Famous Personalities Born In 1759

Jan 04 Maria rosa coccia: Composer  

Jan 05 Jacques cathelineau: French royalist/army leader  

Jan 17 Paul cuffe: Mass, merchant/shipbuilder/black nationalist  

Jan 21 Johan valckenaer: Dutch politician/patriot  

Jan 25 Robert burns: Alloway scotland, poet (auld lang syne)  

Jan 31 Francois devienne: Composer  

Feb 15 Friedrich a wolfius: [wolf], german philological (prolegomena)  

Feb 27 Johann carl friedrich rellstab: Composer  

Mar 02 Johann christian friedrich haeffner: Composer  

Mar 22 Hedwig elizabeth charlotte of holstein-gottorp: Queen of sweden and norway  

Apr 18 Jacques-christian-michel widerkehr: Composer  

Apr 27 Mary wollstonecraft godwin: England, writer/feminist (female reader)  

May 01 Jacob albright: [albrecht], german/us predictor  

May 06 Francois gjs andrieux: French writer/politician  

May 15 Maria theresia von paradis: Composer  

May 18 Charles duquesnoy: Composer  

May 20 William thornton: Architect (capitol building, wash dc)  

May 22 Gervais-francois couperin: Composer  

May 23 Antoinio da silva leite: Composer  

May 26 Mary wollstonecraft godwin: Writer/mother of mary shelley  

May 28 William pitt: The younger (c), english pm (1783-1801, 1804-06)  

Jun 02 Jan ekels: The young, dutch painter  

Jun 05 Theodor zwetler: Composer  

Jun 08 Thomas dunham whitaker: Rainham norfolk uk, topographer  

Jun 21 Alexander j. dallas: American statesman and financier  

Jul 10 Eleanore sophia maria westenholz: Composer  

Jul 19 Seraphim of sarov: Russian orthodox saint  

Jul 24 Victor emmanuel i: King of sardinia (1802-21)  

Aug 24 William wilberforce: British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade  

Sep 19 William kirby: English entomologist  

Sep 26 Hans d l earl yorck von wartenburg: Prussian fieldmarshal/gov-gen  

Oct 04 Antoine arbogast: French mathematician  

Oct 12 Frantisek vaclav tomes: Composer  

Oct 13 Ecco epkema: Dutch linguist (frisian, old-frisian)  

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Jan 01 Jacques-joachim trotti: Marquis de la chétardie, french adventurer (b. 1705)  

Jan 03 Marquis & marquess of tavora: Portugese nobles, executed  

Jan 05 Thomas-philippe et de boussu: S neth cardinal,  

Jan 12 Anne of hannover: English princess,  

Feb 15 Alexander von papenhoven: Flemish religious sculptor,  

Mar 11 John forbes: British general (b. 1710)  

Apr 08 Francois de la croix: Composer,  

Apr 14 Georg friedrich handel: Organist/composer (watermusic),