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...