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Months in Year 1787: January February March April May June August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 42 of 42

Jan 5th - John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
Jan 8th - Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer
Jan 13th - John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
Feb 13th - James P Carrell, composer
Feb 16th - Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer
Feb 23rd - Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)
Mar 6th - Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)
Mar 8th - Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery
Mar 10th - William Etty, English painter (nudes)
Mar 11th - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
Mar 16th - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
Mar 17th - George Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
Apr 13th - John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
Apr 19th - Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
Apr 26th - Ludwig Uhland, writer
May 7th - Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
Jun 4th - Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
Jun 28th - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces
Aug 15th - Alexander Aliabiev, composer
Surgeon Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (Mar 8th) Aug 24th - James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
Sep 1st - John Bake, classical composer
Sep 5th - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
Sep 10th - John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863
Sep 18th - Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist
Oct 4th - Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician
Oct 30th - Karl Guhr, composer
Nov 4th - Edmund Kean, England, actor (Edmund Kean's Masonic Career)
Nov 17th - Michele Carafa, composer
Nov 18th - Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist
Nov 18th - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
Nov 21st - Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)
Nov 25th - Franz Xavier Gruber, Austria, organist/composer (Silent Night)
Nov 27th - Christian Rummel, composer
Nov 27th - Jacob earl van Rechteren van Appeltern, governor of Gelderland
Dec 1st - Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer
Dec 9th - John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
Dec 10th - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf
Dec 14th - Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)
Dec 15th - Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic
Dec 16th - Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)
Dec 22nd - Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar
Dec 28th - Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curacao

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