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1777Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician

1777Henry Clay, [the Great Compromiser], Hanover County Virginia, US politician

1777 Birthdays
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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