Famous People Born In 1796

Discover the most famous people born in 1796. The list includes people like Nicholas I of Russia, Horace Mann, Camille Corot, Sadi Carnot, James Bowie and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, artists, educators and composers born in 1796. This list includes people from United States, France and many more countries.
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Horace Mann
(Educator & Politician)
Horace Mann
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Listed In: Educators
Birthdate: 4th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Franklin
Died: August 2, 1859
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Princess Charlotte of Wales
(Princess)
Princess Charlotte of Wales
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Birthdate: 7th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Carlton House, London, England
Died: November 6, 1817
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Nicholas I of Russia
(Emperor of Russia (1825 - 1855))
Nicholas I of Russia
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Listed In: Emperors & Kings
Birthdate: 6th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Gattšina lossipark, Russia
Died: March 2, 1855
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James Bowie
(Pioneer)
James Bowie
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Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 10th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Died: March 6, 1836
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
(French Mechanical Engineer Who is Described as the Father of Thermodynamics)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
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Listed In: Physicists
Birthdate: 1st June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: August 24, 1832
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Camille Corot
(French Landscape and Portrait Painter)
Camille Corot
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Listed In: Realist Painters
Birthdate: 16th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: February 28, 1875
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George Catlin
(American Painter, Adventurer, Traveler, Lawyer, and Author)
George Catlin
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Listed In: Realist Painters
Birthdate: 26th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: December 23, 1872
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Michael Thonet
(Cabinet maker)
Michael Thonet
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Listed In: Designers
Birthdate: 2nd July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Boppard, Germany
Died: March 3, 1871
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John M. Clayton
(Politician)
John M. Clayton
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Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: 24th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Dagsboro, Delaware, United States
Died: November 9, 1856
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Adolphe Quetelet
(Belgian Astronomer and Mathematician Who Introduced Statistics in Social Sciences)
Adolphe Quetelet
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Listed In: Astronomers
Birthdate: 22nd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Ghent
Died: February 17, 1874
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield
(Former Member of the New Zealand Parliament (1853 - 1855))
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
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Birthdate: 20th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: London, England
Died: May 16, 1862
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Walter Hunt
(inventor)
Walter Hunt
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Listed In: Inventors
Birthdate: 29th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York
Died: June 8, 1859
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Giovanni Pacini
(Composer)
Giovanni Pacini
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Listed In: Composers
Birthdate: 17th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Catania, Italy
Died: December 6, 1867
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Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg
(Queen)
Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg
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Birthdate: 28th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: March 9, 1881
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Hartley Coleridge
(British Poet, Biographer and Essayist Best Known for His Sonnets and for a Lyrical Play Entitled Prometheus)
Hartley Coleridge
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 19th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Clevedon, Somerset, England
Died: January 6, 1849
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Philipp Franz von Siebold
(German Physician and Botanist Known for Pioneering Western Medicine in Japan)
Philipp Franz von Siebold
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Listed In: Botanists
Birthdate: 17th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Würzburg, Germany
Died: October 18, 1866
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Manto Mavrogenous
(Honorary Lieutenant General)
Manto Mavrogenous
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Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Trieste, Italy
Died: June 30, 1848
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Peter Fendi
(Painter)
Peter Fendi
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Birthdate: 4th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: August 28, 1842
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Franz Berwald
(Composer)
Franz Berwald
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Listed In: Composers
Birthdate: 23rd July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: April 3, 1868
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William H. Prescott
(Historian)
William H. Prescott
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Listed In: Historians
Birthdate: 4th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Died: January 28, 1859
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Anders Retzius
(Swedish Anatomist and Anthropologist Who is Best Known for His Pioneer Studies in Craniometry)
Anders Retzius
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Listed In: Anthropologists
Birthdate: 13th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Lund, Sweden
Died: April 18, 1860
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Karl Ernst Claus
(Chemist)
Karl Ernst Claus
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Birthdate: 23rd January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Livonia, Russia
Died: March 24, 1864
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August, Graf von Platen
(Poet)
August, Graf von Platen
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 24th October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Ansbach, Germany
Died: December 5, 1835
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Maria Martin
(Artist)
Maria Martin
