214 Year Old Celebrities

1. Alphonso Taft (1810)

American Diplomat

American politician and lawyer who served as Attorney General from 1876 to 1877. He also served as Secretary of War for two months in 1876.

2. Nikanor Grujic (1810)

Religious Author

A Nineteenth-century author and religious figure, he is known for such literary works as The Epic of Saint Sabbas and Objections of Nikanor Grujic. He published an autobiography in 1907.

3. Margaret Fuller (1810)

American Feminist Poet Author An

Leader of the U.S. feminist movement who wrote My Heart is a Large Kingdom and Summer on the Lakes.

4. Julian Fontana (1810)

Pianist

Composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur who was also a skilled musician. He translated Don Quixote into Polish.

5. Hans Christian Lumbye (1810)

Composer

Hans Christian Lumbye is a famous Composer, who was born on May 2, 1810 in Denmark. Danish composer mainly known for his light compositions such as The Champagne Galop, and...

6. Ormsby M. Mitchel (1810)

Celebrity

Ormsby M. Mitchel is a famous Celebrity, who was born on August 28, 1810 in United States. Astronomer and Union soldier who published the first magazine in the US dedicated...

7. Johann Löwenthal (1810)

Hungarian Chess Player

An early professional chess master who has also contributed to chess writing as an editor.

8. Frédéric Chopin (1810)

Polish Composer And Pianist

Virtuoso pianist from the Romantic era who was nicknamed The Poet of the Piano. He not only invented the instrumental ballade, but wrote the famous "Revolutionary Étude."

9. Theodor Schwann (1810)

German Biologist

Physiologist who greatly contributed to the development cell theory. He also discovered peripheral nervous system cells, pepsin, and organic yeast.

10. Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810)

Politician

Cassius Marcellus Clay is a famous Politician, who was born on October 19, 1810 in United States. Kentucky-born politician who was one of the biggest proponents of abolition. He was...

11. Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810)

Political Wife

Eliza McCardle Johnson is a famous Political Wife, who was born on October 4, 1810 in United States. First lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869, who was...

12. Robert Schumann (1810)

Composer Pianist

Widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the Romantic era. He was best known for such works as "Papillons" and "Carnaval" from 1834.

13. Asa Gray (1810)

American Botanist

American scientist most known for publishing Gray's Manual, a unifying collection of the taxonomic knowledge of plants in the United States.

14. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810)

Novelist

Victorian novelist known for such socially-themed works as Mary Barton, Cranford, and Sylvia's Lovers. She also published an 1857 biography of author Charlotte Bronte.

15. Elihu Burritt (1810)

Politician

American diplomat who advocated for the cessation of slavery and devoted himself to the pursuit of world peace.

16. Horatio Seymour (1810)

American Politician

Democrat who was the 18th Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and then again ten years later. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1868.

17. Eliphas Levi (1810)

Magician

Ceremonial magician and occultist writer who wrote the late 19th-century book Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual.

18. John C. Colt (1810)

Criminal

American clerk who was convicted of the 1842 murder of printer Samuel Adams and whose trial became the center of a New York media firestorm.

19. David Levy Yulee (1810)

Politician

David Levy Yulee is a famous Politician, who was born on June 12, 1810 in United States. American politician and member of the Democratic party who represented Florida in the...

20. Camillo Benso (1810)

Politician

Italian Liberal Party founder and key figure in the Italian Unification movement of the nineteenth century. In 1861, he served as Italy's first Prime Minister.

21. Ludwig Schuncke (1810)

Pianist

Musician whose talents promised a brilliant career, all of which was shattered by his death from tuberculosis when he was only 23.

22. Stanko Vraz (1810)

Croatian Writer

Croatian-Slovene poet, translator, and publisher who was associated with the nineteenth-century Illyrian movement. His most famous work is a collection of folk songs written in the Slovene language.

23. Alfred Demusset (1810)

Poet

French poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. His poetry collections include Un Spectacle dans un fauteuil and Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie; his plays include Le Chandelier and Bettine.

24. PT Barnum (1810)

Entrepreneur

Legendary showman and prankster who founded the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Earlier in his career, he ran a museum which he used to display hoaxes and human...

