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1733 1750s-1814 1814, Mar 8
a Scottish watchmaker and instrument inventor, who was the first to patent a design of the flush toilet, that had been invented by Sir John Harrington. The S-trap (or bend) was invented by Cumming in 1775 to retain water permanently within the bowl, thus preventing sewer gases from entering buildings. It survives in today's plumbing modified as a U- or J-shaped pipe trap located below or within a plumbing fixture. He also wrote a treatise on watchmaking.
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William Barrowby 1682 1718 1751 1758, Dec 30 an English physician. Barrowby was born in London, the son of John Barrowby, a physician. He was ... John Wood the Elder 1704 1725 1754 1754, May 23 an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew... Henry Fielding 1707, Apr 22 1728 1754 1754, Oct 8 an English novelist and dramatist best known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, a... Allan Ramsay [1] 1686 1712 1755 1758 a Scottish poet (or makar), playwright, publisher, librarian and wig-maker. As a pastoral writer ... Aaron Hart 1670 1692 1756 1756 the first chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1... Simon Awad 1683 1708 1756 1756, Feb 12 the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch from 1743 to his death in 1756, remembered as an Arab writer. I... Samuel Richardson 1689, Aug 19 1706 1758 1761, Jul 4 an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: ... James Ralph 1705 1724 1758 1762, Jan 24 an American born English political writer, historian, reviewer, and Grub Street hack writer known... Pope Benedict XIV 1675, Mar 31 1740 1758 1758, May 3 Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1740 until his death in1758. Perhaps one of the greatest s... Alexander Volck unknown 1740 1759 unknown the city scribe for the Wetteravian town of Büdingen in Hesse, Germany during the mid 18th centu... John Angell unknown 1750 1759 unknown an Irish professional shorthand writer. Angell was from Dublin, and professor of the art there. A... Zhiyanzhai unknown 1750 1759 unknown the pseudonym of an early, mysterious commentator of the 18th-century Chinese novel Dream of t... Francesco Vanneschi unknown 1732 1760 unknown an Italian opera manager, director and librettist. He was known as having been active as a libret... Johann Georg Bergmuller 1688, Apr 15 1702 1762 1762, Apr 2 a painter, particularly of frescoes, of the Baroque. Bergmüller quickly acquired a high reputati... Edward Young 1681 1713 1762 1765 an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts . Young is said to have been a brillian... Richard Brookes unknown 1721 1763 unknown an English physician and author of compilations and translations on medicine, surgery, natural hi... Ann Smith Franklin 1696, Oct 2 1736 1763 1763, Apr 16 an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband... Mikhail Lomonosov 1711, Nov 8 1742 1764 1765, Apr 4 a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, educati... Firmin Abauzit 1679, Nov 11 1698 1767 1767, Mar 20 a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Genev... Laurence Sterne 1713, Nov 24 1737 1768 1768, Mar 18 an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opin... Menon unknown 1739 1768 unknown the pseudonym of an 18th-century French cookbook author; his true identity is unknown. His numero... Thomas Secker 1693 1758 1768 1768, Aug 3 the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 1758 until his death in 1768. In 1737 ... Johann Joachim Quantz 1697, Jan 30 1716 1769 1773, Jul 12 a German flutist, flute maker and composer. He composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, ... William Stork unknown 1750 1769 1768 an oculist in England and the American colonies, and subsequently settled in the British colony o... Pal Bajai unknown 1760 1769 unknown a Hungarian Franciscan friar of the Observant reform and spiritual writer during the 18th century... Marie-Anne de Roumier-Robert unknown 1760 1769 unknown an 18th-century French writer. Very little is known about her life. She wrote one of the earliest... Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin 1666 1680 177 unknown a French numismatist, writer and painter during the 17th century. Granddaughter of medical doctor... Enrique Florez 1701, Feb 14 1716 1770 1773, Aug 20 a Spanish historian. At 15 years old, he entered the order of St Augustine. He subsequently becam... David Hume 1711, Apr 26 1736 1771 1776, Aug 25 a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highl... Tobias Smollett 1721, Mar 19 1748 1771 1771, Sep 17 a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures o... Walter Gale unknown 1750 1771 unknown the first schoolmaster of the Mayfield Charity School in Mayfield, East Sussex, now the Mayfield ... Thomas Nugent 1700 ca 1749 1772 1772, Apr 27 an erudite Irish historian and travel writer. Today he is known most of all for his travelogue of... John Woolman 1720, Oct 19 1755 1772 1772, Oct 7 a North American merchant, tailor, journalist, and itinerant Quaker preacher, and an early abolit... Junius unknown 1769 1772 unknown the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the Public Advertiser, from 21 J... James Ferguson [3] 1710, Apr 25 1720 1773 1776, Nov 17 a Scottish astronomer, instrument and globe maker. It is, as the inventor and improver of astron... Oliver Goldsmith [1] 1728, Nov 10 1756 1774 1774, Apr 4 an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield... Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712, Jun 28 1739 1776 1778, Jul 2 a philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the ... Voltaire 1694, Nov 21 1713 1778 1778, May 30 a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the ... Robert Rogers 1731, Nov 7 1746 1779 1795, May 18 an American colonial frontiersman. Rogers served in the British army during both the French and I... Thomas Edwards [4] 1729 1751 1779 1785 an Anglican clergyman and divine. In 1759 Edwards published The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace pr... George Andrews unknown 1770 1779 unknown a barrister-at-law. Andrews published reports of cases argued in the court of King's Bench during... M.D.T. Bienville unknown 1770 1779 unknown an obscure French doctor, he wrote the first full-length study abount nymphomania, entitled Nymph... Sophia Briscoe unknown 1770 1779 unknown an 18th-century English novelist. Little is known of her life. Briscoe was the author of the epis... Phillis Wheatley 1753 1773 1779 1784 the first published African-American female poet. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery ... Constantin Christian Dedekind 1628, Apr 2 1652 178 1715 a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. His 1657 songb... Hemmou Talb unknown 1760 1780 unknown a Moroccan poet from the 18th century writing in Berber (Tashelhit). His nickname was bab n umarg... Jose Francisco de Isla 1703, Apr 24 1722 1781 1781, Nov 2 a Spanish Jesuit, celebrated as a preacher and a humorist and satirist of the stamp of Miguel de ... Samuel Johnson [2] 1709, Sep 18 1744 1781 1784, Dec 13 an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moral... John Witherspoon 1723, Feb 5 1745 1781 1794, Nov 15 a Scots Presbyterian minister and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence a... Denis Diderot 1713, Oct 5 1743 1782 1784, Jul 31 a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment... Cesar-Francois Cassini de Thury 1714, Jun 17 1735 1784 1784, Sep 4 a French astronomer and cartographer. His chief works are: La méridienne de l’Observatoire ... Henry Alline 1748, Jun 14 1776 1784 1784, Feb 2 minister, evangelist, and writer, who became known as "The Apostle of Nova Scotia". Born at Newpo... Benjamin Calau 1724 1743 1785 1785 a German portrait painter, who used an encaustic technique. He painted some portraits for Johann ... Patience Wright 1725 1770 1785 1786, Mar 23 the first recognized American-born sculptor. She chiefly created wax figures of people. She loved... Rudjer Boscovich 1711, May 18 1740 1786 1787, Feb 13 a Ragusan physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit p... Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742, Dec 9 1757 1786 1786, May 21 a Swedish Pomeranian and pharmaceutical chemist. Isaac Asimov called him "hard-luck Scheele" bec... Jupiter Hammon 1711, Oct 17 1760 1786 1806 ca a black poet who in 1761 became the first African-American writer to be published in the present-... Maurycy Beniowski 1746, Sep 20 1762 1786 1786, May 23 a Hungarian nobleman of Polish and Hungarian ancestry. He was an explorer, writer, the self-decla... Robert Nugent 1709 1739 1788 1788, Oct 13 an Irish politician and poet. He was tersely described by Richard Glover as a jovial and voluptuo... Edward Gibbon 1737, May 8 1758 1788 1794, Jan 16 an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of th... Benjamin Franklin 1705, Jan 6 1718 1789 1790, Apr 17 one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading aut... Adam Smith 1723, Jun 5 1748 1789 1790, Jul 17 a Scottish economist, philosopher, and author. He was a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political... Ethan Allen 1737, Jan 10 1757 1789 1789, Feb 12 a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, and American Revolut... Isaac Alexander unknown 1770 1789 unknown a German author. He lived in South Germany in the second half of the 18th