1808 births

President of the United States from 1865 to 1869

President of the Second French Republic, Emperor of the Second French Empire and last monarch of France (1808–1873)

President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)

Algerian religious and military leader (1808–1883)

third President of the French Republic (1808–1893)

French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)

French artist (1808–1879)

King of Denmark from 1848 to 1863

French writer (1808-1889)

Spanish poet (1808-1842)

German painter (1808–1885)

Italian inventor and telephone pioneer (1808–1889)

German theologian (1808–1874)

German historian (1808–1884)

French critic, journalist, and novelist (1808-1890)

The third Shah of Iran Qajar (1834–1848)

Norwegian writer (1808–1845)

English ornithologist, author and museum curator (1808–1872)

Italian politician (1808–1873)

English founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son (1808–1892)

German-American socialist (1808–1871)

Spanish opera singer and composer

Bavarian aristocrat (1808-1892)

American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)

American politician and lawyer (1808–1873)

Irish composer (1808–1870)

youngest daughter and eighth child of Frederick William III of Prussia (1808–1870)

German mathematician (1808-1882)

English Catholic archbishop and cardinal (1808–1892)

American politician (1808–1893)

Czech poet, playwright, publicist, writer, historic literature writer and lyricist (1808-1856)

English feminist, social reformer, and author, editor (1808-1877)

Bavarian Royal (1808–1888)

Italian noblewoman, patriot, editor and philanthropist (1808–1871)

3rd President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (1808–1887)

Uruguayan politician (1808-1868)

Lebanese Maronite monk and saint (1808–1858)

King of Burma

Italian astronomer (1808–1873)

princess of Saxe-Wiemar-Eisenach by birth, and by marriage a princess of Prussia

Russian scientist (1808–1890)

Jewish theologian, Germany 19th century (1808–1888)

Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor (1808–1890)

Swiss jurist and politician (1808-1881)

German historical and landscape painter (1808-1880)

German-Chilean naturalist and palaeontologist (1808-1904)

President of Peru (1808–1887)

English civil servant and inventor (1808–1882)

Danish Princess; Duchess of Glücksburg (1808–1891)

German prince and general (1808-1870)

Scottish scientist (1808–1865)

Romanian politician and writer (1808-1868)

Hungarian writer, educator, memoirist, and women's rights activist (1808–1892)

Swedish painter (1808-1862)

German-French botanist (1808-1880)

Swedish journalist and writer (1808–1899)

British botanist (1808-1884)

German orientalist (1808–1889)

wife of Charles Darwin (1808-1896)

German art historian and artist (1808–1858)