Abraham Gesner
Profession - Physician
Born - May 02,1797
Died - Apr 29,1864
1797 Mariano Paredes Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (d. 1849)
1797 Gideon Brecher Austrian physician and author (d. 1873)
1797 Joseph Méry French author and journalist (d. 1866)
1797 Maria Leopoldina of Austria (d. 1826)
1797 George Chichester 3rd Marquess of Donegall (d. 1883)
1797 Alaric Alexander Watts English poet and journalist (d. 1864)
1797 William I German Emperor (d. 1888)
1797 Alfred de Vigny French author poet and playwright (d. 1863)
1797 Abraham Pineo Gesner Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864)
1797 Joseph Brackett American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
1797 José Mariano Salas Mexican general and politician (d. 1867)
1797 Louise-Adéone Drölling French painter (d. 1836)
1797 Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
1797 José Trinidad Reyes Honduran philosopher and theorist (d. 1855)
1797 Hamilton Hume Australian explorer (d. 1873)
1797 Wilhelm Küchelbecker Russian poet and author (d. 1846)
1797 John Hughes Irish-American archbishop (d. 1864)
1797 Paweł Edmund Strzelecki Polish geologist and explorer (d. 1873)
1797 Francisco Javier Echeverría Mexican businessman and politician. President of Mexico (1841) (d. 1852)
1797 Henry Paget 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (d. 1869)
1797 Paul Delaroche French painter and academic (d. 1856)
1797 Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889)
1797 Daniel Drew American businessman and financier (d. 1879)
1797 Friedrich August Kummer German cellist and composer (d. 1879)
1797 Charles Robert Malden English lieutenant and surveyor (d. 1855)
1797 Saint Innocent of Alaska Russian Orthodox missionary priest then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (d. 1879)
1797 Stephen Geary English architect inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1854)
1797 Samuel Joseph May American activist (d. 1871)
1797 Heinrich Kuhl German naturalist and zoologist (d. 1821)
1797 Leopold II Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
1797 Juan Lavalle Argentine politician (d.1841)
1797 Giuditta Pasta Italian soprano (d. 1865)
1797 Gaetano Donizetti Italian composer (d. 1848)
1797 Heinrich Heine German journalist poet and critic (d. 1856)
1797 Joseph Henry American physicist and engineer (d. 1878)
1797 Antoine Louis Dugès French obstetrician and naturalist (d. 1838)
1797 Carl Georg von Wächter German jurist (d. 1880)
1797 Ghalib Indian poet (d. 1869)
1797 Charles Hodge American theologian (d. 1878)
1797 Charles Gray Round English lawyer and politician (d. 1867)
1797 Joseph von Radowitz Prussian general and politician Foreign Minister of Prussia (d. 1853)
1797 Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854)
