1770

January 25

• Birth of Francis Burdett British politician. [1]

January 26

• Birth of Alexander Carlyle Moderator of General Assembly. [1]

February 5

• Birth of Alexandre Brongniart Paris, mineralogist/geologist (Tertiary). [1]

February 18

• Birth of Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck composer. [1]

February 20

• Birth of Ferdinando Carulli composer. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek composer. [1]

February 26

• Birth of Antoine Reicha composer. [1]

March 13

• Birth of Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 pounds (334 kg) at death). [1]

March 20

• Birth of Johann Friedrich Hölderlin Tübingen Germany, lyric poet (Der Rhein, Andenken). [1]

March 25

• Birth of Carl Friedrich Ebers composer. [1]

March 28

• Birth of Sophie Mereau writer. [1]

April 7

• Birth of William Wordsworth England, poet laureate (The Prelude). [1]

April 11

• Birth of George Canning (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1827). [1]

April 14

• Birth of George Canning London, British Prime Minister (1827). [1]

April 28

• Birth of Nikita P Panin Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs. [1]

April 30

• Birth of David Thompson English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River). [1]

May 10

• Birth of Louis Nicholas Davout French field marshall (defeated Prussians). [1]

May 19

• Birth of Antoine-Charles Glachant composer. [1]

June 7

• Birth of Earl of Liverpool (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1812-27). [1]

August 1

• Birth of William Clark Charlottsville Virginia, second lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]

August 27

• Birth of Georg Wilhelm F Hegel German philosopher/inventor (dialectic). [1]

November 19

• Birth of Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion). [1]

December 13

• Birth of John Clarke-Whitfeld composer. [1]

December 16

• Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven Bonn Germany, composer (Ode to Joy). [1]

December 17

• Birth of Johann Friedrich Schubert composer. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Pierre earl de Cambronne French general (Waterloo, Elba). [1]

1771

January 17

• Birth of Charles Brockden Brown father of American novel (Wieland). [1]

January 21

• Birth of Arnold A Buyskes Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director. [1]

January 26

• Birth of Jacob Andries van Braam colonial director (Suriname). [1]

February 9

• Birth of Daniel Belknap composer. [1]

February 18

• Birth of Friedrich Christian Ruppe composer. [1]

February 24

• Birth of Johann Baptist Cramer German/British pianist/composer/publisher. [1]

February 28

• Birth of French Jozef Kinsoen Flemish portrait painter. [1]

March 1

• Birth of Armand-Emmanuel Trial composer. [1]

March 10

• Birth of Georg F Creuzer German philological/historian (Idea und Probe). [1]

March 22

• Birth of Heinrich D Zschokke Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf). [1]

April 13

• Birth of Adam FJA van der Duyn Dutch Governorernor (South Holland). [1]
• Birth of Richard Trevithick Illogan Cornwall England, inventor (steam locomotive). [1]

April 19

• Birth of Giuseppe Cartufo composer. [1]

April 29

• Birth of Matthaus Stegmayer composer. [1]

May 1

• Birth of George Guest composer. [1]

May 14

• Birth of Robert Owen England, factory owner/socialist. [1]

May 26

• Birth of Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin German saloon owner/author. [1]

June 12

• Birth of Patrick Gass Falling Springs Pennsylvania, sgt of Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]

June 24

• Birth of E I Du Pont France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont). [1]

August 15

• Birth of Sir Walter Scott Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake). [1]

November 6

• Birth of Alois Senefelder inventor (lithography). [1]

November 11

• Birth of Ephraim McDowell surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery). [1]

December 25

• Birth of Dorothy Wordsworth. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Heinrich J von Collin Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus). [1]

1772

January 4

• Birth of Paul-Louis Courier (de Méré), French writer/interpreter. [1]

February 9

• Birth of Frans Mikael Franzén Finnish-Swedish poet (Abo). [1]

February 22

• Birth of Joseph Lipavsky composer. [1]
• Birth of Karl Jacob Wagner composer. [1]

February 26

• Birth of Caspar Furstenau composer. [1]

March 10

• Birth of Friedrich von Schlegel Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde). [1]

