Famous People Born in 1792

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Feb 29 Italian composer (Barber of Seville, William Tell), born in Pesaro, Italy

John Herschel (1792-1871)

Mar 7 English astronomer and photographer who invented the blueprint and catalogued southern hemisphere stars, born in Slough, England

Apr 4 Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R-Pennsylvania 1849-53 1859-68), born in Danville, Vermont (d. 1868)
Apr 12 John George Lambton, British statesman (1st Earl of Durham), born in London, England (d. 1840)
Apr 23 John Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1882)
Apr 25 John Keble, Anglican priest and founder (Oxford Movement), born in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England (d. 1886)
Apr 30 Johann Friedrich Schwencke, German organist and composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1852)
May 13 Pius IX "Pio Nono" [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Italian Pope (1846-78) held First Vatican Council, lost control of Papal States, born in Senigallia, Papal States (d. 1878)
May 18 Margaret Ann Neve, British 1st recorded female Supercentenarian, who lived in three centuries, born in St. Peter Port, Guernsey (d. 1903)
May 21 Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (Coriolis effect), born in Paris, France (d. 1843)
Jun 9 Frederic de Merode, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary, born in Maastricht (d. 1830)
Jun 13 William Austin Burt, American scientist, surveyor and inventor who patented America's first typographer (typewriter) and the equatorial sextant, born in Petersham, Massachusetts (d. 1858)
Jun 16 Francis Johnson, American keyed Kent bugle virtuoso, violinist, bandleader, and composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1844) [1]
Jun 16 John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
Jun 16 Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
Jun 19 Gustav Schwab, German writer, born in Stuttgart (d. 1850)
Jul 8 Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
Jul 10 George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (11th Vice President of the United States) and United States Minister to Russia, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1864)
Aug 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English romantic poet (Adonais; Prometheus Unbound), born in Horsham, Sussex, England (d. 1822)
Aug 13 Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom, born in Meiningen, Germany (d. 1849)

John Russell (1792-1878)

Aug 18 1st Earl Russell, British Prime Minister (Whig: 1846-52 and 1865-66), born in Mayfair, Middlesex

Aug 26 Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan politician and nationalist, 2nd President of Uruguay (1835-38), born in Montevideo, Río de la Plata (d. 1857)
Sep 5 Alexis-Charles-Maximilien Thibault, French composer, born in Nantes, France (d. 1853)
Sep 5 Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist, born in Sevran, France (d. 1857)
Sep 8 Joseph Netherclift, English composer (d. 1863)
Sep 14 Gino Capponi, Italian marquis, literary and Premier of Toscane, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1876)
Sep 26 William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi, born in Waterford, Ireland (d. 1842)
Sep 27 George Cruikshank, English caricaturist and illustrator (Grimms' Fairy Tales), born in London, England (d. 1878)
Oct 3 Cipriani Potter, British pianist and composer, born in London (d. 1871)
Oct 3 Francisco Morazán, 2nd President of The Federal Republic of Central America, born in Tegucigalpa, Guatemala, New Spain (d. 1842)
Oct 5 Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer, born in Warrington, England (d. 1844)
Oct 12 Christian Gmelin, German chemist, born in Tübingen, Germany (d. 1860)
Oct 13 Moritz Hauptmann, German composer, born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1868)
Oct 20 Anton Bernhard Furstenau, German composer and flutist, born in Münster (d. 1852)
Oct 20 Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, British army officer (Opium Wars, Sepoy-uprising), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1863)
Nov 11 Mary Anne Disraeli, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli, born in Brampford Speke, Devon, England (d. 1872)
Nov 13 Edward John Trelawny, English traveler and author (Adv of Younger Son), born in London (d. 1881)
Nov 28 Victor Cousin, French philosopher and educational reformer, born in Paris (d. 1867)
Dec 1 Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (Lobachevskian geometry), born in Nizhny Novgorod (d. 1856)
Dec 6 Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Dutch lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary), born in Amsterdam (d. 1857)
Dec 6 William II, King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg, born in Noordeinde Palace, The Hague, Dutch Republic (d. 1849)
Dec 12 Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1828)
Dec 19 Andries Hendrik Potgieter, Boer leader (led Voortrekkers group to settle Transvaal), born in Graaff-Reinet district, Cape Colony (d. 1852)
Dec 20 Nicolas Charlet, French painter, born in Paris, France (d. 1845)
Dec 29 Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, Scottish historian (History of Europe), born in Shropshire, England (d. 1867)