208 Year Old Celebrities

1. Paul Reuter (1816)

Anglo-german Entrepreneur And Ne

German-born entrepreneur and journalist who founded the famous Reuters News Agency.

2. Morrison Waite (1816)

American Politician

Served as the seventh Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

3. Ivan Kukuljevic Sakcinski (1816)

Politician

Ivan Kukuljevic Sakcinski is a famous Politician, who was born on May 29, 1816 in Croatia. Historian and politician who gave the first speech delivered in Croatian before Parliament. He...

4. Severin Roesen (1816)

Painter

One of the greatest American still-life painters of the 19th century. He specialized in fruit and flower still-lifes.

5. Charlotte Brontë (1816)

English Novelist Poet And Govern

The oldest surviving daughter in the renowned Bronte literary family, she wrote the famous novel, Jane Eyre, under the pen name of Currer Bell. Her later works include Villette and...

6. Carl Ludwig (1816)

German Physician

Renowned professor of physiology and comparative anatomy who pioneered research in topics such as blood pressure, urinary excretion and anesthesia. He received the Copley Medal in 1884 and in 1869,...

7. Frances Browne (1816)

Poet

A Nineteenth-Century Irish author and poet, she is best remembered for her 1856 children's story collection, Granny's Wonderful Chair. Her other works include My Share of the World (a novel)...

8. Stephen Johnson Field (1816)

Supreme Court Justice

Stephen Johnson Field is a famous Supreme Court Justice, who was born on November 4, 1816 in United States. Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from...

9. Samuel Freeman Miller (1816)

Supreme Court Justice

Samuel Freeman Miller is a famous Supreme Court Justice, who was born on April 5, 1816 in United States. Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from...

10. Amedeo Preziosi (1816)

Maltese Artist

Maltese painter of prints and watercolors, primarily using the Balkans, Ottoman Empire, and Romania as subjects.

11. Peter Cunningham (1816)

Actor

12. George Elder (1816)

American Priest

George Elder was a pioneer Roman Catholic educator.

13. Nathaniel P. Banks (1816)

Union Army General Massachusetts

Nathaniel Prentice Banks was an American politician and soldier Speaker of the House Governor of Massachusetts and a Union general during the American Civil War. A millworker by background Banks...

14. Charles Newdigate Newdegate (1816)

British Politician

Charles Newdigate Newdegate was a British Conservative politician.

15. Carlo Tenca (1816)

Italian Writer

Carlo Tenca was an Italian man of letters journalist deputy and supporter of Risorgimento. He was the prime-mover in the Salon of countess Clara Maffei to whom he was romantically...

16. C. A. Rosetti (1816)

Prime Minister Of Romania

Constantin Alexandru Rosetti was a Romanian literary and political leader born in Bucharest into a Phanariot Greek family of Italian origin. In 1845 Rosetti went to Paris where he met...

17. André Oscar Wallenberg (1816)

Swedish Businessman And Politici

André Oscar Wallenberg was a Swedish naval officer newspaper tycoon banker politician and a member of the Wallenberg family. In 1856 André Oscar Wallenberg founded the Stockholms Enskilda Bank the...

18. Samuel Leonard Shannon (1816)

Canadian Politician

Samuel Leonard Shannon was a lawyer judge and political figure in Nova Scotia Canada. He represented Halifax County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1859 to 1867. He...

19. Curtis Hooks Brogden (1816)

American Politician

Curtis Hooks Brogden was the 42nd Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1874 to 1877. He succeeded to the position after the death of Governor Tod...

20. Charles Alexander (politician) (1816)

Canadian Politician

Charles Alexander was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Montréal-Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1874 to 1875 as a Liberal. He was born...

21. Nathaniel Pettes (1816)

Canadian Politician

Nathaniel Pettes was a merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Brome in the Canadian House of Commons from 1874 to 1878 as a Liberal member. He was born...

22. John Pender (1816)

British Politician

Sir John Pender British Submarine communications cable pioneer was born in the Vale of Leven Scotland and after attending school in Glasgow became a successful merchant in textile fabrics in...

23. Charles Cameron Shute (1816)

British General And Member Of Pa

General Sir Charles Cameron Shute was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician.

24. Samuel C. Pomeroy (1816)

American Politician

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy was an American Republican Senator from Kansas in the mid-19th century serving in the United States Senate during the American Civil War. Pomeroy served in the Massachusetts...