25. Jeremiah S. Black (1810)

Politician

Jeremiah S. Black is a famous Politician, who was born on January 10, 1810 in United States. Lawyer and statesman who served as the twenty-third U.S. Secretary of State from...

26. Peter Andreas Munch (1810)

Historian

Peter Andreas Munch is a famous Historian, who was born on December 15, 1810 in Norway. Norwegian historian, scholar, and co-founder of the Norwegian Nationalist School of Historiography. In 1970,...

27. Ann Sophia Stephens (1810)

Novelist

A 19th-century American novelist and magazine editor, she is known for creating the dime novel genre. Her best-known works include Maleaska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860) and...

28. Alexis Soyer (1810)

French Chef

Popular French chef who attempted to alleviate the hunger of those affected by the Great Irish Famine.

29. Pope Leo XIII (1810)

Religious Leader

Pope Leo XIII is a famous Religious Leader, who was born on March 2, 1810 in Italy. Head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903 who...

30. Ward Hunt (1810)

American Politician

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1873 to 1882.

31. Paul Kane (1810)

Irish-canadian Painter

Irish-Canadian artist who was famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West.

32. P. T. Barnum (1810)

American Politician

Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Although Barnum was also an author publisher philanthropist...

33. Jacob Cox (1810)

American Artist

Jacob Cox was a landscape and portrait painter in Indianapolis Indiana USA. Several of his paintings are in the Morris-Butler House. He is also known for his paintings of Indiana...

34. Carl Mayet (1810)

German Chess Player

Carl Mayet was a German chess master. He was one of the most original of the Berlin Pleiades. In 1839 Mayet defeated Jozsef Szen in a match with. In 1845...

35. Ferenc Erkel (1810)

Composer

Erkel was a Hungarian composer conductor and pianist. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera written mainly on historical themes which are still often performed in Hungary. He also...

36. William Mason (architect) (1810)

New Zealand Politician

Mason was a New Zealand architect born in Ipswich England the son of an architect/builder George Mason and Susan née Forty. Trained by his father he went to London where...

37. Lorenzo Batlle y Grau (1810)

President Of Uruguay

Lorenzo Cristóbal Manuel Batlle y Grau was the President of Uruguay from 1868–1872.

38. Pietro Rosa (1810)

Italian Architect

Pietro Rosa was an Italian architect and topographer. He studied the settlements of the ancient Roman countryside and carried out a systematic series of excavations on the Palatine Hill in...

39. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff (1810)

American Physician

Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff Sr. was an American politician serving as the twentieth mayor of Boston Massachusetts from January 6 1868 to January 2 1871. Shurtleff who had been the...

40. Horace Chase (1810)

American Politician

Horace B. Chase was an American politician who served as mayor of Milwaukee Wisconsin. Chase was born in Vermont on Christmas Day of 1810 and lived near Derby Vermont. One...

41. Robert Barry Cutler (1810)

Canadian Politician

Robert Barry Cutler was a Canadian Liberal politician who represented the riding of Kent New Brunswick for one term from 1872 to 1874. He represented Kent in the Legislative Assembly...

42. Walter McCrea (1810)

Canadian Politician

McCrea was a Liberal member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1871. He was born near Burritt's Rapids in Lanark County in 1810. He was called to the...

43. John Richardson (New Zealand politician) (1810)

New Zealand Politician

Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and a cabinet minister.

44. Hosea Stout (1810)

Leader In The Lds Church

Hosea Stout was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement a Mormon pioneer and a lawyer and politician in Utah Territory. Stout was born in Pleasant Hill Kentucky into...

45. Agnites Vrolik (1810)

Dutch Politician

Agnites Vrolik was a Dutch politician.

46. Adam John Glossbrenner (1810)

American Politician

Adam John Glossbrenner was a Democratic member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Adam J. Glossbrenner was born in Hagerstown Maryland. He learned the art of printing...

47. David O'Connor Henchy (1810)

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48. Charles E. Stuart (1810)

Union United States Army Officer

Charles Edward Stuart was a U. S. Representative and U. S. Senator from the state of Michigan.

49. Noble S. Elderkin (1810)

American Politician

Noble Strong Elderkin was an American politician from New York. He was Speaker of the New York State Assembly in 1850.

50. George T. Davis (1810)

American Politician

George Thomas Davis was a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts.

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