1790

January 9

• Birth of Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom Swedish poet (Lycksalighetens). [1]

January 19

• Birth of Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna). [1]

February 11

• Birth of Ignaz Assmayer composer. [1]

February 16

• Birth of Chretien Urhan composer. [1]

February 18

• Birth of Marshall Hall Basford Nottinghamshire, physician. [1]

March 15

• Birth of Nicola Vaccai composer. [1]

March 29

• Birth of John Tyler Charles County Virginia, (D/W) 10th President (1841-1845). [1]

March 30

• Birth of Joseph Smith Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877. [1]

April 30

• Birth of John Cockerill English/Belgian industrialist. [1]

May 6

• Birth of Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer. [1]

May 12

• Birth of [Johannes] Carsten Hauch Danish writer. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville explorer. [1]

October 21

• Birth of Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine Macon France, writer (René). [1]

November 12

• Birth of Letitia Christian Tyler first wife of President Tyler. [1]

November 17

• Birth of August Ferdinand Mobius mathematician, inventor (Mobius strip). [1]

December 19

• Birth of Sir William Parry England, Arctic explorer. [1]

December 23

• Birth of Jean-François Champollion deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics. [1]

1791

January 6

• Birth of Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer composer. [1]

January 8

• Birth of Jacob Collamer (Senator-Vermont). [1]

January 14

• Birth of Calvin Phillips became shortest known adult male (67cm; 2'2"). [1]

January 15

• Franz Grillparzer born in Vienna, Austria; dramatist. [1] [37]

January 28

• Birth of Louis-J-Ferdinand Hérold France, opera composer (Zampa). [1]

February 1

• Birth of Charles J Sax Belgian music instrument builder. [1]

February 12

• Birth of Jan D Zocher Jr Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark Amsterdam). [1]
• Birth of Peter Cooper industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union). [1]

February 20

• Birth of Carl Czerny Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen). [1]

March 6

• Birth of Anna Claypoole Peale painted miniatures. [1]

March 9

• Birth of George Hayward US, surgeon, first to use ether. [1]

March 31

• Birth of Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki composer. [1]

April 12

• Birth of Francis Preston Blair newspaper editor (Washington Globe). [1]

April 13

• Birth of Félix Earl de Merode Belgian minister of War/Finance. [1]

April 23

• Birth of James Buchanan Cove Gap Pennsylvania, (Federalist/Democrat), 15th US President (1857-61). [1]
• Birth of W Friedrich Olivier German landscape painter/cartoonist. [1]

April 24

• Birth of Nikolaj A Bestuzhev Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland). [1]

April 27

• Birth of Samuel Finley Breece Morse in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; painter/inventor (telegraph). [1] [129]

May 11

• Birth of Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek composer. [1]

May 15

• Birth of Baron Floris A van Hall Dutch minister of Justice/Finance. [1]

May 29

• Birth of Pietro Romani composer. [1]

June 9

• Birth of John Howard Payne US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home). [1]

September 1

• Birth of Lydia Sigourney US, religious author (How to Be Happy). [1]

September 5

• Birth of Giacomo Meyerbeer Vogelsdorf Germany, composer (Golt Und Die Natur). [1]

September 22

• Birth of Michael Faraday discovered principle of electric motor. [1]

October 1

• Birth of Sergey Aksakov Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family). [1]

October 26

• Birth of Charles Sprague Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity). [1]

December 4

• Birth of Johann Gottlob Topfer composer. [1]

December 9

• Birth of Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner composer. [1]

December 24

• Birth of A Eugène Scribe French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton). [1]

1792

January 1

• Birth of Henrik A Bjerregaard Norwegian writer/poet (Sønner af Norge). [1]

January 8

• Birth of Lowell Mason Medfield Massachusetts, organist/composer (Zebulo). [1]

January 12

• Birth of Robert Patterson Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881. [1]

