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<html> <head> <title>Born in 1806</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Born in 1806 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/768/000141345/">Arunah Shepherdson Abell</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1888</tt></td> <td>The Baltimore Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000163802/">Alexander Dallas Bache</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1867</tt></td> <td>First President, National Academy of Sciences</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000031940/">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1861</tt></td> <td>Sonnets from the Portuguese</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000162462/">Isambard Kingdom Brunel</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1859</tt></td> <td>Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/437/000097146/">Augustus De Morgan</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jun-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1871</tt></td> <td>De Morgan's Laws</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/447/000209817/">William P. Fessenden</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1869</tt></td> <td>Senator from Maine, Treasury Secretary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/325/000102019/">Edwin Forrest</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1872</tt></td> <td>19th. c. American actor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000050295/">John Parker Hale</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1873</tt></td> <td>Anti-slavery US Senator from NH</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000101811/">André van Hasselt</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1874</tt></td> <td>Quatre Incarnations du Christ</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000091672/">Benito Juárez</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1872</tt></td> <td>President of Mexico, 1861-72</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000118417/">Preston King</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1865</tt></td> <td>US Senator, committed suicide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/147/000093865/">Charles James Lever</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-1872</tt></td> <td>Charles O'Malley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/393/000166892/">Matthew Fontaine Maury</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jan-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Feb-1873</tt></td> <td>Father of modern oceanography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/147/000030057/">John Stuart Mill</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1873</tt></td> <td>Liberal philosopher and essayist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/769/000127388/">Jane Pierce</a></td> <td><center>First Lady</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1863</tt></td> <td>Wife of US President Franklin Pierce</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/735/000096447/">Leonidas Polk</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1864</tt></td> <td>Confederate general</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/424/000031331/">John Roebling</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-1869</tt></td> <td>Began construction of Brooklyn Bridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000086897/">Max Stirner</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1856</tt></td> <td>Existential German nihilo-anarchist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/184/000097890/">Agnes Strickland</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1874</tt></td> <td>Lives of the Queens of England</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/988/000114646/">Nathaniel Parker Willis</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1867</tt></td> <td>Pencillings by the Way</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=105490" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/375/000001372/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/375/1372/s1372.jpg" width=128> Hollywood Super Families</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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