page_title: 1784
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1784 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Henry John Temple&#32;(1784&#8211;1865)
context_page_description: 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1784th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 784th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1784, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 17 – Philippe Antoine d’Ornano, Marshal of France (d. 1863)
  January 28 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
  February 5 – Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
  February 29 – Leo von Klenze,  German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (d. 1864)
  March 12 – William Buckland, English geologist, paleontologist (d. 1856)
  March 22 – Samuel Hunter Christie, English physicist, mathematician (d. 1865)
  March 23 – Tom Molineaux, African-American boxer (d. 1818)
  April 5 – Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer (d. 1859)
  April 13 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
  April 24 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1860)
  June 24 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan military, political figure (d. 1853)
  July 21 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (d. 1854)
  July 22 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician, astronomer (d. 1846)
  July 27 – Denis Davydov, Russian general, poet (d. 1839)
  August 18 – Robert Taylor, British Radical writer, freethought advocate (d. 1844)
  September 4 – William Pope Duval, first civilian governor of the Florida Territory (d. 1854)
  October 13 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
  October 15 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
  October 19
  Leigh Hunt, British critic, essayist (d. 1859)
  John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)
  October 20 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
  October – Sarah Biffen, armless English painter (d. 1850)
  November 24 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
  November 27 – August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (d. 1853)
caption: Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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