January 21

• Birth of Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma Fries story teller (Rhymes and Tales). [1]

February 12

• Birth of Ferdinand de Braekeleer Belgian painter. [1]

February 23

• Birth of Istvan Ferenczi Hungarian sculptor. [1]

February 27

• Birth of Don Joaquin B F Espartero Spanish adventurer/field marshal. [1]

February 28

• Birth of Henriette countess d'Oultremont de Wégimont wife of King Willem I. [1]
• Birth of Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer Estonian/German embryologist. [1]

February 29

• Birth of Gioacchino Rossini Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville). [1]
• Birth of Karl Ernst von Baler Russia, naturalist (discovered human ovum). [1]

March 7

• Birth of John Herschel in Slough, England; William Herschel's son, astronomer. [1] [5]

April 4

• Birth of Thaddeus Stevens US Radical Republican congressional leader (Representative-R). [1]

April 12

• Birth of John George Lambton London, statesman (first Earl of Durham). [1]

April 25

• Birth of John Keble Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement). [1]

April 30

• Birth of Johann Friedrich Schwencke composer. [1]

May 13

• Birth of Pius IX "Pio Nono" [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Pope (1846-78). [1]

July 10

• Birth of George Mifflin Dallas (Democrat) 11th Vice President (1845-49). [1]

August 4

• Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley England, romantic poet (Adonais). [1]

August 18

• Birth of John first Earl Russell, British Whig Prime Minister (1846-52, 1865-66). [1]

September 27

• Birth of George Cruikshank England, illustrator for Charles Dickens. [1]

October 16

• Birth of Francisco Morazán (L) president of Central America (1830-40). [1]

November 13

• Birth of Edward John Trelawney England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son). [1]

November 26

• Birth of Sarah Moore Grimké American antislavery, women's rights advocate. [1]

December 1

• Birth of Nikolay Lobachevsky mathematician. [1]

December 6

• Birth of Abraham J van de Aa lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary). [1]
• Birth of Willem II Frederik King of Netherlands (1840-49). [1]

December 12

• Birth of Alexandros Ypsilanti Greek resistance fighter. [1]

December 19

• Birth of [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter Cape Colony, settled Transvaal. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Charles Babbage English inventor (calculating machine). [1]

December 29

• Birth of Archibald Alison Scottish historian (History of Europe). [1]

1793

January 3

• Birth of Lucretia Coffin Mott US, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist. [1]

January 15

• Birth of Ferdinand G Waldmüller Austrian painter. [1]

January 18

• Birth of William Henry Havergal composer. [1]

February 6

• Birth of Pietro Rovelli composer. [1]

March 2

• Birth of Sam[uel] Houston first president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44). [1]

March 3

• Birth of Charles Sealsfield writer (The Making of America). [1]

March 6

• Birth of Bernhard Joseph Klein composer. [1]

March 11

• Birth of Jan F Willems Flemish writer/philologist. [1]

March 12

• Birth of Augustin-Philippe Peellaert composer. [1]

April 1

• Birth of Edouard Corbière French captain/writer (Le negrier). [1]

April 11

• Birth of Nicolaas C Kist Dutch church historian/archivist. [1]

April 12

• Birth of Ferdinand I the Good Natured, Emperor of Austria/king of Hungary. [1]

April 15

• Birth of Friedrich Struve Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers. [1]

May 9

• Birth of Johannes C de Jonge Dutch historian/archivist. [1]

July 13

• Birth of John Clare Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar). [1]

November 3

• Birth of Stephen Fuller Austin colonized Texas. [1]

November 10

• Birth of Jared Kirtland US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries. [1]

November 30

• Birth of Johann Lukas Schonlein helped establish scientific medicine. [1]

December 11

• Birth of Pietro Coppola composer. [1]

December 15

• Birth of Henry Charles Carey Philadelphia Pennsylvania, economist (Principles of Poli Economy). [1]

