Notable Birthdays - 1791
1791 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer |
Jan 8 |
Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt) |
Jan 14 |
Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2") |
Jan 15 |
Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece) |
Jan 15 |
Franz Grillparzer, Klostret i Sendomir |
Jan 28 |
Ferdinand Hérold, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar |
Jan 28 |
Louis Joseph Hérold, Les Girls |
Feb 1 |
Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder |
Feb 12 |
Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam) |
Feb 12 |
Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union) |
Feb 20 |
Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen) |
Feb 20 |
Carl Czerny, Vitus |
Mar 6 |
Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures |
Mar 9 |
George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether |
Mar 10 |
Duque de Rivas, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino |
Mar 15 |
Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873) |
Mar 31 |
Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer |
Apr 9 |
George Peacock, Denton County Durham, English Mathematician (algebraic theory) |
Apr 12 |
Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe) |
Apr 13 |
Félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance |
Apr 23 |
James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61) |
Apr 23 |
W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist |
Apr 24 |
Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland) |
Apr 27 |
Samuel Morse, Charlestown, Massachusetts, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter |
May 11 |
Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer |
May 15 |
Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance |
May 29 |
Pietro Romani, composer |
Jun 9 |
John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home) |
Jun 9 |
John Howard Payne, The Family Stone |
Jun 21 |
Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876) |
Jun 30 |
Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart) |
Jul 9 |
Nicolas Ledesma, composer |
Jul 26 |
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM |
Sep 1 |
Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy) |
Sep 5 |
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer (Golt Und Die Natur) |
Sep 20 |
Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika) |
Sep 22 |
Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor |
Sep 23 |
Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet) |
Sep 23 |
Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt) |
Sep 26 |
Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824) |
Oct 1 |
Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family) |
Oct 26 |
Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity) |
Oct 31 |
Ferdinand Huber, composer |
Nov 11 |
Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855) |
Nov 11 |
József Katona, Bánk bán |
Dec 4 |
Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer |
Dec 9 |
Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer |
Dec 12 |
Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (d. 1847) |
Dec 14 |
Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823) |
Dec 14 |
Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Elverhøj |
Dec 24 |
A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton) |
Dec 24 |
Eugène Scribe, A Glass of Water |
Dec 26 |
Charles Babbage, London, British inventor (calculating machine), (d. 1871) |
5 |
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Maytime |
20 |
Sergey Aksakov, The Scarlet Flower |
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