1809

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[change] Births

• January 4 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (d. 1852).
• January 15 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1864)
• January 19 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849)
• February 3 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
• February 12 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
• February 12 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882)
• February 15 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
• March 31 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
• April 15 - Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)
• June 4 - Columbus Delano, American statesman (d. 1896)
• June 4 - John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871)
• June 8 - Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900)
• August 6 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892)
• August 8 - Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)
• August 27 - Hannibal Hamlin, American politician (d. 1891)
• August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
• October 22 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
• December 24 - Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
• December 29 - William Ewart Gladstone, British politician (d. 1898)

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