In the year 1799, a ten percent income tax is introduced in Great Britain to raise funds for its war effort in the Napoleonic Wars (Jan 9), the Rosetta Stone is found at the port city of Rosetta by the river Nile in Egypt (Jul 15), HMS Lutine sinks off the Dutch coast, the bell of which is now used for ceremonial purposes in London (Oct 9), France adopts the meter as its official unit of length (Dec 10) - and all these fine people were born:

1799-0106 Jedediah Smith* frontiersman/cartographer/explorer - Jericho, NY USA (1831/32) 1799-0120 Jaakko Mikonpoika Yli-Jussila** (b Rinta-Jussila) farmer/father of Salomon Yli-Jussila - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1850/51) 1799-0123 Alois Negrelli* engineer/railroad pioneer - Fiera di Primiero, Dolomites, Austrian Empire (1858/59) 1799-0126 Samuel George Morton* physician/racial theorist/polygenist - Philadelphia, PA USA (1851/52) 1799-0214 Walenty Wańkowicz* Polish painter - Minsk, Russian Empire (1842/43) 1799-0316 Anna Atkins* botanist/photographer - Turnbridge, England (1871/72) 1799-0321 David Nasmith* founder of City Mission – Glasgow, Scotland (1839/40) 1799-0329 Edward Smith-Stanley* a.k.a. Lord Stanley/politician/MP - Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, England (1869/70) 1799-0401 1799-0412 Henri Druey* Swiss politician - Faoug, Canton of Vaud (1855/55) 1799-0416 Charles Henry Harrod* business tycoon/founder of Harrods Department Store - Lexden, Colchester, England (1885/85) 1799-0417 Eliza Acton* food writer/poet - Sussex, England (1859/59) 1799-0420 1799-0430 1799-0520 Honoré de Balzac* novelist/playwright - Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France (1850/51) 1799-0521 Mary Anning* fossil collector/dealer/palaeontologist - Lyme Regis, Dorset, England (1847/47) 1799-0606 Alexander Pushkin* poet/playwright/novelist - Moscow, Russian Empire (1837/37) 1799-0606 Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill* children’s book author - New Haven, CT USA (1879/79) 1799-0608 William M. Meredith* lawyer/politician - Philadelphia, PA USA (1873/74) 1799-0618 William Lassell* merchant/astronomer – Bolton, England (1880/81) 1799-0618 Prosper Menière* physician – Agners, France (1862/62) 1799-0704 Oscar I of Sweden* King of Sweden and Norway - Paris, French First Republic (1859/60) 1799-0719 William McSherry* Catholic priest/president of Georgetown College - Charlestown, VA USA (1839/40) 1799-0812 Francis Abbott* British-Australian watchmaker/astronomer - Derby, England (1883/83) 1799-0812 Patrick MacDowell* British sculptor - Belfast, Ireland (1870/71) 1799-0908 James Bowman Lindsay* inventor/author - Carmyllie, Angus, Scotland (1862/62) 1799-0913 Charles Poulett Thomson* businessman/ diplomat/the first Governor General of the united Province of Canada - Waverley Abbey, Farnham, England (1841/42) 1799-1018 Christian Friedrich Schönbein* German-Swiss chemist/ inventor - Metzingen, Duchy of Württemberg (1868/68) 1799-1026 Margaret Agnes Bunn* actress - Lanark, Scotland (1883/83) 1799-1119 René Caillié* exlorer/first European to return alive from Timbuktu – Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, France (1838/38) 1799-1129 Amos Bronson Alcott* teacher/ reformer/father of Louisa May Alcott - Wolcott, CT USA (1888/88) 1799-1203 Peggy Eaton* (b O’Neill) wife of John Eaton/central character of the Petticoat affair - Washington D.C.  (1879/79) 1799-1225 Manuel Bulnes* military leader/politician/P - Concepción, Chile (1866/66) 1799-1225 Augusta Hejnek* last known surviving person from the 1700s - Germany (1908/108) Find a Grave Updated 30.3.2023-4 Search for another year here