In the year 1775, The American Revolution begins (Feb 9), the comedy Le Barbier de Séville is premièred in Paris (Feb 23), the Continental Congress names George Washington as commander of the Continental Army (Jun 14), Tucson, Arizona is founded (Aug 18), a smallpox epidemic begins in New England - and all these fine people were born:
1775-0120 André-Marie Ampère* physicist/ mathematician/ inventor - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1836/61)
1775-0210 Charles Lamb* essayist/ poet/antiquarian - Inner Temple, London, England (1834/59)
1775-0215 Sophia Kingdom* later Lady Brunel/mother of Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Plymouth, Devon, England (1855/79)
1775-0219 Giovanni Battista Comolli* sculptor - Valenza, Italy (1831/56)
1775-0312 Henry Eckford* Scottish-American shipbuilder/industrial engineer/entrepreneur - Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland (1832/57)
1775-0323 Carl F. Junnelius* sea captain/shipbuilder/ merchant - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1828/53)
1775-0402 John Higton* animal painter - Frederick County, Virginia (1827/51)
1775-0423 J. M. W. Turner* painte/ printmaker/ watercolourist - London, England (1851/76)
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1775-0521 Lucien Bonaparte* statesman/ brother of Napoleon Bonaparte - Ajaccio, Corsica, France (1840/65)
1775-0620 Jacques Frédéric Français * engineer/mathematician - Saverne, France (1833/57)
1775-0724 Eugène-François Vidocq* criminal turned criminalist/the founder of Sûreté nationale/the head of the first known private detective agency/considered to be the father of modern criminology - Arras, France (1857/81)
1775-0731 Hachaliah Bailey* circus pioneer/founder of Bailey Circus – Somers, New York (1845/70)
1775-0806 Daniel O’Connell* known as The Liberator/the Emancipator/ political leader - Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland (1847/71)
1775-0831 Agnes Bulmer* poet – London, England (1836/60)
1775-0913 Laura Secord* (b Ingersoll) Canadian heroine of the War of 1812 - Great Barrington, Province of Massachusetts Bay (1868/93)
1775-0914 Jean-Louis Burnouf * philologist/ translator - Urvile. Manche, France (1844/68)
1775-1012 Lyman Beecher* Presbyterian minister/father of Harriet Beecher Stowe - New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British America (1863/87)
1775-1015 Bernhard_Crusell* clarinetist/ composer/translator - Uusikaupunki, Sweden-Finland (1838/62)
1775-1125 Gustaf Gabriel Hällström** physicist/ teacher/priest – Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1844/68)
1775-1216 Jane Austen* novelist – Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England (1817/41)
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