204 Year Old Celebrities
1. James Brown Winston (1820)
Doctor
James Brown Winston is a famous Doctor, who was born on May 26, 1820 in United States. American physician and politician who was the first-ever medical officer of Los Angeles,...
2. Louis Harvey (1820)
Politician
After serving during the early 1860s as Wisconsin's Secretary of State, this Whig-turned-Republican Party politician became the seventh Governor of Wisconsin. After only three months in office, he drowned in...
3. Friedrich Engels (1820)
German Political Philosopher
Sociopolitical theorist and philosopher who laid the foundation for Marxism. He wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1845.
4. Harry Hays (1820)
War Hero
Remembered best for leading the "Louisiana Tigers" infantry brigade in the American Civil War's 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, this Confederate Army general had previously served in the Mexican-American War.
5. George Hearst (1820)
American Politician
Remembered best as the father of publishing magnate and United States Representative William Randolph Hearst, George Hearst was a businessman and politician in his own right. He was a partner in...
6. Anna Sewell (1820)
British Writer
English novelist whose only published work, Black Beauty, is considered a classic of English children's literature. She was unable to enjoy the book's success due to the fact that she...
7. Susan B. Anthony (1820)
American Women's Rights Acti
Suffragette reformer who led protests for women's equality. She co-founded both the Women's Temperance Movement and the women's rights journal The Revolution.
8. Samuel Blatchford (1820)
American Judge
Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1882 to 1893.
9. Fanny Crosby (1820)
American Musician And Writer
American poet and composer who wrote over 8,000 hymns and gospel songs with over 100 million copies printed making her one of the most prolific hymnists in history.
10. George Frederick Root (1820)
Composer
George Frederick Root is a famous Composer, who was born on August 30, 1820 in United States. Known for composing war songs The First Gun is Fired and The Battle...
11. Johannes Rebmann (1820)
German Missionary And African Ex
German explorer and religious missionary who became the first European to locate Mt. Kilimanjaro.
12. Anne Brontë (1820)
English Novelist And Poet
British novelist and poet who is best remembered for Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). The latter work became known for its feminist themes.
13. Harriet Tubman (1820)
Civil Rights Leader
Escaped slave who became an abolitionist and Union spy during the Civil War and rescued over 300 slaves using the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses...
14. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820)
Non-fiction Author
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is a famous Non-Fiction Author, who was born on September 26, 1820 in India. An author and prominent figure of the Bengali Renaissance, he famously reformed the...
15. Florence Nightingale (1820)
English Nurse And Statistician
Celebrated British social reformer and statistician who is considered the founder of modern nursing. Later in her life, she worked in India studying the effects of sanitation in rural life...
16. Robert O'Hara-Burke (1820)
Explorer
Robert O'Hara-Burke is a famous Explorer, who was born on May 6, 1820 in Ireland. British officer who became an infamous explorer of Australia. According to Astrologers, Robert O'Hara-Burke's zodiac...
17. August Kekule (1820)
Chemist
Prominent German chemist who revolutionized chemistry by introducing chemical structure theory in 1857. His notable work was on the structure of benzene.
18. Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820)
Political Wife
Julia Gardiner Tyler is a famous Political Wife, who was born on May 17, 1820 in United States. The second wife of John Tyler, the tenth President of the United...
19. Jenny Lind (1820)
Opera Singer
Known as the Swedish Nightingale, this soprano opera singer became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1840.
20. Alice Cary (1820)
American Writer
An Ohio-born poet, she collaborated with her sister and fellow author, Phoebe Cary, on an 1849 collection of poems. She also published articles in such notable literary periodicals as the Atlantic...
21. William Tecumseh Sherman (1820)
American General Businessman Edu
Union general who took command of the western theater of the American Civil War in 1867. He is best known for implementing his scorched earth policies which burned down Atlanta...
22. William Loftus (1820)
British Archaeologist
English geologist, explorer, and archaeological excavation expert who discovered the ancient city of Uruk, Sumeria in 1849. He was at one point the assistant geologist for the Geological Survey of...
23. Celso Golmayo Zúpide (1820)
Spanish-cuban Chess Player
Celso Golmayo y Zúpide was a Spanish–Cuban chess master. He had been generally accepted as Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre.
24. Luigi Centurini (1820)
Italian Chess Player
Luigi Centurini was an Italian chess player and chess composer. In 1853 he published the pamphlet in Genoa titled Game of Chess. The endgame of rook and knight against rook...
