* 1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1847 )

* 1775 – Daniel O ' Connell, Irish politician ( d. 1847 )

* 1847 – Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Italian wife of Amadeo I of Spain ( d. 1876 )

* 1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.

* 1786 – John Franklin, English navy officer and explorer ( d. 1847 )

* 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect ( d. 1906 )

* 1847 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician ( d. 1922 )

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

* 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1927 )

* 1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.

* 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author ( b. 1847 )

* Principality and Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen: 1396 – 1561 and 1603 – 1847

The Habsburgs founded a number of monasteries ( with some structures enduring, e. g., in Wettingen and Muri ), the closing of which by the government in 1841 was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war – the " Sonderbund War " – in 1847.

Stone ( 1847 – 1938 ), a leading American silversmith, was born, trained and worked in Sheffield, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland, before travelling to the United States in 1884.

Stone 1847 – 1938: Designer and Silversmith " by Elenita C. Chickering, 1994, Boston Athenaeum

* 1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.

* 1767 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal ( d. 1847 )

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

On 8 March 1873, at the urging of his father, the twenty-eight-year-old ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá married Fátimih Nahrí of Isfahán ( 1847 – 1938 ) a twenty-five-year-old noblewoman.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

#** Christine Charlotte Alexandrine Egypta Bonaparte ( 1798 – 1847 )

#*** Charles Albert Edmond Bonaparte ( 1843 – 1847 )

#* Prince Achille Murat ( 1801 – 1847 ), married Catherine Willis Gray ( 1803 – 1867 ), great-grandniece of George Washington.

On February 6, 1847, Juan married the Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, daughter of Duke Francis IV of Modena and Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy.

* 1824 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan ( d. 1847 )

Their long and happy marriage produced three children, Herbert ( b. 1849 ), Wilhelm ( b. 1852 ) and Marie ( b. 1847 ).

In 1847, after Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma's death, it passed again to the Bourbons, the last of whom was stabbed in the city and left it to his Widow, Luisa Maria of Berry.

* January 15 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan ( d. 1847 )

* Marie Duplessis ( 1824 – 1847 )

* Louise Marie Adélaïde Eugénie d ' Orléans ( 1777 – 1847 )

* Louise Marie Adélaïde Eugénie d ' Orléans ( 1777 – 1847 ), daughter of the above

Marie Louise of Austria ( Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Franziska Therese Josepha Lucia von Habsburg-Lothringen ; 12 December 1791 – 17 December 1847 ) was the second wife of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French and later Duchess of Parma.

Marie Louise died in Parma in 1847.

Daguerreotype of Marie Louise taken in 1847

Marie Louise fell ill on 9 December 1847.

* 22 June 1815 – 17 December 1847: Her Imperial Majesty The Empress Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla

* Marie Duplessis ( 1824 – 1847 ), French courtesan

The Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died young in 1847 inspired Dumas ' La Dame aux camélias and Verdi's La Traviata.

* Andoche Alfred Michel Junot, 3rd Duc d ' Abrantes ( Ciudad Rodrigo, 25 November 1810 – killed in action at Brescia, 19 July 1859 ), married firstly on 2 April 1845 Marie Céline Elise Lepic ( 9 October 1824 – 6 June 1847 ), and married secondly on 10 January 1853 Marie Louise Léonie Lepic ( 19 July 1829 – 17 August 1868 ), both sisters, daughters of Joachim Lepic, 1st Baron Lepic, and wife Anne-Marguerite Pasquier, and had:

She was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as Marie Catherine Sophie, Vicomtesse de Flavigny, the daughter of Alexander Victor François de Flavigny ( 1770 – 1819 ), a footloose émigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria Elisabeth Bethmann ( 1772 – 1847 ), a German banker's daughter.

Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy ( 16 December 1847 – 21 May 1923 ) was a commissioned officer in the French armed forces during the second half of the 19th century who has gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted in 1894 ( see Dreyfus affair ).

Tiarks married in Hamburg on 18 November 1899 Emmie ( Emmy ) Marie Franziska Brödermann of Hamburg, Germany ( 15 February 1875-27 July 1943 ), daughter of Eduard Matthias Brödermann ( Hamburg, 27 February 1842-Hamburg, 28 February 1904 ), merchant, and wife ( Hamburg, 3 May 1872 ) Ramona Luisa Clara Ignacia Störzel ( Grabow, 2 June 1852-Hamburg, 24 June 1939 ); paternal granddaughter of Carl Matthias Brödermann ( Hamburg, 28 April 1789-Eimsbüttel, 10 June 1854 ), a merchant, married firstly in Havana on 16 March 1828 Anna Oom ( Lisbon, 1 September 1787-Hamburg, 28 February 1837 ), and second wife ( Hamburg, 18 December 1838 ) Marianne Kunhardt ( Hamburg, 10 March 1815-Eimsbüttel, 23 February 1882 ) and maternal granddaughter of Heinrich Eduard Störzel ( Grabow, 26 September 1819-Hamburg, 2 April 1885 ) and wife ( Durango, Mexico, 15 December 1847 ) María Ramona Redo Balmaseda ( Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, 14 October 1830-Brannenburg, 23 October 1914 ); and great-granddaughter of Johann Hinrich Brödermann, Bürger and shipbroker, and wife Anna Senglemann, Georg Wilhelm Kunhardt and wife Anna Maria Schultz and Diego Redo and wife María Francisca Balmaseda.

By this mariage de Lesseps became the father of five sons: Charles Théodore de Lesseps ( 1838 – 1838 ), Charles Aimé de Lesseps ( 1840 – 1923 ), Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps ( 1842 – 1846 ), Ferdinand Victor de Lesseps ( 1847 – 1853 ) and Aimé Victor de Lesseps ( 1848 – 1896 ).

He married Anne Gouvion ( Toul, 2 November 1775-Paris, 18 June 1844 ) and had issue, including Laurent François, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr ( 30 December 1815-30 January 1904 ), married in Saint-Bouize on 17 August 1847 to Marie Adélaïde Bachasson de Montalivet ( 5 November 1828-14 April 1880 ), daughter of Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and had issue.

Prince Jules de Polignac, 3rd Duke of Polignac ( Auguste Jules Armand Marie ; ; 14 May 17802 March 1847 ), was a French statesman.

* Ferdinand Philippe Marie d ' Orléans, Duke of Alençon ( 12 July 1844 – 29 June 1910 ), who married Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria ( 1847 – 1897 ), sister of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria (" Sisi "), and who had been for a time engaged to Ludwig II of Bavaria ;

Louise Marie Adélaïde Eugénie d ' Orléans ( Paris, 23 August 1777 – Paris, 31 December 1847 ) was one of the twin daughters of Louis Philippe II d ' Orléans, known as Philippe Égalité during the French Revolution, and his wife, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre.