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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1780 January 5 Birth of Claire countess of Rémusat/Vergennes/French author (Salon). [1] January 10 Birth of M Heinrich C Lichtenstein German zoologist. [1] January 12 Birth of Wilhelm M L de Wette German exegetist/theologist. [1] January 14 Birth of Francois-Joseph Dizi composer. [1] February 2 Birth of Johannes van den Bosch Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies). [1] February 9 Birth of Walenty Karol Kratzer composer. [1] February 11 Birth of K v Günderode writer. [1] February 15 Birth of Carel Asser Dutch jurist. [1] February 19 Birth of Friedrich H von der Hagen German germanist (Nibelungenlied). [1] March 1 Birth of Léonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies Governor-General of Netherland Indies (1826-30). [1] March 10 Birth of Juan Jose Landaeta composer. [1] March 17 Birth of Thomas Chalmers first moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47). [1] March 27 Birth of August L Crelle German inventor/mathematician (first Prussian Railway). [1] April 7 Birth of William Ellery Channing US, Unitarian clergyman. [1] April 29 Birth of Charles Nodier French writer (La fée aux miettes). [1] May 10 Birth of Peter Lichtenthal composer. [1] May 14 Birth of Auguste De Polignac premier France (Réponse à mes adversaires). [1] May 21 Birth of Elizabeth Fry Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse. [1] May 22 Birth of Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek composer. [1] May 28 Birth of Joseph Frohlich composer. [1] June 3 Birth of William Hone England, author/bookseller (The Every-Day Book). [1] August 29 Birth of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres French painter (Valpincon Bather). [1] December 14 Birth of Karl Robert von Nesselrode German/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs. [1] December 23 Birth of Charles-Louis Panckoucke French publisher. [1] 1781 January 22 Birth of François-Antoine Habeneck composer. [1] January 26 Birth of Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn). [1] January 30 Birth of Adelbert von Chamisso writer. [1] February 17 Birth of René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec France, inventor (stethoscope). [1] February 18 Birth of Henry Martyn Truro, missionary. [1] March 11 Birth of Anthony Philip Heinrich composer. [1] March 13 Birth of Karl F Schinkel German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel). [1] March 17 Birth of Dominique J de Eerens Governor-General of Netherland Indies. [1] March 18 Birth of Gustave Vogt composer. [1] April 22 Birth of Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber composer. [1] May 14 Birth of Friedrich von Raumer German historian/parliamentarian. [1] May 24 Birth of Louis-François Dauprat composer/horn player. [1] May 25 Birth of Ferdinand archduke of Austria-Este/Governor-General (Sicily). [1] June 9 Birth of George Stephenson inventor (principal railroad locomotive). [1] July 5 Birth of Sir Stamford Raffles founded Singapore. [1] August 12 Birth of Robert Mills US, architect (Washington Monument). [1] October 1 Birth of James Lawrence naval hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!"). [1] November 29 Birth of Andres Bello Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas). [1] December 1 Birth of Charles Philippe Lafont composer. [1] December 11 Birth of Sir David Brewster Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope). [1] 1782 January 18 Birth of Daniel Webster in Salisbury NH; orator/politician/lawyer, dies 1852. [1] [5] January 20 Birth of Johan B J F S archduke of Austria. [1] January 29 Birth of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber French opera composer (Fra Diavolo). [1] Birth of Frantiszek Tucek Scigalski composer. [1] March 4 Birth of Johann Wyss Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson). [1] March 14 Birth of Thomas Hart Benton (Representative), "Old Bullion". [1] March 18 Birth of John Caldwell Calhoun Abbeville South Carolina, Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1829-37). [1] March 25 Birth of Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), sister of Napoleon). [1] April 14 Birth of Carlo Coccia composer. [1] April 21 Birth of Friedrich W A Fröbel Germany, educator (founded kindergarten). [1] April 26 Birth of Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily wife of Louis Phillip of Austria. [1] May 16 Birth of John Sell Cotman water color artist. [1] May 26 Birth of Joseph Drechsler composer. [1] May 28 Birth of Wouter J van Troostwijk Dutch painter. [1] October 9 Birth of Lewis Cass (Governor-Mich). [1] October 11 Birth of Steen Steensen Blicher Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw). [1] October 27 Birth of Niccolo Paganini Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca). [1] November 1 Birth of Viscount Goderich (Tory), British Prime Minister (1827-28). [1] December 5 Birth of Martin Van Buren Kinderhook New York, (Democrat) 8th President (1837-41). [1] 1783 January 12 Birth of Erik Gustaf Geijer Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen). [1] January 23 Birth of Stendahl [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et Le Noir). [1] January 29 Birth of Vasili A Zjukovski Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus). [1] February 9 Birth of Vasili A Zjukovski Russian folk poet/translator (Homer). [1] February 11 Birth of Jarena Lee famous African. [1] February 