Famous Birthdays for Year 1785
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Months in Year 1785: January February March April May July August September October November
Birthdays 1 - 37 of 37
Jan 4th - Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, philologist and folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" (d. 1863)
Jan 23rd - Carl A Agardh, Sweden, botanist/bishop of Karlstad
Feb 12th - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838)
Feb 15th - Claude Louis Marie Navier
Feb 21st - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner)
Mar 6th - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer
Mar 7th - Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
Mar 11th - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861)
Mar 19th - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer
Mar 27th - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
Apr 1st - J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
Apr 4th - Bettina von Arnim, German writer and composer of the Romantic era (This Book Belongs to the King)
Apr 9th - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835)
Apr 19th - Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer
Apr 26th - John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist
May 6th - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller
May 9th - James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
May 18th - John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
Jul 6th - William J Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)
Jul 14th - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
Jul 20th - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39)/Westernizer/reformer
Aug 15th - Thomas De Quincey, England, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
Aug 19th - Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
Aug 20th - Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
Sep 25th - George Frederic Pinto, composer
Sep 28th - David Walker, Wilmington NC, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)
Oct 15th - Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14)
Oct 18th - Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
Oct 20th - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
Oct 31st - George F Kersting, German painter
Nov 2nd - Frederic Kalkbrenner, composer
Nov 2nd - Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer
Nov 8th - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer
Nov 18th - David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
Surgeon William Beaumont (Nov 21st)
Nov 21st - William Beaumont, Lebanon, Connecticut, surgeon (Father of gastric physiology), (d. 1853)
Nov 23rd - Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53)
Nov 28th - Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)
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