Replica of the figurehead of HMS Bounty
In the year 1787, William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus (Jan 11), Captain Arthur Phillip leaves England with 11 ships carrying around 700 convicts plus crew and guards to establish a penal colony in Australia (May 13), the United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia (Sep 17), Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni premieres in Prague (Oct 29), Delaware becomes the first U.S. state (Dec 7), Captain William Bligh sets sail for Tahiti aboard HMS Bounty (Dec 23), Freed slave Ottobah Cugoano publishes an anti-slavery book in England - and all these fine people were born:
1787-0101 Manuel José Arce* General/president of the Federal Republic of Central America - San Salvador (1847/60)
1787-0210 William Bradley* the tallest recorded British man (7 feet 9" - 2.36 m) - Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (1820/33)
1787-0223 Emma Willard* women’s rights activist/educator - Berlin, Connecticut (1870/83)
1787-0301 Tobias Haslinger* Austrian composer/music publisher - Zell bei Zellhof (1842/55)
1787-0309 Josephine Kablick* pioneering Czech botanist/paleontologist - Hohenelbe, Bohemia (1863/76)
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1787-0412 Susanna Mikontytär Mustalampi** (b Mustalampi) mother of Iisakki Susannapoika Linnusmaa - Jalasjärvi, Sweden-Finland (1867/80)
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1787-0426 Ludwig Uhland* poet/philologist/literary historian - Tübingen, Duchy of Württemberg (1862/75)
1787-0430 Fredrik Adolf Hällström* engineer officer/channel builder - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1861/74)
1787-0525 José María Bocanegra* lawyer/politician - Labor de la Troje, Aguascalientes (1862/75)
1787-0628 Sir Harry Smith* soldier/military commander - Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England (1860/73)
1787-0728 Pedro Vélez* lawyer/politician - Zacatecas, Mexico (1848/61)
1787-0824 James Weddell* British sailor/ navigator/seal hunter - Ostend, Belgium (1834/47)
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1787-0905 François Sulpice Beudant* mineralogist/geologist - Paris, France (1850/63)
1787-0915 Guillaume Henri Dufour* Swiss army officer/structural engineer/topographer - Konstanz, Holy Roman Empire (1875/87)
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1787-1004 François Guizot* historian/orator/ statesman/PM - Nîmes, France (1874/86)
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1787-1104 Edmund Kean* celebrated British Shakespearean stage actor - Westminster, London, England (1833/45)
1787-1106 Vuk Stefanović Karadžić* Serbian philologist/anthropologist/reformer of the modern Serbian language - Tršić, Rumelia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire (1864/76)
1787-1107 Carl Carl* (b Karl Andreas Bernbrunn) actor/ theater director - Kraków (1854/66)
1787-1118 Louis Daguerre* artist/ photographer/inventor of the daguerreotype process of photography - Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France (1851/63)
1787-1125 Franz Xaver Gruber* Austrian primary school teacher/church organist/composer (Silent Night) - Hochburg-Ach, Habsburg Monarchy (1863/75)
1787-1204 Johan Fredrik Berwald* violinist/conductor/composer - Sweden (1861/73)
1787-1230 Otto von Kotzebue* Baltic German officer/navigator - Reval, Estonia, Russian Empire (1846/58)
Updated 26.7.2023-3 Vienna
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