1802 births

French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)

French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)

Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)

Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)

Hungarian politician (1802–1894)

Hungarian mathematician (1802–1860)

German poet and novelist (1802–1827)

Austrian poet (1802-1850)

Russian fleet commander

Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself.

British scientist and inventor (1802–1875)

King of Portugal from 1828 to 1834

French scientist (1802–1857)

French general and politician (1802-1857)

Austrian archduke (1802-1878)

French preacher and journalist (1802-1861)

French chemist

German chemist and physicist (1802–1870)

German naturalist (1802–1879)

Italian linguist (1802-1874)

Austrian zoologist (1802-1884)

American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)

German-French astronomer and painter (1802-1866)

English painter (1802-1873)

American author and social reformer (1802–1887)

British painter (1801-1828)

Austrian railway designer (1802–1860)

Swiss chemist (1802–1850)

President of Mexico (1851–1853)

French politician and journalist (1802-1881)

Academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician (1802-1872)

British poet and novelist (1802–1838)

Bosnian Muslim general (1802–1834)

German philosopher, philologist, Prussian university professor (1802-1872)

diocesan Bishop, philosopher and theologian (1802-1865)

last Elector of Hesse-Kassel

Scottish publisher and writer (1802–1871)

Polish-Chilean geologist and educator (1802–1889)

German philosopher and political writer (1802–1880)

French archaeologist (1802–1870)

Belgian composer and violinist (1802–1870)

French civil engineer (1802–1873)

Princess of France (1802-1839)

German linguist (1802–1887)

American government official; United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 (1802–1878)

Polish poet (1802–1886)

Regent of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1802–1858)

prime minister of Greece with Arvanite origin (1802-1877)

academic, member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino since 1853 (1802–1868)

President of Mexico (1853)

British botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist and cleric (1802-1874)

French explorer and entomologist (1802–1880)

regent of the Sikh Empire

French Army general and statesman, also Marshal of France (1802-1869)

British poet, translator, editor, writer (1802–1852)

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1802-1881)

German duchess (1802–1864)

French bishop (1802-1878)

composer (1802-1861)

Italian composer (1802–1870)