The Rosetta Stone is brought to England (Feb), Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is published (Mar 3), Madame Tussaud first exhibits her wax sculptures in London (May), Napoleon reinstates slavery in the French colonies (May 20), war ends between Sweden and Tripoli (Oct 2), child labor in U.K. factories starts being regulated, pioneering a series of Factory Acts (Dec 2) - and all these fine people were born:

1802-xxxx Kamāmalu*  Queen consort of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi as the wife of King Kamehameha II - Kawaihae, Hawaii (1824/c.22) 1802-0104 Alexander Lavonius* civil servant/governor of Oulu county - Viipuri, Sweden-Finland (1875/73) 1802-0122 Richard Upjohn* British-American architect - Shaftersbury, England (1878/76) 1802-0206 Charles Wheatstone* scientist/inventor - Barnwood, Gloucestershire, England (1875/73) 1802-0211 Lydia Maria Child* (b Francis) abolitionist/activist/journalist - Medford, MA USA (1880/78) 1802-0216 Phineas Quimby* philosopher/magnetizer/healer - Lebanon, NH USA (1866/63) 1802-0226 Victor Hugo* poet/novelist/dramatist - Besançon, Doubs, France (1885/83) 1802-0301 1802-0303 Adolphe Nourrit* opera singer/composer - Montpellier, France (1839/37) 1802-0307 Edwin Landseer* painter/sculptor - London, England (1873/71) 1802-0325 Maria Silfvan* actress - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1865/63) 1802-0331 Susanna Samuelintytär Yli-Jussila**(b Yli-Pirilä) - Sweden-Finland (1868/65) 1802-0402 Dorothea Dix* activist on behalf of the mentally ill - Hampden, Maine USA (1887/85) 1802-0409 Elias Lönnrot* physician/philologist - Sammatti, Sweden-Finland (1884/81) 1802-0502 Heinrich Gustav Magnus* experimental scientist - Berlin, Brandenburg (1870/67) 1802-0512 Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire* preacher/ journalist/political activist - Recey-sur-Ource, France (1861/59) 1802-0526 Karl Ferdinand Ranke* German educator/classical philologist - Wiehe, Holy Roman Empire (1876/73) 1802-0602 John Abel Smith* banker/politician/MP - Kent, England (1871/68) 1802-0607 Robert von Trapp* senator/CEO of the Bank of Finland - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1875/72) 1802-0612 Harriet Martineau* social theorist/writer - Norwich, England (1876/74) 1802-0724 Alexandre Dumas* author - Aisne, First French Republic (1870/68) 1802-0726 Mariano Arista* military officer/President of Mexico - San Luis Potosi, New Spain (1855/53) 1802-0804 Joseph Bonnell* hero of the Texas revolution - Philadelphia, PA USA (1840/38) 1802-0824 Owen Coffin* sailor aboard the whaler Essex /cousin of captain George Pollard, Jr. - Nantucket, MA USA (1821/18) 1802-0831 1802-0919 Lajos Kossuth* nobleman/lawyer/statesman - Monok, Kingdom of Hungary (1894/91) 1802-1031 Benoít Fourneyron* engineer (water turbines) - Saint-Étienne, France (1867/64) 1802-1109 Elijah Parish Lovejoy* Presbyterian minister/journalist/ abolitionist - Albion, ME USA (1837/34) 1802-1215 János Bolyai* Hungarian mathematician - Kolozsvár, Transylvania (1860/57) 1802-0 1802-0 1802-0 Updated 2025-0301 Helsinki Search for another year here