March 27

• Birth of Giovanni Liverati composer. [1]

March 30

• Birth of Johann Wilhelm Wilms composer. [1]

April 1

• Birth of Ignaz Franz von Mosel composer. [1]

April 7

• Birth of F M Charles Fourier French socialist. [1]

April 11

• Birth of Manuel José Quintana Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo). [1]

April 19

• Birth of David Ricardo economist. [1]

May 2

• Birth of Novalis writer. [1]

May 11

• Birth of Henri-Jean Rigel composer. [1]

May 20

• Birth of William Congreve English officer (design fire rocket). [1]

September 27

• Birth of Sándor Kisfaludy Hungary, poet/Austrian army (1793-1801). [1]

October 21

• Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in England; poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) (dies 1834). [1] [5]

December 7

• Birth of Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz composer. [1]

1773

January 4

• Birth of Johann Peter Heuschkel composer. [1]

January 5

• Birth of Pieter Fontijn Dutch painter/drawer. [1]

February 2

• Birth of Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek composer. [1]

February 9

• Birth of William Henry Harrison Virginia, (Whigs) 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841). [1]

February 22

• Birth of Matthijs I van Bree Flemish (court)painter. [1]

March 4

• Birth of Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges composer. [1]

March 7

• Birth of Tommaso Marchesi composer. [1]

March 26

• Birth of Nathaniel Bowditch mathematician/astronomer/polyglot/author (Marine Sextant). [1]

April 6

• Birth of James Mill Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India). [1]

April 22

• Birth of Jean V baron de Rebecque Swiss/Dutch army leader. [1]

April 24

• Birth of Harman W Muntinghe lawyer/Dutch colonial director. [1]

May 3

• Birth of Giuseppe Acerbi Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat. [1]

May 15

• Birth of Clemens L Metternich Austrian prince. [1]

May 26

• Birth of Hans Georg Nageli composer. [1]

May 31

• Birth of Ludwig Tieck writer. [1]

June 13

• Birth of Thomas Young proponent of the wave theory of light. [1]

December 24

• Birth of Joseph Wolfl composer. [1]

December 27

• Birth of George Cayley England, found science of aerodynamics. [1]

1774

January 24

• Birth of Karl Moser composer. [1]

February 15

• Birth of W G Frederik prince of Orange. [1]

February 16

• Birth of Pierre Rode composer. [1]

February 17

• Birth of Raphaelle Peale US, painter (After the Rain-1823). [1]

March 5

• Birth of Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse composer. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Matthew Flinders English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia). [1]

March 20

• Birth of John Braham composer. [1]

April 17

• Birth of Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek organist/pianist/composer. [1]

April 21

• Birth of Jean-Baptiste Biot French physicist/astronomer (balloonist). [1]

April 28

• Birth of Francis Baily describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse. [1]

May 7

• Birth of Sir Francis Beaufort naval officer; devised wind force scale. [1]

May 27

• Birth of Francis Beaufort Admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale). [1]

June 21

• Birth of Daniel D Tompkins (Democrat-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25). [1]

August 12

• Birth of Robert Southey English poet laureate, biographer of Nelson. [1]

August 14

• Birth of Meriwether Lewis Charlottsville Virginia, capt of Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]

August 28

• Birth of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton first American Catholic saint. [1]

September 17

• Birth of Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages). [1]

September 26

• Birth of John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman (dies 1847). [1] [5]

December 20

• Birth of Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes composer. [1]

December 30

• Birth of Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek Dutch historian/literary [or December 31]. [1]

1775

January 20

• Birth of Andre-Marie Ampere Lyon France, discovered electromagnetism. [1]

January 21

• Birth of Manuel Garcia composer. [1]

January 27

• Birth of Friedrich von Schelling Germany, philosopher (Views on Christianity). [1]
• Birth of Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez García Spanish tenor/composer. [1]

January 30

• Birth of Walter Savage Landor Warwick England, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation). [1]

February 5

• Birth of Margaretha J de Neufville author (Small Pligten). [1]

February 9

• Birth of Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai Hungary, mathematician (parallel axiom). [1]