15 Birth of Johann Nepomuk Poissl composer. [1] March 8 Birth of Gottfied Wilhelm Fink composer. [1] Birth of Hannah Hoes Van Buren Kinderhook New York, wife of President Martin Van Buren (1837-41) (died 1819). [1] March 26 Birth of Johann Baptist Weigl composer. [1] April 3 Birth of Washington Irving New York City, New York, American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle). [1] April 8 Birth of John Claudius London England, horticulturist. [1] April 10 Birth of Hortense E de Beauharnais French queen of Netherlands (1806-10). [1] April 29 Birth of David Cox English painter (Treatise on landscape painting). [1] May 9 Birth of Alexander Ross Canada, pioneer/fur trader. [1] May 10 Birth of Niccola Benvenuti composer. [1] May 22 Birth of Thomas Forbes Walmisley composer. [1] June 19 Birth of Thomas Sully US portrait painter (Queen Victoria). [1] June 24 Birth of Johann Heinrich von Thünen economist/geographer/farmer. [1] July 24 Birth of Simón Bolívar freed six Latin American republics from Spanish rule. [1] August 7 Birth of John Heathcoat inventor (lace-making machinery). [1] September 27 Birth of Agustín I de Iturbide emperor of Mexico (1822-23). [1] December 11 Birth of Max von Schenkendorf German poet. [1] December 14 Birth of Johann Christoph Kienlen composer. [1] December 19 Birth of Charles-Julien Brianchon France, mathematician (Brianchon's theorem). [1] December 28 Birth of Robert Gallenberg composer. [1] 1784 January 1 Birth of William Beale composer. [1] January 27 Birth of Martin-Joseph Mengal composer. [1] January 28 Birth of George HG Earl of Aberdeen English Secretary of State. [1] January 29 Birth of Ferdinand Ries composer. [1] January 31 Birth of Carl Wilhelm Henning composer. [1] February 3 Birth of John Fane graaf van Westmorland English (opera)composer/diplomat. [1] February 20 Birth of Adam Black Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher. [1] February 27 Birth of Elias Annes Borger Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine). [1] Birth of Job Plimpton composer. [1] February 29 Birth of Franz von Klenze German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg). [1] March 25 Birth of François-Joseph Fétis Belgian musicology/composer. [1] April 5 Birth of Ludwig [Louis] Spohr Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust). [1] April 13 Birth of Cornelis Smit Dutch ship builder. [1] October 19 Birth of John McLoughlin Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country. [1] Birth of Leigh Hunt British writer (Lord Byron). [1] November 24 Birth of Zachary Taylor (Whig) 12th President (Mar 5,1849-July 9,1850). [1] December 1 Birth of François Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze composer. [1] December 30 Birth of Dorothea von Benckendorff Baltic monarch of Lieven. [1] 1785 January 4 Jakob Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany; linguist, published collection of German legends and a complete German grammar, worked on a complete German dictionary, he and brother Wilhelm known most for the Grimms' fairy tales. [1] [37] January 23 Birth of Carl A Agardh Sweden, botanist/bishop of Karlstad. [1] February 15 Birth of Claude Louis Marie Navier. [1] February 21 Birth of Karl A Varnhagen von Ense German officer/author (Die Sterner). [1] March 6 Birth of Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski composer. [1] March 7 Birth of Alessandro Manzoni Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed). [1] March 19 Birth of Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann composer. [1] March 22 Birth of Adam Sedgwick Dent Yorkshire England, British geologist. [1] March 27 Birth of Louis XVII pretender to the throne during the French Revolution (1793-95). [1] April 1 Birth of J H Ferdinand Olivier German painter. [1] April 4 Birth of Bettina Brentano composer. [1] Birth of Bettina von Arnim German writer (This Book Belongs to the King). [1] April 9 Birth of Sibrand Acker Stratingh Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835). [1] April 19 Birth of Alexandre Pierre François Boely composer. [1] April 26 Birth of John James Audubon Haiti, bird watcher/artist. [1] May 6 Birth of Arvir A Afzelius Swedish story teller. [1] May 9 Birth of James Pollard Espy Pennsylvania, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms). [1] July 20 Birth of Mahmud II Ottoman sultan, Westernizer, reformer. [1] August 15 Birth of Thomas De Quincey Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater). [1] August 19 Birth of Seth Thomas pioneer in mass production of clocks. [1] August 20 Birth of Oliver Hazard Perry US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy"). [1] August 23 Birth of Oliver Hazard Perry naval hero. [1] September 28 Birth of David Walker Wilmington North Carolina, a black born free. [1] October 15 Birth of José Miguel Carrera president of Chile (1811-14). [1] October 18 Birth of Thomas Love Peacock English author (Headlong Hall). [1] November 21 Birth of William Beaumont surgeon (studied digestion). [1] November 28 Birth of Achille-Charles duc de Broglie, French Prime Minister (1835-36). [1] 1786 January 3 Birth of Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider composer. [1] January 8 Birth of Nicholas Biddle made second bank of US first effective central bank. [1] January 26 Birth of Benjamin Robert Haydon Plymouth, painter (Waiting for The Times). [1] February 24 Birth of Wilhelm Karl Grimm Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales). [1] February 28 Birth of D