Famous people born in 1793
The best-known people born in 1793, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.
Best known
Ferdinand I of AustriaAustrian emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1793-1875)
April 19 · d. 1875
Photo: Eduard Edlinger, Public domain
Sam HoustonAmerican statesman, politician, and soldier (1793-1863)
March 2 · d. 1863
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von StruveBaltic German astronomer (1793–1864)
April 15 · d. 1864
Photo: Petr Borel / Sergey Lvovich Levitsky, Public domain
Juan Manuel de Rosas meowArgentine politician (1793-1877)
March 30 · d. 1877
Photo: Cayetano Descalzi, Public domain- Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
Swedish romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller (1793-1866)
November 28 · d. 1866
- Maria Teresa de Bragança
Portuguese infanta; eldest child of John VI of Portugal and Carlota Joaquina of Spain (1793–1874)
April 29 · d. 1874
- Stephen F. Austin
American empresario, founder of Texas, namesake of Austin, Texas (1793-1836)
November 3 · d. 1836
- Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
Baltic German physician, naturalist and explorer (1793-1831)
November 1 · d. 1831
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January
- January 3 · Marie Antoinette Murat, German princess (1793–1847)
- January 11 · Cave Johnson, United States Representative (1793-1866)
- January 14 · Wojciech Chrzanowski, Polish general (1793-1861)
- January 21 · Théodore Olivier, French mathematician
- January 28 · Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Russian general (1793–1861)
- January 29 · Ignaz Friedrich Tausch, Bohemian botanist (1793-1848)
February
- February 1 · Margaret Sarah Carpenter, English portrait painter (1793–1872)
- February 2 · William Hopkins, English mathematician and geologist (1793-1866)
- February 8 · Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, French painter (1793-1870)
- February 13 · Philipp Veit, German Romantic painter (1793–1877)
- February 19 · Sidney Rigdon, American Mormon leader (1793–1876)
- February 22 · Isaak Markus Jost, German historian
March
- March 2 · Peter von Köppen, Russian ethnographer, historian, statistician, and geographer (1793-1864)
- March 3 · Charles Sealsfield, American author and journalist (1793-1864)
- March 3 · William Macready, British stage actor (1793-1873)
- March 4 · Ōshio Heihachirō, Japanese samurai, Neo-Confucianism scholar and rebel leader in the late-Edo period
- March 11 · Jan Frans Willems, writer (1793–1846)
- March 28 · Henry Schoolcraft, American anthropologist (1793-1864)
April
- April 3 · Dionysius Lardner, Irish science writer (1793–1859)
- April 4 · Karl Wilhelm Gropius, German painter (1793-1870)
- April 22 · Ludvig Bødtcher, Danish writer
- April 22 · Henrik Nicolai Clausen, Danish statesman and theologian (1793-1877)
- April 24 · Bartolomeo Biasoletto, Italian botanist (1793–1858)
- April 26 · Nicolas Anne Théodule Changarnier, French general (1793-1877)
May
- May 1 · Ernst Friedrich Glocker, German mineralogist (1793–1858)
- May 4 · William Cabell Rives, American politician (1793–1868)
- May 13 · Samuel S. Phelps, (1793–1855) American lawyer and politician
- May 21 · Carl Eduard Napiersky, Baltic German historian and theologian (1793-1864)
- May 24 · Edward Hitchcock, United States geologist and Congregationalist clergyman (1793-1864)
- May 31 · Charles Blacker Vignoles, British railway engineer (1793–1875)
June
- June 1 · Henry Francis Lyte, Anglican priest, hymn-writer and poet (1793-1847)
- June 1 · Augustus Earle, British artist (1793-1838)
- June 3 · Antoni Malczewski, Polish poet (1793–1826)
- June 9 · Ludwig Schorn, German art historian (1793-1842)
- June 16 · Diego Portales Palazuelo, Chilean businessman, conservative politician and admiral (1793-1837)
- June 27 · Pedro Pablo Bermúdez, President of Peru
July
- July 6 · Jacob de Kempenaer, Dutch politician (1793-1870)
- July 10 · Philip Barker Webb, English botanist (1793–1854)
- July 12 · Agostino Codazzi, Italian scientist, geographer and cartographer (1793-1859)
- July 15 · Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, botanist, author (1793-1884)
- July 18 · Maria Caroline Gibert de Lametz, Princess Consort of Monaco (1793-1879)
- July 19 · Thomas Doughty, American artist and lithographer (1793-1856)
August
- August 3 · Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars, French Naval Vice-Admiral (1793-1864)
- August 18 · Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau, Consort of Frederick Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1793-1854)
- August 21 · Princess Dorothea of Courland, German noble (1793-1862)
- August 24 · William Hay Macnaghten, British civil servant (1793-1841)
- August 25 · Martin Heinrich Rathke, German biologist (1793–1860)
- August 25 · John Neal, American writer (1793–1876)
September
- September 4 · Edward Bates, American politician, lawyer and judge (1793-1869)
- September 9 · José Ignacio de Márquez, President of Colombia (1793-1880)
- September 10 · Harriet Arbuthnot, diarist (1793-1834)
- September 26 · William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi (1792-1842)
- September 27 · Denis Auguste Affre, Murdered Archbishop of Paris (1793–1848)
- September 28 · Thomas Coulter, British physician, botanist, and explorer (1793-1843)
October
- October 1 · Peter Kaiser, educator, historian and statesman of Liechtensteiner origin (1793-1864)
- October 4 · Gustav Kunze, German botanist (1793–1851)
- October 12 · Serafín María de Sotto, 3rd Count of Clonard, Spanish military historian and politician
- October 20 · Watanabe Kazan, samurai of the late Edo period, painter, scholar and statesman (1793-1841)
- October 28 · Princess Caroline of Denmark, Hereditary Princess consort of Denmark (1793-1881)
- October 28 · Eliphalet Remington, American firearm designer (1793–1861)
November
- November 3 · Johann Ender, Austrian painter (1793-1854)
- November 6 · Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German prince (1793–1867)
- November 11 · Robert Edmond Grant, British anatomist and zoologist (1793-1874)
- November 17 · Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, gallery director, collector and writer (1793-1865)
- November 24 · Luigi Taparelli, Italian Jesuit (1793–1862)
- November 30 · Johann Lukas Schönlein, German naturalist and professor of medicine (1793–1864)
December
- December 11 · Pietro Antonio Coppola, Italian composer and conductor
- December 15 · Henry Charles Carey, American economist and publisher (1793–1879)
- December 25 · Dimitrios Ypsilantis, Greek military leader and politician (1793-1832)
- December 27 · Alexander Gordon Laing, Scottish explorer (1793–1826)
- December 27 · George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough, British politician (1793-1857)
- December 28 · Karl Friedrich Neumann, German orientalist (1793–1870)
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