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Birthdate: 6th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Died: December 18, 1863
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Jean-Gaspard Deburau
(Actor)
Jean-Gaspard Deburau
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Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 31st July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Kolín, Czechoslovakia
Died: June 17, 1846
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Ignaz Bösendorfer
(Musician)
Ignaz Bösendorfer
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Birthdate: 28th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: April 14, 1859
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Benjamin Bonneville
(American Military Officer, Explorer in the American West, and Fur Trapper)
Benjamin Bonneville
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 14th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: June 12, 1878
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Reverdy Johnson
(Attorney General)
Reverdy Johnson
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Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: 21st May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Died: February 10, 1876
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Phan Thanh Gian
(Government official)
Phan Thanh Gian
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 11th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Biên Hòa Province
Died: July 5, 1867
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Ang Duong
(King of Cambodia (1840 - 1860))
Ang Duong
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Birthdate: 12th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Oudongk, Cambodia
Died: October 19, 1860
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Ferdinand Alphonse Hamelin
(Naval Officer)
Ferdinand Alphonse Hamelin
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 2nd September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Pont-l'Évêque, France
Died: January 10, 1864
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Jakob Steiner
(Swiss Mathematician Who Was One of the Founders of Modern Synthetic and Projective Geometry)
Jakob Steiner
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Listed In: Mathematicians
Birthdate: 18th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Utzenstorf, Switzerland
Died: April 1, 1863
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Carl Loewe
(Composer)
Carl Loewe
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Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: 30th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Löbejün, Wettin-Löbejün, Germany
Died: April 20, 1869
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Abdullah Abdul Kadir
(Author)
Abdullah Abdul Kadir
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Melaka, Malaysia
Died: September 30, 1854
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Sir George Back
(Artist)
Sir George Back
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Birthdate: 6th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, England
Died: June 23, 1878
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Robert James Graves
(Physician)
Robert James Graves
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Listed In: Surgeons
Birthdate: 27th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: March 20, 1853
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Adolphe Crémieux
(Politician)
Adolphe Crémieux
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 30th April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Nîmes, France
Died: February 10, 1880
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Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
(Writer)
Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
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Listed In: Playwrights
Birthdate: 19th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Quel, Spain
Died: November 8, 1873
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
(Politician)
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 17th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Windsor, Canada
Died: August 27, 1865
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John Bell
(Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
John Bell
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Birthdate: 18th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Died: September 10, 1869
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Frédéric-Auguste Demetz
(Jurist)
Frédéric-Auguste Demetz
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Listed In: Judges
Birthdate: 12th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: November 2, 1873
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Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein
(Prince of Liechtenstein)
Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 26th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: November 12, 1858
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David Walker
(Writer)
David Walker
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Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: 28th September
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Cape Fear, United States
Died: August 6, 1830
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Henry De la Beche
(English Palaeontologist and Geologist)
Henry De la Beche
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Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 10th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: London, England
Died: April 13, 1855
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Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao
(Statesman)
Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 24th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: January 8, 1878
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John Torrey
(Noted for His Studies of the Flora of North America)
John Torrey
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Listed In: Botanists
Birthdate: 15th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: March 10, 1873
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Sergey Muravyov-Apostol
(Official)
Sergey Muravyov-Apostol
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Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 9th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: July 25, 1826
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James Lick
(Real Estate Investor)
James Lick
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Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: 25th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: October 1, 1876
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Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin
(Social Reformer)
Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 8th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: September 1, 1864
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Fernán Caballero
(Writer)
Fernán Caballero
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Listed In: Novelists
Birthdate: 24th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Morges, Switzerland
Died: April 7, 1877