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| | John Frank Newton | 1770 | 1811 | | 1811 | 1825 |
 | 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... |  | Alexander Cumming | 1733 | 1750 | | 1814 | 1814, Mar 8 | | | a Scottish watchmaker and instrument inventor, who was the first to patent a design of the flush ... | | 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... | | 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... | | 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... |  | 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... | | 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... | | 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... |
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