page_title: 1778
section_title: September–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1778 / Births / September–December
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837)
context_page_description: 1778 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1778th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 778th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1778, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: September 1 – John Thomson of Duddingston, British artist (d. 1840)
  September 2
  Louis Bonaparte, sibling of Napoleon Bonaparte I, French army general, King of Holland (d. 1846)
  Michał Józef Römer, Polish writer, politician (d. 1853)
  September 7 – José Bernardo Sánchez, Spanish missionary (d. 1833)
  September 8 – George Heneage Lawrence Dundas, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1834)
  September 9 – Clemens Brentano, German poet, novelist (d. 1842)
  September 10 – Joshua Lawrence, American Baptist minister (d. 1843)
  September 12 – William Davidson, American politician (d. 1857)
  September 14
  John Varnum, American politician (d. 1836)
  John Barss, Canadian politician (d. 1851)
  September 15 – Augustin Caron, Canadian politician (d. 1862)
  September 19
  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, British politician (d. 1868)
  William Gaston, American politician (d. 1844)
  September 20
  James Mann, 5th Earl Cornwallis of Great Britain (d. 1852)
  Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral (d. 1852)
  September 21 – Carl Ludwig Koch, German entomologist (d. 1857)
  September 24 – Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian noble (d. 1850)
  September 25
  Sir Charles Oakeley, 2nd Baronet, 2nd Baronet in the Oakeley Baronets (d. 1829)
  Prince Louis of Anhalt-Köthen, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (d. 1802)
  September 26 – Jonathan Fisk, American politician (d. 1832)
  September 27
  Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, German composer, music teacher (d. 1851)
  Damião Barbosa de Araújo, Brazilian composer (d. 1856)
  September 28
  Luther Lawrence, American politician (d. 1839)
  Suzanne Douvillier, French-born American ballerina, mime & choreographer (d. 1826)
  Catherine McAuley, Irish nun, saint (d. 1841)
  September 29
  Benjamin Hall, British politician (d. 1817)
  Thomas Warsop, English cricketer (d. 1845)
  October 5
  Ernst Ludwig von Aster, Prussian and Russian Army general (d. 1855)
  John James Masquerier, British artist (d. 1855)
  Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, French archaeologist (d. 1867)
  October 7
  Charles Paget, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1839)
  Joseph Knight, English horticulturist (d. 1855)
  Thomas Cranley Onslow, British politician (d. 1861)
  October 8 – Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen, French Catholic bishop (d. 1839)
  October 9
  Pierre-Denis, Comte de Peyronnet, President of the Bordeaux Court in France (1815) (d. 1854)
  John FitzMaurice, Viscount Kirkwall, British politician (d. 1820)
  Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet, British Army general (d. 1842)
  October 13 – William Marks, American politician (d. 1858)
  October 14 – Francis Fane, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1844)
  October 19 – Valentine Blacker, Irish-born Surveyor General of India (d. 1826)
  October 22 – Javier de Burgos, Spanish writer, politician and jurist (d. 1849)
  October 23 – Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen regnant (d. 1829)
  October 26 – Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg, British politician (d. 1866)
  October 28 – Ezekiel Blomfield, British minister (d. 1818)
  October 29 – William Creighton, Jr., United States federal judge (d. 1851)
  October 30 – Benjamin Ames, American politician (d. 1835)
  October 31
  Jacob Shibley, Canadian politician (d. 1862)
  Charles Abraham Elton, English author (d. 1853)
  John Black, Australian sailor (d. 1802)
  November 1
  James R. Caldwell, United States Navy officer (d. 1804)
  Mary Brunton, British writer (d. 1818)
  Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden (d. 1837)
  November 3 – Karlo Lanza, Dalmatian politician (d. 1834)
  November 5
  Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer (d. 1823)
  Thomas Ritchie, American journalist (d. 1854)
  November 8 – Joseph Signay, Canadian Catholic bishop (d. 1850)
  November 11 – Nils Astrup, Norwegian politician (d. 1835)
  November 14
  Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner, German theologian (d. 1828)
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, virtuoso pianist (d. 1837)
  November 15
  George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh, British politician (d. 1840)
  Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian antiquarian (d. 1823)
  November 16 – Johann Joseph von Prechtl, Austrian technologist (d. 1854)
  November 18 – Lord William Stuart, British politician (d. 1814)
  November 19 – Charles de Salaberry, Canadian po
caption: Joseph Grimaldi
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