Notable Birthdays - 1787
1787 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 5 |
John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage) |
Jan 8 |
Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer |
Jan 13 |
John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854) |
Feb 13 |
James P Carrell, composer |
Feb 16 |
Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer |
Feb 23 |
Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame) |
Mar 6 |
Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum) |
Mar 8 |
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery |
Mar 10 |
William Etty, English painter (nudes) |
Mar 11 |
Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852) |
Mar 16 |
Georg Simon Ohm, Erlangen, Brandenburg-Bayreuth, German physicist (discovered Ohm's Law) |
Mar 17 |
George Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law) |
Apr 13 |
John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873) |
Apr 19 |
Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837) |
Apr 26 |
Ludwig Uhland, writer |
May 7 |
Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858) |
Jun 4 |
Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856) |
Jun 27 |
Thomas Say, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology |
Jun 28 |
Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces |
Jun 28 |
Sir Henry George Wakelyn (Harry) Smith, Wittlesea England, governor at the Cape Colony |
Aug 15 |
Alexander Aliabiev, composer |
Aug 24 |
James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) |
Sep 1 |
John Bake, classical composer |
Sep 5 |
François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850) |
Sep 10 |
John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863 |
Sep 18 |
Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist |
Oct 4 |
Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician |
Oct 30 |
Karl Guhr, composer |
Nov 4 |
Edmund Kean, England, actor (Edmund Kean's Masonic Career) |
Nov 17 |
Michele Carafa, composer |
Nov 18 |
Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree], Swartekill, New York, US abolitionist/feminist |
Nov 18 |
Louis-Jacques Daguerre, Cormeilles-en-Parisis France, inventor and photographer (d. 1851) |
Nov 21 |
Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line) |
Nov 25 |
Franz Xavier Gruber, Austria, organist/composer (Silent Night) |
Nov 25 |
Franz Gruber, Forrest Gump |
Nov 27 |
Christian Rummel, composer |
Nov 27 |
Jacob earl van Rechteren van Appeltern, governor of Gelderland |
Dec 1 |
Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer |
Dec 9 |
John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865) |
Dec 10 |
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf |
Dec 14 |
Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816) |
Dec 15 |
Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic |
Dec 16 |
Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855) |
Dec 22 |
Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar |
Dec 28 |
Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curacao |
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