Historical Figures Born in 1774

Mar 16 English explorer, navigator and cartographer who was 1st to circumnavigate Australia, born in Donington, England [1]

Apr 21 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (Biot-Savart law), born in Paris (d. 1862)
Apr 26 Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist, born in Stolpe an der Oder, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Prussia (d. 1853)
Apr 28 Francis Baily, English astronomer and describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse, born in Newbury, Berkshire, England (d. 1844)
May 7 William Bainbridge, American naval officer, born in Princeton, New Jersey (d. 1833)
May 27 Francis Beaufort, Irish admiral and hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale), born in Navan, County Meath, Ireland (d. 1857)
Jun 2 William Lawson, English born explorer of New South Wales, Australia, born in Finchley, England (d. 1850)
Jun 21 Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician, 6th US Vice President (1817-25), born in Scarsdale, New York (d. 1825)
Jun 23 Matthijs Siegenbeek, Dutch linguist (spelling)
Jun 24 François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French Army general, born in Lunéville, France (d. 1838)
Jul 20 Auguste Marmont, French marshal, born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, France (d. 1852)
Aug 12 Robert Southey, English writer (The Story of the Three Bears), Poet Laureate (1813-43) and biographer (Nelson), born in Bristol, England (d. 1843)

Aug 18 American explorer, soldier and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, born in Ivy, Virginia

Aug 28 1st American Catholic saint (canonized 1975), born in NYC, New York

Sep 8 Anna Katharina Emmerick, Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist, born in Coesfeld, Westphalia, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1824)
Sep 14 Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, British soldier and statesman (Governor-General of India, 1828-1835), born in Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1839)
Sep 17 Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal, linguist and hyperpolyglot (understood 70 languages), born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1849)
Sep 26 Johnny Appleseed [John Chapman], American pioneer nurseryman (introduced apple trees to Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois), born in Leominster, Massachusetts (d. 1845)
Oct 14 Hubert Matthijs Adriaan Jan van Asch van Wijck, Dutch lawyer and politician, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1843)
Oct 18 Adolf Muller, German dramatist and critic, born near Weissenfels (d. 1829)
Nov 18 Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1815-37), born in Potsdam, Prussia (d. 1837)
Nov 24 Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
Dec 30 Pieter G. Witsen Geysbeek, Dutch historian (d. 1833) [or Dec 31]