| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer |
Jan 7 |
Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882 |
Jan 22 |
Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852) |
Feb 4 |
Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret, Portuguese playwright |
Feb 4 |
Almeida Garrett, Quem És Tu? |
Feb 5 |
John Lindley, English botanist (Elements of Botany) |
Feb 11 |
Basil Moreau, French Founder priest (d. 1873) |
Feb 26 |
Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864) |
Mar 1 |
Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer |
Mar 7 |
Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech poet (national anthem, folk song) |
Mar 8 |
Simon Cameron, Secy War (Union), died in 1889 |
Mar 20 |
Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839) |
Mar 22 |
F W A Argelander, Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars |
Mar 28 |
Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist (Ziekte van Basedow) |
Mar 29 |
Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68) |
Apr 5 |
Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer |
Apr 12 |
Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855) |
Apr 13 |
Heinrich F L Rellstab, German music theorist |
Apr 13 |
Joseph Rastrelli, composer |
Apr 22 |
Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist (blood pressure) |
May 11 |
John Lowell, American philanthropist (d. 1836) |
May 20 |
Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850) |
May 20 |
Honoré de Balzac, La belle noiseuse |
May 21 |
Mary Anning, Lyme Regis, Dorset, British fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist (Jurassic marine fossil beds of Lyme Regis in Dorset) |
May 23 |
Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt) |
May 26 |
Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) |
May 26 |
August Kopisch, The Shoemaker |
May 27 |
Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, [Elie Levy], composer |
May 27 |
Jacques Fromental Halévy, Noé |
Jun 6 |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russian writer and poet (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS) |
Jun 6 |
Alexander Pushkin, Onegin |
Jun 18 |
William Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune) |
Jun 23 |
John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881) |
Jul 4 |
F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59) |
Jul 25 |
David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834) |
Jul 26 |
Isaac Babbitt, invented babbitt's metal for bearings |
Aug 1 |
La Comtesse de Ségur, Un bon petit diable |
Aug 4 |
Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer |
Aug 11 |
Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist |
Aug 20 |
Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician |
Sep 19 |
René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838) |
Oct 1 |
Rufus Choate, US, lawyer (Hall of Fame) |
Oct 5 |
Anthony G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch Min of Reformed Worship |
Oct 15 |
August Ferdinand Haeser, composer |
Oct 30 |
Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885) |
Nov 3 |
William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1856) |
Nov 9 |
Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877) |
Nov 17 |
Titian Ramsey Peale, US, artist/naturalist (American Ornithology) |
Nov 29 |
Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator/poet (Concord Days) |
Dec 12 |
Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852) |
Dec 31 |
Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer |
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