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1759 William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06) 
1765 Jean Baptiste Cartier, composer.
1774 The inaugural Continental Congress convenes (Virginia).
1774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia).
1777 Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer.
1778 Friedrich Westenholz, composer.
1780 Joseph Frohlich, composer.
1782 Wouter J van Troostwijk, Dutch painter.
1787 Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67
1789 Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange)
1791 Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57.
1798 Josef Dessauer, composer.
1805 Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Ital composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62
1807 Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra
1810 Alexandre Calamo, Switz, painter/etcher/lithographer
1816 Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord.
1818 The inaugural steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched
1818 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched.
1818 Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, US Confederate gen (Hero of Sumter).
1819 William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907.
1820 Willem Doorenbos, [Keerom], literary/critic.
1828 Alpheus Baker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie.
1830 George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874.
1831 Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor
1833 Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74.
1836 Anton Reicha, composer, dies at 66.
1838 Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1916.
1838 Thomas Busby, composer, dies
1841 Giovanni Sgambati, composer
1843 Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84.
1844 Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer
1845 Fire in Quebec Canada, 1500 houses destroyed
1849 Princess WFLC Marianne and Albrecht of Prussia separate.
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