Skip to content
Category

1784 births

page 1
Zachary Taylor
president of the United States from 1849 to 1850
Ferdinand VII of Spain
King of Spain (1784–1833) (r. 1808; 1813–1833)
Friedrich Bessel
German astronomer and mathematician
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
British statesman and prime minister (1784–1865)
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
British politician (1784-1860)
Jérôme Bonaparte
Napoleon I's brother (1784–1860)
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
Rafael del Riego
Spanish general and politician (1784-1823)
Marie-Antoine Carême
French chef
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
Swiss traveller and writer (1784-1817)
Louis Spohr
German composer, violinist and conductor
Leigh Hunt
British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest
French zoologist (1784–1838)
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1784-1844)
Fructuoso Rivera
president of Uruguay (1784-1854)
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia
Russian grand duchess (1784-1803)
Leo von Klenze
German architect and painter (1784–1864)
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel
German academic (1784-1863)
Friedrich Kalkbrenner
German-born French pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer (1784-1849)
Moses Montefiore
British financier and Jewish activist (1784–1885)
Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily
Princess of Asturias (1784-1806)
Denis Davydov
Russian writer and general
François-Joseph Fétis
Belgian composer (1784-1871)
Peter von Cornelius
painter from Germany (1783-1867)
Thomas Robert Bugeaud
Marshal of France (1784-1849)
François Rude
French sculptor (1784-1855)
Ferdinand Ries
German composer
Christopher Hansteen
Norwegian geomagnetist
Karl Mozart
eldest surviving son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Leopold Schefer
German poet, novelist and composer
Leopoldo Nobili
physicist (1784-1835)
Juan Antonio Lavalleja
Uruguayan politician (1784-1853)
Charles Dupin
French mathematician, engineer, economist and politician (1784-1873)
William Yarrell
English zoologist, naturalist and bookseller
Friedrich Graf von Wrangel
Field Marshal of Prussia (1784-1877)
George William I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
German prince
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland
British politician (1784-1849)
Duchess Charlotte Friederike of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Princess of Denmark (1784-1840)
Louis of Austria
Austrian archduke (1784–1864)
John Oxley
Australian politician
Joseph Bové
Russian neoclassical architect
George Onslow
French composer
Dionisio Aguado y García
Spanish classical guitarist and composer
José Tadeo Monagas Burgos
8th President of Venezuela
Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès
French writer and memoirist (1784-1838)
Bagyidaw
Bagyidaw (, ; also known as Sagaing Min, ; 23 July 1784 – 15 October 1846) was the seventh king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma from 1819 until his abdication in 1837. Prince of Sagaing, as he was commonly known in his day, was selected as crown prince by his grandfather King Bodawpaya in 1808, and became king in 1819 after Bodawpaya's death. Bagyidaw moved the capital from Amarapura back to Ava in 1823.
Duke George of Oldenburg
German duke (1784-1812)
Juan Mora Fernández
1st elected head of state of Costa Rica (1784-1854)
Louise Lehzen
governess, adviser and companion to Queen Victoria of England
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
German classical philologist and archaeologist (1784-1868)
Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria
Bavarian-French princess and aristocrat (1784–1849)
Cesare Sterbini
Italian writer and librettist
Richard William Howard Vyse
British soldier and politician, anthropologist and egyptologist (1784-1853)
Giulietta Guicciardi
Austrian aristocrat, briefly a piano student of Ludwig van Beethoven
Camille Montagne
French botanist, bryologist, and mycologist (1784–1866)
José María Pérez de Urdininea
Bolivian military and politician
Francesco Morlacchi
Italian composer (1784-1841)
Antoni Brodowski
Polish painter (1784-1832)
Nicaise Auguste Desvaux
French botanist (1784-1856)
Gasim bey Zakir
Azerbaijani poet