François J Arago French astronomer/physicist/politician. [1] March 25 Birth of Giovanni B Amia Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist. [1] April 4 Birth of John Franklin British explorer (Arctic). [1] April 7 Birth of William Rufus DeVane King (Democrat) 13th US Vice President (1853). [1] April 18 Birth of Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee composer. [1] May 6 Birth of Ludwig Börne writer. [1] May 8 Birth of Thomas Hancock founded British rubber industry. [1] June 13 Birth of Winfield Scott American army general/presidential candidate. [1] August 17 Birth of Davy Crockett in USA; frontiersman/adventurer/politician. [1] [5] December 4 Birth of John LA Luyten Catholic Member of Dutch second parliament [or 12/14]. [1] December 5 Birth of Henry Drummond English banker/apostole. [1] December 20 Birth of Pietro Raimondi composer. [1] 1787 January 5 Birth of John Burke Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage). [1] January 8 Birth of Johann Ludwig Bohner composer. [1] January 31 Birth of Louis Angely Germany, comedy writer (Sieben Mädchen in Uniform). [1] February 13 Birth of James P Carrell composer. [1] February 16 Birth of Andreas Schelfhout Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer. [1] February 23 Birth of Emma Willard US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame). [1] March 6 Birth of Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum). [1] March 8 Birth of Karl Ferdinand von Grafe help create modern plastic surgery. [1] March 10 Birth of William Etty English painter (nudes). [1] March 16 Birth of Georg Simon Ohm physicist (discovered Ohm's Law). [1] March 17 Birth of George Simon Ohm physicist (discovered Ohm's Law). [1] April 26 Birth of Ludwig Uhland writer. [1] June 28 Birth of Sir Henry G W Smith leader of British-Indian forces. [1] August 24 Birth of James Weddell Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea). [1] November 21 Birth of Sir Samuel Cunard founder (first regular Atlantic steamship line). [1] December 1 Birth of Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov composer. [1] December 10 Birth of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Philadelphia Pennsylvania, pioneer of educating the deaf. [1] December 15 Birth of Charles Cowden Clarke English editor/Shakespearean critic. [1] December 22 Birth of Rasmus Rask Denmark, language scholar. [1] December 28 Birth of Hermanus J Abbring Dutch writer/engineer on Curaçao. [1] 1788 January 5 Birth of Kaspar Ett German organist/composer. [1] January 8 Birth of Erik Drake composer. [1] January 13 Birth of Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz composer. [1] January 22 Birth of Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron England, romantic poet (Don Juan). [1] February 5 Birth of Karoly Kisfaludy Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon). [1] Birth of Sir Robert "Bobbie" Peel British Prime Minister (1834-46), founded Tories. [1] February 6 Birth of Károly Kisfaludy Hungary, romantic poet (Tartars in Hungary-1819). [1] February 10 Birth of Johann Peter Pixis composer. [1] February 16 Birth of Juan van Halen Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer. [1] February 22 Birth of Arthur Schopenhauer Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist). [1] February 25 Birth of Mateo Ferrer composer. [1] March 1 Birth of Gheorghe Asachi Romania, writer/humanist/politician. [1] March 10 Birth of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff German poet (Das Marmorbild). [1] March 12 Birth of Pierre J David [David d'Angers], French sculptor. [1] April 5 Birth of Franz Pforr German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund). [1] April 12 Birth of Johann Erik Nordblom composer. [1] April 17 Birth of Joseph Gilbert Totten Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1864. [1] May 10 Birth of Augustin-Jean Fresnel optics pioneer/physicist. [1] May 16 Birth of Friedrich Rückert poet. [1] May 18 Birth of Hugh Clapperton Annan Scotland, African explorer. [1] May 26 Birth of ? Clark England, baby of Mary Clark born without a brain. [1] July 1 Birth of Jean-Victor Poncelet mathematician, founded projective geometry. [1] September 12 Birth of Alexander Campbell founded Disciples of Christ. [1] September 21 Birth of Margaret Smith Taylor first lady. [1] October 24 Birth of Sarah Josepha Hale author (Mary Had a Little Lamb). [1] December 18 Birth of Camille Pleyel Austria, piano builder/composer. [1] 1789 January 3 Birth of Carl G Carus German physician/psychologist/philosopher. [1] January 4 Birth of Benjamin Lundy philanthropist/abolitionist. [1] January 30 Birth of George Augustus Kollmann composer. [1] February 1 Birth of Hippolyte-André-Baptiste Chelard composer. [1] February 8 Birth of Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer composer. [1] February 15 Birth of Friedrich Fesca composer. [1] March 4 Birth of Pavel P Gagarin Russian monarch. [1] March 17 Birth of Edmund Kean London England, tragic actor (Shylock). [1] May 28 Birth of Bernard S Ingemann Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange). [1] August 21 Birth of Augustin-Louis Baron Cauchy, French mathematician. [1] September 15 Birth of James Fenimore Cooper first major American novelist (Prairie). [1] November 18 Birth of Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre developed a method of photography. [1] December 8 Birth of John Fawcett composer. [1] December 14 Birth of Maria Agata Szymanowska composer. [1]