ON THIS DAY
Born in 1829
225 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Chester A. Arthur
lawyer, statesperson
- Roscoe Conkling
politician, lawyer
- Gerónimo
warrior, military leader
- Levi Strauss
entrepreneur, designer
- Oscar II of Sweden
monarch
- John Everett Millais
painter, illustrator
- Newton Knight
politician
- Elizabeth Siddal
art model, poet
- William Booth
theologian, preacher
- Joaquin Murrieta
activist, brigand
- August Kekulé
chemist, pedagogue
- Carl Schurz
politician, revolutionary
- Black Bart
soldier, robber
- Ignacio Zaragoza
politician, military personnel
- Edmond Albius
horticulturist
- John of Kronstadt
cleric, theologian
- Silas Weir Mitchell
medical author, physician
- Laura Bridgman
teacher, poet
- Radama II
monarch
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
composer, pianist
- Ranavalona II
politician
- Charles Brooke
Raja
- Tự Đức
philosopher, monarch
- William Michael Rossetti
writer, painter
- Ah Toy
sex worker
- Antonio Guzmán Blanco
politician, soldier
- Otto Goldschmidt
university teacher, conductor
- Asaph Hall
carpenter, astronomer
- Maurice Joly
lawyer, writer
- Surendra of Nepal
politician
- Catherine Booth
preacher, evangelist
- William W. Belknap
lawyer, politician
- Anselm Feuerbach
draftsperson, university teacher
- John Mercer Langston
politician, lawyer
- Theodor Billroth
surgeon, physician
- Edward Benson
Anglican theologian, Anglican priest
- Robert Nobel
investor, economist
- Marie Zakrzewska
gynecologist, obstetrician
- Eduard von Lewinski
military officer
- Prince William of Baden
military personnel, politician
- José de Alencar
playwright, writer
- Suzanne Manet
model, collector
- Robert E. Rodes
soldier, military personnel
- Frederick Sandys
illustrator, painter
- August Malmström
university teacher, illustrator
- Charles Dudley Warner
novelist, actor
- Jean-Jacques Henner
painter
- Philip Sclater
zoologist, barrister
- James Fitzjames Stephen
lawyer, barrister
- J. N. Andrews
missionary, theologian
- Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg
soldier, military personnel
- Joseph Jefferson
painter, stage actor
- Elwin Bruno Christoffel
university teacher, physicist
- Takechi Hanpeita
samurai
- Edwin Long
painter
- Auguste Beernaert
judge, lawyer
- Adolf Fick
university teacher, physiologist
- Laurence Oliphant
journalist, diplomat
- Yousef al-Khalidi
lexicographer, statesperson
- Ivan Sechenov
mathematician, psychologist
- Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
researcher, explorer
- William B. Allison
lawyer, politician
- Patrick Gilmore
conductor, bandleader
- Carleton Watkins
photographer
- Alfred Brehm
ornithologist, naturalist
- Honinbo Shusaku
Go player
- Berthold Woltze
portrait painter, photographer
- Isaac Roberts
engineer, photographer
- Bohuslav, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin
diplomat, politician
- Marie Luise Anna von Preußen
aristocrat
- Eduard Vogel
astronomer, botanical collector
- Thomas Hill
painter
- Inoue Genzaburō
samurai
- Franz Reuleaux
engineer, mechanical engineer
- Richard Coke
farmer, judge
- Ludvig Lorenz
physicist, mathematician
- Richard von Metternich
politician, diplomat
- Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
politician, linguist
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
painter, architectural drafter
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner
university teacher, historian
- Théophane Vénard
Catholic priest, missionary
- Moritz Cantor
historian, mathematician
- Edward Moran
painter
- Mikael Nalbandian
opinion journalist, writer
- Thomas Ewing Jr.
politician, soldier
- Lester Allan Pelton
inventor, carpenter
- Alfred Newton
zoologist, evolutionary biologist
- William Odling
university teacher, chemist
- Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill
politician, diplomat
- Ludwig Knaus
painter, etcher
- Jean-Antoine Carrel
mountain guide, mountaineer
- Samuel W. Crawford, Jr.
military officer, physician
- Ezra Heywood
activist, politician
- Bessie Rayner Parkes
writer, women's rights activist
- Konrad Duden
writer, lexicographer
- Ferdinand von Hochstetter
botanist, geographer
- Paul Dubois
painter, sculptor
- Carl Heinrich von Siemens
entrepreneur
- N. R. Pogson
astronomer
- Adolf von Schlagintweit
botanist, scientific collector
- Nishi Amane
politician, writer
- George M. Robeson
lawyer, politician
- Ziya Pasha
translator, writer
- Tommaso Salvini
stage actor, actor
- Adolfo Alsina
lawyer, politician
- Marcus Jastrow
lexicographer, linguist
- Alexander Smith
poet, writer
- Shelby Moore Cullom
governor, lawyer
- Henri de Saussure
geologist, scientific collector
- Dat So La Lee
basket weaver
- Henriette Browne
painter
- Edward Henry Howard
bishop, Catholic bishop
- Georg Meissner
physiologist, anatomist
- Eduard Lasker
writer, legal counselor
- Jane Cunningham Croly
newspaperperson, writer
- Epameinondas Deligiorgis
politician, journalist
- Albert Dietrich
composer, conductor
- Chokgyur Lingpa
Tertön, writer
- Charles Bourseul
engineer, civil engineer
- Émile Decombes
pianist, composer
- Francis Day
scientific illustrator, ichthyologist
- Hans Canon
painter, illustrator
- James T. Farley
lawyer, politician
- Felix Philipp Kanitz
draftsperson, explorer
- Jean Dufresne
chess player, journalist
- Friedrich Spielhagen
opinion journalist, poet
- José López Domínguez
politician, military personnel
- Grigory Danilevsky
writer, lawyer
- Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck
military personnel
- Gaetano Braga
composer, cellist
- Simon Schwendener
botanist, university teacher
- Honorat Koźmiński
religious, Catholic theologian
- Rufus W. Cobb
lawyer, governor
- Jules Férat
painter, illustrator
- Lazarus Geiger
teacher, philosopher
- Johan Pompe van Meerdervoort
medical officer, military officer of healthcare
- Paul Désiré Trouillebert
painter