Notable Birthdays - 1795
1795 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871) |
Jan 15 |
Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters |
Jan 15 |
Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829) |
Jan 15 |
Aleksandr Griboyedov, Gore ot uma |
Jan 18 |
Anna Paulowna Romanova, monarch of Russia/daughter of Tsar Paul I |
Feb 3 |
Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830) |
Feb 5 |
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871) |
Feb 8 |
Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline) |
Feb 8 |
Moritz G [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist/serial writer |
Feb 10 |
Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor |
Feb 15 |
Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign) |
Feb 18 |
George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist |
Feb 21 |
Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer |
Mar 14 |
Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer |
Mar 23 |
Leopold Jansa, composer |
Mar 28 |
Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876) |
Apr 5 |
Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39) |
Apr 19 |
Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg, German zoologist |
Apr 21 |
Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint |
Apr 28 |
Charles Sturt, England, explorer (Australia) |
May 7 |
Gerhard M Roentgen, industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord) |
May 10 |
Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian |
May 13 |
Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883 |
May 13 |
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875) |
May 15 |
Adolf B Marx, German music theorist |
May 19 |
Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University |
May 23 |
Charles Barry, architect |
Jun 12 |
John Marston Jr, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1885 |
Jun 13 |
Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian (History of Rome) |
Jun 24 |
Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878) |
Jul 25 |
James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army) |
Aug 16 |
Heinrich August Marschner, composer |
Aug 16 |
Heinrich Marschner, The Vampyr: A Soap Opera |
Aug 22 |
Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary |
Aug 28 |
Joannes A Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond |
Sep 1 |
James Gordon Bennett, Sr., Keith Scotland, American newspaper publisher (New York Herald) |
Sep 4 |
Friedrich [August] von Alberti, German geologist (Triasic Age) |
Sep 6 |
Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852) |
Sep 17 |
Giuseppi Saverio Rafaele Mercadante, composer |
Sep 20 |
Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer |
Sep 20 |
Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author |
Sep 23 |
Alexander Twilight, minister and politician, first African American to graduate and to hold public office, born Corinth Vermont (d.1857) |
Oct 5 |
Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873) |
Oct 15 |
Frederik Willem IV, king of Prussia (1840-61)/Germany (1849-61) |
Oct 16 |
William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876) |
Oct 26 |
Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer |
Oct 28 |
Leonardus A Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship (1848 . .53) |
Oct 31 |
John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), (d. 1821) |
Oct 31 |
John Keats, La belle dame sans merci |
Nov 2 |
James Knox Polk, NC, 11th American President (D) (1845-1849) |
Nov 9 |
Walter Geikie, Scottish painter |
Nov 24 |
Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer |
Nov 26 |
Carl P Fohr, German painter |
Nov 26 |
Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra |
Nov 28 |
Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer |
Dec 3 |
Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840) |
Dec 4 |
Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution) |
Dec 8 |
Jacques Francois Gallay, composer |
Dec 8 |
Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874) |
Dec 21 |
Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886) |
Dec 22 |
Thomas Ainsworth, English/Neth industrialist (Twentse textile) |
Dec 23 |
Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer (Atlas Universel) |
7 |
John Polidori, The Vampyr: A Soap Opera |
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