Famous Personalities Born In 1787

Jan 05 John burke: Irish genealogist (burke's peerage)  

Jan 08 Johann ludwig bohner: Composer  

Jan 13 John davis: 14th and 17th governor of massachusetts  

Feb 13 James p carrell: Composer  

Feb 16 Andreas schelfhout: Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer  

Feb 23 Emma willard: Us, opens school for young ladies (hall of fame)  

Mar 06 Joseph von fraunhofer: Germany, physicist (studied sun's spectrum)  

Mar 08 Karl ferdinand von grafe: Help create modern plastic surgery  

Mar 10 William etty: English painter (nudes)  

Mar 11 Ivan nabokov: Russian general  

Mar 16 Georg simon ohm: Physicist (discovered ohm's law)  

Mar 17 George simon ohm: Physicist (discovered ohm's law)  

Apr 13 John robertson: U.s. politician  

Apr 19 Deaf smith: American frontiersman and revolutionary  

Apr 26 Ludwig uhland: Writer  

May 07 Jacques viger: French canadian politician, first mayor of montreal  

Jun 04 Constant prévost: French geologist  

Jun 28 Henry g w smith: Leader of british-indian forces  

Aug 15 Alexander aliabiev: Composer  

Aug 24 James weddell: Ostend england, antarctic explorer (weddell sea)  

Sep 01 John bake: Classical composer  

Sep 05 François sulpice beudant: French mineralogist and geologist  

Sep 10 John jordan crittenden: Mc (union), died in 1863  

Sep 18 Johann d passavant: German historian/painter/graphic artist  

Oct 04 Francois p g guizot: French historian/politician  

Oct 30 Karl guhr: Composer  

Nov 04 Edmund kean: England, actor (edmund kean's masonic career)  

Nov 17 Michele carafa: Composer  

Nov 18 Sojourner truth: Abolitionist/feminist  

Nov 18 Louis-jacques daguerre: French inventor and photographer  

Nov 21 Samuel cunard: Founder (1st regular atlantic steamship line)  

Nov 25 Franz xavier gruber: Austria, organist/composer (silent night)  

Nov 27 Christian rummel: Composer  

Nov 27 Jacob earl van rechteren van appeltern: Governor of gelderland  

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Jan 01 Arthur middleton: Us farmer (signed decl of independence),  

Feb 12 Ruggiero boscovich: Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher,  

Feb 13 RuÄ‘er boÅ¡ković: Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)  

Mar 02 Jean some allamand: French theologist/natural philosopher,  

Mar 11 Maximilian jlp gardel: French ballet dancer/choreographer,  

Apr 01 Floyer sydenham: English classical scholar (b. 1710)  

Apr 02 Thomas gage: British general (b. 1719)  

May 10 William watson: English physician and scientist (b. 1715)