May 20
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Birthdays In History 1802

1802 Charles Pelham Villiers English lawyer and politician (d. 1898)

1802 Carl Ritter von Ghega Italian-Austrian engineer designed the Semmering railway (d. 1860)

1802 Richard Upjohn English-American architect (d. 1878)

1802 Jean-Baptiste Boussingault French chemist and academic (d. 1887)

1802 Louisa Jane Hall American poet essayist and literary critic (d. 1892)

1802 Lydia Maria Child American journalist author and activist (d. 1880)

1802 Phineas Quimby American mystic and philosopher (d. 1866)

1802 Charles Auguste de Bériot Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1870)

1802 Augusta Waddington Welsh writer and patron of the arts (d. 1896)

1802 Charles-Mathias Simons German-Luxembourger jurist and politician 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)

1802 Johann Moritz Rugendas German landscape painter (d. 1858)

1802 Elias Lönnrot Finnish physician and philologist (d. 1884)

1802 Leopold Fitzinger Austrian zoologist and herpetologist (d. 1884)

1802 Heinrich Gustav Magnus German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)

1802 Harriet Martineau English sociologist and author (d. 1876)

1802 Karl Zittel German theologian (d. 1871)

1802 Pavel Nakhimov Russian admiral (d. 1855)

1802 Robert Chambers Scottish geologist and publisher co-founded Chambers Harrap (d. 1871)

1802 Alfred Ronalds British fly fishing author artisan and Australian pioneer (d. 1860)

1802 Manuel María Lombardini Mexican general and president (d. 1853)

1802 Mariano Arista Mexican general and politician 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855)

1802 Niels Henrik Abel Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1829)

1802 Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist (d. 1838)

1802 Nikolaus Lenau Romanian-Austrian poet and author (d. 1850)

1802 Husein Gradaščević Ottoman general (d. 1834)

1802 Alcide d'Orbigny French zoologist palaeontologist and geologist (d. 1857)

1802 Arnold Ruge German philosopher and author (d. 1880)

1802 Lajos Kossuth Hungarian journalist lawyer and politician Governor-President of Hungary (d. 1894)

1802 Adolphe d'Archiac French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)

1802 Louis-Eugène Cavaignac French general and politician head of state of France in 1848 (d. 1857)

1802 Isaac Murphy American educator and politician 8th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882)

1802 Richard Parkes Bonington English painter (d. 1828)

1802 Joseph Montferrand Canadian logger and strongman (d. 1864)

1802 Miguel I of Portugal (d. 1866)

1802 Elijah Parish Lovejoy American minister journalist and activist (d. 1837)

1802 Solomon Foot American lawyer and politician (d. 1866)

1802 Wilhelm Hauff German poet and author (d. 1827)

1802 Charles Wheatstone English-French physicist and cryptographer (d. 1875)

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Died - Jul 17,1887

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Victor Hugo

Profession - Author

Born - Feb 26,1802

Died - May 22,1885

French

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