May 09
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Birthdays In History 1803

1803 Edward Dickinson American politician and father of poet Emily Dickinson (d. 1874)

1803 Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1869)

1803 Douglas William Jerrold English journalist and playwright (d. 1857)

1803 Henri Herz Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1888)

1803 Marjorie Fleming Scottish poet and author (d. 1811)

1803 Sarah Helen Whitman American poet essayist and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1878)

1803 Albert Sidney Johnston American general (d. 1862)

1803 Thomas Field Gibson English manufacturer who aided the welfare of the Spitalfields silk weavers (d. 1889)

1803 James Curtiss American journalist and politician 11th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)

1803 Flora Tristan French author and activist (d. 1844)

1803 Albrecht von Roon Prussian soldier and politician 10th Minister President of Prussia (d. 1879)

1803 James Clarence Mangan Irish poet and author (d. 1849)

1803 Justus von Liebig German chemist and academic (d. 1873)

1803 Juan Almonte son of José María Morelos was a Mexican soldier and diplomat who served as a regent in the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (d. 1869)

1803 Alexander von Nordmann Finnish biologist and paleontologist (d. 1866)

1803 Edward Bulwer-Lytton English author playwright and politician Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1873)

1803 John Newton Brown American minister and author (d. 1868)

1803 Thomas Lovell Beddoes English poet playwright and physician (d. 1849)

1803 George Borrow British writer (d. 1881)

1803 Adolphe Adam French composer and critic (d. 1856)

1803 Alexander J. Davis American architect (d. 1892)

1803 Joseph Paxton English gardener and architect designed The Crystal Palace (d. 1865)

1803 Vladimir Odoyevsky Russian philosopher and critic (d. 1869)

1803 Nathan Clifford American lawyer jurist and politician 19th United States Attorney General (d. 1881)

1803 Luís Alves de Lima e Silva Duke of Caxias (d. 1880)

1803 Edward Beecher American minister and theologian (d. 1895)

1803 Prudence Crandall American educator (d. 1890)

1803 Sarah Childress Polk First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)

1803 William Knibb English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (d.1845)

1803 Maria Anna of Savoy (d. 1884)

1803 Samuel Francis Du Pont American admiral (d. 1865)

1803 Prosper Mérimée French archaeologist historian and author (d. 1870)

1803 Jacques Charles François Sturm French mathematician and theorist (d. 1850)

1803 Friedrich Bernhard Westphal Danish-German painter (d. 1844)

1803 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879)

1803 Gregor von Helmersen Estonian-Russian general and geologist (d. 1885)

1803 Robert Stephenson English railway and civil engineer (d. 1859)

1803 Ferenc Deák Hungarian politician (d. 1876)

1803 Maria Doolaeghe Flemish novelist (d. 1884)

1803 Joseph Hansom English architect and publisher designed Birmingham Town Hall (d. 1882)

1803 Jacob Abbott American author (d. 1879)

1803 Gottfried Semper German architect and academic designed the Semper Opera House (d. 1879)

1803 Fyodor Tyutchev Russian poet and diplomat (d. 1873)

1803 Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (d. 1829)

1803 Achille Vianelli Italian painter and academic (d. 1894)

1803 Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald Estonian physician and author (d. 1882)

1803 François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier Canadian activist (d. 1839)

1803 Eunice Hale Waite Cobb American writer public speaker and activist (d. 1880)

1803 Egerton Ryerson Canadian minister educator and politician (d. 1882)

1803 Peter Chanel French priest and saint (d. 1841)

Christian Doppler

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Born - Nov 29,1803

Died - Mar 17,1853

Austrian

Hector Berlioz

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Born - Dec 11,1803

Died - Mar 08,1869

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James Brooke

Profession -

Born - Apr 29,1803

Died - Jun 09,1868

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John Ericsson

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Born - Jul 31,1803

Died - Mar 08,1889

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Profession - Poet

Born - May 25,1803

Died - Apr 27,1882

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Theodore Dwight Weld

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Born - Nov 23,1803

Died - Feb 03,1895

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