page_title: 1798
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1798 / Births
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context_page_description: 1798 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1798th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 798th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1798, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 14 – Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
  January 19 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (d. 1857)
  January 20 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858)
  March 9 – Mathilda Berwald,  Finnish and Swedish concert singer (d. 1877)
  March 23 – Christiane Bøcher, Norwegian actress  (d. 1874)
  March 25 – Christoph Gudermann, German mathematician (d. 1852)
  March 25 – Corvo Attano, fictional character, Royal Protector, assassin (d. unknown)
  March 13 – Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
  April 2 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d. 1874)
  April 3 – Charles Wilkes, American naval officer, explorer (d. 1877)
  April 12 – Baron du Potet, French writer (d. 1881)
  April 26 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
  April 28 – Duncan Forbes, British linguist (d. 1868)
  May 10 – Christodoulos Hatzipetros, Greek military leader (d. 1869)
  June 12 – William Abbot, English actor (d. 1843)
  June 14 – František Palacký, Czech historian, politician (d. 1876)
  June 29 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (d. 1837)
  July 14 – Alessandro Antonelli, Italian architect (d. 1888)
  July 15 – Alexander Gorchakov, Russian politician (d. 1883)
  August 17 – Thomas Hodgkin, British physician, pathologist (d. 1866)
  August 20 – Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, French general, Marshal of France, Minister of War (d. 1854)
  September 4 – Raynold Kaufgetz, Swiss academic (d. 1869)
  September 11 – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (d. 1895)
  October 2 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
  October 12 – Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil (also Pedro IV, King of Portugal) (d. 1834)
  December 4 – Jules Armand Dufaure, 3-time Prime Minister of France (d. 1881)
  December 24 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish writer (d. 1855)
  Date unknown:
  Mary Faber, West African slave trader and local potentate (d. after 1857)
  Eduard von Feuchtersleben, Polish-born mining engineer and writer (d. 1857)
caption: Emperor Pedro I of Brazil
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