Famous people born in 1790
The best-known people born in 1790, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.
Best known
John Tylerpresident of the United States from 1841 to 1845
March 29 · d. 1862
Photo: George Peter Alexander Healy, Public domain
Alphonse de LamartineFrench author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)
October 21 · d. 1869
Photo: Adrien Tournachon, Public domain
Jean-François ChampollionFrench classical scholar (1790-1832)
December 23 · d. 1832
Photo: Léon Cogniet, Public domain
Leopold I of BelgiumGerman prince who became the first King of the Belgians (1790–1865)
December 16 · d. 1865
Photo: Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Public domain
August Ferdinand MöbiusGerman mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
November 17 · d. 1868
Photo: Adolf Neumann, Public domain
George EverestWelsh surveyor and geographer (1790–1866)
July 4 · d. 1866
Photo: Maull & Polyblank, Public domain
Jules Dumont d'UrvilleFrench Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)
May 23 · d. 1842
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain- Astolphe-Louis-Léonor de Custine, Marquis de Custine
French aristocrat and writer (1790-1857)
March 18 · d. 1857
- Jean René Constant Quoy
French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist (1790-1869)
November 10 · d. 1869
- Johann Jakob Heckel
Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist (1790-1857)
January 23 · d. 1857
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January
- January 5 · Melchor Múzquiz, President of Mexico (1790-1844)
- January 14 · Feliks Paweł Jarocki, Polish entomologist (1790-1865)
- January 20 · John Blackwall, British entomologist (1790–1881)
- January 25 · Moritz Michael Daffinger, Austrian artist (1790-1849)
- January 25 · William Henry Sykes, British politician and naturalist (1790-1872)
- January 27 · William Davies Evans, Welsh navy captain, inventor and chess player
February
- February 4 · John Bachman, American clergyman, social activist, ornithologist and botanist (1790 – 1874)
- February 6 · John Silva Meehan, American publisher (1790–1863)
- February 12 · Peter Skene Ogden, British-Canadian fur trapper and explorer
- February 16 · Claude Pouillet, French physicist (1791–1868)
- February 25 · Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Prime Minister of Spain (1790-1853)
- February 28 · Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz, Austrian dramatist and epic poet; Bohemian nobility (1790–1862)
March
- March 1 · Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz, German prince (1790-1836)
- March 10 · Jacques Arago, French artist and writer (1790-1855)
- March 11 · Ignaz von Rudhart, Prime Minister of Greece (1790-1838)
- March 14 · Ludwig Emil Grimm, German artist (1790-1863)
- March 15 · Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer (1790-1848)
- March 21 · Markos Botsaris, general and hero of the Greek War of Independence and more (1790–1823)
April
- April 1 · Auguste Couder, French painter (1789-1873)
- April 4 · Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, French applied mathematician
- April 11 · George Rockingham Gilmer, American politician (1790-1859)
- April 14 · Carl Johann Hartman, Swedish botanist (1790-1849)
- April 24 · Thomas ap Catesby Jones, naval officer from Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States (1790-1858)
- April 30 · Karl Wilhelm von Willisen, Prussian general and military writer (1790–1879)
May
- May 12 · Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (1790–1872)
- May 16 · Juan Lindo y Zelaya, President of Honduras and El Salvador (1790-1857)
- May 21 · William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, British noble (1790-1858)
- May 23 · James Pradier, sculptor and painter (1790-1852)
- May 26 · Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, Belgian politician (1790-1873)
- May 26 · Dezydery Chłapowski, Polish general (1790–1879)
June
- June 1 · Chester Ashley, American politician (1790-1848)
- June 9 · Abel-François Villemain, French politician and writer (1790-1870)
- June 10 · Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul, French composer (1790-1875)
- June 15 · Franz Christian Gau, German-French architect and archaeologist
- June 18 · John Eaton, American politician and diplomat (1790-1856)
- June 25 · Vitório Maria de Sousa Coutinho, 2nd Count of Linhares, Portuguese politician (1790-1857)
July
- July 2 · Leopold, Prince of Salerno, prince of Salerno (1790–1851)
- July 6 · Giuseppe Tominz, Italian painter (1790-1866)
- July 12 · David Hansemann, German businessman and politician (1790-1864)
- July 15 · William Henry Playfair, Scottish architect (1790-1857)
- July 21 · Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse, German historian (1790–1866)
- July 28 · Ivan Petrovich Liprandi, Russian major general, historian and chief of the secret police (1790–1880)
August
- August 3 · John Cockerill, British businessman (1790-1840)
- August 7 · Jean-Claude Colin, French Catholic priest (1790–1875), founder of the Society of Mary
- August 13 · William Charles Wentworth, Australian poet, explorer, journalist and politician (1790-1872)
- August 19 · Giuseppe De Fabris, Italian sculptor, artist and painter (c.1800-1860)
- August 22 · Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq, poet laureate of the Mughal Court in Delhi
- August 25 · Hans Dahlerup, Danish naval officer (1790–1872)
September
- September 4 · Joseph Anton von Maffei, German industrialist (1790–1870)
- September 8 · Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, British Tory politician, Governor-General of India (1790-1871)
- September 9 · Sergei Petrovich Troubetzkoy, Russian decemberist (1790-1860)
- September 15 · Giovanni David, Italian opera singer (1790-1864)
- September 17 · Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach, German general (1790-1861)
- September 20 · Catherine Crowe, English novelist, story writer, and playwright; spiritualist and spirit story collector (1790–1872)
October
- October 3 · John Ross, 1st principal chief of the Cherokee Nation (1790–1866)
- October 11 · William Smith, English captain who discovered the South Shetland Islands
- October 14 · Thursday October Christian I, Pitcairn Island leader (1790-1831)
- October 26 · Simon von Stampfer, Austrian mathematician (1792–1864)
- October 30 · Karol Lipiński, Polish musician (1790–1861)
- October 31 · Francisco Javier de Istúriz y Montero, Prime Ministers of Spain (1790-1871)
November
- November 2 · Georg Ludwig von Maurer, German historian and politician (1790-1872)
- November 7 · Luigi Legnani, Italian musician (1790-1877)
- November 7 · Karol Podczaszyński, Polish-Lithuanian architect
- November 17 · João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha, Portuguese duke and Prime Minister (1790-1876)
- November 21 · Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, British Royal Navy admiral (1790-1858)
- November 27 · Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes, French admiral and senator (1790-1860)
December
- December 6 · Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant, French General, Marshal of France (1790-1872)
- December 8 · Augustus Meineke, German classical philologist (1790–1870)
- December 9 · Richard Carlile, British publisher and social reformer
- December 10 · Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, Austrian historian (1790-1861)
- December 15 · Luigi Rossini, Italian artist (1790–1857)
- December 27 · James Blundell, British obstetrician (1790–1878)
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