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George Stephenson

English civil and mechanical engineer and the "Father of Railways" (1781-1848)

Adelbert von Chamisso

German poet and botanist (1781–1838)

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Prussian architect, city planner and painter (1781–1841)

Siméon Denis Poisson

French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)

Bernard Bolzano

Bohemian mathematician and priest (1781–1848)

Thomas Stamford Raffles

British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826)

Ludwig Achim von Arnim

German poet and novelist

Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)

French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)

Eugène de Beauharnais

French statesman and military officer (1781–1824)

Wilhelm I of Württemberg

king of Württemberg

Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist (1781-1865)

Frederica of Baden

Swedish Queen (1781-1826)

Johann Baptist von Spix

German naturalist (1781-1826)

Austrian composer and publisher

Swaminarayan (IAST: '; 3 April 1781 – 1 June 1830), also known as Sahajanand Swami''', was a yogi and ascetic believed by followers to be a manifestation of Krishna or the highest manifestation of Purushottama, around whom the Swaminarayan Sampradaya developed.

Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France

Prince of France (1781-1789)

Valentín Gómez Farías

President of Mexico (1781-1858)

Joseph Karl Stieler

German painter (1781–1858)

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause

German philosopher

Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer

Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Saxe-Coburger-Saalfelder/Gothan Royal

Italian astronomer (1781-1864)

Louis-Mathieu Molé

French politician (1781-1855)

Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este

Austrian archduke (1781-1850)

José de Madrazo y Agudo

Spanish painter (1781-1859)

William Wyatt Bibb

first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1781-1820)

William John Burchell

British scientist (1781-1863)

Joseph Johann Littrow

Austrian astronomer (1781-1840)

British artist (1781-1829)

French general (1781–1844)

Christian von Steven

Botanist and lepidopterist (1781-1863)

American naturalist, ornithologist and writer

Francis Legatt Chantrey

English artist (1781-1841)

French botanist (1781-1832)

Friedrich von Berchtold

Czech botanist, traveller and doctor (1781-1876)

Andrés Narvarte

President of Venezuela

Johann Friedrich Meckel the younger

German anatomist (1781-1833)

Joaquín Suárez

president of Uruguay

Alexander Vostokov

Russian philologist (1781-1864)

Charles Joseph Minard

French engineer (1781-1870)

François Habeneck

French violinist and conductor (1781-1849)

José María Calatrava y Peinado

Prime Minister of Spain and Minister of State

British inventor (1781-1859)

Charlotte von Ahlefeld

German novelist

Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela

Portuguese noble and diplomat (1781-1850)

Friedrich Weber

German entomologist, son of botanist Georg Heinrich Weber (1781–1823)

Christian Lobeck

German classical scholar (1781-1860)

Muhammadu Bello

Sultan of Sokoto

John M. Berrien

American politician from Georgia, United States (1781-1856)

Étienne-Jean Delécluze

French painter and critic (1781-1863)

Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan

Duchess of Sagan (1781–1839)

Karl Friedrich Eichhorn

Friedrich von Raumer

German historian (1781-1873)

Francisco Espoz y Mina

Spanish military commander

Bartolomeo Borghesi

Italian numismatist and epigrapher naturalized in San Marino (1781-1860)

Dionisio de Herrera

first president of Honduras

British feminist historian and poet (1781-1864)

Friedrich Tiedemann

German zoologist

Finnur Magnússon

Icelandic writer, archaeologist, and translator of ancient texts