1. Thomas Hancock (1786)

Inventor

British inventor credited as the founder of the British rubber industry. He is responsible for the invention known as the "masticator".

2. Carl Maria von Weber (1786)

Composer

Carl Maria von Weber is a famous Composer, who was born on November 18, 1786 in Germany. Remembered for such popular operas as Oberon, Euryanthe, and Der Freischütz, this Romantic...

3. Joseph Nicollet (1786)

French Geographer

French explorer of the upper Mississippi who recorded its landscape and native cultures.

4. Nicolás Bravo (1786)

President Of Mexico

Known for his battlefield heroics during the late 1840s United States Invasion of Mexico, he is also remembered as Mexico's eleventh President. He assumed the presidency in 1839 and was...

5. Wilhelm Grimm (1786)

German Writer

One half of The Brothers Grimm alongside his brother Jacob Grimm. The brothers are known for their beloved fairy tales such as Rumpelstiltskin and Hansel and Gretel. Their best known publication...

6. Friedrich Kuhlau (1786)

Danish Composer

Influential figure from the Danish Golden Age whose music for Elves' Hill ensured that he would be remembered for generations to come. He introduced Beethoven to the Copenhagen public.

7. Edward Coles (1786)

Governor Of Illinois

American politician who was an anti-slavery associate of Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe and served as the second Governor of Illinois from 1822 to 1826.

8. Louis McLane (1786)

American Politician

Member of the Federalist Party and Democratic Party who served in many different political positions in Delaware. He was also notably the 12th United States Secretary of State under President...

9. John Catron (1786)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 to 1865.

10. William Hovell (1786)

British Explorer

He became the co-leader, along with HHamilton Hume, of the infamous expedition of Eastern Australia.

11. Davy Crockett (1786)

American Politician

Tennessee woodsman known as the "King of the Wild Frontier" who was elected to Congress and died while fighting at the Alamo.

12. Rosalie Rendu (1786)

Religious Leader

Daughter of Charity who was a leading advocate for the poor of 19th-century Paris during the the Industrial Revolution.

13. Rudolph Schadow (1786)

Sculptor

Rudolph Schadow is a famous Sculptor, who was born on July 9, 1786 in Italy. German sculptor who made statues of female figures, including The Spinner and Putting on a...

14. William R. King (1786)

American Politician

American Democratic politician who served as 13th Vice President of the United States. He was only in office for six weeks before he passed away.

15. Henry Deringer (1786)

Entrepreneur

Inventor of the small, portable Deringer pistol. He saw his weapon become popular in Gold-Rush California.

16. John Franklin (1786)

Royal Navy Admiral

Famed arctic explorer who led Britain's largest expedition to seek the Northwest Passage and never came back from it.

17. Amos Lawrence (1786)

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Amos Lawrence was an American merchant and philanthropist.

18. Hugh Philp (1786)

Golf Club Maker

Hugh Philp was one of the most celebrated golf club makers of his era. Born in Cameron Bridge in Fife he moved to nearby St Andrews to establish a carpentry...

19. John Jones (1786)

Actor

20. Joachim Lelewel (1786)

Polish Historian And Politician

Joachim Lelewel was a Polish historian bibliographer polyglot and politician from a Polonized branch of a Prussian family.

21. William John Bankes (1786)

British Politician

John Bankes the second but first surviving son of Henry Bankes was a notable explorer Egyptologist and adventurer. He was a member of the Bankes family of Dorset and he...

22. George Holcombe (1786)

American Politician

George Holcombe was a United States Representative from New Jersey. Born in what was then West Amwell Township (now in part of Lambertville in Hunterdon County New Jersey he completed...

23. Francisco Narciso de Laprida (1786)

Argentine Politician

sco Narciso de Laprida was an Argentine lawyer and politician. He was a representative for San Juan at the Congress of Tucumán and its president on July 9 1816 when...

24. Andreas Londos (1786)

Greek Politician

Andreas Londos was a Greek military leader and politician.

25. George Gray Leiper (1786)

American Politician

George Gray Leiper was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. George Gray Leiper was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania the son of merchant Thomas Leiper. He...

26. George Morell (Michigan jurist) (1786)

American Judge And Politician

George Morell was an American lawyer and jurist. Born in Lenox Massachusetts Morell graduated from Williams College in 1807. He then studied law in Troy New York and was admitted...

27. Amos Abbott (1786)

American Politician

Amos Abbott was a United States Congressman from Massachusetts. Son of Jeduthan Abbott and Hannah Poor he was born in Andover Essex MA USAHe Married Ester West on Dec. 61812.

