Famous Personalities Born In 1778

Jan 03 Antoni melchior fijaÅ‚kowski: Polish bishop  

Jan 05 Fortunato santini: Composer  

Jan 10 Carolus linnaeus: Swedish botanist (naming plants & animals)  

Jan 13 Anton fischer: Composer  

Jan 24 Charles f: Duke of berry/son of french king charles x  

Jan 26 Ugo foscolo: Italian poet (ultime lettere di jacopo ortis)  

Jan 31 Franz anton graaf von kolowrat: Austrian premiere of bohemia (1848)  

Feb 04 A. p. de candolle: Swiss botanist  

Feb 05 Robert peel: British pm (1834-46)/founder (tories)  

Feb 06 Ugo foscolo: Italy, poet (last letters of jacopo ortis)  

Feb 12 Franz joseph volkert: Composer  

Feb 13 Fernando sor: Composer  

Feb 14 Fernando joseph maria sor: Composer  

Feb 22 Rembrandt peale: Portrait/historical painter (court of death)  

Feb 25 Jose francisco de san martin: Liberated argentina, chile and peru  

Mar 03 Frederica of mecklenburg-strelitz: Queen of hanover  

Mar 08 Friedrich august kanne: Composer  

Mar 19 Edward pakenham: British general  

Mar 31 Coenraad jacob temminck: Dutch zoologist  

Apr 06 Joseph funk: Composer  

Apr 10 William hazlitt: Maidstone kent england, essayist/critic  

May 08 Johann gansbacher: Composer  

May 18 Charles william vane: 3rd marquess of londonderry  

May 28 Friedrich westenholz: Composer  

Jun 07 George bryan "beau" brummel: London england, english dandy  

Jul 07 Antonio francesco gaetano s pacini: Composer  

Jul 10 Sigismund ritter von neukomm: Austrian composer/royal chaplain master  

Jul 25 Heinrich gebhard: Composer  

Jul 28 Charles stewart: Rear admiral (union navy), died in 1869  

Jul 29 Carl borromaus neuner: Composer  

Aug 11 Friedrich ludwig jahn: Founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement  

Aug 12 Francis horner: Politician  

Aug 18 Fabian gottlieb von bellinghausen: 1st to circumnavigate antarctica  

Aug 20 Bernardo o'higgins: Won independence for chile  

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Jan 04 Charles d j eisen: French engraver/painter,  

Jan 10 Carolus linaeus "carl von linne": Swedish botanist/explorer,  

Feb 15 Johann gottlieb gorner: Composer,  

Feb 18 Joseph marie terray: French statesman (b. 1715)  

Feb 20 Laura bassi: Italian scholar (b. 1711)  

Mar 05 Thomas a arne: English composer (alfred, rule britannia),  

Mar 07 Charles de geer: Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)  

Mar 13 Charles le beau: French historian (b. 1701)