December 26

• Birth of Franz Hunten composer. [1]

1794

January 6

• Birth of Kaspar Masek composer. [1]

January 17

• Birth of Eilhardt Mitscherlich in Neuende, Germany; professor of chemistry at the University of Berlin, discovered selenic acid, the monoclinic crystal form of sulfur, and was the first to synthesize nitrobenzene. [37]

February 21

• Birth of Antonio López de Santa Anna President of México (1833-36). [1]

February 25

• Birth of Gerrit Schimmelpenninck Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam. [1]

March 5

• Birth of Jacques Babinet French physicist/mathematician/astronomer. [1]

April 9

• Birth of Theobald Böhm flautist/composer. [1]

April 10

• Birth of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry opened Japan. [1]

April 11

• Birth of Edward Everett Dorchester Massachusetts, (Governor-Massachusetts), statesman/orator. [1]

April 12

• Birth of Germinal P Dandelin Belgian mathematician (geometry). [1]

May 17

• Birth of Anna Brownell Jameson Dublin, writer. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles composer. [1]

May 24

• Birth of William Whewell British philosopher (History of Inductive Science). [1]

May 27

• Birth of Cornelius Vanderbilt millionaire (B and O railroad). [1]

July 5

• Birth of Sylvester Graham developed graham cracker. [1]

November 3

• Birth of William Cullen Bryant poet (Thanatopsis). [1]

December 10

• Birth of James Wolfe Ripley Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1870. [1]

1795

January 15

• Birth of Willem de Clerq Dutch merchant/man of letters. [1]

January 18

• Birth of Anna Paulowna Romanova monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I. [1]

February 8

• Birth of Friedlieb F Runge German chemist (Chinoline). [1]
• Birth of Moritz G [Moses] Saphir Hungarian journalist/serial writer. [1]

February 10

• Birth of Ary Scheffer Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Charles Niellon Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign). [1]

February 18

• Birth of George Peabody South Danvers Massachusetts, merchant/philanthropist. [1]

February 21

• Birth of Francisco Manuel da Silva composer. [1]

March 14

• Birth of Rubert Lucas Pearsall composer. [1]

March 23

• Birth of Leopold Jansa composer. [1]

April 5

• Birth of Sir Henry Havelock British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39). [1]

April 19

• Birth of Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg German zoologist. [1]

April 21

• Birth of Vincenzo Pallotti Italian saint. [1]

April 28

• Birth of Charles Sturt England, explorered Australia. [1]

May 7

• Birth of Gerhard M Roentgen industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord). [1]

May 10

• Birth of Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry historian. [1]

May 13

• Birth of Joshua Ratoon Sands Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883. [1]

May 15

• Birth of Adolf B Marx German music theorist. [1]

May 19

• Birth of Johns Hopkins philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Charles Barry architect. [1]

October 31

• Birth of John Keats London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn). [1]

November 2

• Birth of James Knox Polk in North Carolina, USA; 11th USA President (1845-1849). [1] [5]

December 3

• Birth of Sir Rowland Hill introduced first adhesive postage stamp (1840). [1]

December 4

• Birth of Thomas Carlyle Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution). [1]

December 8

• Birth of Jacques François Gallay composer. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Thomas Ainsworth English/Netherlands industrialist (Twentse textile). [1]

December 23

• Birth of Philippe Vandermaelen Flemish cartographer (Atlas Universel). [1]

1796

January 21

• Birth of John Gelinde van Blom Frisian notary/author. [1]

January 25

• Birth of William McGillivray Old Aberdeen, naturalist. [1]

February 17

• Birth of Giovanni Pacini composer. [1]

February 20

• Birth of Eduard W van Dam van Isselt Dutch military/liberal politician. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Adolphe Quetelet Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician. [1]

February 29

• Birth of [Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet Belgian astronomer/meteorology. [1]

