1789 - Births

Births

  • January 4 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (d. 1839)
  • January 12 – Ettore Perrone di San Martino, prime minister of Sardinia (d. 1849)
  • January 21 – William Machin Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (d. 1865)
  • February 22 – René Edward De Russy, Brigadier General of the United States Army, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and military engineer (d. 1865)
  • March 16 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
  • May 1 – George Fife Angas, Founder of South Australia (d. 1879)
  • July 19 – John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
  • August 21 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
  • August 28 – Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
  • September 15 – James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851)
  • October 8 – William John Swainson an English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)
  • December 15 – Edward B Dudley, North Carolina governor
  • December 28 – Catharine Sedgwick, American writer (d. 1867)
  • date unknown
    • Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq, Urdu poet (d. 1854)
    • Friedrich List, German journalist (d. 1846)

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