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Born in 1784

133 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Zachary Taylor

    politician, army officer

    1784–1850 · aged 65

    November 24 · 1784

    Source: Roglo

  2. Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

    politician

    1784–1865 · aged 80

    October 20 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  3. Ferdinand VII of Spain

    ruler

    1784–1833 · aged 48

    October 14 · 1784

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  4. Jérôme Bonaparte

    naval officer, politician

    1784–1860 · aged 75

    November 15 · 1784

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  5. Carl Thomas Mozart

    beamter, pianist

    1784–1858 · aged 74

    September 21 · 1784

    Source: Salzburgwiki

  6. George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

    politician, diplomat

    1784–1860 · aged 76

    January 28 · 1784

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  7. Jonathan Jennings

    politician, governor

    1784–1834

    1784

    Source: Open Library

  8. William Buckland

    paleontologist, physicist

    1784–1856

    March 12 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

  9. Moses Montefiore

    financier, philanthropist

    1784–1885

    November 24 · 1784

    Source: The Peerage

  10. Louise Lehzen

    governess

    1784–1870 · aged 85

    October 3 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  11. Leigh Hunt

    literary critic, translator

    1784–1859 · aged 74

    October 19 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  12. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt*

    writer, art historian

    Date disputed

    November 24 · 1784

    Source: Burckhardt, Jean-Louis

  13. Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia

    aristocrat

    1784–1803 · aged 18

    December 24 · 1784

    Source: Catalog of the German National Library

  14. Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily

    crown princess

    1784–1806 · aged 21

    December 14 · 1784

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  15. Louis Spohr

    violinist, musician

    1784–1859 · aged 75

    April 5 · 1784

    Source: Discogs

  16. Friedrich Bessel

    mathematician, astronomer

    1784–1846 · aged 61

    July 22 · 1784

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  17. George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland

    politician

    1784–1849 · aged 64

    August 25 · 1784

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  18. Rafael del Riego

    military personnel, politician

    1784–1823 · aged 39

    April 7 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  19. Louis of Austria

    politician, military personnel

    1784–1864 · aged 80

    December 13 · 1784

    Source: The Peerage

  20. William Jardine

    physician, merchant

    1784–1843 · aged 59

    February 24 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  21. Fructuoso Rivera

    diplomat, resistance fighter

    1784–1854 · aged 69

    October 17 · 1784

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  22. Ferdinand Ries

    composer, pianist

    1784–1838

    1784

    No external source identified

  23. Sarah Biffen

    painter, circus performer

    1784–1850 · aged 65

    October 25 · 1784

    No external source identified

  24. Tom Molineaux

    boxer

    1784–1818 · aged 34

    March 23 · 1784

    No external source identified

  25. Bagyidaw

    monarch

    1784–1846 · aged 62

    July 23 · 1784

    No external source identified

  26. Friedrich Graf von Wrangel*

    military personnel

    Date disputed

    April 13 · 1784

    Source: Wrangel, Friedrich Graf von

  27. Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

    linguist, lexicographer

    1784–1842 · aged 58

    March 27 · 1784

    No external source identified

  28. Leo von Klenze

    painter, architect

    1784–1864

    February 29 · 1784

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  29. Thomas Robert Bugeaud

    writer, politician

    1784–1849 · aged 64

    October 15 · 1784

    Source: Find a Grave

  30. John Oxley

    politician, naturalist

    1784–1828 · aged 43

    July 6 · 1784

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  31. Stephen Harriman Long

    explorer, military engineer

    1784–1864 · aged 79

    December 30 · 1784

    Source: Structurae

  32. Duke George of Oldenburg

    aristocrat

    1784–1812 · aged 28

    May 9 · 1784

    Source: Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital

  33. John McLoughlin

    politician, merchant

    1784–1857 · aged 72

    October 19 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  34. Denis Davydov

