Birthdays by Year
Lucretia Mott(1793-1880)
Jan 3 American Quaker,abolitionist and women's right activist (1st Woman's Rights Convention), born in Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Jan 6 James Madison Porter, American politician, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania (d. 1862)
- Jan 14 John C. Clark, American politician, born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (d. 1852)
- Jan 18 William Henry Havergal, British composer, hymn writer, and Anglican clergyman, born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1870)
- Feb 6 Pietro Rovelli, Italian composer, born in Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (d. 1838)
Sam Houston(1793-1863)
Mar 2 American born 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia
- Mar 3 Charles Sealsfield [Carl Anton Postl], Austrian-American writer, born in Popice u Znojma, Moravia (d. 1864)
- Mar 3 William Charles Macready, British actor, manager, and diarist, born in London, England (d. 1873)
- Mar 4 Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
- Mar 6 Bernhard Joseph Klein, German sacred and secular music composer, and educator, born in Free Imperial City of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1832)
- Mar 11 Jan Frans Willems, Flemish writer and philologist, born in Boechout, Belgium (d. 1846)
- Mar 12 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, Belgian military officer, painter, composer, and librettist, born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1876)
Henry Schoolcraft(1793-1864)
Mar 28 American geographer,geologist andethnologist who found the source of the Mississippi River, born in Guilderland, New York
- Apr 11 Nicolaas Christiaan Kist, Dutch Reformed theologian and church historian, born in Woerden, Netherlands (d. 1859)
- Apr 15 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German-Russian astronomer, born in Altona, Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1864)
- Apr 19 Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria (1835-48), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1875)
- May 9 Johannes Cornelis de Jonge, Dutch historian and archivist, born in Zierikzee, Netherlands (d. 1853)
- Jul 2 Antoine Prumier, French harpist and composer, born in Paris (d. 1868)
- Jul 4 Franz Pecháček, Austrian-German composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1840)
- Jul 5 Pavel Ivanovich Pestel, Russian officer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1826)
- Jul 6 Jacob de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer and Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), born in Amsterdam (d. 1870)
- Jul 13 John Clare, English poet (Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery), born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England (d. 1864)
- Jul 20 Aleksander Fredro, Polish poet and comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski), born in Surochów, Poland (d. 1876)
- Jul 23 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, Swiss composer, born in Arlesheim, Switzerland (d. 1859)
- Jul 30 Joseph-François Snel, Belgian composer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1861)
- Aug 10 Heinrich August Neithardt, German military bandleader (1816-40), choirmaster (Berlin Cathedral, 1843-61), and composer, born in Schleiz, Thuringia (d. 1861)
- Sep 4 Edward Bates, American lawyer (26th U.S. Attorney General), born in Goochland County, Virginia (d. 1869)
- Sep 25 Felicia Dorothea Hemans, English-Welsh poet ("The boy stood on the burning deck", "The stately homes of England"), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1835)
- Sep 28 Denis-Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris (1840-48) and opponent of King Louis-Philippe, born in Saint-Rome-de-Tarn, Aveyron, France (d. 1848)
- Oct 28 Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer who founded Remington Arms, born in Suffield, Connecticut (d. 1861)
Stephen F. Austin(1793-1836)
Nov 3 Founded and helped colonize the US state of Texas, born in Austinville, Virginia
- Nov 10 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist and reformed penitentiaries, born in Wallingford, Connecticut (d. 1877)
- Nov 15 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), born in Épernon, France (d. 1880)
- Nov 16 Francis Danby, Irish painter, born in County Wexford, Ireland (d. 1861)
- Nov 28 Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer (Tornrosens Buck), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1866)
- Dec 11 Pietro Antonio Coppola, Italian composer, born in Castrogiovanni, Kingdom of Sicily (d. 1877)
- Dec 15 Henry Charles Carey, American economist (Principles of Poli Economy), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1879)
- Dec 26 Franz Hünten, German pianist and composer, born in Koblenz, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1819)
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