209 Year Old Celebrities

1. John A. Macdonald (1815)

1st Prime Minister Of Canada (18

Canadian lawyer and politician who became the 1st Prime Minister of Canada in 1867. He notably led the conferences and the drafting of the British North America Act, which made...

2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815)

Activist

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a famous Activist, who was born on November 12, 1815 in United States. One of the leaders of the women’s rights movement in the late 19th...

3. Henry Parkes (1815)

New South Wales Politician And P

Remembered as one of Australia's Founding Fathers, Parkes served as the seventh Premiere of New South Wales.

4. Anthony Trollope (1815)

British Writer

Victorian novelist who is famous for his depiction of a fictional city called Barsetshire in six popular novels that include The Warden (1855), Doctor Thorne (1858), and The Last Chronicle...

5. Emma Stebbins (1815)

American Artist

One of the first notable American woman sculptors, she created a bronze statue of Horace Mann, located in Boston.

6. Allan Robertson (1815)

Professional Golfer

Scottish golfer considered to be one of the world's first professional golfers.

7. Ada Lovelace (1815)

Mathematician

Mathematician and writer who made a profound impact in the mechanical engineering field. Many have considered her to be the first computer programmer. 

8. Otto von Bismarck (1815)

Chancellor Of Germany Diplomat

Chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890 who unified most of the German states into one German Empire under Prussian leadership. He was known across the world as the "Iron...

9. George Meade (1815)

Union Army General

Union general in the U.S. army who defeated General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Following his victory, he continued to command the Army of the...

10. Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815)

Poet

Rufus Wilmot Griswold is a famous Poet, who was born on February 13, 1815 in United States. An American author, anthologist, and critic, he is most famous for his 1842...

11. John Mcdouall Stuart (1815)

Explorer

Explorer who traversed the Australian mainland from south to north and then back again.

12. Catherine Dickens (1815)

Wife Of Charles Dickens

Wife of the iconic author Charles Dickens. She grew up in Scotland as the oldest of ten children of Edinburgh newspaper editor George Hogarth.

13. Dan Emmett (1815)

American Entertainer

Best known for composing songs like Dixie. He founded the first blackface minstrel troupe.

14. Aaron Perry (1815)

Politician

Republican politician who represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1871 to 1872. He also served in the Ohio General Assembly for a year.

15. Gottfried Kinkel (1815)

German Poet Art Historian And Re

Nineteenth-century German poet known for Otto der Schutz, Der Grobschmied von Antwerpen, and other works. Also a revolutionary, he founded a political newspaper called Bonner Zeitung.

16. L'udovit Stur (1815)

Politician

Nineteenth-century author, politician, and leader of the Slovak National Revival. He published his most important work, The Theory of the Slovak language, in the mid-1840s.

17. John Bosco (1815)

Italian Roman Catholic Priest

Known best as Don Bosco and remembered for his humanitarian and educational reform work on behalf of children and teenagers in need, this 19th-century Roman Catholic Priest founded such Italian...

18. David Davis (1815)

Supreme Court Justice

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1862 to 1877.

19. Ľudovít Štúr (1815)

Author And Leader Of The Slovak

Ľudovít Štúr nearby Bánovce nad Bebravou – 12 January 1856 Modra ) known in his era as Ludevít Velislav Štúr was the leader of the Slovak national revival in the...

20. Arthur MacArthur (1815)

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21. Charles Beecher (1815)

United States Clergyman And Writ

Charles Beecher was an American minister composer of religious hymns and a prolific author.

22. Frederick Perrin (1815)

American Chess Player

Perrin was an American chess master. Born in London descended from a Swiss family he came to the United States in 1845. He played twice in the American Chess Congress...

23. Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815)

German Chess Player

Paul Rudolf von Bilguer was a German chess master and chess theoretician from Ludwigslust in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. To the modern chess world he is known above all...

24. Marmaduke Wyvill (chess player) (1815)

British Chess Player And Mp

Marmaduke Wyvill was a leading English chess master and Liberal Party politician. He was born the son of Marmaduke Wyvill of Constable Burton Hall MP for York. Regarded by Howard...

25. Alexander B. Williams (1815)

American Politician

Alexander B. Williams was an American merchant and politician from New York.

