Famous People Born In 1832

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Discover the most famous people born in 1832. The list includes people like Lewis Carroll, Édouard Manet, Gustave Eiffel, Louisa May Alcott, Wilhelm Wundt and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include poets, artists, political leaders and mathematicians born in 1832. This list includes people from United Kingdom, United States, France and many more countries.
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 1 
Louisa May Alcott
25
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 29th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: March 6, 1888
 2 
Lewis Carroll
(English Author Best Known for His Works: ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’ & Its Sequel ‘Through the Looking-Glass’)
Lewis Carroll
20
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 27th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Died: January 14, 1898
 3 
Gustave Eiffel
(French Civil Engineer Known for His Contribution to Building the ‘Statue of Liberty’ and ‘Eiffel Tower’)
Gustave Eiffel
11
Listed In: Civil Engineers
Birthdate: 15th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Dijon, France
Died: December 27, 1923
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Édouard Manet
(French Modernist Painter Known for His Work ‘The Luncheon on the Grass’ and ‘Olympia’)
Édouard Manet
4
Birthdate: 23rd January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris, Francece
Died: April 30, 1883
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Maximilian I of Mexico
(Emperor of Mexico from 1864 to 1867)
Maximilian I of Mexico
6
Listed In: Emperors & Kings
Birthdate: 6th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: June 19, 1867
 6 
Wilhelm Wundt
(Philosopher)
Wilhelm Wundt
2
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 16th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Mannheim, Germany
Died: August 31, 1920
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Mary Edwards Walker
(Surgeon, Feminist, Activist)
Mary Edwards Walker
2
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: 26th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Oswego
Died: February 21, 1919
 8 
Gustave Doré
(Artist Best Known for His Prolific Output of Wood-Engravings and Illustrated Texts)
Gustave Doré
1
Birthdate: 6th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Strasbourg, France
Died: January 23, 1883
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Mary Ann Cotton
(Serial Killer)
Mary Ann Cotton
50
Listed In: Serial Killers
Birthdate: 31st October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Low Moorsley, Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, England
Died: March 24, 1873
 10 
William Crookes
(British Chemist and Physicist Known for His Discovery of the Element 'Thallium' and Invention of 'Crookes Tubes')
William Crookes
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 17th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: London, England
Died: April 4, 1919
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
(Norwegian Writer and Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 8th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Kvikne, Norway
Died: April 26, 1910
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Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
2
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 30th September
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Kanpur, India
Died: November 14, 1914
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Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia
0
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 13th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Petergof, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: December 18, 1909
 14 
Tippu Tib
(Businessman)
Tippu Tib
0
Listed In: Explorers
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Zanzibar, Tanzania
Died: June 14, 1905
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John Brown Gordon
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 6th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Upson County, Georgia, United States
Died: January 9, 1904
 16 
Mary Fields
(Mail carrier)
Mary Fields
0
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Hickman County, Tennessee, United States
Died: 1914 AD
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Hudson Taylor
(Missionary)
Hudson Taylor
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 21st May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Barnsley, Yorkshire, England
Died: June 3, 1905
 18 
Caroline Harrison
(First Lady)
Caroline Harrison
0
Listed In: First Ladies
Birthdate: 1st October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Oxford, Ohio
Died: October 25, 1892
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Osman Nuri Pasha
(Military Commander)
Osman Nuri Pasha
0
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Tokat, Turkey
Died: April 5, 1900
Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
0
Birthdate: 15th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Hanover, Germany
Died: July 15, 1911
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Khurshidbanu Natavan
(One of the Best Lyrical Poets in Azerbaijan's History)
Khurshidbanu Natavan
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 6th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Shusha
Died: October 2, 1897
 22 
John George Nicolay
0
Listed In: Biographers
Birthdate: 26th February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Essingen, Rhineland-Palatinate
Died: September 26, 1901
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Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier
