Famous people born in 1787
The best-known people born in 1787, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.
Best known
Louis DaguerreFrench scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)
November 18 · d. 1851
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Joseph von FraunhoferBavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
March 6 · d. 1826
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Vuk KaradžićSerbian philologist and linguist
November 6 · d. 1864
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
François GuizotFrench historian, orator and statesman (1787–1874)
October 4 · d. 1874
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Ludwig UhlandGerman poet and politician (1787–1862)
April 26 · d. 1862
Photo: Gottlob Wilhelm Morff, Public domain
Rasmus RaskDanish linguist
November 22 · d. 1832
Photo: Bærentzen, Emil (30.10.1799-14.2.1868), Public domain
Jan Evangelista PurkyněCzech biologist, physiologist, doctor, inventor and politician (1787–1869)
December 17 · d. 1869
Photo: Rudolph Hoffmann, Public domain- Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo
Spanish dramatist and politician (1787-1862)
March 10 · d. 1862
- Guillaume Henri Dufour
Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer (1787-1875)
September 15 · d. 1875
- John Richardson
Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer (1787–1865)
November 5 · d. 1865
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
American educator and founder of the American School for the Deaf
December 10 · d. 1851
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January
- January 1 · Manuel José Arce, President of the Federal Republic of Central America (1787-1847)
- January 1 · Domenico Quaglio the Younger, German artist (1787–1837)
- January 6 · Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1787-1871)
- January 10 · Robert C. Nicholas, American politician (1757-1856)
- January 23 · Raffaele Fornari, Catholic cardinal
- January 25 · Jean Antoine Letronne, French archaeologist
February
- February 1 · Richard Whately, British rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian (1787-1863)
- February 8 · Giovanni Gussone, Italian botanist (1787-1866)
- February 15 · Ignacio Álvarez Thomas, South American military commander/politician
- February 16 · Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer (1787-1870)
- February 16 · Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, German botanist (1787–1860)
- February 27 · Jacob Bigelow, American botanist, physician, and educational reformer (1787-1879)
March
- March 8 · Sven Nilsson, Swedish zoologist and archaeologist (1787-1883)
- March 9 · Josephine Kablick, Bohemian and Austrian botanist and palaeontologist (1787-1863)
- March 14 · Tharrawaddy Min, King of Burma
- March 28 · Theodore Frelinghuysen, (1787-1862) American politician
- March 28 · Claudius James Rich, British business agent, traveller and antiquarian (1787-1821)
- March 29 · Carl Sprengel, German botanist (1787-1859)
April
- April 2 · Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin, French surgeon (1790-1847)
- April 7 · Samuel McKean, American politician (1787-1841)
- April 14 · Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis, French physician (1787-1872)
- April 14 · Jean Victor Schnetz, French painter (1787-1870)
- April 23 · Peter Dajnko, Slovene writer
- April 24 · Mathieu Orfila, Mateo Orfila y Rotger (Menorca, 1787- Paris, 1853), professor of Legal Medicine in Paris and founder of toxicology
May
- May 4 · Hans Linstow, Danish-Norwegian architect (1787–1851)
- May 7 · Thomas Buck Reed, United States Senator from Mississippi (1787-1829)
- May 8 · Stephen Decatur Miller, American politician (Nullifier Party) (1787-1838)
- May 12 · José Francisco Barrundia, President of the United Provinces of Central America (1787-1854)
- May 27 · Benjamin Valz, French astronomer
- May 27 · Artur Potocki, Polish noble (1787–1832)
June
- June 2 · Nils Gabriel Sefström, Swedish chemist (1787-1845)
- June 7 · William Daniel Conybeare, English geologist and palaeontologist (1787-1857)
- June 9 · Frédéric Cailliaud, French scientist
- June 11 · Manuel Dorrego, Argentine politician
- June 17 · Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, German princess (1787-1847)
- June 28 · Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet, British Army general
July
- July 3 · Pellegrino Rossi, Italian economist, politician and jurist naturalized French (1787-1848)
- July 6 · Nicolai Johan Lohmann Krog, Norwegian politician (1787-1856)
- July 14 · Shō Kō, King of Ryūkyū
- July 17 · Friedrich Krupp, German entrepreneur
- July 26 · Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck, German botanist, pharmacologist and university lecturer; founder of modern pharmacognosy (1787-1837)
- July 28 · Pedro Vélez, President of Mexico (1787-1848)
August
- August 15 · François Sudre, 1787-1862 French author and musician
- August 17 · Maxim Vorobiev, Russian landscape painter (1787-1855)
- August 20 · Jean-Pierre Cortot, French neoclassical sculptor (1787–1843)
- August 20 · John Milton Niles, American politician (1787-1856)
- August 22 · Christian Friedrich, Baron Stockmar, German physician and statesman (1787-1863)
- August 26 · Oronzio Gabriele Costa, Italian zoologist (1787-1867)
September
- September 4 · Ninomiya Sontoku, Japanese philosopher
- September 5 · François Sulpice Beudant, systematic mineralogist, University of Paris, Paris, France (1787-1850)
- September 10 · John J. Crittenden, U.S. Attorney General and politician from Kentucky (1787-1863)
- September 13 · Edward Blore, British architect (1787–1879)
- September 13 · Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, mistress of Emperor Napoleon I
- September 22 · Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi, Catholic cardinal and nuncio
October
- October 7 · De Lacy Evans, British Army general (1787-1870)
- October 9 · William Lewis, English chess player and author (1787–1870)
- October 15 · James Holman, British Royal Navy officer (1787-1857)
- October 18 · Robert L. Stevens, American railroad pioneer
- October 22 · Johann Mayrhofer, Austrian poet and librettist
- October 30 · Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald, Catholic cardinal (1787-1870)
November
- November 9 · Johann Natterer, Austrian naturalist and explorer (1787-1843)
- November 17 · Michele Carafa, Italian opera composer
- November 18 · Henry Bishop, British composer
- November 20 · Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German inventor
- November 21 · Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British businessman
- November 30 · Andrés Quintana Roo, Mexican politician (1787-1851)
December
- December 7 · Magnus Georg Paucker, Baltic German mathematician (1787-1855)
- December 14 · Joaquín Mosquera y Arboleda, Colombian politician (1787-1878)
- December 16 · Mary Russell Mitford, English author and dramatist (1787–1855)
- December 21 · José Tomás Ovalle, Chilean political figure, president
- December 27 · Yanagawa Shigenobu, Japanese artist
- December 28 · Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Russian general (1787–1857)
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