Notable Birthdays - 1759
1759 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 4 |
Maria Rosa Coccia, composer |
Jan 5 |
Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader |
Jan 17 |
Paul Cuffe, Mass, merchant/shipbuilder/black nationalist |
Jan 21 |
Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot |
Jan 25 |
Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796) |
Jan 25 |
Robert Burns, The Homesman |
Jan 31 |
Francois Devienne, composer |
Feb 15 |
Friedrich A Wolfius, [Wolf], German philological (Prolegomena) |
Feb 27 |
Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer |
Mar 2 |
Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer |
Mar 22 |
Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818) |
Apr 18 |
Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer |
Apr 27 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader) |
May 1 |
Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor |
May 6 |
Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician |
May 15 |
Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer |
May 18 |
Charles Duquesnoy, composer |
May 20 |
William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC) |
May 22 |
Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer |
May 23 |
Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer |
May 26 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley |
May 28 |
William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06) |
Jun 2 |
Jan Ekels, the Young, Dutch painter |
Jun 5 |
Theodor Zwetler, composer |
Jun 8 |
Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer |
Jun 21 |
Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817) |
Jul 10 |
Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer |
Jul 19 |
Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833) |
Jul 24 |
Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21) |
Aug 24 |
William Wilberforce, Kingston upon Hull, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade |
Sep 19 |
William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850) |
Sep 26 |
Hans D L earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian fieldmarshal/gov-gen |
Oct 4 |
Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803) |
Oct 12 |
Frantisek Vaclav Tomes, composer |
Oct 13 |
Ecco Epkema, Dutch linguist (Frisian, old-Frisian) |
Oct 20 |
Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815) |
Oct 25 |
Baron Grenville, (Whig) British PM (1806-07) |
Oct 25 |
Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828) |
Oct 26 |
Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/min of Justice |
Oct 27 |
Ferenc Kazinczy, A bor lelke |
Nov 10 |
Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805) |
Nov 10 |
Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlos |
Nov 13 |
Timothy Olmstead, composer |
Nov 20 |
Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer |
Nov 27 |
Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer |
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