Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1780

January 5
  • Birth of Claire; countess of Rémusat/Vergennes/French author (Salon). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Johannes van den Bosch; Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies). [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 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 29
  • Birth of Charles Nodier; French writer (La fée aux miettes). [1]
May 14
  • Birth of Auguste De Polignac; premier of France (Réponse à mes adversaires). [1]
June 3
  • Birth of William Hone in England; author/bookseller (The Every-Day Book). [1]
August 29
  • Birth of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres; French painter (Valpincon Bather). [1]
October 22
  • Birth of Peter Maverick; US bank note engraver. [555.30]
December 14
  • Birth of Karl Robert von Nesselrode; German/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs. [1]

1781

January 26
  • Birth of Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim; German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec in France; inventor (stethoscope). [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]

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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 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 in Venezuela; poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas). [1]
December 11
  • Birth of David Brewster in Scotland; physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope). [1]

1782

January 18
  • Birth of Daniel Webster in Salisbury, New Hampshire, USA; lawyer, Representative (1813-17, 1823-27), US Senator (1827-41, 1843-50), Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), presidential candidate (1852). [5] [605.178]
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]
March 4
  • Birth of Johann Wyss; Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of John Caldwell Calhoun in Abbeville, South Carolina, USA; Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1829-37). [1]
April 21
  • Birth of Friedrich W A Fröbel; German educator (founded kindergarten). [1]
October 9
  • Birth of Lewis Cass; Governor of Michigan. [1]
October 11
  • Birth of Steen Steensen in Blicher, Denmark; poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw). [1]
October 27
  • Birth of Niccolo Paganini in Genoa, Italy; composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca). [1]
November 1
  • Birth of Viscount Goderich; British Prime Minister (1827-28). [1]
December 5
  • Birth of Martin Van Buren in Kinderhook, New York, USA; American lawyer, Senator for New York (1821-28), governor of New York (1829), Secretary of State (1829-31), US vice president (1833-37), 8th US President (1837-41) (dies 1862). [1] [455.72]

1783

January 12
  • Birth of Erik Gustaf Geijer; Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen). [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Stendahl [Marie Henri Beyle] in France; writer (Le Rouge et Le Noir). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Vasili A Zjukovski; Russian folk poet/translator (Homer). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Hannah Hoes Van Buren in Kinderhook, New York, USA; wife of President Martin Van Buren (1837-41) (died 1819). [1]
April 3
  • Birth of Washington Irving in New York City, New York, USA; American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle). [1] [5]
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]
June 19
  • Birth of Thomas Sully; US portrait painter (Queen Victoria). [1]
July 24
  • Birth of Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco AKA Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela; political and military leader for independence of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru. [1] [5] [1113.49]
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 19
  • Birth of Charles-Julien Brianchon in France; mathematician (Brianchon's theorem). [1]

1784

January 28
  • Birth of George HG; Earl of Aberdeen, English Secretary of State. [1]
February 27
  • Birth of Elias Annes Borger; Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine). [1]
February 29
  • Birth of Franz von Klenze; German architect (Hermitage, Saint Petersburg). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Ludwig [Louis] Spohr; German violin virtuoso/composer (Faust). [1]
October 19
  • Birth of John McLoughlin; Hudson's Bay Company pioneer in Oregon Country. [1]
  • Birth of Leigh Hunt; British writer (Lord Byron). [1]
October 20
  • Birth of Henry John Temple; Viscount Palmerston (Whig) British Prime Minister (1855-65). [1]
November 24
  • Birth of Zachary Taylor near Barboursville, Orange County, Virginia, USA; 12th US President (1849-50). [1] [573.82]
December 30
  • Birth of Dorothea von Benckendorff; Baltic monarch of Lieven. [1]

1785

January 4
  • Birth of Jakob Grimm 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 in Sweden; botanist/bishop of Karlstad. [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Karl A Varnhagen von Ense; German officer/author (Die Sterner). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Alessandro Manzoni in Italy; poet/novelist (Betrothed). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Louis XVII; pretender to the throne during the French Revolution (1793-95). [1]
April 4
  • 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 26
  • Birth of John James Audubon in Haiti; bird watcher, artist. [1]
May 9
  • Birth of James Pollard Espy in Pennsylvania, USA; meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms). [1]
July 20
  • Birth of Mahmud II; Ottoman sultan, Westernizer, reformer. [1]
August 15
  • Birth of Thomas De Quincey in England; 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]
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 28
  • Birth of Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie; French Prime Minister (1835-36). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Christian Gobrecht in Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA; US Mint chief engraver (1840-44), paper money engraver, engraver of "seated Liberty" obverse of US silver coins 1837-1891. [566.24] [608.24] [1041.570]

1786

January 8
  • Birth of Nicholas Biddle; made second Bank of the United States first effective central bank. [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Benjamin Robert Haydon in Plymouth; painter (Waiting for The Times). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Wilhelm Karl Grimm in Hanau; German story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales). [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]
May 8
  • Birth of Thomas Hancock; founded British rubber industry. [1]
June 13
  • Birth of Winfield Scott American near Petersburg, Virginia; army general/presidential candidate. [1] [450.142]
August 17
  • Birth of Davy Crockett; US frontiersman/adventurer/politician. [1] [5]
December 4
  • Birth of John LA Luyten; Catholic Member of Dutch second parliament. [1]

1787

January 5
  • Birth of John Burke; Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Louis Angely; German comedy writer (Sieben Mädchen in Uniform). [1]
March 6
  • Birth of Joseph von Fraunhofer; German physicist (studied Sun's spectrum). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Karl Ferdinand von Grafe; helped create modern plastic surgery. [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Georg Simon Ohm; physicist (discovered Ohm's Law). [1]
June 28
  • Birth of Henry G W Smith; leader of British-Indian forces. [1]
August 24
  • Birth of James Weddell in Ostend, England; Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea). [1]
November 21
  • Birth of Samuel Cunard; founder (first regular Atlantic steamship line). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; pioneer of educating the deaf. [1]

1788

January 22
  • Birth of Lord George Gordon Noel Byron in England; romantic poet (Don Juan). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Karoly Kisfaludy; Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon). [1]
  • Birth of Robert "Bobbie" Peel; British Prime Minister (1834-46), founded Tories. [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Károly Kisfaludy in Hungary; romantic poet (Tartars in Hungary-1819). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Arthur Schopenhauer in Germany; philosopher (Great Pessimist). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff; German poet (Das Marmorbild). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Franz Pforr; German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Joseph Gilbert Totten; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1864). [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 Mackill Smith in Calvert County, Maryland, USA; spouse of US President Zachary Taylor. [1] [573.86]
October 24
  • Birth of Sarah Josepha Hale; author (Mary Had a Little Lamb). [1]

1789

March 4
  • Birth of Pavel P Gagarin; Russian monarch. [1]
March 17
  • Birth of Edmund Kean in London, England; tragic actor (Shylock). [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Leona Vicario; "Sweet Mother of the Fatherland", aided the Mexican War of Independence. [446.50]
May 28
  • Birth of Bernard S Ingemann; Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange). [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]

End of 1780-1789. Next: 1790.

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