Famous Personalities Born In 1794

Jan 06 Kaspar masek: Composer  

Jan 10 Georg forster: German scientist and revolutionary  

Jan 25 François-vincent raspail: French chemist  

Feb 12 Alexander petrov: Russian chess player  

Feb 20 William carleton: Irish novelist  

Feb 21 Antonio lopez de santa anna: President of mexico (1833-36)  

Feb 25 Gerrit schimmelpenninck: Dutch earl of nijenhuis/peckedam  

Mar 05 Jacques babinet: French physicist/mathematician/astronomer  

Mar 05 Robert cooper grier: Justice of the u.s. supreme court  

Mar 16 Ami boué: Austrian geologist  

Mar 26 Julius schnorr von carolsfeld: German painter  

Mar 31 Thomas mckean thompson mckennan: American politician  

Apr 09 Theobald boehm: German inventor of the modern flute  

Apr 10 Matthew calbraith perry: Commodore, opened japan  

Apr 11 Edward everett: Dorchester mass, (gov-mass), statesman/orator  

Apr 12 Germinal p dandelin: Belgian mathematician (geometry)  

Apr 15 Jean pierre flourens: French physiologist  

Apr 17 Carl friedrich philipp von martius: German botanist  

Apr 23 Wei yuan: Chinese scholar  

May 13 Louis-leopold robert: French painter  

May 17 Anna brownell jameson: Dublin, writer  

May 23 Isaak-ignaz moscheles: Composer  

May 24 William whewell: British philosopher (history of inductive science)  

May 27 Cornelius vanderbilt: Millionaire (b & o railroad)  

May 29 Johann heinrich von mädler: German astronomer  

Jun 18 George grote: British historian  

Jul 03 Eberhard f walcker: German organ builder (paulskirche frankfurt)  

Jul 05 Sylvester graham: Developed graham cracker  

Jul 12 Heinrich christian pander: Russian zoologist  

Jul 14 John g lockhart: [scorpion], biographer (life of sir walter scott)  

Jul 24 Johan georg forchhammer: Danish geologist  

Aug 10 Leopold zunz: German scientist (synagogical poetry)  

Aug 11 James barton longacre: American engraver  

Aug 15 Elias m fries: Swedish botanist (system mycologicum)  

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Jan 08 Justus möser: German statesman (b. 1720)  

Jan 10 Georg forster: German scientist and revolutionary  

Jan 16 Edward gibbon: Historian (decline & fall),  

Jan 31 Marriott arbuthnot: British admiral (b. 1711)  

Mar 04 Henri d count de larochejacquelin: Fr royalist army leader,  

Mar 29 Marie-j-a-n c condorcet: Mathematician (theory of comets),  

Apr 05 Georges-jacques danton: French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34  

Apr 08 Marie-jean-antoine-nicholas-caritat: Mathematician