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Months in Year 1791: January February March April May June July September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 42 of 42

Jan 6th - Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer
Jan 8th - Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt)
Jan 14th - Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2")
Jan 15th - Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)
Feb 1st - Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder
Feb 12th - Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)
Feb 12th - Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)
Feb 20th - Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)
Mar 6th - Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures
Mar 9th - George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
Mar 15th - Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)
Mar 31st - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer
Apr 12th - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe)
Apr 13th - Félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance
Apr 23rd - James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)
Apr 23rd - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
Apr 24th - Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
Apr 27th - Samuel Morse, Charlestown, Massachusetts, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter
May 11th - Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer
Inventor Samuel Morse (Apr 27th) May 15th - Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance
May 29th - Pietro Romani, composer
Jun 9th - John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)
Jun 21st - Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
Jun 30th - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)
Jul 9th - Nicolas Ledesma, composer
Jul 26th - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM
Sep 1st - Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy)
Sep 5th - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer (Golt Und Die Natur)
Sep 20th - Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika)
Sep 22nd - Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor
Sep 23rd - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet)
Sep 23rd - Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt)
Sep 26th - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
Oct 1st - Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family)
Oct 26th - Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity)
Oct 31st - Ferdinand Huber, composer
Nov 11th - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
Dec 4th - Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer
Dec 9th - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer
Dec 12th - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
Dec 14th - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
Dec 24th - A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton)

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