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Born in 1797

195 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Louise-Adéone Drölling

    painter

    1797–1834 · aged 36

    May 29 · 1797

    Source: RKDartists

  2. Wilhelm Meinhold

    theologian, parson

    1797–1851 · aged 54

    February 27 · 1797

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  3. Christopher Jacob Boström

    philosopher, writer

    1797–1866 · aged 69

    January 1 · 1797

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  4. James Ferguson

    astronomer, engineer

    1797–1867 · aged 70

    August 31 · 1797

    Source: SNAC

  5. James Turner Morehead

    lawyer, politician

    1797–1854 · aged 57

    May 24 · 1797

    Source: Find a Grave

  6. Wenceslas Bojer*

    entomologist, botanist

    Date disputed

    September 25 · 1797

    Source: Bojer, Wenzeslaus (BLKÖ)

  7. Therese Albertine Luise Robinson

    writer, linguist

    1797–1870 · aged 73

    January 26 · 1797

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  8. Manuel Aguilar Chacón

    politician

    1797–1846 · aged 48

    August 12 · 1797

    No external source identified

  9. Louis Lambillotte

    Catholic priest, bandleader

    1797–1855 · aged 57

    March 27 · 1797

    Source: SNAC

  10. Margaretta Hare Morris

    entomologist

    1797–1867 · aged 69

    December 3 · 1797

    Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

  11. Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann

    geologist, university teacher

    1797–1873 · aged 76

    May 30 · 1797

    Source: ras.ru

  12. Hans Ferdinand Massmann

    Germanist, opinion journalist

    1797–1874 · aged 76

    August 15 · 1797

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  13. Pedro José de Arteta

    politician

    1797–1873

    1797

    No external source identified

  14. Hopkins L. Turney

    politician, lawyer

    1797–1857 · aged 59

    October 3 · 1797

    Source: Find a Grave

  15. Joseph Barclay Pentland

    geographer, botanical collector

    1797–1873 · aged 76

    January 17 · 1797

    No external source identified

  16. Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin

    painter

    1797–1883 · aged 86

    March 2 · 1797

    Source: BnF authorities

  17. Jules Bourcier

    ornithologist

    1797–1873 · aged 76

    February 20 · 1797

    No external source identified

  18. Baltazar Mathias Keilhau

    geologist

    1797–1858 · aged 60

    November 2 · 1797

    Source: KulturNav

  19. James Scott Bowerbank

    naturalist, zoologist

    1797–1877 · aged 79

    July 14 · 1797

    Source: SNAC

  20. Gabriel Andral

    university teacher, pathologist

    1797–1876 · aged 78

    November 6 · 1797

    Source: www.academie-medecine.fr

  21. Félix Savary

    librarian, astronomer

    1797–1841 · aged 43

    October 4 · 1797

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  22. Johan Coenraad van Hasselt

    zoological collector, botanical collector

    1797–1823 · aged 26

    June 24 · 1797

    Source: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World

  23. Eeltsje Hiddes Halbertsma

    physician, poet

    1797–1858 · aged 60

    October 8 · 1797

    Source: Base biographique

  24. Amédée Thierry

    journalist, writer

    1797–1873 · aged 75

    August 2 · 1797

    Source: BnF authorities

  25. Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont

    engraver

    1797–1892 · aged 94

    June 13 · 1797

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  26. Štefan Moyses

    Catholic bishop, bishop

    1797–1869

    October 24 · 1797

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  27. Johann Christian Lobe

    writer, music theorist

    1797–1881 · aged 84

    May 30 · 1797

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  28. Joseph Adhemar

    engineer, university teacher

    1797–1862

    1797

    Source: BnF authorities

  29. Ernst Meyer

    printmaker, engraver

    1797–1861 · aged 63

    May 11 · 1797

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  30. Gottfried Osann*

    physicist, chemist

    Date disputed

    1797

    Source: Q24464663

  31. Francesco Zantedeschi

    physicist, Catholic priest

    1797–1873 · aged 75

    August 18 · 1797

    Source: Zantedeschi, Francesco (BLKÖ)

  32. Vincenz Kollar

    journalist, naturalist

    1797–1860 · aged 63

    January 15 · 1797

    Source: Kollar, Vincenz (BLKÖ)

  33. Sophie von Knorring

    draftsperson, painter

    1797–1848 · aged 50

    September 28 · 1797

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  34. Antonio Maria Cagiano de Azevedo

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1797–1867 · aged 69

    December 14 · 1797

    Source: SNAC

  35. Antoine Louis Dugès

    naturalist, zoologist

    1797–1838 · aged 40

    December 19 · 1797

    Source: La France savante

  36. Georg Frederik Ursin

    mathematician, astronomer

    1797–1849 · aged 52

    June 22 · 1797

    Source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon

  37. Pierre Léonard Vander Linden

    entomologist, university teacher

    1797–1831 · aged 33

    December 12 · 1797

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  38. Giacomo Luigi Brignole

    cardinal of the Roman Curia, Catholic bishop

    1797–1853 · aged 56

    May 8 · 1797

    Source: SNAC

  39. Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez

    economist

    1797–1869

    July 29 · 1797

    Source: ge.ch

  40. Jacobus Schroeder van der Kolk*

    pathologist, physiologist

    Date disputed

    March 14 · 1797

    Source: Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae

  41. Claude Alphonse Delangle

    magistrate, lawyer

    1797–1869

    April 6 · 1797

    Source: BnF authorities

  42. Francisco Freire Allemão e Cysneiro

    botanist, explorer

    1797–1874 · aged 77

    July 24 · 1797

    Source: Base biographique

  43. Johann Hermann Kufferath

    composer, conductor

    1797–1864 · aged 67

    May 12 · 1797

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  44. Józef Korzeniowski

    philologist, university teacher

    1797–1863 · aged 66

    March 19 · 1797

    Source: Korzeniowski, Joseph (BLKÖ)

  45. Johann August Grunert*

    mathematician, physicist

    Date disputed

    February 2 · 1797

    Source: tnk.krakow.pl

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