Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 6 |
Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel |
Jan 24 |
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine) |
Jan 24 |
E.T.A. Hoffmann, Barbie in the Nutcracker |
Feb 11 |
Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece (d. 1831) |
Feb 18 |
John Parry, composer |
Feb 21 |
Vincenzo Lavigna, composer |
Feb 23 |
John Walter II, London, chief proprietor (The Times, 1812-47) |
Mar 10 |
Luise, Queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III |
Mar 16 |
Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs |
Apr 1 |
Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831) |
Apr 8 |
Thaddaus Weigl, composer |
Apr 25 |
Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857) |
Apr 26 |
Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book) |
May 4 |
Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist |
May 10 |
George Thomas Smart, composer |
May 12 |
Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer |
May 13 |
Charles Ots, composer |
May 13 |
Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer |
Jun 1 |
John George Schetky, composer |
Jun 11 |
John Constable, England, landscape painter (Hay Wain) |
Jul 13 |
Caroline of Baden, queen of Bavaria (d. 1841) |
Aug 4 |
Wenzel Sedlak, composer |
Aug 9 |
Amedeo Avogadro, Tuin Italy, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23 (Avogadro's Law), (d. 1856) |
Aug 15 |
Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten) |
Aug 15 |
Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer |
Aug 16 |
Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer |
Aug 29 |
Georg Friedrich Treitschke, Fidelio |
Sep 27 |
Maria E J Versfelt, actress/mistress (General Moreau & Marshal Ney) |
Nov 14 |
Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis |
Nov 15 |
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, A Bug's Life |
Dec 3 |
Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832) |
Dec 6 |
Paul Friedrich Struck, composer |
Dec 16 |
Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810) |
Dec 27 |
Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811) |
Dec 29 |
Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric |
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