1812 births

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

English poet and playwright (1812–1889)

Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)

Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary (1812–1870)

German astronomer (1812-1910)

British artist, illustrator, author and poet (1812-1888)

vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875

Norwegian forester, writer, children's writer, and collector of fairy tales (1812–1885)

Scottish author (1812-1904)

Iranian Azerbaijani playwright and literary critic

Polish poet (1812–1859)

French painter (1812–1867)

German author (1812–1882)

German philosopher (1812–1875)

Wāli of Egypt from 1848 to 1854

French princess (1832-1850); queen consort of the Belgians

Polish novelist (1812–1887)

Queen Consort of the Two Sicilies (1812-1836) and Blessed

Belgian author (1812-1883)

Italian chemist (1812–1888)

Italian historian and politician (1812-1866)

Empress consort of Brasil (1812–1873)

vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1812–1883)

English architect and designer (1812–1852)

Swiss composer and pianist (1812–1871)

wife of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1812–1863)

Austrian landscape and architectural painter (1812-1905)

German composer (1812–1883)

Scottish politician and civil servant (1812–1860)

British politician (1812-1862)

French architect and building restorer (1812–1884)

Serbian politician (1812-1874)

German chemist (1812–1885)

French soldier and politician (1812-1895)

Russian chemist (1812-1880)

Qing dynasty general (1812-1885)

German entrepreneur and inventor (1812–1887)

valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1861 to 1876

French politician (1812-1888)

American politician (1812–1873)

Irish natural historian (1812-1898)

Russian and Ukrainian slavic academic

noblewoman; Welsh translator and business woman (1812-1895)

President of Mexico (1812-1863)

British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer (1812–1898)

French zoologist (1812–1870)

19th-century Italian anatomist

French physician and educationist (1812-1880)

Filipina revolutionary (1812-1919)

Belgian politician (1812-1896)

Czech violinist, composer and violist (1814-1865)

Russian and Ukrainian poet (1812-1848)

Italian poet and politician (1812-1878)

Norwegian linguist and philologist (1812-1895)

British botanist

Hungarian countess (1812-1841)

Danish politician (1812–1888)

Amateur calculator, school owner

Danish politician and mathematician (1812–1893)

German philologist and folklorist (1812–1881)