Birth year 1808 celebrities

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Birth year 1808

Eugénie de Beauharnais Facts

Eugénie Hortense Auguste Napoléone, known as Eugénie de Beauharnais, princess of Leuchtenberg (22 December 1808, Milan – 1 September 1847, Freudenstadt) was a Franco-German princess. She was the second daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais and Prin

John Wise Facts

John Wise (February 24, 1808 – September 28, 1879?) was a pioneer in the field of ballooning. He made over 400 flights during his lifetime and was responsible for several innovations in balloon design. Among the things Wise is famous for was when h

Anna Caroline Oury Facts

Anna Caroline Oury, (née de Belleville), also known as Ninette de Belleville, Ninette von Belleville, or Ninette de Belleville-Oury, (24 June 1808 – 22 July 1880) was a German pianist and composer of French ancestry.

Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark Facts

Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark and Norway (Danish: Vilhelmine af Danmark; German: Wilhelmine von Dänemark) (18 January 1808, Kiel, Duchy of Schleswig – 30 May 1891 in Glücksburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia) was the youngest daughter of Fre

Samson Raphael Hirsch Facts

Samson Raphael Hirsch (June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together wi

Henry Edward Manning Facts

Henry Edward Manning (15 July 1808 – 14 January 1892) was an English Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and a cardinal.

Caroline Norton Facts

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an English feminist, social reformer, and author of the early and mid-nineteenth century. Caroline left her husband in 1836, following which her husband sued her close friend Lord M

Mary Anna Custis Lee Facts

Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1808 – November 5, 1873) was a third cousin and the wife of Robert E. Lee, the prominent career military officer who subsequently commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civi

Henry Osborne Facts

Henry Osborne (8 February 1803 – 26 February 1859) was an Australian pastoralist, collier and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1851 and 1856. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Asse

Gerard de Nerval Facts

Gérard de Nerval (22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855) was the nom-de-plume of the French writer, poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie.

Jefferson Davis Facts

Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi, the 23rd U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America during the America

Princess Marie of Saxe Weimar Eisenach Facts

Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (3 February 1808 in Weimar – 18 January 1877 in Berlin), was a princess of Saxe-Wiemar-Eisenach by birth, and by marriage a princess of Prussia. She was the daughter of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-We