Date | Event |
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Jan 4 |
Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer |
Jan 5 |
Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer |
Jan 9 |
Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845) |
Feb 2 |
Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek, composer |
Feb 9 |
William Henry Harrison, Charles City Virginia, 9th President of the United States (March 4-April 4, 1841) |
Feb 22 |
Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter |
Mar 4 |
Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer |
Mar 7 |
Tommaso Marchesi, composer |
Mar 16 |
Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836) |
Mar 26 |
Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant) |
Mar 28 |
Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844) |
Apr 6 |
James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India) |
Apr 9 |
Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824 |
Apr 22 |
Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader |
Apr 24 |
Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director |
May 2 |
Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845) |
May 3 |
Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat |
May 15 |
Clemens L Metternich, Austrian prince |
May 19 |
Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854) |
May 26 |
Hans Georg Nageli, composer |
May 29 |
Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844) |
May 31 |
Ludwig Tieck, writer |
May 31 |
Ludwig Tieck, Leonor |
Jun 2 |
John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833) |
Jun 3 |
Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist |
Jun 3 |
Michael Gottard Fischer, composer |
Jun 13 |
Thomas Young, British philologist/physician (light interference) |
Jul 6 |
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer |
Jul 13 |
Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies about Art) |
Jul 23 |
Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer |
Jul 27 |
Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844) |
Aug 22 |
Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858) |
Aug 23 |
Jakob F Fries, German philosopher |
Aug 29 |
Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) |
Sep 24 |
Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer |
Sep 25 |
Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856) |
Oct 6 |
King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850) |
Oct 23 |
Pietro Generali, composer |
Nov 17 |
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, Dorottya |
Dec 24 |
Joseph Wolfl, composer |
Dec 27 |
George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics |
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