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Months in Year 1802: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 63 of 63

Jan 3rd - Feliks Ostrowski, composer
Jan 3rd - Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
Jan 6th - Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica)
Jan 13th - Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright
Jan 19th - [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belgium min of Foreign affairs (1831)
Jan 22nd - Richard Upjohn, US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY)
Jan 31st - Jan C J van Speijk, Dutch naval hero
Feb 2nd - Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist
Feb 4th - Mark Hopkins, US, educator/philosopher (Williams College)
Feb 6th - Charles Wheatstone, English physicist/musician [or Feb 7]
Feb 11th - Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany)
Feb 16th - Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, American philosopher (d. 1866)
Feb 19th - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
Feb 20th - Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer
Feb 21st - George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882
Feb 26th - Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)
Feb 27th - William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck, Lord George Bentinck
Mar 16th - George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Mar 24th - Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch MP
Author Victor Hugo (Feb 26th) Apr 1st - Hubert Reis, composer
Apr 4th - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
Apr 12th - Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader (Congregation of Heart)
Apr 13th - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
Apr 27th - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer
May 6th - Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist
May 15th - Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
May 31st - Cesare Pugni, composer
Jun 2nd - Adrian van der Hoop Jr, Dutch poet/critic
Jun 12th - Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
Jul 1st - Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union), died in 1878
Jul 3rd - Joseph Labitzky, composer
Jul 9th - Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor
Jul 12th - Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer
Jul 15th - John Barnett, composer
Jul 21st - David Hunter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Historical Novelist Alexandre Dumas (Jul 24th) Jul 24th - Alexandre Dumas, Aisne France, author (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo), (d. 1870)
Jul 24th - Ira Aldridge, African American stage actor
Jul 26th - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician
Jul 26th - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
Jul 27th - Benedikt Randhartinger, composer
Aug 2nd - Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster
Aug 5th - Niels H Abel, Norwegian mathematician (Abel's Comparisons)
Aug 13th - Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
Aug 14th - Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty)
Aug 20th - Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
Sep 4th - Marcus Whitman, missionary, led to US securing Oregon
Sep 6th - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
Sep 13th - Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
Sep 19th - Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary (1849)
Sep 24th - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
Oct 7th - Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer
Oct 8th - Peter Hofstede, the Great, Dutch reformed theologist
Oct 16th - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
Oct 25th - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
Oct 26th - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
Nov 9th - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
Nov 14th - August F Pott, German philologist (Etymology Forschungen)
Nov 19th - Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
Nov 20th - James Lawrence Lardner, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1881
Nov 29th - Wilhelm Hauff, writer
Dec 2nd - Melancthon Smith Wade, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Dec 15th - Janos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry)
Dec 27th - Thomas Fearnley, Norway, landscape painter

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