Famous people born in 1818
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was the wife of America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln
John Henninger Reagan
John Henninger Reagan was a Senator from Texas and a prominent nineteenth century American politician
James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule was an English physicist, who studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work
Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod was one of the most brilliant French composers of the 19th century
Alexander II of Russia
Alexander II of Russia was the Emperor of Russia, as well as the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland, who reigned from March 1855 to March 1881
Alexander Bain - Philosopher
Alexander Bain was a well known educationalist and philosopher of Scotland
Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell was the first professional female astronomer in the United States
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a slave turned social reformer