    poet, military officer

    1784–1839 · aged 54

    July 27 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

  35. William Pope Duval

    politician, judge

    1784–1854 · aged 69

    September 4 · 1784

    Source: Find a Grave

  36. Ibn Abidin*

    legal scholar, ʾuṣūlī

    Date disputed

    1784

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  37. Nikitas Stamatelopoulos

    freedom fighter, military personnel

    1784–1849

    1784

    No external source identified

  38. François Rude

    sculptor

    1784–1855 · aged 71

    January 4 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

  39. Duchess Charlotte Friederike of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

    aristocrat, salonnière

    1784–1840 · aged 55

    December 4 · 1784

    Source: Genealogics

  40. Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès

    historian, salonnière

    1784–1838 · aged 53

    November 6 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  41. George William I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

    sovereign

    1784–1860 · aged 75

    December 20 · 1784

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  42. François-Joseph Fétis

    music educator, music historian

    1784–1871 · aged 87

    March 25 · 1784

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  43. Benjamin Bathurst

    diplomat

    1784–1809 · aged 25

    March 18 · 1784

    No external source identified

  44. Philippe Antoine d'Ornano

    politician, military personnel

    1784–1863 · aged 79

    January 17 · 1784

    Source: Sycomore

  45. Richard Church

    politician, Staatsrat

    1784–1873

    1784

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  46. Juan Antonio Lavalleja

    diplomat, politician

    1784–1853 · aged 69

    June 24 · 1784

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  47. George Onslow

    composer

    1784–1853

    July 27 · 1784

    Source: La France savante

  48. Hans Jonatan

    farmer, military personnel

    1784–1827 · aged 43

    April 12 · 1784

    No external source identified

  49. José Tadeo Monagas

    politician

    1784–1868 · aged 84

    October 28 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  50. Richard William Howard Vyse

    politician, archaeologist

    1784–1853 · aged 68

    July 25 · 1784

    Source: The Peerage

  51. Isabella Colbran*

    composer, opera singer

    Date disputed

    February 28 · 1784

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  52. Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria

    aristocrat

    1784–1849 · aged 65

    May 5 · 1784

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  53. Baiza Bai

    politician

    1784–1863

    1784

    No external source identified

  54. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

    military officer

    1784–1844 · aged 60

    January 2 · 1784

    Source: The Peerage

  55. Andrew Stevenson

    politician, diplomat

    1784–1857

    January 21 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  56. John Davis

    explorer

    Born 1784

    1784

    No external source identified

  57. John W. Taylor

    politician, lawyer

    1784–1854 · aged 70

    March 26 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  58. Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

    zoologist, entomologist

    1784–1838 · aged 54

    March 6 · 1784

    Source: www.academie-medecine.fr

  59. Christopher Hansteen

    geophysicist, physicist

    1784–1873 · aged 88

    September 26 · 1784

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  60. Marcus Morton

    jurist, politician

    1784–1864 · aged 79

    December 19 · 1784

    No external source identified

  61. Francesco Morlacchi

    pianist, composer

    1784–1841 · aged 57

    June 14 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

  62. Charles Dupin

    politician, marine engineer

    1784–1873 · aged 88

    October 6 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

  63. Dionisio Aguado y García

    guitarist, composer

    1784–1849

    April 8 · 1784

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  64. William T. Barry

    diplomat, jurist

    1784–1835 · aged 51

    February 5 · 1784

    Source: Find a Grave

  65. Joseph Bové

    architect

    1784–1834 · aged 49

    November 4 · 1784

    No external source identified

  66. Zorian Dołęga Chodakowski*

    archaeologist, historian

    Date disputed

    April 4 · 1784

    Source: Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine

  67. Enos Thompson Throop

    lawyer, diplomat

    1784–1874 · aged 90

    August 21 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  68. Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud*

