Historical Figures Born in 1793

Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)

Jan 3 American Quaker, abolitionist and women's right activist (1st Woman's Rights Convention), born in Nantucket, Massachusetts

Jan 6 James Madison Porter, American politician, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania (d. 1862)
Jan 14 John C. Clark, American politician, born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (d. 1852)

Sam Houston (1793-1863)

Mar 2 American born 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia

Mar 3 Charles Sealsfield [Carl Anton Postl], Austrian-American writer, born in Popice u Znojma, Moravia (d. 1864)
Mar 4 Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
Mar 11 Jan Frans Willems, Flemish writer and philologist, born in Boechout, Belgium (d. 1846)

Henry Schoolcraft (1793-1864)

Mar 28 American geographer, geologist and ethnologist who found the source of the Mississippi River, born in Guilderland, New York

Apr 11 Nicolaas Christiaan Kist, Dutch Reformed theologian and church historian, born in Woerden, Netherlands (d. 1859)
Apr 15 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German-Russian astronomer, born in Altona, Hamburg (d. 1864)
Apr 19 Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria (1835-48), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1875)
May 9 Johannes Cornelis de Jonge, Dutch historian and archivist, born in Zierikzee, Netherlands (d. 1853)
Jul 5 Pavel Ivanovich Pestel, Russian officer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1826)
Jul 6 Jacob de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer and Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), born in Amsterdam (d. 1870)
Jul 13 John Clare, English poet (Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery), born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England (d. 1864)
Sep 4 Edward Bates, American lawyer (26th U.S. Attorney General), born in Goochland County, Virginia (d. 1869)
Sep 25 Felicia Dorothea Hemans, English-Welsh poet ("The boy stood on the burning deck", "The stately homes of England"), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1835)
Sep 28 Denis-Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris (1840-48) and opponent of King Louis-Philippe, born in Saint-Rome-de-Tarn, Aveyron, France (d. 1848)
Oct 28 Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (Remington Arms Co., L.L.C.), born in Suffield, Connecticut (d. 1861)

Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836)

Nov 3 Founded and helped colonize the US state of Texas, born in Austinville, Virginia

Nov 10 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist and reformed penitentiaries, born in Wallingford, Connecticut (d. 1877)
Nov 15 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), born in Épernon, France (d. 1880)
Nov 16 Francis Danby, Irish painter, born in County Wexford, Ireland (d. 1861)
Dec 15 Henry Charles Carey, American economist (Principles of Poli Economy), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1879)