1795 - Births

Births

• January 6 – Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1878)
• January 18 – Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Dutch queen (d. 1865)
• February 3 – Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan revolutionary leader, general and statesman (d. 1830)
• February 18 – George Peabody, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1869)
• May 19 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1873)
• May 23 – Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
• June 19 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon, hypnotism pioneer (d. 1860)
• September 1 – James Gordon Bennett, American newspaper publisher (d. 1892)
• September 6 – Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Marshal of France (d. 1878)
• September 16 – Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer (d. 1870)
• September 18 – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet- decembrist.
• October 13 – James McDowell, American politician (d. 1851)
• October 15 – King Frederick William IV of Prussia (d. 1861)
• October 16 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
• October 26 – Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (d. 1872)
• October 31 – John Keats, English poet (d. 1821)
• November 2 – James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
• November 12 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)
• December 4 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (d. 1881)
• December 10 – Matthias W. Baldwin, American locomotive manufacturer (d. 1866)