century, and wrote on p... John Ledyard 1751, Nov 1770 1789 1789, Jan 10 an American explorer and adventurer. In June 1776, Ledyard joined Captain James Cook's third and ... Mohammed al-Haik unknown 1780 1789 unknown a Moroccan poet, musician and author of a songbook (el-kunash) comprising eleven nubas, that had ... Abraham Brook unknown 1780 1789 unknown an English bookseller in Norwich, now remembered as an experimental physicist, working with elect... Aaron ben Isaac of Rechnitz unknown 1780 1789 unknown the author of a midrashic commentary on the Bible, the first portion of which (Genesis) was publi... James Bruce 1730, Dec 14 1762 1790 1794, Apr 27 a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethi... Phebe Gibbes unknown 1764 1790 1805 an 18th-century English novelist and early feminist. She authored twenty-two books between 1764 a... Robert Burns 1759, Jan 25 1775 1790 1796, Jul 21 a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celeb... Francis Hopkinson 1737, Sep 21 1761 1791 1791, May 9 designed the first official American flag. He was an author, a composer, and one of the signers o... Carl Michael Bellman 1740, Feb 4 1768 1791 1795, Feb 11 a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swe... George Whatley unknown 1772 1791 unknown a contemporary, friend and correspondent of Benjamin Franklin. He was also Vice-President (1772-1... John Burgoyne 1722, Feb 24 1743 1792 1792, Aug 4 a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War... George Mason 1725, Nov 30 1747 1792 1792, Oct 7 a Virginia planter and politician, and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, ... Jackson Johonnet unknown 1793 1793 unknown the pseudonymous author of a spurious Indian captivity narrative that enjoyed much popularity in ... Maximilien Robespierre 1758, May 6 1789 1794 1794, Jul 28 a French lawyer and politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the Fre... Henry Emlyn 1729 1781 1795 1815, Dec 10 an English architect. Emlyn published A Proposition for a new Order in Architecture, with rules f... Sir William Chambers 1723, Feb 23 1740 1796 1796, Mar 10 a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, Lon... Horace Walpole 1717, Sep 24 1737 1797 1797, Mar 2 an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill... Giacomo Casanova 1725, Apr 2 1742 1797 1798, Jun 4 an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma v... Benjamin Banneker 1731, Nov 9 1753 1797 1806, Oct 9 a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. His knowledge of astrono... Martha Mears unknown 1797 1797 unknown an eighteenth-century midwife and author. Mears was a midwife, mother, and author in London, Engl... Margaretta Faugeres 1771, Oct 11 1790 1798 1801, Jan 9 She was an American playwright, poet and political activist. She was committed to establishing he... Ashley Bowen 1728, Jan 8 1741 1799 1813 the first American sailor to write an autobiography. Although Bowen's career as a sailor was not ... John Andree unknown 1780 1799 unknown an English surgeon. Andree published several books, chiefly on surgical subjects. Through not bei... Mercy Harbison unknown 1790 1799 unknown a young American woman living in the decades immediately following the Revolutionary War, who was... Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson 1737, Feb 3 1764 1801 1801, Feb 23 an American poet and writer; her main literary project was the translation of Telemachus from the... John Adams [2] 1735, Oct 30 1797 1801 1826, Jul 4 an American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second President of the Uni... Eliza Bromley unknown 1784 1803 unknown an English novelist and translator. Nothing is really known about the details of her life. Mrs B... Thomas Paine [2] 1736, Jan 29 1761 1804 1809, Jun 8 an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of... Friedrich Schiller 1759, Nov 10 1781 1804 1805, May 9 a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years... Mercy Otis Warren 1728, Sep 14 1765 1805 1814, Oct 19 a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics... Jacob Bailey 1731, Apr 16 1755 1808 1808, Jul 26 an author and clergyman of the Church of England, active in New England and Nova Scotia. Bailey w... Jean-Nicolas Demeunier 1751, Mar 15 1789 1808 1814, Feb 2 a French author and politician. It was as a member of the Constitutional Committee that Démeunie... Jorgen Jorgensen 1780, Mar 29 1807 1808 1841, Jan 20 a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the Action of 2 March 1808 his ship was ... Xosefa Xovellanos 1745, Jun 4 1740 1809 1807 the younger sister of Asturian politician illustrated Gaspar Melchor de Xovellanos and prominent ... Joseph Quesnel 1746, Nov 15 1766 1809 1809, Jul 2/3 a French