February 10

• Birth of Charles Lamb London England, critic/poet/essayist. [1]

February 12

• Birth of Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams wife of John Quincy Adams. [1]

February 18

• Birth of Thomas Girtin London, artist/watercolorist. [1]

April 7

• Birth of Francis C Lowell founded first raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill. [1]

April 8

• Birth of Adam A earl von Neipperg Austrian General/Napoleon's wife Marie lover. [1]

April 11

• Birth of Charles-François Dumonchau composer. [1]

April 21

• Birth of Alexander Anderson US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare). [1]

April 22

• Birth of Georg Hermes German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen). [1]

April 23

• Birth of Joseph Mallord Turner England, landscape painter (Shipwreck). [1]

May 1

• Birth of Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn composer. [1]

May 21

• Birth of Lucien Bonaparte prince of Canino/Musignano. [1]

July 25

• Birth of Anna Symmes Harrison first lady. [1]

December 6

• Birth of Nicolas Isouard composer. [1]

December 16

• Birth of François-Adrien Boieldieu composer. [1]
• Birth of Jane Austen England, novelist (Pride and Prejudice). [1]

December 25

• Birth of Antun Sorkocevic composer. [1]

December 30

• Birth of Heinrich Carl Ebell composer. [1]

1776

January 6

• Birth of Ferdinand von Schill Prussian officer/rebel. [1]

January 24

• Birth of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann German writer/judge/composer (Undine). [1]

February 11

• Birth of Joannis Capodistrias Greek Governor of Troezen (1827-31). [1]

February 18

• Birth of John Parry composer. [1]

February 21

• Birth of Vincenzo Lavigna composer. [1]

February 23

• Birth of John Walter II London, chief proprietor (The London Times, 1812-47). [1]

March 10

• Birth of Luise queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Johan G Verstolk van Soelen Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs. [1]

April 8

• Birth of Thaddaus Weigl composer. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Joan M Kemper Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book). [1]

May 4

• Birth of Johann Friedrich Herbart Germany, philosopher/psychologist. [1]

May 7

• Birth of Dániel Berzsenyi [Hungarian Horatius], Hungarian poet. [1]

May 10

• Birth of George Thomas Smart composer. [1]

May 12

• Birth of Juan Bros y Bertomel composer. [1]

May 13

• Birth of Charles Ots composer. [1]
• Birth of Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa composer. [1]

June 11

• Birth of John Constable England, landscape painter (Hay Wain). [1]

August 9

• Birth of Amedeo Avogadro Tuin Italy, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23 (Avogadro's Law). [1]

November 14

• Birth of Henri Dutrochet discovered and named process of osmosis. [1]

December 6

• Birth of Paul Friedrich Struck composer. [1]

December 29

• Birth of Charles Macintosh Scotland, patented waterproof fabric. [1]

1777

January 1

• Birth of Micah Hawkins composer. [1]

January 2

• Birth of Christian D Rauch German sculptor. [1]

January 3

• Birth of Louis Poinsot French instrument worker. [1]
• Birth of M A Elisa Bonaparte Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino. [1]

January 8

• Birth of Filippo Traetta Italy, composer/musicologist. [1]

January 25

• Birth of Elias Canneman Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14). [1]

March 9

• Birth of Alexander Orlowski Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist. [1]

March 17

• Birth of Roger Brooke Taney Calvert Maryland, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision). [1]

March 19

• Birth of Anton R Falck Dutch minister of Education/diplomat. [1]

April 12

• Birth of Henry Clay [the Great Compromiser] US politician. [1]

April 18

• Birth of Ignac Ruzitska composer. [1]

April 22

• Birth of Henry Clay the great compromiser. [1]

April 30

• Birth of Carl Friedrich Gauss Brunswick Germany, one of the world's great mathematicians (number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, gravitation). [1]

May 4

• Birth of Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens composer. [1]

May 28

• Birth of Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees composer. [1]

August 14

• Birth of Hans Christian Oersted Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law). [1]

October 18

• Birth of Heinrich von Kleist Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea). [1]