    politician

    Date disputed

    March 5 · 1784

    Source: royalark.net

  69. Peter von Scholten

    politician, military personnel

    1784–1854 · aged 69

    May 17 · 1784

    Source: Find a Grave

  70. George Thomas Napier

    politician, military personnel

    1784–1855 · aged 71

    June 30 · 1784

    Source: The Peerage

  71. Charles Baudin

    explorer, military personnel

    1784–1854 · aged 69

    July 21 · 1784

    Source: Léonore database

  72. Allan Cunningham

    numismatist, composer

    1784–1842 · aged 57

    December 7 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  73. José María Pérez de Urdininea

    military personnel, politician

    1784–1865 · aged 81

    October 31 · 1784

    No external source identified

  74. John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland*

    diplomat, soldier

    Date disputed

    February 2 · 1784

    Source: The Peerage

  75. Rubens Peale

    painter, naturalist

    1784–1865 · aged 81

    May 4 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  76. Franco Andrea Bonelli

    zoologist, ornithologist

    1784–1830 · aged 46

    November 11 · 1784

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  77. Theophilos Kairis*

    Age of Enlightenment, philosopher

    Date disputed

    October 19 · 1784

    No external source identified

  78. Diogo Antônio Feijó

    politician, philosopher

    1784–1843 · aged 59

    August 17 · 1784

    No external source identified

  79. Heinrich Baermann

    military musician, composer

    1784–1847 · aged 63

    February 14 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  80. Samuel Hunter Christie

    physicist, mathematician

    1784–1865 · aged 80

    March 22 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  81. Juan Mora Fernández

    lawyer, politician

    1784–1854 · aged 70

    June 12 · 1784

    No external source identified

  82. Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

    military officer

    1784–1854 · aged 70

    June 27 · 1784

    Source: The Peerage

  83. Cesare Sterbini

    writer, poet

    1784–1831

    1784

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música

  84. Marianne von Willemer

    dancer, actor

    1784–1860 · aged 76

    November 20 · 1784

    Source: Willemer, Marianne von (BLKÖ)

  85. Peter De Wint

    artist, painter

    1784–1849 · aged 65

    January 21 · 1784

    Source: De Wint, Peter

  86. Andreas Londos*

    politician

    Date disputed

    1784

    Source: Catalogue of the Academy of Athens Library

  87. William Yarrell

    writer, naturalist

    1784–1856 · aged 72

    June 3 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  88. Maciej Rybiński

    military personnel

    1784–1874 · aged 89

    February 24 · 1784

    Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny

  89. Teodor Narbutt

    bibliophile, land owner

    1784–1864 · aged 80

    November 8 · 1784

    Source: Браслаўскія чытанні : Матэрыялы VI-й навукова-краязнаўчай канферэнцыі, прысвечанай…

  90. Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot

    lithographer, painter

    1784–1845

    December 14 · 1784

    Source: CLARA

  91. Vincenza Gerosa

    religious, founder of Catholic religious community

    1784–1847

    October 29 · 1784

    Source: GCatholic.org

  92. Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker

    art historian, writer

    1784–1868 · aged 84

    November 4 · 1784

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  93. August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen

    military leader

    1784–1853 · aged 68

    November 27 · 1784

    Source: CERL Thesaurus

  94. Lodovico Pavoni

    Catholic priest

    1784–1849 · aged 64

    September 11 · 1784

    Source: GCatholic.org

  95. Nikolay Gnedich

    writer, poet

    1784–1833 · aged 49

    February 13 · 1784

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  96. William Maynard Gomm

    military personnel

    1784–1875 · aged 90

    November 10 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  97. Friedrich Thiersch

    classical philologist, university teacher

    1784–1860 · aged 75

    June 17 · 1784

    Source: Geneological database Merkel-Zeller

  98. Shō On

    1784–1802 · aged 18

    April 25 · 1784

    No external source identified

  99. Joseph Marshall Walker

    politician, governor

    1784–1856

    July 1 · 1784

    Source: Find a Grave

  100. John Eatton Le Conte*

    entomologist, engineer

    Date disputed

    February 22 · 1784

    Source: worldlibrary.org

  101. Carlo Filangieri

    military officer, politician

    1784–1867

    May 10 · 1784

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  102. Antoni Brodowski

    painter

    1784–1832 · aged 47

    December 26 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

  103. Josiah S. Johnston

    judge, politician

    1784–1833 · aged 48

    November 24 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  104. Bernard Barton

