247 Year Old Celebrities

1. Roger B. Taney (1777)

Supreme Court Justice

Roger B. Taney is a famous Supreme Court Justice, who was born on March 17, 1777 in United States. Served as the fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...

2. Lorenzo Bartolini (1777)

Italian Artist

Italian sculptor who combined his neoclassicism with naturalistic detail and Romanticism. He sculpted Nymph and the Scorpion.

3. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)

Mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss is a famous Mathematician, who was born on April 30, 1777 in Germany. German mathematician who created Gauss’s Law, Gauss’s Law for Magnetism, and the process of...

4. Outerbridge Horsey (1777)

American Politician

Member of the Federalist Party who served as a United States Senator from Delaware from 1810 to 1821. He also served in the Delaware General Assembly.

5. HC Oersted (1777)

Physicist

HC Oersted is a famous Physicist, who was born on August 14, 1777 in Denmark. Danish physicist and chemist who discovered the important aspect of electromagnetism that electric currents create...

6. Christian Daniel Rauch (1777)

Sculptor

Christian Daniel Rauch is a famous Sculptor, who was born on January 2, 1777 in Germany. German sculptor who founded the Berlin school of sculpture, and was considered the foremost...

7. Hedda Hjortsberg (1777)

Swedish Ballerina

Swedish ballerina most remembered for her performances with the Royal Swedish Ballet.

8. Lukijan Mušicki (1777)

Serbian Poet Writer

Serbian poet, author, and religious figure whose life spanned the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His collected works were published posthumously in 1838.

9. Elisa Bonaparte (1777)

Princess

She was Princess of Piombino and Lucca, and then Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Her elder brother was Napoleon Bonaparte.

10. Thomas Campbell (1777)

Director

Scottish poet who became known for his sentimental verse and patriotic songs. His works include "The Pilgrim of Glencoe," "Ye Mariners of England," and "The Soldier's Dream."

11. Henry Clay (1777)

American Politician

Politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the US Senate and House of Representatives. He ran for President of the United States in 1824, 1832 and 1844 and...

12. Jeremiah Colman (1777)

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Jeremiah Colman was an English miller who founded Colman's Mustard a business which merged into the conglomerate Reckitt & Colman now represented by Reckitt Benckiser.

13. Louis Lepeletier De Rosanbo (1777)

French Politician

14. Joaquín María de Ferrer y Cafranga (1777)

Prime Minister Of Spain Mayor Of

Joaquín María de Ferrer y Cafranga was a Spanish politician and military who served as Prime Minister of Spain in 1841 and held other important offices such as Minister of...

15. George Wolf (1777)

United States (pennsylvania) Pol

George Wolf was the seventh Governor of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1835. On June 29 1888 he was recognized as the “father of the public-school system” in Pennsylvania by the...

16. John Williams (1777–1846) (1777)

British Politician

John Williams was an English Whig politician lawyer and judge. John Williams was educated at Trinity College Cambridge. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Lincoln at a...

17. Carlo Armellini (1777)

Italian Politician Activist And

Carlo Armellini was an Italian politician activist and jurist. He was part of the triumvirate leading the short-lived Roman Republic in 1849 together with Giuseppe Mazzini and Aurelio Saffi. Armellini...

18. Nathaniel Pitcher (1777)

American Politician

Nathaniel Pitcher was an American lawyer and politician who served as the eighth Governor of New York from February 11 to December 31 1828. He was a member of the...

19. Alexander I of Russia (1777)

Emperor Of Russia

Alexander I of Russia . served as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and the first Russian King of Poland from 1815 to 1825.

20. Charles Lot Church (1777)

Canadian Politician

Charles Lot Church was a political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Lunenburg County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1820 to 1830. He was born in Rhode...

21. Levi Barber (1777)

American Politician

Levi Barber was a surveyor court administrator banker and legislator. Levi Barber was born in Simsbury Connecticut the son of David Barber and Sarah Lawrence. Levi moved to Ohio where...

22. William Augustus Johnson (1777)

British Politician

Lieutenant-General William Augustus Johnson was an English soldier and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Church of England clergyman the Rev. Robert Augustus Johnson and Anna Rebecca...

23. Christian Friedrich Von Boeckh (1777)

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24. William John Hamilton (1777)

British Politician

John Hamilton FRS was an English geologist born in Wishaw Lanarkshire. He was the son of William Richard Hamilton and was educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Göttingen....