Canadian composer, poet, and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Co... William Batt 1744, Jun 18 1770 1809 1812, Feb 9 an English physician, chemist, and botanist. On completing his studies he returned to England, bu... Antal Amade de Varkony unknown 1790 1809 unknown a Hungarian Count and Prefect of Zagreb in Croatia, who established the first public theatre in t... William Felton [2] unknown 1790 1809 unknown a London coachmaker from 36 Leather Lane in Holborn, and 254 Oxford Street near Grosvenor Square,... Elizabeth Bath 1776, Feb 17 1800 1809 1844, Oct 3 the author of a collection of sixty-six poems published by subscription in 1806 in Bristol. She w... Jeremiah Learnoult Garrett unknown 1800 1809 unknown an English dissenting minister. At the age of fourteen or fifteen he had a vision of an "ancient ... Andrew Grant unknown 1800 1809 unknown a physician and writer. There is very little information available concerning the details of his ... Jean-Dominique Cassini 1748 Jun 30 1768 1810 1845, Oct 18 a French astronomer, he succeeded his father as director of the observatory. He published in 177... Charles Brockden Brown 1771, Jan 17 1793 1810 1810, Feb 22 an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded b... Thomas Edwards [6] unknown 1810 1810 1842, Jul 4 an English clergyman. Edwards was the son of Thomas Edwards. He graduated LL.B. in 1782 from Clar... Louis Antoine de Bougainville 1729, Nov 12 1753 1811 1811, Aug 31 a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in... Paul Revere 1734, Dec 21 1756 1811 1818, May 10 an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution.... Abijah Adams 1754 ca 1799 1811 1816, Mar 18 a journalist who frequently found himself involved in controversies. In 1799 he was convicted of ... John Frank Newton 1770 1811 1811 1825 Helped begin vegetarian movement with The Return to Nature, or a defence of the vegetable regi... Joel Barlow 1754, Mar 24 1778 1812 1812, Dec 26 an American poet and diplomat, and French politician. In politics, he supported the French Revolu... Shneur Zalman of Liadi 1745, Sep 4 1780 1812 1812, Dec 15 an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first (Lubavitcher) Rebbe of Chabad (1780–1812), a branc... Samuel Bard 1742, Apr 1 1765 1813 1821, May 24 an American physician who founded the first medical school in New York City and the second medica... Samuel Osgood 1747, Feb 3 1771 1813 1813, Aug 12 an American merchant and statesman born in Andover, Massachusetts, currently a part of North Ando... David Ramsay 1749, Apr 2 1773 1815 1815, May 8 an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one... Benjamin Smith Barton 1766, Feb 10 1789 1815 1815, Dec 19 an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. Barton corresponded with naturalists throughout ... Xu Song 1781 1802 1816 1848 a Chinese official exiled to Central Asia during the period of the military governorship of Xinji... Friedrich Maximilian Klinger 1752, Feb 17 1773 1817 1831, Feb 25 a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave name to the Sturm und Drang... Nathan Drake 1766, Jan 15 1780 1817 1836 an English essayist and physician. Drake was apprenticed to a doctor in York in 1780, and in 1786... Jane Austen 1775, Dec 16 1787 1817 1817, Jul 18 an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a pl... Anne Seymour Damer 1749, Nov 8 1784 1818 1828, May 28 an English sculptor and novelist. During the period 1784–1818, Damer exhibited 32 works as an h... Jacob Axelsson Lindblom 1746, Jul 27 1779 1819 1819, Feb 15 a Swedish scholar who eventually became archbishop of Uppsala for the Lutheran Swedish Church, a ... Mary Ann Hanway unknown 1790 1819 unknown an eighteenth century travel writer and novelist. She has been proposed as the anonymous author o... Charles Holt unknown 1797 1819 unknown printer, political provacateur Caroline Burney unknown 1800 1819 unknown the probably pseudonymous author of two early 19th-century three-volume novels published in Londo... Jonathan Ashe unknown 1810 1819 unknown an Irish masonic write born in Limerick. Very little is known of him except that he commenced and... Francis Balfour unknown 1810 1819 unknown a British medical officer and medical author who lived and worked primarily in British India. The... George Greene 1747 ca 1810 1819 unknown a traveller, land-steward and writer. In 1787 a decree in the court of chancery deprived him of t... Henry Fuseli 1741, Feb 7 1761 1820 1825, Apr 17 a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his... Moses Hoge 1752, Feb 15 1787 1820 1820, Jul 5 a Presbyterian minister and educator. He served as the sixth President of Hampden–Sydney Colleg... Joaquim Machado de Castro 1731, Jun 19 1770 1822 1822, Nov 17 one of Portugal's foremost sculptors, and a celebrated figure throughout Europe in the eighteenth... Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749, Sep 19 1788 1822 1822, Aug 19 a French mathematician and astronomer. He was also director of the Paris Observatory, and author ... Frodsham Hodson 1770, Jun 7 1791 1822 1822, Jan 18 an English churchman and academic, the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1809. He edite... Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792, Aug 4 1810 1822 1822, Jul 8 one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as we... Thomas Jefferson 1743, Apr 2 1767 1824 1826, Jul 4 an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and ... Hannah Adams 1755, Oct 2 1784 1824 1831, Dec 15 an American author of books on comparative religion and early United States history. She was born... Mary Charlton unknown 1794 1824 unknown a novelist and translator who wrote at least ten novels between 1794 and 1824. She also translate... George Gordon Byron 1788, Jan 22 1805 1824 1824, Apr 19 an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are... William Hull 1753, Jun 24 1775 1825 1825, Nov 29 an American soldier and politician. He fought in the American Revolution and was appointed as Gov... Claude Henri de Rouvroy 1760, Oct 17 1779 1825 1825, May 19 a French political and economic theorist and businessperson whose thought played a substantial ro... Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749, Mar 23 1771 1827 1827, Mar 5 an influential French scholar whose work was important to the development of mathematics, statist... Franz Xaver von Zach 1754, Jun 4 1780 1827 1832, Sep 2 a Hungarian astronomer born in Pest, Hungary. Zach published Tables of the Sun (Gotha, 179... William Maclure 1763, Oct 27 1782 1827 1840, Mar 23 an Americanized Scottish geologist, cartographer and philanthropist. He is known as the 'father o... Luigi Romanelli 1751, Jul 21 1785 1828 1839, Mar 1 an Italian opera librettist. Romanelli was born in Rome. He wrote tens of librettos, most of them... Hannah Webster Foster 1758, Sep 10 1770 1829 1840, Apr 17 an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton ... Sir Humphry Davy 1778, Dec 17 1795 1829 1829, May 29 a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkal... Jonathan Swift 1667, Nov 30 1690 183 1745, Oct 19 an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Torie... William Dimond 1750 ca 1800 1830 1837 ca a playwright, the eldest surviving son of William Wyatt Dimond (c. 1750-1812), actor and theatric... Richard Allen [2] 1760, Feb 14 1777 1831 1831, Mar 26 a minister, educator, writer, and one of America's most active and influential black leaders. In ... Marianne Ehrenstrom 1773, Dec 9 1790 1831 1867, Jan 4 a Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, memorialist, principal and lady-... John Watkins [2] unknown 1792 1831 unknown an English miscellaneous writer, known as a biographer. He is most famous for being the author of... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770, Aug 27 1793 1831 1831, Nov 14 a German philosopher and an important figure of German Idealism. He achieved wide renown in his d... Sir Walter Scott 1771, Aug 15 1796 1831 1832, Sep 21 a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Au... Jean-Francois Champollion 1790, Dec 23 1806 1831 1832, Mar 4 a French scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of the Egyptian ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749, Aug 28 1770 1832 1832, Mar 22 a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a varie... Emily Clark unknown 1798 1833 unknown an English novelist of the 18th century. There is very little information available about the det... Charles Lamb 1775, Feb 10 1798 1833 1834, Dec 27 an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tal... William Dunlap 1766, Feb 19 1783 1834 1839, Sep 28 a pioneer of American theater. He was a producer, playwright, and actor, as well as a historian. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772, Oct 21 1792 1834 1834, Jul 25 an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a f... William Wirt 1772, Nov 8 1792 1834 1834, Feb 18 an American author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attor... James Hogg 1770 1797 1835 1835, Nov 21 a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he wor... Thomas Edwards [5] 1775 1805 1835 1845, Oct 20 a British legal writer. Edwards studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded LL.B. in 1... Robert Southey 1774, Aug 12 1791 1837 1843, Mar 21 an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for ... Christian Heinrich Nebbien 1778 1783 1839 1841 a German-born landscaping architect, mainly active