Date | Event |
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Jan 12 |
Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen) |
Jan 20 |
Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860) |
Jan 23 |
Stendhal, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir) |
Jan 23 |
Stendhal, Rouge et noir |
Jan 29 |
Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9] |
Feb 9 |
Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852) |
Feb 10 |
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873) |
Feb 11 |
Jarena Lee, African American travelling minister |
Feb 15 |
Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer |
Feb 21 |
Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835) |
Mar 8 |
Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer |
Mar 8 |
Hannah Hoes Van Buren, NY, wife of pres Martin (1837-41) (died 1819) |
Mar 26 |
Johann Baptist Weigl, composer |
Apr 3 |
Washington Irving, New York City New York, American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow) |
Apr 3 |
Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow |
Apr 8 |
John Claudius, London England, horticulturist |
Apr 10 |
Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10) |
Apr 21 |
Reginald Heber, Lars and the Real Girl |
Apr 29 |
David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting) |
May 9 |
Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader |
May 10 |
Niccola Benvenuti, composer |
May 22 |
Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer |
May 25 |
Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1841) |
Jun 8 |
Joseph Lincke, composer |
Jun 19 |
Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria) |
Jun 29 |
August Alexander Klengel, composer |
Jul 24 |
Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule), (d. 1830) |
Aug 7 |
John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery) |
Aug 7 |
Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810) |
Aug 9 |
Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801) |
Aug 23 |
William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852) |
Sep 8 |
Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872) |
Sep 17 |
Samuel Prout, water-color painter |
Sep 27 |
Agustin I de Iturbide, Valladolid Michoacán, General and 1st Emperor of Mexico (1822-23) |
Oct 13 |
Frantiszek Soltyk, composer |
Dec 11 |
Max von Schenkendorf, German poet |
Dec 12 |
Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865) |
Dec 14 |
Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer |
Dec 19 |
Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician (Brianchon's theorem) |
Dec 28 |
Robert Gallenberg, composer |
3 |
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