Famous Personalities Born In 1774

Jan 01 André marie constant duméril: French zoologist  

Jan 24 Karl moser: Composer  

Feb 11 Hans järta: Swedish political activist  

Feb 15 W g frederik: Prince of orange  

Feb 16 Pierre rode: Composer  

Feb 17 Raphaelle peale: Us, painter (after the rain-1823)  

Feb 24 Prince adolphus: 1st duke of cambridge  

Mar 05 Christoph ernst friedrich weyse: Composer  

Mar 16 Matthew flinders: English navigator/cartographer (coast australia)  

Mar 20 John braham: Composer  

Apr 17 Vaclav jan krtitel tomasek: Organist/pianist/composer  

Apr 21 Jean-baptiste biot: French physicist/astronomer (balloonist)  

Apr 26 Christian leopold von buch: German geologist  

Apr 28 Francis baily: Describer of "baily's beads" during solar eclipse  

May 07 William bainbridge: American commodore  

May 27 Francis beaufort: Admiral/hydrographer (beaufort wind force scale)  

Jun 02 William lawson: Explorer of new south wales, australia  

Jun 21 Daniel d tompkins: (d-r), 6th us vice-president (1817-25)  

Jun 23 Matthijs siegenbeek: Dutch linguist (spelling)  

Jun 24 François nicolas benoît: Baron haxo, french general  

Jul 20 Auguste marmont: French marshal  

Aug 12 Robert southey: English poet laureate/biographer of nelson  

Aug 18 Meriwether lewis: Charlottsville va, capt (lewis & clark expedition)  

Aug 28 Elizabeth ann bayley seton: 1st american catholic saint (1975)  

Sep 08 Anna k emmerick/emmerich: German poet  

Sep 17 Joseph caspar mezzofanti: Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)  

Sep 26 John chapman: [johnny appleseed], frontier nurseryman  

Oct 07 Ferdinando orlandi: Composer  

Oct 14 Hubert maj van asch van wijck: Dutch politician  

Oct 18 Adolfs muller: Writer  

Nov 14 Gaspare luigi pacifico spontini: Composer  

Nov 15 William horsley: Composer  

Nov 18 Wilhelmine of prussia: Queen of the netherlands  

Nov 24 Thomas dick: Scottish scientific teacher and writer  

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Jan 21 Mustapha iii: Sultan of turkey (1957-74),  

Jan 30 Frantisek ignac antonin tuma: Composer,  

Feb 04 Charles marie de la condamine: French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)  

Feb 10 Florian leopold gassmann: Composer,  

Apr 04 Oliver goldsmith: Irish poet (she stoops to conquer),  

Apr 23 Christian wilhelm ernst dietrich: Painter,  

May 04 Anthony ulrich ii: Duke of brunswick-lüneburg (b. 1714)  

May 10 Louis xv: King of france (1715-74),