* 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.

* May 21 – Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1847 )

* Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery ( 1847 – 1929 )

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, KG, PC ( 7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929 ) was a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister.

Archibald Philip Primrose was born in his parents ' house in Charles Street, London, on 7 May 1847.

Archibald Yell ( August 9, 1797 – February 22, 1847 ) was an American attorney and politician in Arkansas.

* Ranald MacDonald, a half-Chinook, born in Fort Astoria, Oregon, to Archibald McDonald, a Scottish Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, and Raven, chief Concomly's daughter, was the first Westerner to teach English in Japan, in 1847 – 1848, including educating Einosuke Moriyama, one of the chief interpreters that would later handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate

* Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa ( 1847 – 1938 )

* Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery ( 1847 – 1929 )

He was the father of Archibald Cochrane ( 1847 – 1952 ) and Sir Edward Owen Cochrane ( 1881 – 1972 ), both Rear-Admirals in the Royal Navy.

* Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor ( 1847 – 1911 )

Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor PC, DL, JP ( 13 February 1847 – 8 February 1911 ), styled Viscount Emlyn from 1860 to 1898, was a British Conservative politician.

Newton was elected to fill the vacanct seat in Congress after Archibald Yell resigned in 1847 to join the Army for the Mexican-American War.

* Sir Archibald Dunbar, 6th Baronet ( 1772 – 1847 )

* John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll ( 1777 – 1847 ) ( third and youngest son of the 5th Duke )

Lord Salisbury's second marriage on 29 April 1847 was to Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West, daughter of George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr and Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr, with whom he had five children:

* Henry Edward Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester ( 1847 – 1905 )

* Henry Cyril Percy Graves, 5th Baron Graves ( 1847 – 1914 )

His older brother, Ephraim Kirby Smith, a captain in the regular army, served with him in the 5th U. S. Infantry in both the campaign with Taylor and Scott, until he died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Molino del Rey in 1847.

* Henry Shore, 5th Baron Teignmouth ( 1847 – 1926 )

Mention should also be made of Handwörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache ( 5th ed., 1874 ); Römische Litteraturgeschichte ( 1847 ), of which only the introductory volume appeared ; an edition of the treatise Liber de Graecae linguae particulis ( 1835 – 1842 ) of Matthaeus Devarius ( or Devares ), a learned Corfiote ( c. 1500-1570 ), and corrector of the Greek manuscripts in the Vatican ; the posthumous Index Ciceronianus ( 1872 ) and Handbuch der lateinischen Stilistik ( 1874 ).