Birthdays by Year
- Jan 1 Micah Hawkins, American poet, playwright and composer, born in Head of the Harbour, New York (d. 1825)
- Jan 2 Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (Frederick II of Prussia equestrian statue), born in Arolsen, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1857)
- Jan 3 Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican sister of Napoleon who appointed her Princess of Lucca and Piombino and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, born in Ajaccio, Corsica (d. 1820)
- Jan 3 Louis Poinsot, French mathematician and physicist (invented geometrical mechanics), born in Paris, France (d. 1859)
- Jan 8 Filippo Traetta, Italian-born American composer and music teacher, born in Venice, Republic of Venice (d. 1854)
- Jan 25 Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal politician and minister of Finance (1813-14), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1861)
- Feb 12 Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German Romantic poet, born in Brandenburg an der Havel, Prussia (d. 1843)
- Mar 9 Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter, cartoonist and graphic artist, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1832)
- Mar 17 Roger B. Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836-64) who delivered the majority Dred Scott decision, born in Calvert, Maryland (d. 1864)
- Mar 19 Anton Reinhard Falck, Dutch statesman and diplomat (advisor to King William I), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1843)
- Mar 31 Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French engineer and physicist (inventor of the disk siren), born in Paris, France (d. 1859)
Henry Clay(1777-1852)
Apr 12 American politician known as "the Great Compromiser",Speaker of the House, Senator and Secretary of State (1825-29), born in Hanover County, Virginia
- Apr 18 Ignac Ruzitska, Austrian composer, born in Bazin, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1833)
Carl Friedrich Gauss(1777-1855)
Apr 30 Germanmathematician considered one of the greatest of all time (Gaussian distribution, fundamental theorem of algebra), born in Brunswick, Germany
- May 4 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, Belgian composer, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1852)
- May 28 Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, Flemish composer, born in Brussels, Austrian Netherlands (d. 1858)
- Jun 12 Robert Clark, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1819-21), born in Washington County, New York (d. 1837)
- Jun 15 János Fusz, Hungarian-German composer, born in Tolna, Hungary (d. 1819)
- Jun 24 John Ross, Scottish naval officer and Artic explorer (rediscovered Baffin Bay), born in Balsarroch, Scotland (d. 1856)
- Jul 9 Henry Hallam, British lawyer and historian who wrote on European history, born in Windsor, England (d. 1859)
- Jul 23 Philipp Otto Runge, German Romantic painter, born in Wolgast, West Pomerania (d. 1810)
- Jul 27 Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1844)
- Aug 14 Francis I, King of the Two Sicilies (1825-30), born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1830)
Hans Christian Ørsted(1777-1851)
Aug 14 Danishphysicist who discovered electromagnetism andchemist (View of Chemical Law), born in Rudkøbing, Denmark
- Aug 29 Hyacinth [Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin], founder of Sinology in Russia, born in Akulevo, Russia (d. 1853)
- Sep 7 Heinrich David Stölzel, German horn player who developed the first valve for brass instruments, born in Schneeberg, Electrorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1844)
- Sep 20 Ramón Cuéllar y Altarriba, Spanish composer, born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (d. 1833)
- Oct 6 William Russell, English composer and organist, born in London (d. 1813)
- Oct 18 Heinrich von Kleist, German writer, dramatist and poet (Penthesilea, The Marquise of O), born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Prussia (d. 1811)
- Nov 2 Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor, comedist, translator, editor of humour magazines, born near Nowogródek, Poland (d. 1822)
- Nov 2 Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, 5th daughter of King George III, born in Buckingham House, London (d. 1848)
- Nov 8 Désirée Clary, French Queen of Sweden and Norway (1818-44), consort of King Charles XIV John, born in Marseille, France (d. 1860)
- Nov 28 Augsut Kestner, German art collector and diplomat, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1853)
- Dec 2 Henry Doeff, Dutch trader in Japan and translator who wrote a Dutch-Japanese dictionary, born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1835)
- Dec 4 Juliette Récamier, French socialite, born in Lyon, Kingdom of France (d. 1849)
- Dec 14 Juan Nicasio Gallego, Spanish poet and interpreter (El dos the mayo), born in Zamora, Spain (d. 1853)
Alexander I(1777-1825)
Dec 23Tsar of Russia (1801-25), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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