Famous People Born in 1795

Apr 5 Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39), born in Bishopwearmouth, County Durham (d. 1857)
Apr 19 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, German naturalist and zoologist (micro-organisms), born in Delitzsch, Germany (d. 1876)
Apr 21 Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint (founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate), born in Rome (d. 1850)
Apr 28 Charles Sturt, English explorer (Australia), born in Bengal, British India (d. 1869)
May 7 Gerhard Moritz Roentgen, Dutch industrialist (founder of Fijenoord dockyard), born in Esen, East Frisia (d. 1852)
May 10 Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, French historian, born in Blois, France (d. 1856)
May 13 Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
May 13 Joshua Ratoon Sands, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1883)
May 15 Adolf Bernhard Marx [Samuel Moses Marx], German music theorist and pedagogue, born in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1866)
May 19 Johns Hopkins, American financier and philanthropist (founded Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University), born in Gambrills, Maryland (d. 1873)
May 23 Charles Barry, British architect, born in London (d. 1860)
Jun 12 John Marston, U.S. Navy officer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1885)
Jun 13 Thomas Arnold, English educator and historian (History of Rome), born in West Cowes, Isle of Wight, England (d. 1842)
Jun 24 Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (one of the founders of experimental psychology), born in Wittenberg, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1878)
Jul 25 James Barry [Margaret Ann Bulkley], female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army), born in County Cork, Ireland (d. 1865)
Aug 16 Heinrich August Marschner, German opera composer, born in Zittau, Saxony (d. 1861)
Aug 22 Abraham Capadose, Dutch physician and missionary, born in Amsterdam (d. 1874)
Aug 28 Joannes Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond, born in Bree, Belgium (d. 1886)

James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872)

Sep 1 American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), born in Keith, Scotland [1]

Sep 4 Friedrich August von Alberti, German geologist (Triasic Age), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1878)
Sep 6 Frances Wright, Scottish writer and lecturer, born in Dundee, Scotland (d. 1852)
Sep 17 Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer, born in Altamura, Bari, Kingdom of Naples (now Italy) (d. 1870)
Sep 20 Charles Zeuner, German-American composer and organist, born in Eisleben, Saxony (d. 1857)
Sep 23 Alexander Twilight, minister and politician, first African American to graduate and to hold public office, born in Corinth Vermont (d. 1857)
Oct 5 Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian politician (4th Mayor of Halifax) and brewer (founder of the Alexander Keith's Nova Scotia Brewery), born in Halkirk, Caithness, Highland, Scotland (d. 1873)
Oct 15 Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1840-61) and Germany (1849-61), born in Berlin (d. 1861)
Oct 16 William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
Oct 26 Nikolaos Mantzaros, Italian-Greek composer, born in Corfu Island, Greece (d. 1872)
Oct 28 Leonardus Antonius Lightenvelt, Dutch politician, born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (d. 1873)

John Keats (1795-1821)

Oct 31 English Romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), born in London

James Knox Polk (1795-1849)

Nov 2 11th US President (Democrat: 1845-49), born in Pineville, North Carolina

Nov 9 Walter Geikie, Scottish painter, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1837)
Nov 24 Josif Josifovich Genishta, Russian composer (d. 1853)
Nov 26 Carl Philipp Fohr, German painter and cartoonist, born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1818)
Nov 26 Cornelis Pieter Jacob Elout, Dutch military and President of West Sumatra, born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1843)C

Rowland Hill (1795-1879)

Dec 3 English inventor who introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840), born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Dec 4 Scottish essayist and historian (The French Revolution), born in Ecclefechan, Scotland

Dec 8 Jacques-François Gallay, French horn player and composer, born in Perpignan, France (d. 1864)
Dec 8 Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer (Hansen hypothesis), born in Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark (d. 1874)

Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886)

Dec 21 German historian who founded the modern concept of source-based history, born in Wiehe, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire

Dec 22 Thomas Ainsworth, English founder of Nijverdal & industrialist (Twentse textile), born in Lancashire, England (d. 1841)
Dec 23 Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer (Atlas Universel de Geographie) and globe maker, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1869)