* 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.

The property was wholly disencumbered in 1847 by Robert Cadell, the publisher, who cancelled the bond upon it in exchange for the family's share in the copyright of Sir Walter's works.

* Sir John Barrow, An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., Late of the Admiralty ( London, 1847 ).

Sir Robert Gordon died in 1847, and the lease on Balmoral reverted to Lord Aberdeen.

In 1847 the young British adventurer Sir Austen Henry Layard explored the ruins.

) ( 1847 ): Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton Richard Bentley

An important later example of 19th century Vampire fiction is the penny dreadful epic Varney the Vampire ( 1847 ) featuring Sir Francis Varney as the Vampire.

* 1847 – 73 Beginning of extensive Victorian restoration work ( Frederick S. Waller and Sir G. Gilbert Scott, architects ).

Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet | Sir George Cockburn was Ripon ( UK Parliament constituency ) | MP for Ripon from 1841 until 1847

The Life of Lord Palmerston up to 1847 was written by Lord Dalling ( Sir H. Lytton Bulwer ), volumes I and II ( 1870 ), volume III edited and partly written by Evelyn Ashley ( 1874 ), after the author's death.

* The War of the Axe, 1847: Correspondence between the governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Henry Pottinger, and the commander of the British forces at the Cape, Sir George Berkeley, and others.

In addition to his children with his wife, Sir William Wilde was the father of three children born out of wedlock before his marriage: Henry Wilson, born in 1838, and Emily and Mary Wilde, born in 1847 and 1849, respectively, of different parentage to Henry.

He served a seven-year apprenticeship with Sir Charles Barry, before starting a structural engineering practice in Oldham in 1847 that went on to become the pre-eminent mill architect firm in Lancashire.

Sir Harry Smith became governor of the Cape at the end of 1847.

He became assistant to Sir Henry Lawrence at Lahore in 1846, and in 1847 was appointed to raise the Corps of Guides.

William Edward Norris ( 18 November 1847 – 1925 ), English novelist, was the son of Sir W Norris, chief justice of Ceylon.

After recovering from malaria Leichhardt spent six weeks in 1847 examining the course of the Condamine River, southern Queensland, and the country between the route of another expedition led by Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1846 and his own route, covering nearly 1, 000 km.

In 1847 he married Charlotte Harriet Jane Lockhart, daughter of John Gibson Lockhart and granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, and, on her coming into possession of Abbotsford House six years later, he assumed the surname of Hope-Scott.

* The War of the Axe, 1847: Correspondence between the governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Henry Pottinger, and the commander of the British forces at the Cape, Sir George Berkeley, and others.

* The War of the Axe, 1847: Correspondence between the governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Henry Pottinger, and the commander of the British forces at the Cape, Sir George Berkeley, and others.