26. Andrew J. Harlan (1815)

American Politician

Andrew Jackson Harlan was a U. S. Representative from Indiana and later a member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He was a cousin of Aaron Harlan. Born near Wilmington...

27. Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte (1815)

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Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte was born in Rome Italy the son of Prince Lucien Bonaparte and his second wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp. He was a nephew of Napoleon I of France...

28. Charles Robert Colvile (1815)

British Politician

Charles Robert Colvile was an English Peelite and Liberal politician who represented the constituency of South Derbyshire. Colvile was the son of Sir Charles Colvile and his wife Harriet Anne...

29. Alexander Ramsey (1815)

American Politician And Civil Se

Alexander Ramsey was an American politician.

30. Andrew J. Kuykendall (1815)

American Politician And Lawyer

Andrew Jackson Kuykendall was a U. S. Representative from Illinois.

31. Clark B. Cochrane (1815)

American Politician

Clark Betton Cochrane was a U. S.

32. Samuel C. Fessenden (1815)

American Politician

Samuel Clement Fessenden was a United States Congressman from Maine son of abolitionist Samuel Fessenden and brother of Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden and Congressman T. A. D. Fessenden. He...

33. John P. Darling (1815)

American Politician

John P. Darling was an American politician from New York.

34. John Thomas Ball (1815)

British Politician

John Thomas Ball QC was an Irish barrister and politician in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Educated at Trinity College Dublin LLD 1844; barrister...

35. John Walter Huddleston (1815)

British Politician

Sir John Walter Huddleston was an English judge formerly a criminal lawyer who had established an eminent reputation in various causes célèbres. As a Baron of the Exchequer of the...

36. Hugh Adair (1815)

British Politician

Sir Hugh Edward Adair 3rd Baronet was a British Liberal Party politician who served from 1847 to 1874 as a Member of Parliament for Ipswich in Suffolk. He was the...

37. William Dennison, Jr. (1815)

American Politician

Dennison Jr. was a Whig and Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 24th Governor of Ohio and as U. S. Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President...

38. Moïse Fortier (1815)

Canadian Politician

Moïse Fortier was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Yamaska from 1867 to 1872. He was born in...

39. Vicente Fidel López (1815)

Argentine Historian And Politici

Vicente Fidel López was an Argentine historian lawyer and politician. He was a son of writer and politician Vicente López y Planes.

40. Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair (1815)

Canadian Politician

Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair PC known prior to 1862 as Adam Johnston Fergusson was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Born in Perthshire Scotland the son of Adam Fergusson and his...

41. Washington King (1815)

American Politician

shington King was the fifteenth mayor of St. Louis Missouri serving from 1855 to 1856.

42. Moses Wisner (1815)

American Politician

Moses Wisner was a politician and soldier from the U. S. state of Michigan.

43. Abraham Herr Smith (1815)

American Politician

Abraham Herr Smith was a Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. A. Herr Smith was born near Millersville Pennsylvania in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. He attended...

44. Daniel Bashiel Warner (1815)

President Of Liberia

Daniel Bashiel Warner served as the 3rd President of Liberia from 1864 to 1868. Prior to this he served as the 5th Vice President of Liberia under President Stephen Allen...

45. Giles W. Hotchkiss (1815)

U.s. Representative

Giles Waldo Hotchkiss was a U. S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.

46. Weston Cracroft Amcotts (1815)

British Politician

ston Cracroft Amcotts was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. Amcotts was born William Cracroft son of Robert Cracroft of...

47. Samuel Lilly (1815)

American Judge

Samuel Lilly was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855. Lilly was born in...

48. Ferdinando Palasciano (1815)

Italian Politician And Physician

Palasciano was an Italian physician and politician considered one of the forerunners of the foundation of the Red Cross.

49. George Chambers (New York) (1815)

American Politician

George Chambers was an American physician and politician from New York.

50. Christoph Hoffmann (1815)

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Gottlob Christoph Jonathan Hoffmann was born in Leonberg in the Kingdom of Württemberg Germany. His parents were Beate Baumann and Gottieb Wilhelm Hoffmann chairman of the Unitas Fratrum congregation in...

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