Famous People Born in 1782

Jan 18 US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), politician and lawyer, born in Salisbury, New Hampshire

Jan 20 Archduke John of Austria, Austrian general and Regent of Germany (1848), born in Florence (d. 1859)
Jan 29 Daniel François Esprit Auber, French opera composer (Fra Diavolo), born in Caen, Normandy, France (d. 1871)
Jan 29 Franciszek Ścigalski, Polish violinist, composer, conductor, and teacher, born in Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Poland (d. 1846)
Mar 4 Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist and writer (Swiss Family Robinson), born in Bern (d. 1830)
Mar 14 Thomas Hart Benton, American politician, born in Harts Mill, North Carolina (d. 1858)

Mar 18 US Vice President (1825-32), born in Abbeville, South Carolina

Mar 24 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
Mar 25 Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839) and sister of Napoleon
Apr 14 Carlo Coccia, Italian composer, born in Naples, Italy (d. 1873)
Apr 26 Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, French queen as wife of Louis Phillip of Austria, born in Caserta Palace, Naples (d. 1866)
May 16 John Sell Cotman, English water color artist, born in Norwich, England (d. 1842)
May 26 Joseph Drechsler, Czech composer, born in Vlachovo Březí, Czech Republic (d. 1852)
May 28 Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk, Dutch painter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1810)
Jun 3 Charles Waterton, English naturalist and pioneering conservationist, born in Wakefield, England (d. 1865)
Jun 10 Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, French politician and historian, born in Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France (d. 1866)
Jun 19 Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, French Catholic priest and writer (L'avenir), born in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France (d. 1854)
Jun 19 John Bray, English-born American actor and composer (The Indian Princess) (d. 1822)
Jun 21 Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general, born in Olkhovatsky District, Russia (d. 1852)
Jul 6 Luis Brión, Curacao military officer who fought in the Venezuelan War of Independence, born in Plantage Rozentak, Curaçao (d. 1821)
Jul 19 Jonathan Blewitt, English organist and composer, born in London (d. 1853)
Jul 26 John Field, Irish pianist and composer (Nocturnes), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1837)

Aug 9 Mexican revolutionary hero, general and 2nd President of Mexico (1829), born in Cuilapan, Oaxaca, Mexico

Aug 10 British soldier and Major General of the Bombay Army who conquered Sindh and became its Governor (1843-47), born in Whitehall Palace, London

Aug 15 Henri de Mérode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1847)
Sep 7 Bernardus Johannes Dibbets, Dutch baron and general-major (Maastricht), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1839)
Sep 16 Daoguang, 8th Emperor of Qing Dynasty, born in Forbidden City, Beijing, China (d. 1850)
Sep 23 Jacques-Fereol Mazas, French violinist, composer, and conductor, born in Lavaur, France (d. 1849)
Sep 25 Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1824)
Oct 9 Lewis Cass, American military officer and politician (U.S. Senator-Michigan), born in Exeter, New Hampshire (d. 1866)
Oct 11 Steen Steensen Blicher, Danish poet and short-story writer (E Binddstouw), born in Vium, Denmark (d. 1848)
Oct 25 Levi Lincoln, Jr., American lawyer and 13th Governor of Massachusetts (1825-34), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1868)
Oct 27 Niccolo Paganini, Italian composer and violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca), born in Genoa, Italy (d. 1840)
Nov 1 F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1827-28), born in Skelton-on-Ure, Yorkshire, England (d. 1859)
Nov 13 Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer (Frithjof's Saga), born in Kyrkerud, Sweden (d. 1846)

Dec 5 8th President of the United States (Democrat: 1837-41), born in Kinderhook, New York