25. Richard Hanson Weightman (1816)

American Politician

Richard Hanson Weightman was an antebellum delegate to the United States Congress from the Territory of New Mexico. He was also a district commander of the secessionist Missouri State Guard...

26. Marvin Kent (1816)

American Politician

Marvin Kent was a railroad president and businessman from Portage County Ohio USA and namesake of the city of Kent Ohio which was previously known as Franklin Mills.

27. Joseph H. Ramsey (1816)

American Politician

Joseph Henry Ramsey was an American lawyer railroad executive and politician from New York.

28. Pierson B. Reading (1816)

American Politician

Pierson Barton Reading was a California pioneer.

29. Giovanni Morelli (1816)

Italian Art Critic

Giovanni Morelli was an Italian art critic and political figure. As an art historian he developed the Morellian technique of scholarship identifying the characteristic hands of painters through scrutiny of...

30. Francis Kernan (1816)

American Politician

s Kernan was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a U. S. Senator from 1875 to 1881.

31. Acton Smee Ayrton (1816)

British Politician

Acton Smee Ayrton was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician. Considered a radical and champion of the working classes he served as First Commissioner of Works under William Ewart...

32. Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow (1816)

American Politician

Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow was a Missouri Attorney General a high ranking border ruffian and one of the organizers of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Another man of the...

33. Benjamin Whitworth (1816)

British Politician

Benjamin Whitworth was an Irish politician who represented constituencies in Ireland at the United Kingdom Parliament in Westminster London.

34. Nelson K. Hopkins (1816)

American Politician

Nelson Kerr Hopkins was an American lawyer and politician.

35. Richard Wallach (1816)

American Politician

Richard Wallach was an American politician who served as the first Republican Mayor of Washington D. C.

36. Richard Franchot (1816)

Union United States Army Officer

Richard Franchot was a U. S. Representative from New York and then an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was also an executive of two...

37. Lord Alfred Paget (1816)

British Politician

Lord Alfred Henry Paget was a British soldier courtier and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1837 and 1865.

38. Richard Baggallay (1816)

British Politician

Sir Richard Baggallay PC was a British Conservative politician and judge of the Court of Appeal.

39. William W. Eaton (1816)

American Politician

Eaton was a United States Representative and United States Senator from Connecticut.

40. Louis-Joseph Moll (1816)

Canadian Physician And Politicia

Louis-Joseph Moll was a physician and political figure in Quebec. He represented Berthier in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1871 as a Conservative. He was born in...

41. Ekaterine Dadiani, Princess Of Megrelia (1816)

Last Ruling Princess Of The West

42. David Fullerton Robison (1816)

American Congressman For Pennsyl

David Fullerton Robison was an Opposition Party member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

43. Moritz Wiggers (1816)

German Politician

Moritz Karl Georg Wiggers German politician started out as a lawyer and a notary in his home town of Rostock. The Revolution of 1848 prompted him to enter public life...

44. Amos Graham (1816)

unknow

Amos Graham was the first Nodaway County Missouri clerk. The town of Graham Missouri is named for him. The town of Maryville Missouri is named for his wife Mary. He...

45. Samuel Lyon Russell (1816)

American Politician

Samuel Lyon Russell was a Whig member of the United States of America House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Samuel L. Russell was born in Bedford Pennsylvania in 1816. He attended...

46. John Salusbury-Trelawny (1816)

British Politician

Sir John Salusbury Salusbury-Trelawny 9th Baronet was a British Liberal politician. Salusbury-Trelawny sat as Member of Parliament for Tavistock between 1843 and 1852 and 1857 and 1865 and for Cornwall...

47. Christopher C. Cox (1816)

American Politician

Christopher C. Cox was a United States politician from Maryland. Born in Baltimore Cox was a member of the National Union Party a coalition of Democrats loyal to the Union...

48. Samuel M. Bubier (1816)

American Politician

Samuel Mansfield Bubier was a Massachusetts shoe manufacturer and politician who served as a member of the Board of Aldermen and as the 16th Mayor of Lynn Massachusetts.

49. William Sydney Wilson (1816)

American Politician

Sydney Wilson was a prominent Confederate politician. He was born in Worcester County Maryland and later moved to Mississippi. He was the son of Ephraim King Wilson and brother to...

50. William Y. Slack (1816)

Confederate Army General Lawyer

Yarnel Slack was a Missouri lawyer politician and general in the Missouri State Guard during the American Civil War. He led a division in some of war's earliest major battles...

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