Famous People Born in 1800

Discover the most famous people born in 1800. The list includes people like Millard Fillmore, Nat Turner, Henry Fox Talbot, John Brown, Juan José Flores and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, historians, chemists and military leaders born in 1800. This list includes people from United States, England and many more countries.

Vote for Your Favourite Person

Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet.

Birthdate: 7th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Moravia, New York, United States

Died: March 8, 1874

Millard Fillmore was the U.S. president from 1850 to 1853, succeeding Zachary Taylor after his death. The last Whig U.S. president, Fillmore had previously been a representative from New York’s 32nd District and the U.S. vice president. He played a crucial role in the passage of the Compromise of 1850.

 2 

Charles Goodyear

(Inventor of Vulcanized Rubber)

Birthdate: 29th December

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Died: July 1, 1860

Charles Goodyear was an American manufacturing engineer and self-taught chemist who developed vulcanized rubber. He invented the chemical process to manufacture pliable, moldable, and waterproof rubber which revolutionized the automobile industry. In 1976, Charles Goodyear was inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Birthdate: 9th May

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Torrington, Connecticut, United States

Died: December 2, 1859

Abolitionist John Brown believed that violence was the only way to end slavery in the U.S. He was part of the Bleeding Kansas crisis and the Pottawatomie Massacre. His Harpers Ferry raid ended with his capture, following which he was convicted of treason and murder, and eventually hanged.

Recommended Lists:

 4 

Henry Fox Talbot

(English Scientist, Inventor, and Pioneer Photographer Who Invented the ‘Salted Paper’ and ‘Calotype’ Processes)

Birthdate: 11th February

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Melbury, Dorset, England, United Kingdom

Died: September 17, 1877

Henry Fox Talbot was an English photography pioneer, inventor, and scientist. He is best remembered for inventing the calotype and salted paper processes that served as predecessors to photographic processes of the 20th century. He is also credited with inventing the photoglyphic engraving process. Henry Fox Talbot also played a major role in the progression of photography as an art.

Recommended Lists:

Birthdate: 26th October

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Parchim, Germany

Died: April 24, 1891

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder was a Prussian field marshal who served as the chief of staff in the Royal Prussian Army for 30 years. Moltke, who commanded troops during Austro-Prussian War, Second Schleswig War, and the Franco-Prussian War, is credited with creating a new method of directing armies. He is also credited with pioneering the military usage of railways. 

Birthdate: 2nd October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Southampton County, Virginia, United States

Died: November 11, 1831

Recommended Lists:

 7 

John Edward Gray

(Zoologist)

Birthdate: 12th February

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Walsall, England, United Kingdom

Died: March 7, 1875

John Edward Gray was a British zoologist best remembered for his association with the British Museum in London, where he was the keeper of zoology from 1840 to 1874. John Edward Gray is also remembered for publishing several records of the museum collections that included descriptions of new species.

 8 

Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

(Princess)

Birthdate: 21st December

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Gotha, Germany

Died: August 30, 1831

Recommended Lists:

 9 

France Prešeren

(Poet, Lawyer, Writer, Poet lawyer)

Birthdate: 3rd December

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Vrba

Died: February 8, 1849

Slovenia’s national poet, France Prešeren was one of the pioneers of Romanticism in Europe. He also penned the first ballad and epic of his country. Though he initially studied law, he later soared to fame with works such as Sonetni venec and brought in elements of ghazal and pattern poetry to Slovenian literature.

 10 

Benjamin F. Wade

(Politician)

Birthdate: 27th October

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts

Died: March 2, 1878

Recommended Lists:

 11 

Friedrich Wöhler

(German chemist)

Birthdate: 31st July

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Eschersheim

Died: September 23, 1882

Friedrich Wöhler was a German chemist best remembered for his contribution to the field of inorganic chemistry. He was the first person to isolate the chemical elements yttrium and beryllium in pure metallic form. Friedrich Wöhler was also the first person to prepare many inorganic compounds such as silicon nitride and silane.

 12 

Catharine Beecher

(Educator)

Birthdate: 6th September

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: East Hampton, New York, United States

Died: May 12, 1878

Recommended Lists:

 13 

George Bancroft

(Diplomat, Historian of the modern age, Historian, Academic, Writer, Politician)

Birthdate: 3rd October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Worcester

Died: January 17, 1891

Birthdate: 19th July

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Puerto Cabello

Died: October 1, 1864

Juan José Flores was a Venezuelan-born military general who served as the president of the new Republic of Ecuador on three non-consecutive terms. Enlisted as a private in the Spanish Royalist army at the age of 15, he grew up to be a military man with a commanding presence. He was an intelligent man and an eloquent orator. 

