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George III
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently duke and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the first monarch of the House of Hanover who was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.
Joseph Fouché
French statesman (1759-1820)
Joseph Banks
English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820)
Manuel Belgrano
Argentine politician and military leader
Jiaqing Emperor
Chinese emperor (1760-1820) of the Qing dynasty
Elisa Bonaparte
French princess (1777-1820)
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
British prince (1767-1820); fourth son of George III
Daniel Boone
American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820)
Gia Long
founder and 1st emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam (r. 1802-04)
Henri Christophe
President and King of Haiti (1767-1820)
Alexander Mackenzie
Scottish explorer
François Christophe de Kellermann
French soldier (1735-1820)
Nguyễn Du
Vietnamese poet (1765-1820)
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Austrian field marshal (1771–1820)
Constantin-François Chassebœuf
French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (1757-1820)
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Member of the French royal family (1778–1820)
François Joseph Lefebvre
Marshal of France (1755-1820)
Benjamin West
18th- and 19th-century English painter (1738–1820)
Arthur Young
English writer (1741-1820)
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange
Consort of Prince William V of Orange (1751-1820)
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia
eldest child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt
Anders Sparrman
Swedish naturalist (1748-1820)
Clemens Maria Hofbauer
Redemptorist, saint of the Catholic Church (1751–1820)
William Wyatt Bibb
first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1781-1820)
Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark
electress of Hesse (1747-1820)
Claudine Picardet
French chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and translator (1735-1820)
Jean-Lambert Tallien
French politician (1767–1820)
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
British-American architect (1764–1820)
Ivan Gudovich
Russian general (1741-1820)
Gerhard von Kügelgen
German painter, noted for his portraits and history paintings (1772-1820)
Charles Blagden
British physician and scientist (1748–1820)
Augustin Barruel
French publicist and Jesuit priest (1741–1820)
William Ellery
American politician and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
Nicolaus Michael Oppel
German naturalist
Levi Lincoln Sr.
United States attorney general and acting governor of Massachusetts (1749–1820)
Stephen Decatur
United States Navy officer
Judith Sargent Murray
American writer and advocate for women's rights (1751-1820)
Palisot de Beauvois
French naturalist and entomologist (1752–1820)
Jean-Baptiste Robinet
French scientist (1735-1820)
Karl Ludwig Sand
German murderer (1795-1820)
Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1751-1820)
Henry Grattan
Irish politician in Irish and UK parliaments (1746-1820)
Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
princess (1800–1820)
Alexis Thérèse Petit
French physicist (1791–1820)
Louise Caroline of Hochberg
Louise Caroline, Baroness Geyer of Geyersberg
Antonín Vranický
Czech violinist and composer
Frederick Traugott Pursh
German-American botanist (1774-1820)
Thomas Brown
Scottish philosopher and poet, born 1778
Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt
Prussian princess (1738-1820)
Pierre-Joseph Cambon
French politician (1756-1820)
Franz Regis Clet
French presbyter
Georg Carl von Döbeln
Swedish general and noble
Ferenc Széchényi
Hungarian philanthropist (1754–1820)
Marie Bigot
French piano teacher
James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury
British diplomat, born 1746
Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau
Mistress of King Frederick William II of Prussia (1753-1820)
Ioan Budai-Deleanu
Romanian philologist, historian and writer
Vincenzo Brenna
Italian architect and painter (1747-1820)
Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg
Regent of Lippe (1769-1820)
Marie-Victoire Lemoine
French painter (1754-1820)