April 24

• Birth of K L Immermann writer. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Auguste-Matthieu Panseron composer. [1]

April 30

• Birth of Isaäc M "Isaac A" Crémieux French lawyer/minister of Justice. [1]

May 4

• Birth of Horace Mann US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools). [1]
• Birth of Joseph Pannell Taylor Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1864. [1]

May 9

• Birth of August Pauly German classicus (Real Encyclopedia). [1]

May 17

• Birth of Martinus J Niewindt bishop of Curaçao (christen slaves). [1]

May 21

• Birth of Reverdy Johnson representative (Union), died in 1876. [1]

July 6

• Birth of Nicholas I Russia, Tsar (1825-55). [1]

July 15

• Birth of Thomas Bulfinch mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology). [1]

July 18

• Birth of Feargus O'Connor County Cork, leader of the English Chartists. [1]

July 24

• Birth of John Middleton Clayton Delaware, (Senator-Del)/US Secretary of State (1849-50). [1]

July 26

• Birth of George Catlin US, author/painter of American Indian scenes. [1]

December 9

• Birth of Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley composer. [1]

December 19

• Birth of Manuel Breton de los Herreros Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright. [1]

1797

January 4

• Birth of Wilhelm Beer in Berlin, Germany; amateur astronomer, constructed first Moon map. [1] [37]

January 10

• Annnette von Droste-Hülshoff is born in Hülshoff, Germany; writer, poet. [1] [37]

January 30

• Birth of Edwin Vose Sumner Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Franz Peter Schubert Lichtenthal Austria, composer (Unfinished Symphony). [1]

February 6

• Birth of Joseph Maria von Radowitz Prussian minister of Foreign affairs. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Henry Engelhard Steinway piano maker (Steinway). [1]

February 22

• Birth of William I Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88). [1]

February 24

• Birth of Samuel Lover composer. [1]

February 28

• Birth of Mary Lyon US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame). [1]
• Birth of W Frederik K prince of Netherlands/General/Admiral (10 day campaign). [1]

March 7

• Birth of Karl Schwencke composer. [1]

March 22

• Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm I German emperor (1871-88). [1]

March 24

• Birth of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity). [1]

March 25

• Birth of John Winebrenner US, clergyman, founded Church of God. [1]

March 27

• Birth of Alfred V Comte de Vigny French musketeer/writer (Moïse, Chatterton). [1]

April 10

• Birth of Claude Ambroise Seurat Troyes France, (World's skinniest man). [1]

April 14

• Birth of Adolphe Thiers first President of third French Republic (1871-77). [1]

April 17

• Birth of Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque Belgian composer/conductor. [1]

April 18

• Birth of Louis-Adolphe Thiers President of France. [1]

April 30

• Birth of Andreas V Michiels Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra. [1]

May 12

• Birth of Johann Hermann Kufferath composer. [1]

May 18

• Birth of Frederik Augustus II King of Saxon (1836-54). [1]

May 30

• Birth of Johann Christian Lobe composer. [1]

June 24

• Birth of John Hughes archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx. [1]

August 30

• Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley London England, author (Frankenstein). [1]

September 16

• Birth of Sir Anthony Panizzi Librarian at the British Museum. [1]

November 14

• Birth of Sir Charles Lyell Scotland, geologist (Principles of Geology). [1]

December 3

• Birth of Francis P Kenrick Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore. [1]

December 11

• Birth of Hiram Paulding rear-admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878. [1]

December 13

• Birth of Heinrich Heine Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt). [1]

December 17

• Birth of Joseph Henry US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism. [1]

December 19

• Birth of Josef Theodor Krov composer. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Hans Skramstad composer. [1]

1798

January 6

• Birth of Ferdinand Simon Gassner composer. [1]

January 14

• Birth of Isaac da Costa Dutch writer/lawyer. [1]
• Birth of Johan R Thorbecke Premier of Netherlands (Liberal-1849-72). [1]

