- Albert I of Saxony
politician
- Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia
military officer, military leader
- Josephine Butler
social reformer, activist
- Ely S. Parker
politician
- James B. McPherson
military officer
- Andrew Murray
writer, theologian
- Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
diplomat, politician
- Paul Gachet
psychiatrist, physician
- Andrew Taylor Still
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, physician
- Frank Calvert
diplomat, consul
- J. Johnston Pettigrew
writer, student
- Margaret Oliphant
historian, writer
- Jefferson C. Davis
military officer, politician
- Thomas F. Bayard
prosecutor, foreign minister
- Samuel J. Randall
politician
- Prince Adalbert of Bavaria
aristocrat, politician
- Jean Danjou
military officer, military personnel
- Rainilaiarivony
politician
- Turner Ashby
military officer
- Thomas C. Hindman
lawyer, politician
- Lucien Louis Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte
Catholic priest
- François-Victor Hugo
journalist, translator
- Herman Grimm
literary historian, essayist
- Mathilde Wesendonck
librettist, children's writer
- John T. Hoffman
governor, jurist
- Yung Wing
diplomat
- Joseph Dietzgen
philosopher
- Prince Felix of Salm-Salm
military officer, military personnel
- Edward Mitchell Bannister
painter, visual artist
- Harry Smith Parkes
translator, diplomat
- Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild
patron of the arts, banker
- Florvil Hyppolite
politician
- Iosif Gurko
politician, military personnel
- Randal Cremer
politician, trade unionist
- Viktor Rydberg
art historian, university teacher
- Dora d'Istria
writer, traveler
- Charles de Freycinet
official, writer
- Friedrich Albert Lange
university teacher, sociologist
- Étienne Carjat
painter, photographer
- Ferdinand Cohn
botanist, university teacher
- Gerald Massey
writer, philosopher
- Władysław Czartoryski
diplomat, politician
- Antoinette de Mérode
aristocrat
- Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
copyist, watercolorist
- Jonathan Hutchinson
physician, ophthalmologist
- Charles Allston Collins
writer, illustrator
- Salvador Cisneros Betancourt
politician
- William Alexander Hammond
military officer, neurologist
- J. B. Lightfoot
patristic scholar, Anglican priest
- Fitz James O'Brien
science fiction writer, journalist
- Alexander Butlerov
university teacher, academic
- Désiré Charnay
archaeologist, world traveler
- Jacob Dolson Cox
educator, microscopist
- Mikhail Chernyayev
journalist, politician
- Ali Pasha of Gucia
politician, beamter
- Alonzo Chappel
illustrator, painter
- Charles Foster
politician
- Edmond François Valentin About
novelist, journalist
- Mina Karadžić
painter, historian
- Charles Hudson
mountaineer
- Boris Chicherin
jurist, historian
- Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg
military writer, military personnel
- Frederick Low
politician, banker
- Maria Deraismes
journalist, feminist
- Mór Than
artist, portrait painter
- Henry Timrod
journalist, poet
- Friedrich Sorge
communist, revolutionary
- Balfour Stewart
writer, meteorologist
- Eleanor Anne Ormerod
scientific collector, botanist
- Clémence de Grandval
opera singer, pianist
- Albrecht von Graefe
physician, university teacher
- Ede Reményi
composer, musician
- Nikolay Strakhov
literary historian, journalist
- Júlia Szendrey
poet, translator
- Theodore Winthrop
novelist, writer
- Carol Davila
physician, pharmacist
- Charles Floquet
official, jurist
- Marie-Noémi Cadiot
journalist, sculptor
- Dragan Tsankov
journalist, school teacher
- Benjamin Leigh Smith
polar explorer, scientific collector
- Matsudaira Yoshinaga
samurai, politician
- Louis Mérante
librettist, ballet dancer
- Thomas Kirk
botanical collector, botanist
- David Turpie
politician, judge
- Emily Mary Osborn
painter
- Heinrich von Ferstel
architect, professor
- Jules-Élie Delaunay
painter
- Amir Meenai
linguist, poet
- Stjepan Jovanović
military personnel
- Roger Atkinson Pryor
lawyer, judge
- John Creswell
jurist, banker
- Willoughby Smith
inventor
- Miksa Falk
politician, journalist
- Ernest Hello
writer, journalist
- Ernest Trumpp
Christian minister, linguist
- Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum
psychiatrist, university teacher
- John Gregg
politician
- Woldemar Bargiel
composer, music educator
- Franjo Rački
politician, historian
- Leonardo Murialdo
presbyter
- Fenton John Anthony Hort
university teacher, Anglican theologian
- Alexis, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
soldier, politician
- Adolph Northen
graphic artist, painter
- Charles John Andersson
scientific collector, conservator
- Gustav Zeuner
university teacher, engineer
- Rudolf Koller
painter
- Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
theologian, scientific collector
- Benjamin Ward Richardson
physiologist, physician
- John Burdon-Sanderson
university teacher, physician
- René Goblet
journalist, lawyer
- James F. Wilson
politician, lawyer
- Jervis McEntee
painter
- Joseph Hellmesberger
pedagogue, chapelmaster
- Wang Tao
writer, Bible translator
- Ignacio de Veintemilla
military personnel, politician
- Jean-Baptiste Billot
military personnel, military officer
- Alexander Ross Clarke
geodesist, surveyor
- Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël
engraver, painter
- Johannes von Miquel
politician, jurist
- Kanō Hōgai
painter
- William Henry Brewer
botanist, geologist
- Georg Bleibtreu
battle painter, painter
- James McDougal Hart
painter
- Albert Marth
physicist, astronomer
- François-Auguste Gevaert
composer, music arranger
- Robert von Puttkamer
politician, minister
- Robert Alexander Hillingford
painter