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Birthdate: 30th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Royal Palace of Madrid, Spain
Died: February 2, 1897
 24 
Philip Danforth Armour
0
Birthdate: 16th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Stockbridge, New York, United States
Died: January 6, 1901
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Sarah Boone
(Inventor)
Sarah Boone
0
Listed In: Inventors
Birthdate: 31st January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Craven County, North Carolina
Died: 1904 AD
 26 
Henry Steel Olcott
(Military Officer)
Henry Steel Olcott
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 2nd August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: City of Orange, New Jersey, United States
Died: February 17, 1907
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Ivan Shishkin
(Painter)
Ivan Shishkin
0
Listed In: Artists
Birthdate: 25th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Yelabuga, Russia
Died: March 20, 1898
 28 
Octave Chanute
(American Civil Engineer and Aviation Pioneer Known for Designing and Building the 'Hannibal Bridge')
Octave Chanute
1
Listed In: Engineers
Birthdate: 18th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: November 23, 1910
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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
(First to Break Through the Great Sea Ice Barrier of the Southeast Greenland Coast)
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
2
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 18th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Helsinki, Finland
Died: August 12, 1901
 30 
Juan Leon Mera
(Ecuadorian Novelist, Essayist, Painter, and Politician)
Juan Leon Mera
0
Listed In: Essayists
Birthdate: 28th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Ambato, Ecuador
Died: December 13, 1894
 31 
Howell Edmunds Jackson
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 8th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Paris, Tennessee, United States
Died: August 8, 1895
 32 
Juan Montalvo
(Ecuadorian Essayist and Author)
Juan Montalvo
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 13th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Ambato, Ecuador
Died: January 17, 1889
 33 
Leslie Stephen
(British Author, Critic, Historian, Biographer, and Mountaineer)
Leslie Stephen
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 28th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Kensington Gore, London, England
Died: February 22, 1904
 34 
Narcisa de Jesus
2
Listed In: Saints
Birthdate: 29th October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Nobol, Guayas, Ecuador
Died: December 8, 1869
 35 
Edwin Arnold
(British Poet and Journalist Known for His Work 'The Light of Asia')
Edwin Arnold
0
Birthdate: 10th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Gravesend, Gravesham, Kent, England
Died: March 24, 1904
 36 
Adele Spitzeder
0
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: 9th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: October 28, 1895
 37 
Amos Whitney
(American Mechanical Engineer and Inventor Who Co-founded the 'Pratt & Whitney Company')
Amos Whitney
0
Birthdate: 8th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Biddeford, Maine, United States
Died: August 5, 1920
 38 
Joseph Hayne Rainey
0
Birthdate: 21st June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Georgetown, South Carolina
Died: August 1, 1887
 39 
John Kirk
(Physician)
John Kirk
0
Listed In: Naturalists
Birthdate: 19th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Barry, Scotland
Died: January 15, 1922
 40 
Pavel Tretyakov
(Founder of the Moscow Merchant Bank)
Pavel Tretyakov
1
Listed In: Philanthropists
Birthdate: 27th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: December 16, 1898
 41 
Andrew Dickson White
0
Birthdate: 7th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Homer, New York
Died: November 4, 1918
 42 
Te Kooti
(Best Remembered for Launching the 'Ringatu' Religious Movement)
Te Kooti
0
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Poverty Bay, New Zealand
Died: 1893 AD
 43 
Edward Burnett Tylor
(British Anthropologist and the Founder of 'Cultural Anthropology')
Edward Burnett Tylor
0
Listed In: Anthropologists
Birthdate: 2nd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Camberwell, London, England
Died: January 2, 1917
 44 
Tomás Estrada Palma
(1st President of Cuba (1902 - 1906))
Tomás Estrada Palma
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 6th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Bayamo, Cuba
Died: November 4, 1908
 45 
Horatio Alger
3
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 31st January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States
Died: July 30, 1899
 46 
Michel Bréal
(Philologist)
Michel Bréal
0
Listed In: Philologists
Birthdate: 26th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Landau, Germany
Died: November 25, 1915
 47 
Ernest de Sarzec
(Archaeologist)
Ernest de Sarzec
0
Listed In: Archaeologists
Birthdate: 11th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Rennes, France
Died: May 31, 1901
 48 
George Herman Babcock
(Inventor, Engineer)
George Herman Babcock
0
Birthdate: 17th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Unadilla Forks, New York, United States
Died: December 16, 1893
Charles Russell, Baron Russell
0
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: 10th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: County Down, Ireland
Died: August 10, 1900
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Julius Sterling Morton
0
Birthdate: 22nd April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Adams, New York, United States
Died: April 27, 1902