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Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Swedish chemist (1779–1848)

Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)

29th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1807–1808)

German geographer (1779-1859)

Friedrich Carl von Savigny

German jurist (1779-1861)

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

British politician (1779–1848)

Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia

Russian grand duke (1779–1831)

Elizabeth Alexeievna

empress consort of Russia; wife of Alexander I of Russia (1779–1826)

Adam Oehlenschläger

Danish poet and playwright (1779–1850)

Francis Scott Key

American lawyer and poet who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner (1779-1843)

Washington Allston

American artist (1779-1843)

German naturalist (1779-1851)

Antoine-Henri Jomini

French-Swiss officer who served as a general with the French and Russian armies and writer on the art of war (1779-1869)

Francis IV of Modena

Mountstuart Elphinstone

Governor of Bombay, Scottish historian (1779-1859)

Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily

Italian princess (1779-1849)

Louis de Freycinet

French navigator

George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

German Grand Duke (1779-1860)

Peter Mark Roget

English physician and philologist (1779-1869)

American military officer, explorer, and writer (1779-1813)

Augustin Saint-Hilaire

French botanist and traveler (1779–1853)

Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

German princess (1779-1801)

German publicist, literary critic, political economist, and theorist of the state

Infanta María Amalia of Spain

Spanish Infanta

Clement Clarke Moore

American biblical scholar and poet

Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

German princess and duchess

José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, Marquis of Torre Tagle

Peruvian politician (1779-1825)

Giovanni Battista Bugatti

Italian executioner (1779–1869)

Madeleine Sophie Barat

Founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart

American jurist (1779–1845); US Supreme Court justice from 1812 to 1845

Johann Schweigger

German chemist, physicist, and professor

Johan Olof Wallin

Swedish poet and clergyman

Stephen Decatur

United States Navy officer

Prince Octavius of Great Britain

Tabitha Babbitt

American tool maker

Frances Trollope

English novelist (1779-1863)

Scottish writer (1779-1839)

Benjamin Silliman Sr.

early American chemist and science educator (1779–1864)

Ludolph Christian Treviranus

German botanist (1779-1864)

Maria Naryshkina

Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough

British field marshal (1779-1869)

Archduke Anton Victor of Austria

Austrian archduke and prince (1779-1835)

Joel Roberts Poinsett

politician and diplomat (1779-1851)

Isaac Jacob Schmidt

Dutch orientalist

French ballet dancer and choreographer (1779-1854)

Philip Osipovich Paulucci

Russian military commander (1779-1849)

Samuel D. Ingham

American politician (1779-1860)

Pierre Amédée Jaubert

French diplomat, academic, orientalist, translator, politician, and traveler (1779-1847)

Khâlid-i Baghdâdî

Iraqi Sufi mystic and poet (1779–1827)

Auguste de Forbin

French painter, director of the Louvre Museum (1777-1841)

María Teresa de Borbón, 15th Countess of Chinchón

Spanish noble (1780-1828)

Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d’Ohsson

Swedish historian and diplomat of Armenian descent (1779–1851)

Benjamin Gompertz

British mathematician (1779-1865)

Louis Charles, Count of Beaujolais

French royal, brother of King Louis Philippe

Jan Willem Pieneman

Dutch painter (1779–1853)

William Wilkins

United States federal judge (1779-1865)

Josefa de Tudó, 1st Countess of Castillo Fiel

Abol-Qasem Qa'em-Maqam

Iranian politician

Ernst von Pfuel

German general (1779-1866)

Gottfried Weber

German writer, composer, jurist