    writer, editor

    1784–1849 · aged 65

    January 31 · 1784

    Source: Find a Grave

  105. Henry Hubbard

    governor, politician

    1784–1857 · aged 73

    May 3 · 1784

    Source: SNAC

  106. Leopoldo Nobili

    physicist

    1784–1835

    July 5 · 1784

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  107. Leopold Schefer

    poet, writer

    1784–1862 · aged 77

    July 30 · 1784

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  108. Walter Lowrie

    politician

    1784–1868 · aged 84

    December 10 · 1784

    Source: Find a Grave

  109. Ernst Raupach

    university teacher, playwright

    1784–1852 · aged 67

    May 21 · 1784

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  110. Camille Montagne

    botanist, mycologist

    1784–1866 · aged 81

    February 15 · 1784

    Source: www.academie-medecine.fr

  111. Jacopo Ferretti

    poet, librettist

    1784–1852 · aged 67

    July 16 · 1784

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  112. Georg Moller

    architect

    1784–1852 · aged 68

    January 21 · 1784

    Source: Structurae

  113. Gasim bey Zakir

    poet

    1784–1857

    1784

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  114. Alejandro María Aguado, 1st Marquis of the Guadalquivir Marshes

    military personnel, banker

    1784–1842 · aged 57

    June 29 · 1784

    No external source identified

  115. Avraam Melnikov

    architect

    1784–1854 · aged 69

    August 10 · 1784

    No external source identified

  116. José Rafael Gallegos

    politician, judge

    1784–1850 · aged 65

    October 31 · 1784

    No external source identified

  117. Jørgen Herman Vogt*

    politician

    Date disputed

    July 21 · 1784

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  118. Alexander Turgenev*

    historian, politician

    Date disputed

    April 7 · 1784

    Source: Chuvash encyclopedia

  119. Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser

    botanist, botanical collector

    1784–1842 · aged 58

    July 7 · 1784

    Source: Q22677434

  120. Ludwig Devrient

    stage actor, actor

    1784–1832 · aged 48

    December 15 · 1784

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  121. Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel

    explorer, geographer

    1784–1863 · aged 78

    October 3 · 1784

    No external source identified

  122. Nicaise Auguste Desvaux

    botanist

    1784–1856 · aged 71

    August 28 · 1784

    Source: La France savante

  123. Martin-Joseph Mengal

    horn player, conductor

    1784–1851

    January 27 · 1784

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  124. Vicente Sancho y Cobertores

    politician, military personnel

    1784–1860 · aged 76

    April 5 · 1784

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  125. Antonín Mánes

    teacher, painter

    1784–1843 · aged 58

    November 3 · 1784

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  126. Chester Dewey

    physicist, chemist

    1784–1867 · aged 83

    October 25 · 1784

    Source: Find a Grave

  127. Alphonse Rabbe

    journalist, historian

    1784–1829 · aged 45

    July 18 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

  128. Ludwig Aurbacher

    writer

    1784–1847 · aged 62

    August 26 · 1784

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  129. Georges Depping

    opinion journalist, historian

    1784–1853 · aged 69

    May 11 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

  130. Carl von Winterfeld

    musicologist, historian

    1784–1852 · aged 68

    January 28 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

  131. Wilhelm Wachsmuth

    classical philologist, historian

    1784–1866 · aged 81

    December 28 · 1784

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  132. Georg Ludolf Dissen

    classical philologist, linguist

    1784–1837 · aged 52

    December 17 · 1784

    Source: Marburger Professorenkatalog

  133. Francesco Capaccini

    diplomat

    1784–1845 · aged 60

    August 14 · 1784

    Source: BnF authorities

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