La Mort de Marat by Jacques-Louis David
In the year 1793, Louis XVI of France is guillotined in Paris (Jan 21), George Washington is sworn in as President of the United States for his second term (Mar 4), Jean-Paul Marat is killed in his bath (Jul 13), the Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum (Aug 10), New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster (Dec 9), the French Revolution goes on - and all these fine people were born:
1793-0103 Lucretia Mott* Quaker/abolitionist/social reformer - Nantucket, MA USA (1880/87)
1793-0108 Ludwig Reichenbach* German botanist/ornithologist - Leipzig, Holy Roman Empire (1879/86)
1793-0111 Johanna Stegen* German heroine of the Napoleonic Wars - Lüneburg, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (1842/49)
1793-0115 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller* painter - Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1865/72)
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1793-0130 Ivar Ulrik Wallenius* orientalist - Akaa, Sweden-Finland (1874/81)
1793-0210 Jean Claude Eugène Péclet* physicist - Besançon, Kingdom of France (1857/64)
1793-0214 Goldsworthy Gurney*surgeon/ scientist/architect - St Merryn, Cornwall, England (1875/82)
1793-0219 Sidney Rigdon* Mormon leader - St. Clair Township, PA USA (1876/83)
1793-0222 Friedrich Harkort* German industrialist/an early proponent of railroads - Hagen, Holy Roman Empire (1880/87)
1793-0227 Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Berg* German farmer/non-fiction writer - Friedrichsschwerz, Holy Roman Empire (1825/31)
1793-0302 Sam Houston* soldier/politician/ President of the Republic of Texas - Rockbridge County, VA USA (1863/70))
1793-0303 Charles Sealsfield* (b Carl Anton Postl) Austrian-American journalist/to U.S. at age 29 - Popice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (1864/71)
1793-04xx Thomas Addison* physician/scientist /Addison’s Disease named after him - Longbenton, Northumberland, England (1860/67)
1793-0408 Karl Ludwig Hencke* astronomer - Driesen, Brandenburg (1866/73)
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1793-0426 Peter Möller* pharmacist/the man behind Möller’s - Røros, Norway (1869/76)
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1793-0521 Charles Paul de Kock* novelist - Paris, Kingdom of France (1871/78)
1793-0527 Johan Matthias Sundwall* philosopher/ university teacher - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1843/50)
1793-0603 Antoni Malczewski* Polish poet - Volhynia or Warzaw (1826/32)
1793-0616 Diego Portales* entrepreneur/statesman - Santiago, Chile (1837/43)
1793-0629 Josef Ressel* forester/designed one of the first working ship’s propellers - Chrudim, Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy (1857/64)
1793-0704 Lars Olof Prytz* civil servant/politician - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1867/74)
1793-0710 Philip Barker-Webb* botanist - Surrey, England (1854/61)
1793-0715 Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps* educator/author/editor - Berlin, CT USA (1884/91)
1793-0819 Barthélemy Thimonnier* inventor of sewing machine - L’Arbresle, Rhone, France (1857/63)
1793-0825 John Neal* writer/lecturer/ activist - Portland, District of Maine, USA (1876/82)
1793-0902 Caroline Ridderstolpe* (b Kolbe) Swedish singer/composer - Berlin (1878/85)
1793-0910 Harriet Arbuthnot* (b Fane) diarist/ social observer/political hostess - England (1834/40)
1793-0925 Felicia Hemans* poet - Liverpool, Lancashire, England (1835/41)
1793-1011 Johan Erik Lindh* painter/decorative painter active in Finland - Harg, Sweden (1865/71)
1793-1011 Henrik Johan Walbeck* geodesist/astronomer - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1822/29)
1793-1011 Simon Anders Wendelin* merchant/ shipowner - Kristiinankaupunki, Sweden-Finland (1861/67)
1793-1014 Erik Johan Stagnelius* poet/playwright - Gärdslösa, Öland, Sweden (1823/29)
1793-1103 Stephen F. Austin* empresario/known as the founder of Texas - Wythe County, VA USA (1836/43)
1793-1117 Charles Lock Eastlake* painter/ gallery director/writer - Plymouth, Devon, England (1865/72)
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1793-1128 Carl Jonas Love Almqvist* writer/ poet/composer - Stockholm, Sweden (1866/72)
1793-1205 Johan Magnus af Tengström* botanist/zoologist - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1856/62)
1793-1207 Joseph Severn* portrait painter/friend of John Keats - Hoxton, England (1879/85)
1793-1225 Ludwig Thienemann* German physician/naturalist - Freyburg, Saxony (1858/64)
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