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Months in Year 1774: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 36 of 36

Jan 1st - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
Jan 24th - Karl Moser, composer
Feb 11th - Hans Järta, Swedish political activist (d. 1847)
Feb 15th - W G Frederik, prince of Orange
Feb 16th - Pierre Rode, composer
Feb 17th - Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)
Feb 24th - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
Mar 5th - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
Mar 16th - Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
Mar 20th - John Braham, composer
Apr 17th - Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer
Apr 21st - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer (balloonist)
Apr 26th - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
Apr 28th - Francis Baily, describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
May 7th - William Bainbridge, American Commodore (d. 1833)
May 27th - Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale)
Jun 2nd - William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
Jun 21st - Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)
Jun 23rd - Matthijs Siegenbeek, Dutch linguist (spelling)
Jun 24th - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
Jul 20th - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
Aug 12th - Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson
Soldier/Public Administrator Meriwether Lewis (Aug 18th) Aug 18th - Meriwether Lewis, Charlottsville VA, solider and public administrator (Lewis & Clark Expedition), (d. 1809)
Aug 28th - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975), (d. 1821)
Sep 8th - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet
Sep 17th - Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)
Sep 26th - John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman
Oct 7th - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
Oct 14th - Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, Dutch politician
Oct 18th - Adolfs Muller, writer
Nov 14th - Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, composer
Nov 15th - William Horsley, composer
Nov 18th - Wilhelmine of Prussia, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
Nov 24th - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
Dec 20th - Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer
Dec 30th - Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, Dutch historian/literary [or Dec 31]

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