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Months in Year 1778: January February March April May June July August September November December

Birthdays 1 - 49 of 49

Jan 3rd - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
Jan 5th - Fortunato Santini, composer
Jan 13th - Anton Fischer, composer
Jan 24th - Charles F, duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X
Jan 26th - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
Jan 31st - Franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat, Austrian premiere of Bohemia (1848)
Feb 4th - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
Feb 6th - Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)
Feb 12th - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
Feb 13th - Fernando Sor, composer
Feb 14th - Fernando Sor, Spanish composer (d. 1839)
Feb 22nd - Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
Feb 25th - Jose Francisco de San Martin, liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru
Mar 3rd - Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (d. 1841)
Mar 8th - Friedrich August Kanne, composer
Mar 19th - Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)
Mar 31st - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
Apr 6th - Joseph Funk, composer
Apr 10th - William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
May 8th - Johann Gansbacher, composer
May 18th - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854)
May 28th - Friedrich Westenholz, composer
Jun 7th - George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, London England, English dandy
Jul 7th - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
Jul 10th - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master
Jul 25th - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
Jul 28th - Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1869
Jul 29th - Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer
Aug 11th - Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement
Aug 12th - Francis Horner, politician
Aug 18th - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
Aug 20th - Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile
Sep 2nd - Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician
Sep 2nd - Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846)
Sep 3rd - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
Sep 4th - Louis Napoleon, French king of Netherlands (1806-10)
Sep 8th - Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
Sep 19th - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
Nov 1st - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
Nov 14th - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer
Nov 25th - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856)
Nov 27th - John Murray, publisher
Dec 6th - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
Dec 15th - Godert AGP baron van der Capellen, Dutch gov-gen (Dutch-Indies)
Dec 17th - Hunphry Davy, English chemist (discovered some elements)
Dec 19th - Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)
Dec 21st - Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician (d. 1860)
Dec 26th - Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist
Dec 28th - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846)

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