December 2

• Birth of Henry Doeff colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary). [1]

December 14

• Birth of Juan N Gallego Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo). [1]

December 16

• Birth of Janos Fusz composer. [1]

December 23

• Birth of Aleksandr I P Romanov Tsar of Russia (1801-25). [1]

1778

January 5

• Birth of Fortunato Santini composer. [1]

January 13

• Birth of Anton Fischer composer. [1]

January 24

• Birth of Charles F duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X. [1]

January 26

• Birth of Ugo Foscolo Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis). [1]

January 31

• Birth of Franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat Austrian premier of Bohemia (1848). [1]

February 4

• Birth of Augustin P de Candolle Swiss botanist (Théorie élémentaire). [1]

February 6

• Birth of Ugo Foscolo Italy, writer/poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis). [1]

February 12

• Birth of Franz Joseph Volkert composer. [1]

February 13

• Birth of Fernando Sor composer. [1]

February 14

• Birth of Fernando Joseph Maria Sor composer. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Rembrandt Peale portrait/historical painter (Court of Death). [1]

February 25

• Birth of José Francisco de San Martín liberated Argentina, Chile and Perú. [1]

March 8

• Birth of Friedrich August Kanne composer. [1]

April 6

• Birth of Joseph Funk composer. [1]

April 10

• Birth of William Hazlitt Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic. [1]

May 8

• Birth of Johann Gansbacher composer. [1]

May 28

• Birth of Friedrich Westenholz composer. [1]

June 7

• Birth of George Bryan "Beau" Brummel in London, England; English dandy. [1] [241.9]

August 11

• Birth of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement. [1]

August 18

• Birth of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen first to circumnavigate Antarctica. [1]

August 20

• Birth of Bernardo O'Higgins won independence for Chile. [1]

December 15

• Birth of Godert AGP baron van der Capellen Dutch Governor-General (Dutch-Indies). [1]

December 17

• Birth of Sir Humphrey Davy discovered several chemical elements. [1]

December 19

• Birth of Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Juan Lovera Venezuela, artist. [1]

1779

January 5

• Birth of Stephen Decatur US, naval hero (War of 1812). [1]
• Birth of Zebulon Montgomery Pike explorer (Pike's Peak). [1]

January 8

• Birth of John White composer. [1]

January 15

• Birth of Jean Coralli Paris, ballet producer/choreographer. [1]

January 18

• Birth of Peter Roget thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard). [1]

January 22

• Birth of Stefano Pavesi composer. [1]

February 5

• Birth of Frans van Campenhout Belgian vocalist/composer (Brabançonne). [1]

February 21

• Birth of Friedrich C von Savigny German lawyer. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Joachim Nicolas Eggert composer. [1]

February 28

• Birth of Augustus Callcott landscape painter, Kensington. [1]

March 1

• Birth of Jacob Gottfried Weber composer. [1]

March 6

• Birth of Philipp Roth composer. [1]

March 13

• Birth of Oliver Shaw composer. [1]

March 15

• Birth of William Lamb (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834, 1835-41). [1]

March 21

• Birth of Alexis Garaude composer. [1]

March 28

• Birth of Angelo Maria Benincori composer. [1]

April 11

• Birth of Louise Reichardt composer. [1]

April 21

• Birth of William Knyvett composer. [1]

May 2

• Birth of John Galt Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd). [1]

May 25

• Birth of Henry M Baron de Kock Dutch officer/politician. [1]

July 15

• Birth of Clement Clarke Moore US, author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas). [1]

August 1

• Birth of Francis Scott Key composer (Star-Spangled Banner). [1]

August 7

• Birth of Carl Ritter cofounder of modern science of geography. [1]

September 18

• Birth of Joseph Story Massachusetts, US Supreme Court justice (1812-45). [1]

November 14

• Birth of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager Denmark, poet (National Poet 1849). [1]

December 1

• Birth of Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov composer. [1]

December 14

• Birth of Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma composer. [1]

December 18

• Birth of Joseph Grimaldi England, pantomimist ("greatest clown in history"). [1]

December 19

• Birth of Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers Paris France, engraver. [1]