25. William Addams (1777)

American Politician

Addams was a Pennsylvania State Representative and United States Congressman. He was born in Lancaster County Pennsylvania in 1777. He moved to Berks County Pennsylvania near Reading and served as...

26. William Bellinger Bulloch (1777)

American Politician

Bellinger Bulloch was an American Senator from Georgia uncle to James Stephens Bulloch granduncle to James Dunwoody Bulloch Martha Bulloch Roosevelt and Irvine Stephens Bulloch great-granduncle to President Theodore Roosevelt...

27. Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777)

Russian General

Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov or Ermolov was a Russian Imperial general of the 19th century who commanded Russian troops in the Caucasus War.

28. Hugh Duncan Baillie (1777)

British Army Officer And Mp

Hugh Duncan Baillie was a British army officer MP and Lord Lieutenant of Ross-shire. He was the second son of Evan Baillie of Dochfour a prosperous Bristol merchant and the...

29. Nathaniel Claiborne (1777)

American Politician

Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne was a nineteenth-century politician from Virginia. He was the brother of William Charles Cole Claiborne the nephew of Thomas Claiborne the uncle of John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne...

30. Robert O'Callaghan (1777)

British General

Lieutenant-General Sir Robert William O'Callaghan GCB was a British Army officer.

31. Peter von der Pahlen (1777)

Russian Military Commander

Peter von der Pahlen was a Russian military commander and a General of the Imperial Russian Army. Son to Russian statesman and regicide Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen and brother...

32. Charles Bernard Desormes (1777)

French Chemist

Charles Bernard Desormes was a French physicist and chemist. He determined the ratio of the specific heats of gases in 1819. He did this and almost all his scientific work...

33. Benjamin D'Urban (1777)

British Army General

Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban GCB KCH KCTS FRS was a British general and colonial administrator who is best known for his frontier policy when he was the Governor in the...

34. William Turner (MP for Blackburn) (1777)

British Politician

Turner was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1841. Turner was the youngest of four sons of a family that arrived...

35. Nicolai Niels Nielsen (1777)

Norwegian Politician

Nicolai Niels Nielsen was a Norwegian priest and politician. He was born in Funen Denmark. He took his priest examination in Copenhagen in 1804 and worked as a teacher in...

36. Felix Grundy (1777)

American Politician

x Grundy was a U. S. Congressman and U. S. Senator from Tennessee who also served as the 13th Attorney General of the United States.

37. Chichester Fortescue (1777)

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38. Nathan Sanford (1777)

American Politician

Nathan Sanford was an American politician.

39. Louis-Athanase Rendu (1777)

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40. Lord Douglas Gordon-Hallyburton (1777)

British Politician

Lord Douglas Gordon-Hallyburton was a Scottish soldier and Member of Parliament. He was born as the Honourable Douglas Gordon only child of Charles Gordon 4th Earl of Aboyne by his...

41. Casimir Pierre Périer (1777)

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Casimir Pierre Perier was a French statesman President of the Council during the July Monarchy when he headed the conservative Parti de la résistance.

42. Fernando Errázuriz (1777)

President Of Chile

Errázuriz y Martínez de Aldunate also known as Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate was a Chilean political figure. He served as provisional president of Chile in 1831. He was of Basque descent....

43. Robert Thomas Wilson (1777)

British Army General And Politic

General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson Kt was a British general and politician who served in Flanders Egypt Spain Prussia and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He...

44. William W. Van Wyck (1777)

American Politician

Van Wyck was an American politician from New York.

45. Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont (1777)

Austrian Politician

Karl Ludwig Reichsgraf von Ficquelmont was an Austrian aristocrat statesman and Field marshal of the Austrian Imperial army of French noble origin.

46. Abel Huntington (1777)

American Politician

Abel P. Huntington Jr. was a U. S. Representative from New York.

47. Daniel Woodmansee (1777)

American Politician

Daniel Woodmansee was a member of the Ohio State Senate and Ohio House of Representatives. Originally from New Jersey in 1809 Woodmansee and his family moved to Butler County Ohio...

48. Andreas Arntzen (1777)

Norwegian Politician

Andreas Arntzen was a Norwegian politician. He was born in Grue and graduated as cand. jur. in Copenhagen in 1802. He then worked as an attorney chief of police of...

49. Francis I of the Two Sicilies (1777)

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s I of the Two Sicilies was King of the Two Sicilies from 1825 to 1830.

50. Amos Perley (1777)

Canadian Politician

Amos Perley was a political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Sunbury in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1821 to 1822. He was born in Maugerville New Brunswick...

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