Recommended Lists:

 15 

James Clark Ross

(British Royal Navy Officer)

Birthdate: 15th April

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Finsbury Street, London, United Kingdom

Died: April 3, 1862

 16 

Thomas Babington Macaulay

(British Secretary at War (1839 - 1841) )

Birthdate: 25th October

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Leicestershire, England

Died: December 28, 1859

A prominent Whig and essayist Thomas Babington Macaulay is best remembered for his 5-volume History of England. Though a qualified lawyer, he never took it up as a career. As part of his administrative work in India later, he introduced English as the chief medium of instruction in schools.

Recommended Lists:

 17 

Edwin Chadwick

(British Social Reformer Who is Noted for His Leadership in Reforming the Poor Laws in England)

Birthdate: 24th January

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Longsight, Manchester, England

Died: July 6, 1890

Lawyer and social reformer Edwin Chadwick played a significant role in the passage of the 1848 Public Health Act. He also reformed the Poor Laws, bringing about major developments in urban sanitization. He was eventually knighted for his achievements. His writings include an iconic report on the “Labouring Population of Great Britain.”

 18 

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

(Chemist)

Birthdate: 14th July

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Alès, France

Died: April 10, 1884

Jean-Baptiste Dumas was a 19th-century French chemist. He is best remembered for his works on organic analysis and synthesis. He is also credited with developing a method for the analysis of nitrogen in compounds. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and one of the founders of the École centrale des arts et manufactures. 

Recommended Lists:

 19 

Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli

(Biographer)

Birthdate: 30th November

Birthplace: Ravenna, Italy

Died: March 27, 1873

 20 

Yevgeny Baratynsky

(Poet)

Birthdate: 2nd March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire

Died: July 11, 1844

Recommended Lists:

 21 

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse

(Irish Astronomer, Naturalist and Engineer)

Birthdate: 17th June

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: York, United Kingdom

Died: October 31, 1867

 22 

E.B. Pusey

(Theologian)

Birthdate: 22nd August

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Pusey, England

Died: September 16, 1882

Recommended Lists:

 23 

George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan

(Officer)

Birthdate: 16th April

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: London, England

Died: November 10, 1888

 24 

Mihály Vörösmarty

(Hungarian Poet and Dramatist)

Birthdate: 1st December

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Kápolnásnyék, Hungary

Died: November 19, 1855

Though born into a noble family, Mihály Vörösmarty had to face poverty from an early age and also sustained by tutoring. A trained lawyer, he later devoted himself to reforming Hungarian literature by removing all its classical influences. The play Csongor és Tünde remains one of his best-known works.

Recommended Lists:

 25 

George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon

(Diplomat)

Birthdate: 12th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: London, England

Died: June 27, 1870

George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon had earned the nickname The Great Lord Clarendon. A Liberal Party politician, he had been the foreign secretary of Britain under 4 prime ministers. He was also a significant member of the Congress of Paris, which put an end to the Crimean War.

 26 

David Drake

(Potter and poet)

Birthdate: 30th November

Birthplace: United States

Died: 1870 AD

Recommended Lists:

 27 

Anyos Jedlik

(Inventor)

Birthdate: 11th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Szimő, Kingdom of Hungary

Died: December 13, 1895

A Benedictine priest, Anyos Jedlik also taught physics and is often termed the unknown inventor of the first electric car, though Carl Benz later patented the motorcar for producing the first automobile series. His invention of the dynamo, which he didn’t speak of for years, was later credited to Werner von Siemens.

 28 

Franklin Buchanan

(Naval Officer)

Birthdate: 17th September

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Died: May 11, 1874

Recommended Lists:

 29 

Sarah Miriam Peale

(Painter)

Birthdate: 19th May

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Died: February 4, 1885

 30 

Nāṣīf Yāzijī

(Lebanese Author and Educator )

Birthdate: 25th March

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Kafr Shima, Lebanon

Died: February 8, 1871

 31 

Antonio Tamburini

(Italian Opera Singer Known for His Baritone Voice)

Birthdate: 28th March

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Faenza, Italy

Died: November 8, 1876

Italian operatic baritone Antonio Tamburini was born to a bandmaster father and was trained in music since childhood. He was 18 when he made his debut with La contessa di colle erbose. After gaining fame with his performances in Italy and Britain, he spent the final years of his career in Russia.

