May 20
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Birthdays In History 1809

1809 Achille Guenée French lawyer and entomologist (d. 1880)

1809 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon French economist and politician (d. 1865)

1809 Surendra Sai Indian activist (d. 1884)

1809 André Dumont Belgian geologist and academic (d. 1857)

1809 John Hart English-Australian politician 10th Premier of South Australia (d. 1873)

1809 Jean-Charles Cornay French missionary and saint (d. 1837)

1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts American-Liberian historian and politician 1st President of Liberia (d. 1876)

1809 Fredrik Pacius German composer and conductor (d. 1891)

1809 Georges-Eugène Haussmann French engineer urban planner and politician (d. 1891)

1809 Edward FitzGerald English poet and translator (d. 1883)

1809 Otto Lindblad Swedish composer (d. 1864)

1809 Karl Felix Halm German scholar and critic (d. 1882)

1809 Heinrich Hoffmann German psychiatrist and author (d. 1894)

1809 François-Xavier Garneau Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)

1809 Isaak August Dorner German theologian and academic (d. 1884)

1809 Friedrich August von Quenstedt German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)

1809 Charles Chiniquy Canadian-American priest and theologian (d. 1899)

1809 William B. Travis American colonel and lawyer (d. 1836)

1809 John Kirk Townsend American ornithologist and explorer (d. 1851)

1809 Hannibal Hamlin American publisher and politician 15th Vice President of the United States (d. 1891)

1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. American physician and author (d. 1894)

1809 Manuel Montt Chilean scholar and politician 6th President of Chile (d. 1880)

1809 Juliusz Słowacki Polish poet and playwright (d. 1849)

1809 Alvan Wentworth Chapman American physician and botanist (d. 1899)

1809 James Clark American Jesuit (d. 1885)

1809 Volney Howard American lawyer jurist and politician Texas Attorney General (d. 1889)

1809 Benjamin Robbins Curtis American lawyer and jurist (d. 1874)

1809 John A. Dahlgren American admiral (d. 1870)

1809 Fanny Kemble English actress playwright and poet (d. 1893)

1809 Alexandros Rizos Rangavis Greek poet and politician Foreign Minister of Greece (d. 1892)

1809 William Ewart Gladstone English lawyer and politician Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)

1809 Mariano José de Larra Spanish journalist and author (d. 1837)

1809 Joseph Liouville French mathematician and academic (d. 1882)

1809 Hermann Grassmann German linguist and mathematician (d. 1877)

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Died - Oct 06,1892

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Died - Apr 19,1882

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Died - May 13,1884

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Died - Nov 04,1847

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Died - May 23,1868

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Louis Braille

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Born - Jan 04,1809

Died - Jan 06,1852

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Born - Dec 29,1809

Died - May 19,1898

British

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