Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1770

January 26
  • Birth of Alexander Carlyle Moderator of General Assembly. [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Alexandre Brongniart Paris, mineralogist/geologist (Tertiary). [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 pounds (334kg) at death). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of Johann Friedrich Hölderlin Tübingen Germany, lyric poet (Der Rhein, Andenken). [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 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]
June 7
  • Birth of Earl of Liverpool (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1812-27). [1]
August 1
  • Birth of William Clark Charlottsville Virginia, second lieutenant of Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]
August 27
  • Birth of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; German philosopher/inventor (dialectic). [1] [649.22]
November 19
  • Birth of Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven in Bonn (Germany), composer (Ode to Joy). [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]

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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]
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]
May 14
  • Birth of Robert Owen England, factory owner/socialist. [1]
June 12
  • Birth of Patrick Gass Falling Springs Pennsylvania, sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]
June 24
  • Birth of E I Du Pont France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont). [1]
August 15
  • Birth of 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 26
  • Birth of Heinrich J von Collin Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus). [1]

1772

February 9
  • Birth of Frans Mikael Franzén Finnish-Swedish poet (Abo). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Friedrich von Schlegel Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde). [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]
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]

1773

February 9
  • Birth of William Henry Harrison in Charles City County, Virginia; 9th US President (1841). [1] [479.66]
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]
June 13
  • Birth of Thomas Young proponent of the wave theory of light. [1]
December 27
  • Birth of George Cayley England, found science of aerodynamics. [1]

1774

February 15
  • Birth of W G Frederik prince of Orange. [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Raphaelle Peale US, painter (After the Rain-1823). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Matthew Flinders English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia). [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 Francis Beaufort naval officer; devised 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, captain 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 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 27
  • Birth of Friedrich von Schelling Germany, philosopher (Views on Christianity). [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 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 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 21
  • Birth of Lucien Bonaparte; prince of Canino/Musignano. [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Jane Austen in England; novelist (Pride and Prejudice). [1]

1776

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 23
  • Birth of John Walter II in London, England; 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 26
  • Birth of Joan M Kemper; Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book). [1]
June 11
  • Birth of John Constable in England; landscape painter (Hay Wain). [1]
August 9
  • Birth of Amedeo Avogadro in 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 29
  • Birth of Charles Macintosh in Scotland; patented waterproof fabric. [1]

1777

January 3
  • Birth of M A Elisa Bonaparte; Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino. [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Elias Canneman; Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14). [1]
March 17
  • Birth of Roger Brooke Taney in Calvert, Maryland; 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Anton R Falck; Dutch minister of Education/diplomat. [1]
April 30
  • Birth of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick (Germany); one of the world's great mathematicians (number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, gravitation). [1]
May 9
  • Birth of Zenas Crane; pioneer rag-content paper manufacturer, revolutionizes printing of paper money. [404.44]
August 14
  • Birth of Hans Christian Ørsted in Denmark; physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law). [1]
October 18
  • Birth of Heinrich von Kleist in 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 23
  • Birth of Aleksandr I P Romanov; Tsar of Russia (1801-25). [1]

1778

January 24
  • Birth of Charles F duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X. [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 in Italy; writer/poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis). [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]
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 Humphrey Davy; discovered several chemical elements. [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte; daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. [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 18
  • Birth of Peter Roget; thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Frans van Campenhout; Belgian vocalist/composer (Brabançonne). [1]
March 15
  • Birth of William Lamb; Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834, 1835-41, Whig party). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of John Galt in Scotland; novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd). [1]
May 11
  • Death of John Hart in Hopewell, New Jersey; New Jersey delegate to Second Continental Congress, voted for independence. [626.202]
May 16
  • Birth of John Draper; American bank note engraver. [406.88]
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 in Massachusetts, USA; US Supreme Court justice (1812-45). [1]
November 14
  • Birth of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager in Denmark; poet (National Poet 1849). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Joseph Grimaldi in England; pantomimist ("greatest clown in history"). [1]

End of 1770-1779. Next: 1780.

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