| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Kaspar Masek, composer |
Jan 25 |
François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878) |
Feb 12 |
Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player (d. 1867) |
Feb 20 |
William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869) |
Feb 21 |
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (1833-36) |
Feb 25 |
Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam |
Mar 5 |
Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer |
Mar 5 |
Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870) |
Mar 16 |
Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881) |
Mar 26 |
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872) |
Mar 31 |
Thompson McKennan, American politician who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852) |
Apr 9 |
Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881) |
Apr 10 |
Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan |
Apr 11 |
Edward Everett, Dorchester Mass, (Gov-Mass), statesman/orator |
Apr 12 |
Germinal P Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (geometry) |
Apr 15 |
Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867) |
Apr 17 |
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868) |
Apr 23 |
Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856) |
May 13 |
Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835) |
May 17 |
Anna Brownell Jameson, Dublin, writer |
May 23 |
Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer |
May 24 |
William Whewell, British philosopher (History of Inductive Science) |
May 27 |
Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad) |
May 27 |
Cornelius Vanderbilt, |
May 29 |
Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874) |
Jun 18 |
George Grote, British historian |
Jun 28 |
Allen Frances Gardiner, Berkshire, England, naval officer and missionary in inter alia Port Natal |
Jul 3 |
Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt) |
Jul 5 |
Sylvester Graham, developed graham cracker |
Jul 12 |
Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist |
Jul 14 |
John G Lockhart, [Scorpion], biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott) |
Jul 24 |
Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865) |
Aug 10 |
Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry) |
Aug 11 |
James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869) |
Aug 15 |
Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum) |
Aug 17 |
Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849) |
Aug 28 |
Johannes Zwijsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands) |
Sep 9 |
William Lonsdale, Bath, English Geologist and Paleontologist (fossil coral) |
Sep 29 |
William Michael Rooke, composer |
Oct 10 |
William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871) |
Oct 13 |
Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer |
Oct 18 |
Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer |
Oct 23 |
Joseph Panny, composer |
Oct 24 |
Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant |
Oct 26 |
Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881) |
Nov 3 |
William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis) |
Nov 17 |
John Barrien Montgomery, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1873 |
Nov 23 |
Joan F Van Oordt, vicar (Groninger direction) |
Dec 10 |
James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1870 |
Dec 14 |
Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872) |
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