Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 17 |
Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel (Wieland) |
Jan 21 |
Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director |
Jan 26 |
Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director (Suriname) |
Feb 9 |
Daniel Belknap, composer |
Feb 18 |
Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer |
Feb 24 |
Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher |
Feb 28 |
French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter |
Mar 1 |
Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer |
Mar 10 |
Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian (Idea und Probe) |
Mar 22 |
Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf) |
Apr 13 |
Adam FJA van der Duyn, Dutch governor (South Holland) |
Apr 13 |
Richard Trevithick, Cornwall, inventor (steam locomotive) |
Apr 18 |
Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820) |
Apr 19 |
Giuseppe Cartufo, composer |
Apr 29 |
Matthaus Stegmayer, composer |
May 1 |
George Guest, composer |
May 14 |
Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist |
May 26 |
Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author |
Jun 1 |
Ferdinando Paer, composer |
Jun 3 |
Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author |
Jun 3 |
Charles Bernard Desormes, Dijon, French Physicist and Chemist who determined the ratio of the specific heats of gases as well as the exact composition of carbon monoxide and carbon disulphide |
Jun 5 |
Ernst Augustus I, Duke of Cumberland/King of Hanover (1837-51) |
Jun 5 |
Willem F, count of Bylandt, Dutch military officer |
Jun 12 |
Patrick Gass, Falling Springs PA, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition |
Jun 19 |
Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859) |
Jun 20 |
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820) |
Jun 24 |
E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont) |
Aug 15 |
Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake) |
Aug 15 |
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe |
Aug 22 |
Jan Joseph Rosler, composer |
Aug 22 |
Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831) |
Sep 5 |
Charles L J, archduke of Austria/Gov (Austria Netherland) |
Sep 14 |
Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (d. 1829) |
Sep 17 |
Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816) |
Sep 20 |
Mungo Park, Scotish explorer (Africa) |
Sep 23 |
Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840) |
Oct 1 |
Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer |
Oct 9 |
Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15) |
Oct 23 |
Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813) |
Nov 6 |
Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography) |
Nov 11 |
Ephraim McDowell, surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery) |
Nov 14 |
Marie François Xavier bichat, Paris, anatomist and physiologist (tissue theory), (d. 1802) |
Nov 17 |
Jonathan Huntington, composer |
Nov 22 |
Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/St-Eustatius/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies |
Dec 25 |
Dorothy Wordsworth |
Dec 26 |
Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus) |
Dec 26 |
Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples (d. 1845) |
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