in Austria. He also wrote a book on the metho... Solomon Southwick 1773, Dec 25 1792 1839 1839, Nov 18 a New York newspaper publisher and political figure who was a principal organizer of the Anti-Mas... Marta Helena Reenstierna 1753, Sep 16 1793 1839 1841, Jan 12 a Swedish diary writer. Her diaries were written in the period 1793–1839, and are kept at the a... Joel Root 1770 1802 1840 1847 the author of a journal of his voyage around the world (1802–1806) while working as supercargo ... Francis Scott Key 1779, Aug 1 1805 1840 1843, Jan 11 an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland and later Georgetown, D.C.,... Edmund Fanning [2] 1769, Jul 16 1773 1841 1841, Apr 23 an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." As master of the ... Asher Benjamin 1773, Jun 15 1794 1841 1845, Jul 26 an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and t... Washington Allston 1779, Nov 5 1801 1841 1843, Jul 9 an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America'... Noah Webster 1758, Oct 16 1781 1843 1843, May 28 an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer... Thomas S. Hinde 1785, Apr 19 1801 1845 1846, Feb 9 an American newspaper editor, opponent of slavery, author, historian, real estate investor, Metho... Joseph Story 1779, Sep 18 1801 1845 1845, Sep 10 an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1... Thomas Moore 1779, May 28 1795 1846 1852, Feb 25 an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Min... Erik Gustaf Geijer 1783, Jan 12 1803 1846 1847, Apr 23 a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swed... William Wordsworth 1770, Apr 7 1787 1847 1850, Apr 23 a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Ag... Christianus Petrus Eliza Robide van der Aa 1791, Oct 7 1811 1848 1851, May 14 a Dutch jurist and author. In the Volksbode, which he edited and almost singlehandedly wrote from... Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela 1782, Mar 19 1802 1849 1856, Feb 18 a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. In the field of astronomy, he speciali... Leo von Klenze 1784, Feb 29 1808 1849 1864, Jan 26 a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, ... William Miller 1782, Feb 15 1809 1849 1849, Dec 20 an American Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-19th century North American r... Mary Shelley 1797, Aug 30 1810 1850 1851, Feb 1 an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best... Richard Garnett 1789, Jul 25 1811 1850 1850, Sep 27 an English philologist (historical linguist), author and librarian at the British Museum. Garnett... Edward Boys 1749 1796 1851 1866 an English sea captain. In 1803, Boys, when in charge of a prize, was made prisoner by the French... Lorenz Oken 1779, Aug 1 1802 1851 1851, Aug 11 a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss (Germa... Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen 1778, Sep 9 1796 1852 1852, Jan 13 a Baltic-German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose ... Francois Arago 1786, Feb 26 1804 1852 1853, Oct 2 a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the carbonari and politici... Thomas De Quincey 1785, Aug 15 1802 1853 1859, Dec 8 an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many... Leigh Hunt 1784, Oct 19 1801 1855 1859, Aug 28 an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer. In 1816 he made a mark in English literature with ... Robert Owen 1771, May 14 1792 1857 1858, Nov 17 a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement... Sergey Aksakov 1791, Sep 20 1812 1858 1859, Apr 30 a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family l... Charles Hamilton Smith 1776, Dec 26 1787 1859 1859, Sep 21 an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy. His military career bega... Lewis Cass 1782, Oct 9 1806 1860 1866, Jun 17 an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United St... Franz Grillparzer 1791, Jan 15 1811 1861 1872, Jan 21 an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van ... Edward Everett 1794, Apr 11 1813 1865 1865, Jan 15 an American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whi... Antoine-Henri Jomini 1779, Mar 6 1798 1869 1869, Mar 24 a Swiss officer who served as a general in the French and later in the Russian service, and one o... Mary Fairfax Somerville 1780, Dec 26 1811 1872 1872, Nov 29 a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was disco... Pyotr Vyazemsky 1792, Jul 23 1813 1877 1878, Nov 22 a leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. In the 1820s Vyazemsky was the most co... Rebecca Hammond Lard 1772, Mar 7 1786 194 1855, Sep 28 called by some critics "the first poet in Indiana". Her poetry reflects on the lives of the early...
