Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
Micah Hawkins, composer |
Jan 2 |
Christian D Rauch, German sculptor |
Jan 3 |
Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker |
Jan 3 |
M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino |
Jan 8 |
Filippo Traetta, Italy, composer/musicologist |
Jan 25 |
Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14) |
Feb 12 |
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet (d. 1843) |
Feb 12 |
Friedrich de La Motte, Undine |
Mar 9 |
Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist |
Mar 17 |
Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec) |
Mar 19 |
Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/diplomat |
Mar 31 |
Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859) |
Apr 12 |
Henry Clay, [the Great Compromiser], Hanover County Virginia, US politician |
Apr 18 |
Ignac Ruzitska, composer |
Apr 30 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician |
Apr 30 |
Carl Friedrich Gauß, Wer ist der größte Deutsche? |
May 4 |
Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer |
May 28 |
Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer |
Jun 2 |
Christian Traugott Tag, composer |
Jun 12 |
Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837) |
Jun 24 |
John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856) |
Jul 9 |
Henry Hallam, British lawyer/historian |
Jul 23 |
Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810) |
Jul 27 |
Thomas Campbell, poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic) |
Aug 14 |
Hans Christian Oersted, Rudkøbing, Denmark, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law), (d. 1951) |
Aug 14 |
Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830) |
Aug 29 |
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853) |
Sep 7 |
Heinrich Stölzel, German musician and composer (d. 1844) |
Sep 20 |
Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer |
Oct 6 |
William Russell, composer |
Oct 18 |
Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea) |
Oct 18 |
Heinrich von Kleist, Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas |
Nov 2 |
Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822) |
Nov 2 |
Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848) |
Nov 8 |
Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860) |
Nov 28 |
Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat |
Dec 2 |
Henry Doeff, colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary) |
Dec 4 |
Juliette Récamier, French socialite (d. 1849) |
Dec 14 |
Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo) |
Dec 16 |
Janos Fusz, composer |
Dec 23 |
Aleksandr I P Romanov, tsar of Russia (1801-25) |
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