 32 

Francis Lieber

(Jurist and Political Philosopher Who Authored the 'Lieber Code' During the 'American Civil War')

Birthdate: 18th March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Berlin, Germany

Died: October 2, 1872

German-American jurist Francis Lieber is best remembered for establishing the laws of war. His Lieber Code, penned during the American Civil War, later served as the basis for the Geneva Conventions. He also penned Encyclopedia Americana and worked as a professor of history and economics in the US.

 33 

William Holmes McGuffey

(College professor)

Birthdate: 23rd September

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Claysville, Pennsylvania, United States

Died: May 4, 1873

 34 

Charles Philipon

(French Caricaturist, Lithographer, and Journalist)

Birthdate: 19th April

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Lyon, France

Died: January 25, 1861

 35 

Ludwig Ritter von Köchel

(Austrian Musicologist Best Known for Cataloguing the Works of 'Mozart' and Originating the ‘Kv-Numbers’)

Birthdate: 14th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Stein, Lower Austria, Austria

Died: June 3, 1877

Austrian musicologist, composer, writer, botanist and publisher Ludwig von Köchel is best-known for creating the Köchel catalogue, a chronological and thematic register of works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Köchel also arranged works of Mozart into 24 categories and Breitkopf & Härtel used this while publishing the first complete edition of Mozart's works titled Alte Mozart-Ausgabe.

 36 

Félix Archimède Pouchet

(French Naturalist Who Believed in Spontaneous Generation of Life from Non-Living Matter)

Birthdate: 26th August

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Rouen, France

Died: December 6, 1872

Félix Archimède Pouchet, the father of French naturalist Georges Pouchet, is remembered for his belief in the spontaneous generation of life from non-living matter, a theory that was discarded after Louis Pasteur proved that microorganisms existed in the air. A professor and a naturalist, he penned the iconic work Hétérogénie.

 37 

Jean-Jacques Ampère

(Philologist)

Birthdate: 12th August

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Lyon, France

Died: March 27, 1864

 38 

Mustafa Reşid Paşa

(Statesman)

Birthdate: 13th March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Constantinople, Turkey

Died: January 7, 1858

 39 

William Lovett

(Activist)

Birthdate: 8th May

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Newlyn, England

Died: August 8, 1877

 40 

Samuel David Luzzatto

(Scholar)

Birthdate: 22nd August

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Trieste, Italy

Died: September 30, 1865

 41 

Tokugawa Nariaki

(Emperor)

Birthdate: 4th April

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan

Died: September 29, 1860

 42 

Charles Rogier

(Prime Minister of Belgium (1847 - 1852))

Birthdate: 17th August

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Saint-Quentin, France

Died: May 27, 1885

Remembered as Belgium’s foremost liberal leader, Charles Latour Rogier began his career at the bar. When the Belgium Revolution broke out, he left his practice to lead an armed militia in support of the revolution, eventually emerging as leader of the movement. Later he became the Governor of Antwerp, thereafter, he held several ministerial posts before being elected the Prime Minister.

 43 

Henri-Gustave Delvigne

(French Inventor and Soldier)

Birthdate: 10th April

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany

Died: October 18, 1876

 44 

Charles Knowlton

(Physician)

Birthdate: 10th May

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Templeton, Massachusetts, United States

Died: February 20, 1850

 45 

Charles Tilstone Beke

(British Geographer and Explorer)

Birthdate: 10th October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Stepney, England

Died: July 31, 1874

Charles Tilstone Beke was an English geographer, traveler, and Biblical critic. He is best remembered for his book Origines Biblicae or Researches in Primeval History, which attempts to recreate mankind's early history with the help of geological data. Although the book did not impress religious leaders and supporters of the Book of Genesis, Beke's work was appreciated by many scholars.

 46 

Charles William Peach

(Geologist)

Birthdate: 30th September

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Wansford, England

Died: February 28, 1886

 47 

James Henry Hackett

(Actor)

Birthdate: 15th March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: New York, New York, United States

Died: December 28, 1871

 48 

Harriet Smithson

(Actress)

Birthdate: 18th March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Ennis, County Clare, Ireland

Died: March 3, 1854

 49 

James Bogardus

(Inventor)

Birthdate: 14th March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Catskill, New York, United States

Died: April 13, 1874

 50 

Louis-Christophe-François Hachette

(French Publisher)

Birthdate: 5th May

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Rethel, France

Died: July 31, 1864