25. Ezra Wheeler (1820)
American Politician And Judge
Ezra Wheeler was a U. S.
26. Alexander Ramsay-Gibson-Maitland (1820)
British Politician
Sir Alexander Charles Ramsay-Gibson-Maitland 3rd baronet was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. Ramsay-Gibson-Maitland was born Maitland-Gibson the son of Alexander...
27. Amory Holbrook (1820)
American Politician
Amory Holbrook was an American attorney and politician in the Oregon Territory. He was the first United States Attorney for the territory and later served as mayor of Oregon City...
28. Joseph-Charles Taché (1820)
Canadian Politician
Joseph-Charles Taché was a multi-faceted member of the Taché family a nephew of Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché. He was a student at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and followed this by...
29. William Hercules Hays (1820)
United States Federal Judge
Hercules Hays was a United States federal judge. Hays was born in Washington County Kentucky. He read law in 1845. He was in private practice of law in Springfield Kentucky...
30. Warren P. Noble (1820)
American Politician
Perry Noble was a U. S.
31. William C. Duncan (1820)
American Politician
Chamberlain Duncan was a brewer politician and mayor of Detroit Michigan.
32. Saul Samuel (1820)
Australian Colonial Merchant Mem
Sir Saul Samuel CMG KCMG CB was an Australian colonial merchant member of parliament pastoralist and prominent Jew. Samuel achieved many breakthroughs for Jews in the colonial community of New...
33. Pierre Charles Chesnelong (1820)
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Pierre Charles Chesnelong was a French politician born at Orthez in the départment of the Basses-Pyrénées.
34. John W. Longyear (1820)
American Judge
John Wesley Longyear was a politician and judge from the U. S. state of Michigan. Longyear was born in Shandaken New York. He pursued classical studies in the Lima Academy...
35. Acalus Lockwood Palmer (1820)
Canadian Politician
Acalus Lockwood Palmer QC was a Canadian politician lawyer and judge. Palmer was born in Sackville New Brunswick to Philip Palmer and Sarah Ayer. He was educated in Sackville studied...
36. Charles Henry Hardin (1820)
American Politician
Charles Henry Hardin was a politician and governor from Missouri and one of the eight founders of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
37. Charles Don (1820)
Australian Politician
Charles Jardine Don was a politician in colonial Victoria. Don was born in Coupar Angus Perthshire Scotland son of William Don and his wife Jeanette née Rattery. Don was apprenticed...
38. Albert Pell (1820)
British Politician
Albert Pell was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician.
39. Charles Estoppey (1820)
Swiss Politician
Charles Estoppey was a Swiss politician of the Free Democratic Party. Born in Payerne Charles Estoppey was the son of Jean-Daniel Estoppey a school teacher and married to Elisabeth Marguerite...
40. William Irvine (lawyer) (1820)
American Lawyer And Politician
Irvine was an American politician a United States Representative for New York's 28th district and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War.
41. Lorenzo W. Elder (1820)
American Politician
Lorenzo Welton Elder was an American physician and politician who served as the sixth mayor of Hoboken New Jersey from 1863 to 1864. Elder was born in Guilford New York...
42. Clement Vallandigham (1820)
American Lawyer And Politician
Clement Laird Vallandigham was an Ohio politician and leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War. He served two terms in the United States House...
43. Joseph-François Armand (1820)
Canadian Politician
Joseph-François Armand was a member of the Canadian Senate. Born Joseph-Flavien Armand in Rivière-des-Prairies Lower Canada he was a farmer before entering politics. In 1858 he was elected to the...
44. Walter L. Sessions (1820)
American Politician
Loomis Sessions was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
45. Nelson I. Norton (1820)
American Politician
sconsin politician see Nelson R. Norton. Nelson Ira Norton was an American politician and a United States Representative from New York.
46. John U. Pettit (1820)
American Politician
John Upfold Pettit was a U. S.
47. Carl Giskra (1820)
Austro-hungarian Politician
Carl Giskra was a statesman of the Austrian Empire.
48. Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (1820)
Canadian Politician
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau born in Charlesbourg near Quebec City was the first Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec following the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. He was...
49. Mountague Bernard (1820)
British Lawyer
Mountague Bernard was an English international lawyer.
50. Christopher Wolcott (1820)
Ohio Lawyer
Christopher Parsons Wolcott was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General 1856-1860 and First Assistant Secretary of War 1862-1863. Wolcott was born December 17...