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1778 births

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British chemist

José de San Martín

Argentine general and independence leader (1778–1850)

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)

Italian writer and poet (1778–1827)

Louis Bonaparte

king of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte (1778-1846)

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer (1778–1852)

Bernardo O'Higgins

Chilean independence leader (1778–1842)

Clemens Brentano

German poet and novelist (1778–1842)

William Hazlitt

English essayist and writer (1778–1830)

Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden

King of Sweden between 1792-1809 (1778–1837)

Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle

Swiss botanist (1778–1841)

Marie Thérèse of France

French Madame Royale (1778–1851)

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Austrian composer and pianist (1778–1837)

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Italian antiquarian (1778-1823)

Coenraad Jacob Temminck

Dutch aristocrat and zoologist (1778–1858)

Sophie Blanchard

French aeronaut

queen of Imerina (1828-1861)

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

German educator, writer and politician (1778-1852)

Spanish classical guitarist and composer (1778-1839)

Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński

Polish philosopher

Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry

Member of the French royal family (1778–1820)

Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Duchess of Mecklenburg, Princess of Prussia, Solms-Braunfels & Great Britain, Queen of Hanover (1778-1841)

Carl Ludvig Engel

German architect (1778–1840)

Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader (1780-1803)

Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko

Ukrainian writer (1778–1843)

Carl Ludwig Koch

German entomologist and arachnologist (1778–1857)

English man of fashion (1778–1840)

Kittur Chennamma

Indian freedom fighter, warrior queen

Abd al-Rahman of Morocco

Sultan of Morocco from 1822 to 1859

Augustinos Kapodistrias

Greek soldier and politician (1778-1857)

Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac

French politician (1778-1832)

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1778-1868)

British mason, bricklayer and inventor (1778-1855)

Honoré V, Prince of Monaco

Prince of Monaco (1778-1841)

Charles Alexandre Lesueur

French naturalist, artist, and explorer (1778–1846)

Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent

French naturalist, geographer and officer (1778-1846)

Joseph Grimaldi

English actor, comedian and dancer

Jacques-Joseph Champollion

French archaeologist and librarian (1778-1867)

Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

German Grand Duke (1778-1819)

Joseph Lancaster

British educator

Argentine lawyer, journalist, and politician

Anders Sandøe Ørsted

Danish politician and jurist (1778-1860)

Manuel Blanco Ramos

Spanish botanist (1778–1845)

Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

German princess (1778–1835)

Georg Anton Friedrich Ast

German philosopher

Rembrandt Peale

American painter (1778-1860)

Sigismund von Neukomm

Austrian composer and pianist (1778–1858)

Carl Bernhard von Trinius

German botanist (1778-1844)

Alire Raffeneau Delile

French botanist (1778-1850)

Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

Javier de Burgos

Spanish writer, politician and jurist (1778-1848)

George Bridgetower

British musician

Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł

Polish-Lithuanian noble (1778-1850)

Scottish philosopher and poet, born 1778

James Kirke Paulding

American writer (1778–1860)

Louis Antoine François Baillon

French naturalist and collector (1778-1855)

George Bellas Greenough

English geologist (1778–1855)

Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky

Czech nobleman (1778-1861)

William Herbert

British botanist, botanical illustrator, poet, and clergyman (1778–1847)

Catherine McAuley

19th-century Irish sister, venerated by the Roman Catholic Church