Famous people born in 1786
The best-known people born in 1786, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.
Best known
François AragoFrench mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
February 26 · d. 1853
Photo: Ary Scheffer, Public domain
Ludwig I of BavariaKing of Bavaria (1786-1868)
August 25 · d. 1868
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Wilhelm GrimmGerman author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
February 24 · d. 1859
Photo: Hermann Biow, Public domain
Christian VIII of DenmarkKing of Norway 1814, King of Denmark 1839-1848
September 18 · d. 1848
Photo: Louis Aumont, Public domain
William R. Kingvice president of the United States from March to April 1853 (1786–1853)
April 7 · d. 1853
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Davy CrockettAmerican frontiersman and politician (1786–1836)
August 17 · d. 1836
Photo: James Hamilton Shegogue, 1806 - 1872, Public domain
Michel Eugène ChevreulFrench chemist (1786-1889)
August 31 · d. 1889
Photo: Nicolas Eustache Maurin, Public domain- Louis McLane
American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland (1786-1857)
May 28 · d. 1857
- Nathaniel Wolff Wallich
surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India (1786-1854)
January 28 · d. 1854
- Princess Sophie of France
French princess (1786-1787); daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
July 9 · d. 1787
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January
- January 1 · Dixon Denham, British explorer
- January 6 · Gaspar del Bufalo, Italian Catholic priest and saint (1786-1837)
- January 15 · Jean Alaux, French painter (1786-1864)
- January 23 · Auguste de Montferrand, French architect in Russia
- January 24 · Walter Forward, American politician (1786-1852)
- January 26 · Benjamin Haydon, English painter, specialising in grand historical pictures (1786-1846)
February
- February 2 · Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (1786-1856)
- February 7 · Antonio José de Irisarri, Guatemalan statesman, journalist, and politician; Interim Supreme Director of Chile
- February 8 · Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki, Polish general
- February 11 · James Cowles Prichard, English physician and anthropologist
- February 24 · Martin W. Bates, American lawyer and politician (1786-1869)
- February 26 · Madame Saqui, French tightrope walker (1786–1866)
March
- March 3 · Marie Bigot, French piano teacher
- March 4 · Agustina de Aragón, Spanish heroine (1786-1857)
- March 6 · Charles Napier, British Royal Navy admiral (1786-1860)
- March 7 · Michel Martin Drolling, French painter (1786-1851)
- March 10 · José María de los Dolores Vargas Ponce, President of Venezuela from 1835–1836
- March 31 · Louis Vicat, French engineer who invented artificial cement
April
- April 1 · William Mulready, Irish genre painter (1786–1863)
- April 10 · Louis-Albert Necker, Swiss scientist (1786-1861)
- April 16 · Pavel Schilling, Russian inventor of Baltic German origin (1786-1837)
- April 16 · Albrecht Adam, German painter (1786–1862)
- April 17 · Charles de la Bédoyère, French General (1786–1815)
- April 26 · Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter, pamphleteer, politician (1786-1859)
May
- May 3 · Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Italian saint
- May 8 · Thomas Hancock, English manufacturing engineer in the rubber industry (1786-1865)
- May 15 · Louise Seidler, German painter (1786-1866)
- May 20 · Charles Dunoyer, French liberal economist (1786-1862)
- May 23 · Samuel Ward King, American politician (1786-1851)
- May 30 · András Fáy, Hungarian author, lawyer, politician and businessman (1786-1864)
June
- June 9 · William George Horner, British school master and mathematician (1786–1837)
- June 11 · Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, German physician and zoologist
- June 18 · Infante Pedro Carlos of Spain and Portugal, Portuguese and Spanish infante
- June 19 · Fyodor Glinka, Russian writer (1786–1880)
- June 26 · Sunthorn Phu, Thai nobleman and poet
- June 27 · John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton, British politician (1786–1869)
July
- July 8 · Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, German botanist (1786-1851)
- July 9 · Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (1786–1822)
- July 10 · Jean Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières, French amateur mycologist (1786-1862)
- July 18 · Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German princess
- July 24 · Joseph Nicollet, French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician (1786–1843)
- July 25 · Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, Baltic German classicist and artist (1786-1837)
August
- August 1 · Duke Pius August in Bavaria, Bavarian duke (1786-1837)
- August 4 · Dominik Hieronim Radziwiłł, Polish noble (1786-1813)
- August 8 · George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, British aristocrat, MP and cricketer (1786-1861)
- August 18 · Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, French physician (1786-1851)
- August 25 · James Silk Buckingham, British politician (1786-1855)
- August 27 · Johannes Voigt, German historian (1786-1863)
September
- September 5 · Sergey Uvarov, Russian noble who was a classical scholar and formulated the famous doctrine "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality" to united many ethnicities (1786-1855)
- September 9 · John Breathitt, American politician (1786-1834)
- September 12 · Gustav Heinrich von Bongard, German botanist (1786-1839)
- September 12 · Jean-Louis Tulou, French composer, flute teacher, player and instrument maker
- September 25 · Arseny Zakrevsky, Russian politician and army commander (1783-1865)
- September 26 · Horace Hayman Wilson, British indologist (1786–1860)
October
- October 7 · Louis-Joseph Papineau, politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation
- October 11 · Jaques Étienne Gay, Swiss-French botanist, civil servant and botanical collector (1786-1864)
- October 12 · Roksandra Skarlatovna, (1786-1844)
- October 19 · Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, Russian politician (1786-1862)
- October 21 · John Conroy, British army officer who served as comptroller to the Duchess of Kent; (1786-1854)
- October 22 · Louis-Isidore Duperrey, French explorer (1786-1865)
November
- November 3 · Ernst Friedrich Germar, German entomologist, mineralogist and local politician (1786–1853)
- November 4 · Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, British politician (1786-1880)
- November 16 · Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian writer and military figure
- November 18 · Henry Bishop, British composer
- November 26 · José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, Spanish politician (1786-1843)
- November 28 · Syed Ahmad Barelvi, Muslim activist
December
- December 3 · Robert Graham, British botanist (1786-1845)
- December 8 · Jean de Charpentier, German-Swiss geologist (1786-1855)
- December 14 · Iwan Müller, Russian musician and composer (1786-1854)
- December 20 · Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (1786-1853)
- December 24 · Gregor MacGregor, British soldier, adventurer and confidence trickster (1786-1845)
- December 30 · Bjarni Thorarensen, Icelandic writer and politician
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