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Months in Year 1801: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 62 of 62

Jan 11th - John Lodge Ellerton, composer
Jan 21st - Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer
Jan 29th - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis)
Feb 1st - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer
Feb 1st - Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
Feb 1st - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881)
Feb 7th - John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
Feb 21st - Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer
Feb 21st - John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius)
Mar 15th - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer
Mar 21st - Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
Mar 23rd - Peterus D Regout, Dutch industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht)
Apr 7th - Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
Apr 11th - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
Apr 12th - Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader
Apr 12th - Josef Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist
Apr 19th - Gustav T Fechner, [Dr Mises], German philosopher/physicist
Apr 26th - Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
May 6th - George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
May 9th - Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
May 11th - Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
May 16th - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)
May 31st - Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
Jun 1st - Brigham Young, painter/religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist
Jun 3rd - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer
Jun 4th - James Pennethorne, architect
Jun 14th - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
Jun 15th - Benjamin Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
Jun 16th - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
Jun 23rd - Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Jul 5th - David Glasgow Farragut, Tenn, Vice Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1870
Jul 12th - John Hill Hewitt, composer
Jul 14th - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
Jul 26th - John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy), died in 1867
Jul 27th - George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal
Jul 29th - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
Aug 3rd - Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect (Crystal Palace)
Aug 10th - Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
Aug 21st - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian
Aug 28th - Antoine A Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician (rule of Cournot)
Sep 10th - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
Sep 12th - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing-teacher
Sep 17th - Edward William Lane, translator (Thousand & 1 Nights)
Sep 24th - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
Oct 6th - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
Oct 7th - Adolf Muller, composer
Oct 12th - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss statesman (d. 1873)
Oct 14th - Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist (blinded-stared at Sun 25 secs)
Oct 23rd - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer
Oct 28th - Karl Georg Lickl, composer
Nov 3rd - Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books
Nov 3rd - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma)
Nov 10th - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
Nov 13th - Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia (d. 1873)
Nov 13th - Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, queen of Saxony (d. 1877)
Nov 24th - Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
Nov 27th - Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer
Dec 7th - Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Austrian actor (Judith und Holofernes)
Dec 11th - Grabbe, writer
Dec 17th - Johan NMJ, king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia)
Dec 27th - Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49)
Dec 28th - James Barnes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1869

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