Famous people born in 1804

Best known

1. 
   Franklin Pierce

   president of the United States from 1853 to 1857

   November 23 · d. 1869

   Photo: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain
2. 
   Benjamin Disraeli

   British statesman (1804–1881)

   December 21 · d. 1881

   Photo: Cornelius Jabez Hughes, Public domain
3. 
   George Sand

   French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)

   July 1 · d. 1876

   Photo: Auguste Charpentier, Public domain
4. 
   Nathaniel Hawthorne

   American author (1804–1864)

   July 4 · d. 1864

   Photo: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain
5. 
   Ludwig Feuerbach

   German philosopher and anthropologist (1804–1872)

   July 28 · d. 1872

   Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
6. 
   Michael Glinka

   Russian composer (1804–1857)

   June 1 · d. 1857

   Photo: Sergey Lvovich Levitsky, Public domain
7. 
   Wilhelm Eduard Weber

   German physicist (1804–1891)

   October 24 · d. 1891

   Photo: Rudolph Hoffmann / Bernhard Petri, Public domain
8. 
   Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

   German mathematician (1804–1851)

   December 10 · d. 1851

   Photo: August Kaselowsky ; Giesecke u. Devrient (heliogr.), Public domain
9. 
   Richard Owen

   English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)

   July 20 · d. 1892

   Photo: Lock and Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington (see [1], Public domain
10. 
    Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

    French literary critic (1804–1869)

    December 23 · d. 1869

    Photo: Bertall, Public domain
11. 
    Johan Ludvig Runeberg

    Finland’s national poet, author of Finland’s national anthem, Swedish-speaking writer and poet (1804–77)

    February 5 · d. 1877

    Photo: Karl Warburg, 1852-1918, Public domain
12. 
    Mongkut

    King of Siam from 1851 to 1868

    October 18 · d. 1868

    Photo: John Thomson, CC0
13. 
    Johann Strauss I

    Austrian Romantic composer

    March 14 · d. 1849

    Photo: E. Linde & Co., Public domain
14. 
    Matthias Jacob Schleiden

    German botanist and philosopher (1804-1881)

    April 5 · d. 1881

    Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
15. 
    Emil Lenz

    Baltic German physicist (1804-1865)

    February 24 · d. 1865

    Photo: The original uploader was Bedrich at German Wikipedia ., Public domain
16. 
    Allan Kardec

    systematizer of Spiritism (1804–1869)

    October 3 · d. 1869

    Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
17. 
    Marie Taglioni

    Italian ballet dancer (1804-1884)

    April 23 · d. 1884

    Photo: Grévedon, Henri (Pierre Louis Grévedon, dit) (Paris, 17–10–1776 - Paris, 01–06–1860), dessinateur-li, CC0
18. 
    Eduard Mörike

    German poet (1804–1875)

    September 8 · d. 1875

    Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
19. 
    Eugène Sue

    French writer (1804-1857)

    January 26 · d. 1857

    Photo: François Gabriel Guillaume Lépaulle, Public domain
20. Napoleon Louis Bonaparte

    middle son of Louis I of Holland and Hortense de Beauharnais (1804–1831)

    October 11 · d. 1831

21. John Gould

    English ornithologist (1804–1881)

    September 14 · d. 1881

22. Alfonso La Marmora

    Italian general and statesman (1804-1878)

    November 18 · d. 1878

23. Alexei Khomyakov

    Russian philosopher (1804-1860)

    May 13 · d. 1860

24. Richard Cobden

    British Radical and Liberal statesman and manufacturer (1804-1865)

    June 3 · d. 1865

25. Hermann Schlegel

    German ornithologist and herpetologist (1804-1884)

    June 10 · d. 1884

26. Jane Irwin Harrison

    First Lady of the United States (1804-1846)

    July 23 · d. 1846

27. Stephan Endlicher

    Austrian botanist, linguist and numismatist (1804–1849)

    June 24 · d. 1849

28. Joseph Paxton

    English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament (1803-1865)

    August 3 · d. 1865

29. John Deere

    American blacksmith and manufacturer (1804–1886)

    February 7 · d. 1886

30. Moritz von Schwind

    Austrian painter (1804–1871)

    January 21 · d. 1871

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