Famous People Born In 1785
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Discover the most famous people born in 1785. The list includes people like John James Audubon, Lady Caroline Lamb, Mahmud II, Thomas De Quincey, Louis XVII of France and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include novelists, poets, educators and composers born in 1785. This list includes people from England, United States, Germany and many more countries.
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John James Audubon(US Artist and Ornithologist Known for His Drawings of North American Birds)
Birthdate: 26th April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Les Cayes
Died: January 27, 1851
Birthdate: 20th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: İstanbul, Turkey
Died: July 1, 1839
3
Jacob Grimm
(Discoverer of ‘Grimm’s Law of Linguistics' and Co-author of the Largest German Dictionary 'Deutsches Wörterbuch')
Birthdate: 4th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Hanau, Germany
Died: September 20, 1863
Birthdate: 13th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Died: January 25, 1828
5
Oliver Hazard Perry
(Former U.S. naval officer who became a national hero when he defeated a British squadron in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812)
Birthdate: 23rd August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States
Died: August 23, 1819
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Karl Drais
(Inventor, Forester)
Birthdate: 29th April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Karlsruhe
Died: December 10, 1851
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Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
(General)
Birthdate: 28th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Coburg, Germany
Died: August 27, 1851
Birthdate: 30th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Fuzhou, China
Died: November 22, 1850
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William Beaumont
(American Surgeon and the First Person to Observe and Study Human Digestion as It Occurs in the Stomach)
Birthdate: 21st November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Lebanon, Connecticut, United States
Died: April 25, 1853
Birthdate: 18th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Cults, Scotland
Died: June 1, 1841
Birthdate: 27th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Versailles, France
Died: June 8, 1795
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William Jackson Hooker
(British Botanist and Botanical Illustrator Best Known for Expanding and Developing the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew)
Birthdate: 6th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Norwich, England
Died: August 12, 1865
Birthdate: 11th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Died: January 8, 1855
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Shah Shujah Durrani
(Emir of the Durrani Empire)
Birthdate: 4th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Unknown
Died: April 5, 1842
15
John McLean
(Jurist and politician)
Birthdate: 11th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Morris County, New Jersey, United States
Died: April 4, 1861
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Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
(Socialite)
Birthdate: 6th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Died: April 4, 1879
Birthdate: 15th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Horton, England
Died: April 9, 1850
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Florestan, Prince of Monaco
(Prince)
Birthdate: 10th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: June 20, 1856
Birthdate: 19th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Wolcott, Connecticut, United States
Died: January 29, 1859
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Pierre Louis Dulong
(French Physicist and Chemist Who Helped Formulate the 'Dulong–Petit Law' of Specific Heats)
Birthdate: 12th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Rouen, France
Died: July 19, 1838
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Claude-Louis Navier
(physicist, economist, mathematician, engineer of roads and bridges)
Birthdate: 10th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Burlada
Died: August 21, 1836
22
Zwangendaba
(African king)
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Not known
Died: 1848 AD
23
Friedrich Kalkbrenner
(First Pianist to Introduce Long and Rapid Octave Passages in Both Hands)
Birthdate: 2nd November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: near Kassel, Germany
Died: June 10, 1849
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Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut
(Military general)
Birthdate: 21st April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: September 1, 1870
25
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
(Physicist)
Birthdate: 22nd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Ham, France
Died: October 27, 1845
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Henry Miller Shreve
(Inventor)
Birthdate: 21st October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: New Jersey, United States
Died: March 6, 1851
Birthdate: 15th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Manchester
Died: December 8, 1859
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Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann
(Historian)
Birthdate: 13th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Wismar, Germany
Died: December 5, 1860
Birthdate: 27th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Died: March 11, 1848
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Hans Karl von Diebitsch
(Soldier)
Birthdate: 13th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Wielka Lipa, Poland
Died: June 10, 1831
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Jean-Louis Michel
(Dominican Creole Fencer)
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Saint-Domingue
Died: 1865 AD
32
Edward Bransfield
(Explorer)
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Ballinacurra, County Cork, Ireland
Died: October 31, 1852
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August Immanuel Bekker
(Philologist)
Birthdate: 21st May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: June 7, 1871
34
William Francis Patrick Napier
(Soldier)
Birthdate: 7th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Celbridge, Ireland
Died: February 12, 1860
35
Alessandro Manzoni
(Italian Poet, Novelist and Senator of the Kingdom of Italy)
Birthdate: 7th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Milan, Italy
Died: May 22, 1873
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Prince Paul of Württemberg
(Prince)
Birthdate: 19th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: April 16, 1852
37
Jonker Afrikaner
(Politician)
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: South Africa
Died: August 18, 1861
38
Thomas Barnes
(Journalist)
Birthdate: 11th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: London, England
Died: May 7, 1841
39
James Pollard Espy
(US Meteorologist Known for His Work on the Thermodynamics of Cloud Formation)
Birthdate: 9th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Pennsylvania, United States
Died: January 24, 1860
40
Thomas Love Peacock
(Novelist)
Birthdate: 18th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Weymouth, England
Died: January 23, 1866
41
Alphonse Bérenger de la Drôme
(Lawyer)
Birthdate: 31st May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Valence, France
Died: March 1, 1866
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Bettina von Arnim
(Former Writer most famously wrote the 1835 work, Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde (Goethe's correspondence with a child))
Birthdate: 4th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany
Died: January 20, 1859
Birthdate: 22nd March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Dent
Died: January 27, 1873
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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
(Former Governor-General of India)
Birthdate: 30th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Wrotham, England
Died: September 24, 1856
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Jeongye Daewongun
(Prince)
Birthdate: 21st March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: South Korea
Died: November 2, 1841
46
Dorothea Lieven
(Diplomat)
Birthdate: 17th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Latvia
Died: January 27, 1857
47
Victor de Broglie
(Politician)
Birthdate: 28th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: January 25, 1870
48
José Miguel Carrera
(Chilean General & One of the Founding Fathers of the Nation)
Birthdate: 15th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Santiago, Chile
Died: September 4, 1821
49
Charles Xavier Thomas
(Inventor)
Birthdate: 5th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Colmar, France
Died: March 12, 1870
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Adam Wilhelm Moltke
(Political leader)
Birthdate: 25th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Einsidelsborg, Otterup, Denmark
Died: February 15, 1864