28. Joaquín Mora Fernández (1786)

President Of Costa Rica

Joaquín Mora Fernández was the provisional head of state of Costa Rica from 1 March to 17 April 1837.

29. Charles Augustus Tulk (1786)

British Politician

Charles Augustus Tulk was an English Swedenborgian and politician.

30. Ana María de Huarte y Muñiz (1786)

Empress Consort Of Mexico

Ana María Josefa Ramona de Huarte y Muñiz was the consort of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico. She was daughter of the nobleman Isidro Huarte provincial intendant and descendant...

31. José Ignacio Zenteno (1786)

Chilean General And Politician

José Ignacio Zenteno del Pozo y Silva was a Chilean soldier politician and hero of the Chilean War of Independence. Zenteno was born in Santiago the son of Antonio Zenteno...

32. Cyrus Beers (1786)

American Politician

Cyrus Beers was an American politician and a U. S. Representative from New York.

33. Christopher Hughes (diplomat) (1786)

American Diplomat

Christopher Hughes was an American attorney and diplomat who served as Chargé d'affaires in Sweden and The Netherlands in the 1820s and 1830s. He was the son in law of...

34. William H. Maynard (1786)

American Politician

Hale Maynard was an American lawyer newspaper editor and politician from New York.

35. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786)

Duchess Of Kent And Strathearn,

Princess Mary Louise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Princess of Leiningen Duchess of Kent and Strathearn was the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

36. Littleton Purnell Dennis (1786)

American Politician

Littleton Purnell Dennis was an American politician. Born at Beverly in Worcester County Maryland Dennis attended Washington Academy of Somerset County Maryland and graduated from Yale College in 1803. He...

37. Amédée Despans-Cubières (1786)

French General

General Amédée Louis de Cubières known as Despans-Cubières was a French general and politician.

38. Walerian Łukasiński (1786)

Polish Army Officer

Łukasiński was a Polish officer and political activist. Sentenced by Russian Imperial authorities to 14 years' imprisonment he was never released and died after 46 years becoming a symbol of...

39. Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786)

Canadian Politician

Louis-Joseph Papineau born in Montreal Quebec was a politician lawyer and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation. He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the...

40. Martin W. Bates (1786)

American Lawyer And Politician

Martin Waltham Bates was a lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party and then the Democratic Party who served in...

41. Charles de la Bédoyère (1786)

French General

Charles Angélique François Huchet Comte de la Bédoyère was a French General during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I who was executed in 1815. Descended from an old Breton family...

42. Richard Greaves Townley (1786)

British Politician

Richard Greaves Townley was an English Whig politician. He was elected at a by-election in November 1831 as a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire and held the seat until his...

43. George Lowther Thompson (1786)

British Politician

George Lowther Thompson was Member of Parliament for Haslemere and Yarmouth 1830-1831. His family was associated with Sheriff Hutton Park.

44. Joaquín Vicuña (1786)

Vice President Of Chile

José Joaquín Vicuña Larraín was a Chilean politician whose selection as vice president by Congress precipitated the Chilean Civil War of 1829. He was of Basque descent. Vicuña was from...

45. Alexander Chernyshyov (1786)

Russian General Diplomat And Sta

Alexander Ivanovich Chernyshyov General of Cavalry was a Russian military leader diplomat and statesman whose career began in Napoleonic Wars. After Battle of Austerlitz he performed successful diplomatic mission to...

46. William L. Marcy (1786)

American Politician

Learned Marcy was an American statesman who served as U. S. Senator and the 11th Governor of New York and as the U. S. Secretary of War and U. S....

47. Daniel Whittle Harvey (1786)

British Politician

Daniel Whittle Harvey was a Radical English politician who founded The Sunday Times newspaper and was the first Commissioner of the City of London Police. Harvey trained as a lawyer...

48. Joseph F. Wingate (1786)

American Politician

Joseph Ferdinand Wingate son of Joshua and Hannah Carr Wingate was a U. S. Representative from Maine. Born in Haverhill Massachusetts Wingate received a limited schooling. He engaged in the...

49. José Joaquín Prieto (1786)

President Of Chile

José Joaquín Prieto Vial was a Chilean military and political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1831 and 1841. José Joaquín Prieto was of Spanish and Basque descent.

50. Ichabod Bartlett (1786)

American Politician

Ichabod Bartlett was a United States Representative from New Hampshire.