Famous people born in 1807
The best-known people born in 1807, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.
Best known
Giuseppe GaribaldiItalian general, patriot and republican (1807–1882)
July 4 · d. 1882
Photo: In album: Cartes-de-visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others, p. 15, right., Public domain
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAmerican poet and educator (1807–1882)
February 27 · d. 1882
Photo: Hanstaingl, Public domain
Robert E. LeeConfederate States general (1807–1870)
January 19 · d. 1870
Photo: Julian Vannerson, Public domain
Louis AgassizSwiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)
May 28 · d. 1873
Photo: William Shaw Warren, Public domain
Jules GrévyFrench statesman and lawyer (1807–1891)
August 15 · d. 1891
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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery (1807-1892)
December 17 · d. 1892
- Feodora of Leiningen
German princess (1807–1872); maternal half-sister of Queen Victoria
December 7 · d. 1872
- Hermann Burmeister
German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, and botanist (1807–1892)
January 15 · d. 1892
- Anthony Mary Claret
Spanish Roman Catholic bishop, missionary and saint (1807-1870)
December 23 · d. 1870
- Princess Cecilia of Sweden
princess of Sweden and Grand Duchess of Oldenburg (1807-1844)
June 22 · d. 1844
- Wilford Woodruff
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1807-1898)
March 1 · d. 1898
- Charles Francis Adams Sr.
American historical editor, politician and diplomat from Massachusetts (1807–1886)
August 18 · d. 1886
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January
- January 2 · Wilhelm Zimmermann, Württembergian Protestant theologian, university professor, historian, politician and poet (1807-1878)
- January 6 · Joseph Holt, Union Army general (1807-1894)
- January 11 · Ezra Cornell, American businessman (1807-1874)
- January 19 · Robert M. Charlton, American politician (1807-1854)
- January 27 · Émile Prisse d'Avennes, French egyptologist (1807-1879)
- January 28 · Robert John McClure, Royal Navy admiral and arctic explorer (1807–1873)
February
- February 2 · Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician (1807-1874)
- February 3 · Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington (1807-1884)
- February 4 · Giacomo Durando, Italian general and statesman (1807-1894)
- February 11 · Napoleon Orda, Polish artist (1807-1883)
- February 15 · Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Polish composer (1807–1867)
- February 17 · Ignatius Bryanchaninov, Russian Orthodox saint (1807-1867)
March
- March 1 · Franz Xaver Fieber, German botanist and entomologist (1807-1872)
- March 3 · Charles François Antoine Morren, Belgian botanist (1807-1858)
- March 7 · Joseph Decaisne, French botanist and agronomist (1807-1882)
- March 12 · James Abbott, British army officer and administrator in colonial India
- March 12 · Albert Mackey, U.S. writer on freemasonry (1807-1881)
- March 19 · Louis Felicien de Saulcy, French archaeologist (1807–1880)
April
- April 3 · Jane Digby, British aristocrat
- April 3 · Mary Carpenter, English educationist and social reformer (1807–1877)
- April 12 · Charles Rigault de Genouilly, French admiral (1807-1873)
- April 14 · Florian-Jules-Félix Desprez, French archbishop and catholic priest (1807-1895)
- April 20 · Wincenty Pol, Polish writer (1807–1872)
- April 26 · Charles Auguste Frossard, French general (1807–1875)
May
- May 1 · John B. Magruder, Confederate Army general (1807–1871)
- May 1 · František Zach, Czech general and warrior (1807–1892)
- May 2 · Fanny Geefs, Belgian painter (1807-1883)
- May 5 · Károly Kalchbrenner, Hungarian mycologist (1807-1886)
- May 10 · Bernhard Horwitz, German-British chess player (1807–1885)
- May 15 · Carl Wilhelm Böttiger, Swedish writer
June
- June 3 · Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld, Austrian naturalist (1807-1873)
- June 6 · Adrien-François Servais, Belgian composer (1807-1866)
- June 8 · Arnold Escher von der Linth, Swiss geologist (1807-1872)
- June 15 · Léon de Laborde, French politician, diplomat, archaeologist and botanical collector (1807–1869)
- June 23 · Théophile Thoré-Bürger, French journalist and art critic (1807-1869)
- June 29 · Moritz Abraham Stern, German mathematician (1807-1894)
July
- July 2 · Arthur Conolly, British intelligence officer (1807–1842)
- July 9 · Adolf Friedrich Stenzler, German indologist (1807-1887)
- July 14 · Ventura de la Vega, Argentine playwright and writer (1807-1865)
- July 19 · Hermann Loew, German entomologist (1807–1879)
- July 22 · Karolina Pavlova, Russian poet and writer (1807-1893)
- July 24 · Ira Aldridge, American-British stage actor (1807-1867)
August
- August 8 · Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (1807-1892)
- August 11 · David Rice Atchison, United States Senator from Missouri (1807–1886)
- August 12 · George Busk, surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist (1807-1886)
- August 19 · Jane Wells Webb Loudon, English science fiction writer and botanist (1807–1858)
- August 24 · Jules Verreaux, French biologist (1807-1873)
- August 31 · John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar, Irish politician (1807–1876)
September
- September 1 · Pieter Willem Korthals, Dutch botanist (1807–1892)
- September 2 · Fredrika Runeberg, Finland Swedish novelist, Finland's first female journalist (1807–1879)
- September 7 · Henry Sewell, 19th-century New Zealand politician (1807-1879)
- September 11 · Ignaz Lachner, German composer and conductor (1807-1895)
- September 20 · Giovanni Ruffini, Italian poet and opera librettist (1807-1881)
- September 28 · Arnaud Henri Guyot, Swiss-American geographer, paleontologist, meteorologist and naturalist (1807-1884)
October
- October 10 · Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician (1807-1864)
- October 21 · Napoléon Henri Reber, French composer (1807-1880)
- October 21 · Hilarión Eslava, Spanish composer and pedagogue (1807-1878)
- October 22 · Magnus Huss, Swedish doctor (1807-1890)
- October 28 · Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, German physician and biologist (1807-1882)
- October 30 · Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach, German botanist and entomologist (1807–1876)
November
- November 7 · Barbu Catargiu, Romanian politician (1807-1862)
- November 10 · Robert Blum, German democratic politician (1807-1848)
- November 14 · Auguste Laurent, French chemist (1807–1853)
- November 14 · Schelto van Heemstra, Dutch politician (1807-1864)
- November 15 · Peter Hardeman Burnett, American judge, governor of California, slave owner (1807–1895)
- November 26 · William Sidney Mount, American painter (1807-1868)
December
- December 4 · Sher Singh, Fourth Maharaja of the Sikh Empire from 1841–1843
- December 8 · Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German phycologist (1807-1893)
- December 13 · Giuseppe Pecci, Italian cardinal (1807-1890)
- December 13 · Joaquim Marques Lisboa, Brazilian admiral and noble (1807–1897)
- December 14 · Thomas William Webb, British astronomer and historian (1807-1885)
- December 21 · Ye Mingchen, Qing politician (1807-1859)
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