Notable Birthdays - 1785
1785 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 4 |
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, philologist and folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" (d. 1863) |
Jan 4 |
Jacob Grimm, Tangled |
Jan 23 |
Carl A Agardh, Sweden, botanist/bishop of Karlstad |
Feb 12 |
Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838) |
Feb 15 |
Claude Louis Marie Navier |
Feb 21 |
Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner) |
Feb 22 |
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Ham, French Physicist (Peltier effect 1834) |
Mar 6 |
Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer |
Mar 7 |
Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed) |
Mar 7 |
Alessandro Manzoni, La colonna infame |
Mar 11 |
John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861) |
Mar 19 |
Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer |
Mar 27 |
Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95) |
Apr 1 |
J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter |
Apr 4 |
Bettina von Arnim, German writer and composer of the Romantic era (This Book Belongs to the King) |
Apr 4 |
Bettina von Arnim, Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns |
Apr 9 |
Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835) |
Apr 19 |
Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer |
Apr 26 |
John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist |
May 6 |
Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller |
May 9 |
James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms) |
May 18 |
John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854) |
Jul 6 |
William J Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens) |
Jul 14 |
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851) |
Jul 20 |
Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39)/Westernizer/reformer |
Aug 15 |
Thomas De Quincey, England, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater) |
Aug 15 |
Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater |
Aug 19 |
Seth Thomas, American pioneer in mass production of clocks |
Aug 23 |
Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy") |
Sep 25 |
George Frederic Pinto, composer |
Sep 28 |
David Walker, Wilmington NC, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens) |
Oct 15 |
Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14) |
Oct 18 |
Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall) |
Oct 20 |
George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873) |
Oct 31 |
George F Kersting, German painter |
Nov 2 |
Frederic Kalkbrenner, composer |
Nov 2 |
Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer |
Nov 8 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer |
Nov 18 |
David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841) |
Nov 21 |
William Beaumont, Lebanon, Connecticut, surgeon (Father of gastric physiology), (d. 1853) |
Nov 23 |
Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53) |
Nov 28 |
Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36) |
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