- December 23
- Birth of Jean-François Champollion; deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics. [1]
1791
- January 8
- Birth of Jacob Collamer; US Senator for Vermont. [1]
- January 14
- Birth of Calvin Phillips; became shortest known adult male (67cm; 2 feet 2 inches). [1]
- January 15
- Franz Grillparzer born in Vienna, Austria; dramatist (Golden Fleece). [1] [37]
- January 28
- Birth of Louis-J-Ferdinand Hérold in France; opera composer (Zampa). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Jan D Zocher Junior; Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark Amsterdam). [1]
- Birth of Peter Cooper; industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union), first US presidential candidate of the Greenback Party. [1] [589.56]
- February 20
- Birth of Carl Czerny in Vienna; pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen). [1]
- March 9
- Birth of George Hayward; US surgeon, first to use ether. [1]
- April 12
- Birth of Francis Preston Blair; newspaper editor (Washington Globe). [1]
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- April 13
- Birth of Félix Earl de Merode; Belgian minister of War/Finance. [1]
- April 23
- Birth of James Buchanan in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, USA; Federalist/Democrat, 15th US President (1857-61). [1] [493.18]
- April 24
- Birth of Nikolaj A Bestuzhev in Russia; writer/painter (Account about Holland). [1]
- April 27
- Birth of Samuel Finley Breece Morse in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; painter, founder and president of the National Academy of Design, inventor of the telegraph. [1] [129] [408.148]
- May 15
- Birth of Baron Floris A van Hall; Dutch minister of Justice/Finance. [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 in Vogelsdorf; German composer (Golt Und Die Natur). [1]
- September 22
- Birth of Michael Faraday; discovered principle of electric motor. [1]
- October 1
- Birth of Sergey Aksakov in Russia; novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family). [1]
- October 26
- Birth of Charles Sprague in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; banker/poet (Curiosity). [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 in Medfield, Massachusetts, USA; organist/composer (Zebulo). [1]
- January 12
- Birth of Robert Patterson; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1881). [1]
- January 21
- Birth of Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma Fries; story teller (Rhymes and Tales). [1]
- February 29
- Birth of Gioacchino Rossini in Pesaro, Italy; composer (Barber of Seville). [1]
- Birth of Karl Ernst von Baler in Russia; naturalist (discovered human ovum). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Thaddeus Stevens; US Radical Republican congressional leader (Representative-Republican). [1]
- April 12
- Birth of John George Lambton in London, England; statesman (first Earl of Durham). [1]
- April 25
- Birth of John Keble; Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement). [1]
- May 13
- Birth of Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti; Pope Pius IX (1846-78). [1]
- July 10
- Birth of George Mifflin Dallas; (Democrat) 11th Vice President (1845-49). [1]
- August 4
- Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley in England; romantic poet (Adonais). [1]
- August 13
- Birth of Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen; future wife of King William IV, city of Adelaide in South Australia will be named after her in 1836. [1429.10]
- August 18
- Birth of John first Earl Russell; British Whig Prime Minister (1846-52, 1865-66). [1]
- September 27
- Birth of George Cruikshank in England; illustrator for Charles Dickens. [1]
- October 16
- Birth of Francisco Morazán; president of Central America (1830-40). [1]
- November 13
- Birth of Edward John Trelawney in England; traveler/author (Adventures of Younger Son). [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] [626.221]
- December 19
- Birth of [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter in 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
- March 2
- Birth of Samuel Houston; first president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44). [1]
- March 3
- Birth of Charles Sealsfield; writer (The Making of America). [1]
- April 1
- Birth of Edouard Corbière; French captain, writer (Le negrier). [1]
- April 12
- Birth of Ferdinand I the Good Natured, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary. [1]
- April 15
- Birth of Friedrich Struve in Germany; founded dynasty of astronomers. [1]
- July 13
- Birth of John Clare in Northamptonshire, England; peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar). [1]
- November 3
- Birth of Stephen Fuller Austin; colonized Texas. [1]
- November 30
- Birth of Johann Lukas Schonlein; helped establish scientific medicine. [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Henry Charles Carey in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; economist (Principles of Poli Economy). [1]
1794
- 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 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]
- April 10
- Birth of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry; opened Japan. [1]
- April 11
- Birth of Edward Everett in Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA; Governor-Massachusetts, statesman/orator. [1]
- April 12
- Birth of Germinal P Dandelin; Belgian mathematician (geometry). [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]
- August 11
- Birth of James Barton Longacre in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA; engraver at US Mint for 25 years, designer of US Flying Eagle cent and Indian Head cent, portrait painter. [518.70] [958.831]
- November 3
- Birth of William Cullen Bryant; poet (Thanatopsis). [1]
- December 10
- Birth of James Wolfe Ripley; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1870). [1]
1795
- 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]
- February 15
- Birth of Charles Niellon; Belgian brigade general (10-day campaign). [1]
- April 5
