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Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
German philosopher (1775–1854)
J. M. W. Turner
English painter and draftsman (c.1775–1851)
Bahadur Shah Zafar
18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857
Charles Lamb
British essayist, poet, antiquarian (1775–1834)
Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême
French prince (1775–1844)
Louisa Adams
First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829
Étienne-Louis Malus
French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (1775-1812)
Eugène François Vidocq
French criminal and criminalist
Matthew Gregory Lewis
English novelist and dramatist (1775–1818)
Lucien Bonaparte
1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (1775–1840)
Daniel O'Connell
Irish political leader (1775–1847)
Walter Savage Landor
English writer, poet, and activist (1775–1864)
Carlota Joaquina of Spain
Queen of Portugal from 1816 to 1826
Anna Harrison
First Lady of the United States from 1841 to 1841
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
German entomologist and zoologist (1775-1813)
Georg Friedrich Grotefend
German epigraphist and philologist
François Adrien Boieldieu
French composer
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician
Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach
German legal scholar (1775-1833)
Carlo Rossi
Italian-born Russian architect (1775-1849)
Bhimsen Thapa
Mukhtiyar and de facto ruler of Nepal from 1806 to 1837
Conrad Malte-Brun
Dano-French geographer
Teréz Brunszvik
Hungarian noble (1775-1861)
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
British Royal Navy admiral (1775-1860)
Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle
French general (1775–1809)
Carlo Porta
Italian poet
Bernhard Crusell
Swedish-Finnish clarinetist, composer and translator (1775–1838)
Thomas Girtin
British painter (1775-1802)
Adolf Stieler
German cartographer and publisher
Constance Mayer
French painter
Manuel García
Spanish opera singer, composer and impresario (1775-1832)
Antonio Bertoloni
Italian botanist (1775-1868)
Tenskwatawa
Tenskwatawa (; also called Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa or Lalawethika) (January 1775 – November 1836) was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was a younger brother of Tecumseh, a leader of the Shawnee. In his early years Tenskwatawa was given the name Lalawethika ("He Makes a Loud Noise" or "The Noise Maker"), but he changed it around 1805 and transformed himself from a hapless, alcoholic youth into a spiritual leader.
Antoni Radziwiłł
Polish and Prussian politician (1775-1833)
William Thompson
philosopher and political writer from Ireland (1775-1833)
James Barbour
American statesman and orator (1775-1842)
Laura Secord
Canadian heroine of the War of 1812 (1775–1868)
José Rebolledo de Palafox, 1st Duke of Saragossa
Spanish duke and general (1775-1847)
Juan Martín Díez
Spanish military leader and guerrilla fighter
Joseph Blanco White
Spanish journalist, poet and theologian
Rana Bahadur Shah
King of Nepal
Honoré Charles Reille
French general (1774–1860)
Jane Porter
Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure (1776-1850)
Baji Rao II
Peshwa of the Maratha empire (1776–1851)
Pauline Auzou
French painter (1775-1835)
François Marius Granet
French painter (1775-1849)
Adam Albert von Neipperg
Austrian marshall and nobleman (1775-1829)
Mamiya Rinzō
Japanese explorer
Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona
French general and Italian prince (1775–1832)
François Péron
French scientist and explorer
Maximilien Sebastien Foy
French military leader, statesman and writer (1775-1825)
Pablo Morillo
Spanish general
Lyman Beecher
American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder (1775–1863)
Karl Freiherr von Müffling
German general and cartographer (1775–1851)
George Prideaux Robert Harris
English explorer, artist and naturalist. Deputy surveyor of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
Mary Martha Sherwood
British children's author
Pietro Colletta
Italian general and historian
Francisco Ramón Vicuña
President of Chile (1775-1849)