page_title: 1796
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1796 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
context_page_description: 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1796th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 796th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1796, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 7 – Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter and only child of future King George IV (d. 1817)
  January 23 – Karl Ernst Claus, Baltic-German chemist, naturalist (d. 1864)
  January 25 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist, ornithologist (d. 1852)
  February 17
  Frederick William Beechey, English naval officer, geographer (d. 1856)
  Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician, botanist and explorer (d. 1866)
  February 22 – Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
  March 18 – Jakob Steiner, Swiss mathematician (d. 1863)
  April 30 – Adolphe Crémieux, French-Jewish politician, abolitionist (d. 1880)
  May 1 – Junius Brutus Booth, English stage actor, father of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth (d. 1852)
  May 2  – Colm de Bhailís, Irish poet and songwriter (d. 1906)
  May 4 – Horace Mann, American educator, abolitionist (d. 1859)
  May 7 – Frances Catherine Barnard, English author (d. 1869)
  June 1 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French military engineer and physicist; father of thermodynamics (d. 1832)
  June 12 – George Bush (biblical scholar), American professor of Asian languages (d. 1859)
  June 14 – Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician of Czech origin (d. 1866)
  June 28 – Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, queen consort of Denmark (d. 1881)
  July 6 – Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, Russian officer (d. 1855)
  July 15 – Gustav Seyffarth, German-American Egyptologist (d. 1885)
  July 16 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
  July 22 – Carlo Pepoli, Italian politician, journalist (d. 1881)
  July 23 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
  August 15 – John Torrey, American botanist (d. 1873)
  August 25 – James Lick, American land speculator (d. 1876)
  September 4 – Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Prussian field marshal (d. 1884)
  September 10 – Eugénie Niboyet, French author, feminist (d. 1883)
  September 19 – Hartley Coleridge, British poet (d. 1849)
  September 22 – David Canabarro, Brazilian Gaúcho revolutionary (d. 1867)
  September 25 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
  October 23 – Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1857)
  November 25 – Andreas von Ettingshausen, German mathematician, physicist (d. 1878)
  November 30 – Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
  December 17 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (d. 1865)
  December 19 – Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (d. 1873)
  December 27
  Mirza Ghalib, Persian poet of Urdu (d. 1869)
  Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
  Date unknown
  Du Bois Agett, early settler of Western Australia (d. 1866)
  Edwin Beard Budding, English engineer and inventor of the lawnmower (d. 1846)
  Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Azeri poet (d. 1852)
caption: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
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