| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator |
Jan 8 |
Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834) |
Jan 20 |
Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot |
Jan 24 |
Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831) |
Jan 26 |
Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44) |
Jan 29 |
J G Seume, writer |
Feb 1 |
Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America) |
Feb 3 |
Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author |
Feb 9 |
Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830) |
Feb 14 |
Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813) |
Feb 19 |
Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer |
Feb 20 |
Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer |
Mar 6 |
Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer |
Mar 9 |
William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835) |
Mar 13 |
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815) |
Mar 21 |
Jean Paul, writer |
Apr 2 |
Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, composer |
Apr 7 |
Domenico Dragonetti, composer |
May 4 |
Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer |
May 7 |
Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general/marshal of France (d. 1813) |
May 8 |
John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman |
May 11 |
János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845) |
May 16 |
Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium) |
May 21 |
Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820) |
Jun 1 |
Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer |
Jun 13 |
Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil |
Jun 14 |
Johannes Simon Mayr, composer |
Jun 15 |
Franz Danzi, composer |
Jun 20 |
Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist |
Jun 21 |
Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher |
Jun 22 |
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul, La légende de Joseph en Égypte |
Jun 23 |
Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon I and first Empress of France (1804-14) at Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique (d.1814) |
Jun 26 |
George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes |
Jul 2 |
Peter Ritter, composer |
Jul 17 |
Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education |
Jul 17 |
John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader |
Jul 22 |
James Geddes, Carlisle Pennsylvania, American Engineer and chief engineer in the construction of the Erie Canal |
Jul 30 |
Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem) |
Aug 8 |
Charles Bulfinch, Boston Mass, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House) |
Sep 2 |
Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author |
Oct 12 |
John Ross, composer |
Oct 24 |
Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839) |
Oct 27 |
William Maclure, Ayr, Scottish-American Geologist (first geological map) |
Nov 28 |
Matthaus Fischer, composer |
Dec 23 |
John Davy, composer |
Dec 25 |
Claude Chappe, French engineer (optical telegraph) |
Dec 28 |
John Molson, founded Montreal brewery (Molsons) |
Dec 31 |
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806) |
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