May 16
Today In History

Birthdays In History 1778

1778 Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski Polish archbishop (d. 1861)

1778 Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi Turkish Ney player and composer (d. 1846)

1778 Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Swiss botanist mycologist and academic (d. 1841)

1778 Rembrandt Peale American painter and curator (d. 1860)

1778 Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1841)

1778 Robert Emmet Irish republican (d. 1803)

1778 Edward Pakenham Anglo-Irish general and politician (d. 1815)

1778 Coenraad Jacob Temminck Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (d. 1858)

1778 Pierre Bretonneau French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy (d. 1862)

1778 Beau Brummell English cricketer and fashion designer (d. 1840)

1778 Gregory Blaxland English-Australian explorer (d. 1853)

1778 Jean Baptiste Gay vicomte de Martignac French politician 7th Prime Minister of France (d. 1832)

1778 Carl Ludvig Engel German architect (d. 1840)

1778 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Prussian gymnast educator and politician (d. 1852)

1778 Bernardo O'Higgins Chilean general and politician 2nd Supreme Director of Chile (d. 1842)

1778 James Kirke Paulding American poet playwright and politician 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1860)

1778 Louis Bonaparte French-Dutch king (d. 1846)

1778 Clemens Brentano German poet and author (d. 1842)

1778 Henry Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Scottish lawyer and politician Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)

1778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Russian admiral cartographer and explorer (d. 1852)

1778 Mariano Moreno Argentinian journalist lawyer and politician (d. 1811)

1778 George Bridgetower British musician and composer (d. 1860)

1778 Javier de Burgos Spanish jurist and politician (d. 1848)

1778 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)

1778 Johann Nepomuk Hummel Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)

1778 Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck English author and activist (d. 1856)

1778 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)

1778 John Ordronaux French-American soldier (d. 1841)

1778 Humphry Davy English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)

1778 Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1851)

1778 Anders Sandøe Ørsted Danish jurist and politician 3rd Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1860)

1778 Ugo Foscolo Italian author and poet (d. 1827)

1778 William Hazlitt English essayist and critic (d. 1830)

1778 Charles Vane 3rd Marquess of Londonderry Irish soldier and diplomat British Ambassador to Austria (d. 1854)

Gustav IV Adolf

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Born - Nov 01,1778

Died - Feb 07,1837

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José de San Martín

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Born - Feb 25,1778

Died - Aug 17,1850

Argentine

Joseph Grimaldi

Profession - Clown

Born - Dec 18,1778

Died - May 31,1837

English

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