Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (d. 1801) |
Jan 10 |
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823) |
Jan 11 |
Johann Jakob Walder, composer |
Jan 24 |
Wybo Fijnje, Dutch politician/patriot/journalist |
Jan 25 |
Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer |
Jan 31 |
Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800, 1803-06) |
Feb 10 |
Stanislao Mattei, composer |
Feb 28 |
Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister |
Mar 5 |
Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical (Apollonii Lexicon) |
Mar 15 |
Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer |
Mar 16 |
Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer |
Mar 20 |
Martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus) |
Mar 23 |
Johannes Matthias Sperger, composer |
Mar 28 |
Francisco de Miranda, Caracas, Venezuelan freedom fighter |
Mar 30 |
John Stafford Smith, composer |
Apr 17 |
François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828) |
Apr 24 |
Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician |
Apr 28 |
Paul Ignaz Kurzinger, composer |
May 2 |
John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (d. 1780) |
May 8 |
Elias Mann, composer |
May 20 |
Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812 |
Jun 3 |
Frederic Thieme, composer |
Jun 17 |
Michel Woldemar, composer |
Jun 21 |
Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818) |
Jun 23 |
Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801) |
Jul 19 |
Alessio Prati, composer |
Jul 25 |
Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806) |
Jul 28 |
Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar (d. 1794) |
Aug 10 |
Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer |
Aug 18 |
Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare) |
Aug 18 |
Antonio Salieri, Iron Man |
Aug 24 |
Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836) |
Sep 2 |
Pehr Frigel, composer |
Sep 5 |
Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Scots poems) |
Sep 18 |
Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias) |
Sep 26 |
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810) |
Oct 31 |
Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet |
Nov 7 |
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819) |
Nov 20 |
Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799) |
Nov 27 |
Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer |
Dec 3 |
Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer |
Dec 10 |
Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799) |
Dec 23 |
Frederik Augustus I, the Righteous, king of Saxony (1806-27) |
Dec 25 |
John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer |
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