Famous people born in 1809

Best known

1. 
   Abraham Lincoln

   president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)

   February 12 · d. 1865

   Photo: Alexander Gardner, Public domain
2. Charles Darwin

   English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)

   February 12 · d. 1882

3. 
   Edgar Allan Poe

   American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)

   January 19 · d. 1849

   Photo: Unknown author Unknown author ; Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden, Public domain
4. 
   Felix Mendelssohn

   German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)

   February 3 · d. 1847

   Photo: Eduard Magnus, Public domain
5. 
   Alfred Tennyson

   British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)

   August 6 · d. 1892

   Photo: Julia Margaret Cameron / Adam Cuerden, Public domain
6. 
   Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

   French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)

   January 15 · d. 1865

   Photo: Nadar, Public domain
7. 
   William Ewart Gladstone

   British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)

   December 29 · d. 1898

   Photo: Samuel Alexander Walker, Public domain
8. 
   Louis Braille

   French organist and teacher (1809-1852), inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing text and music, used by people who are blind or visually impaired

   January 4 · d. 1852

   Photo: Henri Thiriat, Public domain
9. 
   Juliusz Słowacki

   Polish Romantic poet (1809–1849)

   September 4 · d. 1849

   Photo: James Hopwood the Younger, Public domain
10. 
    Oliver Wendell Holmes

    American poet and physician (1809–1894)

    August 29 · d. 1894

    Photo: Photographer unidentified / Notman Photo Co., Public domain
11. 
    Georges-Eugène Haussmann

    French official and politician (1809-1891)

    March 27 · d. 1891

    Photo: Unknown Unknown . Stitch and restoration by Jebulon, Public domain
12. 
    Hannibal Hamlin

    Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809–1891)

    August 27 · d. 1891

    Photo: Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.), photographer., Public domain
13. 
    Bruno Bauer

    German philosopher and theologian (1809–1882)

    September 6 · d. 1882

    Photo: unknown, must be dead for more than 70 years, Public domain
14. Joseph Liouville

    French mathematician and engineer (1809–1882)

    March 24 · d. 1882

15. Khachatur Abovian

    Armenian writer, activist, academic (1809-1848)

    October 15 · d. 1848

16. Mariano José de Larra

    Spanish romantic writer (1809-1837)

    March 24 · d. 1837

17. Hermann Grassmann

    German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)

    April 15 · d. 1877

18. Bettino Ricasoli

    Italian politician (1809–1880)

    March 9 · d. 1880

19. Joseph Jenkins Roberts

    President of Liberia (1809–1876)

    March 15 · d. 1876

20. Ljudevit Gaj

    Croatian academic, writer and politician (1809–1872)

    July 8 · d. 1872

21. Aleksey Koltsov

    Russian poet (1809–1842)

    October 15 · d. 1842

22. Edward FitzGerald

    English poet and translator (1809–1883)

    March 31 · d. 1883

23. Kit Carson

    American frontiersman and Union Army general (1809-1868)

    December 24 · d. 1868

24. Albert Pike

    American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general Associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Freemason (1809–1891)

    December 29 · d. 1891

25. Luigi Federico Menabrea

    Italian politician, scientist, and general (1809–1896)

    September 4 · d. 1896

26. Cyrus McCormick

    American inventor and businessman (1809–1884)

    February 15 · d. 1884

27. Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

    German physician (1809–1885)

    July 19 · d. 1885

28. Benjamin Peirce

    American mathematician (1809–1880)

    April 4 · d. 1880

29. Heinrich Hoffmann

    German psychiatrist and children's writer

    June 13 · d. 1894

30. James David Forbes

    Scottish physicist and glaciologist (1809–1868)

    April 20 · d. 1868

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