- Birth of Henry Havelock; British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39). [1]
- April 21
- Birth of Vincenzo Pallotti; Italian saint. [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Gerhard M Roentgen; industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord). [1]
- May 13
- Birth of Joshua Ratoon Sands; US Commander (Union Navy) (dies 1883). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Johns Hopkins; philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University. [1]
- May 24
- Birth of Silas Wright in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; New York Legislature (1824-27), U.S House of Representatives (1827-29), comptroller of New York (1829-33), U.S. Senate (1833-44), Governor of New York (1844-46). [626.226]
- October 31
- Birth of John Keats in London, England; romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn). [1]
- November 2
- Birth of James Knox Polk in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA; Tennessee Legislature (1823-24), House of Representatives (1825-39), Tennessee Governor (1840-41), 11th US President (1845-49). [1] [5] [541.36] [549.50]
- December 3
- Birth of Rowland Hill; introduced first adhesive postage stamp (1840). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Thomas Carlyle in Scotland; essayist/historian (French Revolution). [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
- 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; US Brigadier General (Union Army) (dies 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]
- July 6
- Birth of Nicholas Pavlovich Romanov in Russia; Tsar Nicolas I (1825-55). [1]
- July 15
- Birth of Thomas Bulfinch; mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology). [1]
- July 18
- Birth of Feargus O'Connor in County Cork, England; leader of the English Chartists. [1]
- July 24
- Birth of John Middleton Clayton in Delaware, USA; Senator-Delaware, US Secretary of State (1849-50). [1]
- July 26
- Birth of George Catlin; US author, painter of American Indian scenes. [1]
- August 21
- Birth of Asher Brown Durand in South Orange, New Jersey, USA; engraver of first US postage stamps (1847 5-cent and 10-cent), landscape painter, president of National Academy of Design. [958.830]
1797
- January 4
- Birth of Wilhelm Beer in Berlin, Germany; amateur astronomer, constructed first Moon map. [1] [37]
- January 30
- Birth of Edwin Vose Sumnerl US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1863). [1]
- January 31
- Birth of Franz Peter Schubert in 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 28
- Birth of Mary Lyon; US educator (Mount Holyoke) (Hall of Fame). [1]
- Birth of W Frederik K; prince of Netherlands/General/Admiral (10-day campaign). [1]
- March 22
- Birth of Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Preußen in Berlin; King of Prussia (1861-88), German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm I (1871-88). [1] [650.93]
- 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 in Troyes, France; world's skinniest man. [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Adolphe Thiers; first President of third French Republic (1871-77). [1]
- April 30
- Birth of Andreas V Michiels; Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra. [1]
- May 18
- Birth of Frederik Augustus II; King of Saxon (1836-54). [1]
- June 24
- Birth of John Hughes; archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx (New York). [1]
- August 30
- Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in London, England; author (Frankenstein). [1]
- September 16
- Birth of Anthony Panizzi; Librarian at the British Museum. [1]
- November 14
- Birth of Charles Lyell in 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; US rear-admiral (Union Navy) (dies 1878). [1]
- December 13
- Birth of Heinrich Heine; German poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt). [1]
- December 17
- Birth of Joseph Henry; US scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism. [1]
1798
- January 14
- 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]
- February 22
- Birth of Charles Mynn Thruston; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1873). [1]
- March 4
- Birth of John Joseph Abercrombie; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1877). [1]
- March 13
- Birth of Abigail Powers in Stillwater, New York, USA; spouse of US President Millard Fillmore (1850-53). [710.70]
- April 3
- Birth of Charles D Wilkes; US Commander (Union Navy) (dies 1877). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Ferdinand Eugène Delacroix; French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal). [1]
- May 18
- Birth of Ethan Allen Hitchcock; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1870). [1]
- October 12
- Birth of Pedro I, first emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal. [1]
- November 1
- Birth of Benjamin Lee Baronet Guinness; Irish brewer/Dublin mayor. [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Adam B Mickiewicz in Poland; national poet (Pan Tadeusz). [1]
1799
- January 7
- Birth of Daniel Tyler; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1882). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of John Lindley; English botanist (Elements of Botany). [1]
- March 7
- Birth of Frantisek L Celakovsky; Czechoslovakian poet (national anthem, folk song). [1]
- March 8
- Birth of Simon Cameron; US Secretary of War (Union) (dies 1889). [1]
- March 22
- Birth of F W A Argelander in Memel, East 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 22
- Birth of Jean Poiseuille; physician/physiologist (blood pressure). [1]
- May 20
- Birth of Honoré de Balzac in 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 August Kopisch; German writer (Die Heinzelmännchen von Köln). [1]
- June 6
- Birth of Aleksandr Sergeyevich in Russia; poet, founder of modern Russian Literature. [1]
- Birth of Alexandr Pushkin in Russia; writer (Eugene Onegin). [1]
- June 18
- Birth of William Lassell; discoverer of 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]
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