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1811 births

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Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (1811-1886)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)

Évariste Galois

French mathematician (1811-1832)

William Makepeace Thackeray

British novelist (1811–1863)

Théophile Gautier

French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)

German chemist (1811-1899)

Vissarion Belinsky

Russian literary critic

The second Emperor of the French (1815)

Urbain Le Verrier

French astronomer (1811-1877)

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Argentinian politician and writer (1811-1888)

American businessman; inventor of the Singer sewing machine (1811-1875)

Maximilian II of Bavaria

King of Bavaria between 1848 and 1864 (1811–1864)

French politician and historian (1811-1882)

American politician and publisher (1811–1872)

John William Draper

British-American academic (1811-1882)

Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

German empress (1811-1890)

Auguste Bravais

French physicist (1811-1863)

Founder of Otis Elevator Co.

German writer (1811-1878)

Chang and Eng Bunker

Thai-American conjoined twin brothers

Karel Jaromír Erben

Czech archivist, poet, ethnographer, librettist, publicist, lawyer, translator and writer (1811–1870)

François Achille Bazaine

French general (1811-1888)

Ambroise Thomas

French composer

Jón Sigurðsson

leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement (1811-1879)

Judah P. Benjamin

American politician and lawyer (1811-1884)

Chinese politician and military commander (1811–1872)

Ferdinand Hiller

German composer and conductor (1811–1885)

Carlo Matteucci

Italian politician and physicist (1811–1868)

William Robert Grove

British judge and chemist (1811–1896)

American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874)

French painter (1811-1889)

Wendell Phillips

American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)

Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel

Dutch botanist (1811-1871)

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin

British nobleman, politician and diplomat (1811–1863)

Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye

French politician (1811-1883)

German mathematician (*1811 – †1874)

Princess Louise Amelie of Baden

Princess of Vasa (1811-1854)

Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern

Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1811–1885)

Czech christian missionary and saint (1811–1860)

George Gilbert Scott

English architect (1811–1878)

Carl Johan Thyselius

Swedish politician and prime minister 1883–1884 (1811–1891)

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll

French organ builder (1811–1899)

British Radical and Liberal statesman (1811–1889)

James Young Simpson

British obstetrician (1811–1870)

George Caleb Bingham

American artist (1811–1879)

German writer (1811-1889)

Katarina Ivanović

Serbian painter (1811–1882)

American paleontologist (1811-1898)

Kurmanjan Datka

Kyrgyzstani diplomat (1811-1907)

British classical scholar and administrator (1811–1898)

Chinese general (1811–1865)

Hugh Edwin Strickland

British geologist and zoologist (1811-1853)

Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

duchess consort of Anhalt-Bernburg (1811-1902)

Ditlev Gothard Monrad

Danish politician (1811–1887)

Italian priest and social reformer (1811-1860)

Prime Minister of New Zealand (1811-1887)

Adolphe d'Ennery

French Jewish dramatist and novelist (1811–1899)

Japanese politician (1811-1864)

Georg August Wallin

Finnish orientalist (1811–1852)

Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler

German theologian and politician who served as Bishop of Mainz (1811-1877)