January 15

• Birth of Thomas Crofton Croker Irish story teller (Fairy legends). [1]

January 19

• Birth of Auguste Comte philosopher/founder (sociology and positivism). [1]

January 24

• Birth of Karl von Holtei Silesian actor/playwright (Die Vagabunden). [1]
• Birth of Karl von Staudt German math professor (projective geometrician). [1]

January 29

• Birth of Henry Neele London, poet. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Karl Gottlieb Reissiger composer. [1]

February 6

• Birth of Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny French painter/etcher. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Charles Mynn Thruston Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1873. [1]

March 4

• Birth of John Joseph Abercrombie Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877. [1]

March 13

• Birth of Abigail Powers Fillmore first lady-Millard Fillmore (1850-53). [1]

April 2

• Birth of Hoffmann von Fallersleben writer. [1]

April 3

• Birth of Charles D Wilkes Commander (Union Navy), died in 1877. [1]

April 8

• Birth of Dionysios Solomos poet. [1]

April 9

• Birth of Giuditta Pasta [Negri] soprano. [1]

April 19

• Birth of Franz Joseph Glaser composer. [1]
• Birth of Heinrich Maria von Hess historical painter. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Ferdinand Eugène Delacroix French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal). [1]

May 14

• Birth of Frantisek Palacky Czechoslovakia, historian. [1]

May 18

• Birth of Ethan Allen Hitchcock Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870. [1]

May 28

• Birth of Josef Dessauer composer. [1]

October 12

• Birth of Pedro I first emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal. [1]

November 1

• Birth of Sir Benjamin Lee Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor. [1]

December 24

• Birth of Adam B Mickiewicz Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz). [1]

1799

January 6

• Birth of Jedediah Strong Smith US fur trader/explorer. [1]

January 7

• Birth of Daniel Tyler Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882. [1]

February 4

• Birth of Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret Portuguese playwright. [1]

February 5

• Birth of John Lindley English botanist (Elements of Botany). [1]

February 28

• Birth of Johann von Döllinger German Old Catholic theologian/historian. [1]

March 1

• Birth of Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky composer. [1]

March 7

• Birth of Frantisek L Celakovsky Czechoslovakian poet (national anthem, folk song). [1]

March 8

• Birth of Simon Cameron Secretary of War (Union), died in 1889. [1]

March 22

• Birth of F W A Argelander Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars. [1]

March 28

• Birth of Karl Adolph von Basedow German artist (Ziekte van Basedow). [1]

March 29

• Birth of Edward Stanley Earl Derby (Conservative), British Prime Minister (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68). [1]

April 5

• Birth of Vincenzo Fioravanti composer. [1]

April 13

• Birth of Heinrich F L Rellstab German music theorist. [1]
• Birth of Joseph Rastrelli composer. [1]

April 22

• Birth of Jean Poiseuille physician/physiologist (blood pressure). [1]

May 20

• Birth of Honoré de Balzac France, novelist (Pere Goriot, Human Comedy). [1]

May 23

• Birth of Thomas Hood English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt). [1]

May 26

• Birth of Alexander S Pushkin Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin). [1]
• Birth of August Kopisch German writer (Die Heinzelmännchen von Köln). [1]

May 27

• Birth of Jacques-François-Fromental-Elle Halevy [Elie Levy], composer. [1]

June 6

• Birth of Aleksandr Sergeyevich Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit. [1]
• Birth of Alexandr Pushkin Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 Old Style). [1]

June 18

• Birth of William Lassell discoverer (satellites of Uranus and Neptune). [1]

July 26

• Birth of Isaac Babbitt invented babbitt's metal for bearings. [1]

October 1

• Birth of Rufus Choate US, lawyer (Hall of Fame). [1]

November 17

• Birth of Titian Ramsey Peale US, artist/naturalist (American Ornithology). [1]

December 31

• Birth of Thomas Taglichsbeck composer. [1]