page_title: 1797
section_title: October–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1797 / Births / October–December
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of the cleric Charles Hodge
context_page_description: 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1797th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 797th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1797, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: October 1 – Lewis Ruffner, salt manufacturer from Malden, West Virginia (d. 1883)
  October 2 – Jonathan Pitney, American physician, promoter of Absecon Island as healing seashore resort (d. 1889)
  October 3
  Knud Ibsen, father of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (d. 1877)
  Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
  Hopkins L. Turney, Democratic United States Representative from Tennessee (d. 1857)
  October 4
  Jeremias Gotthelf, Swiss novelist (d. 1854)
  Charles-Séraphin Rodier, Canadian merchant (d. 1876)
  October 5 – John Gardner Wilkinson, English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (d. 1875)
  October 6
  Albrecht Elof Ihre, Swedish diplomat, Swedish-Norwegian prime minister of foreign affairs (d. 1877)
  Charles Panet, lawyer and political figure in Quebec (d. 1877)
  Joseph Othmar Rauscher, Austrian Prince-Archbishop of Vienna and cardinal (d. 1875)
  October 7
  Peter Georg Bang, Danish politician, jurist (d. 1861)
  John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie, Scottish-born army officer (d. 1869)
  October 8
  William H. DeLancey, American Episcopal bishop (d. 1865)
  Ludwig Förster, German-born Austrian architect (d. 1863)
  Charles Knapp, United States Representative from New York (d. 1880)
  William Thomasson, United States Representative from Kentucky (d. 1882)
  October 9
  Thomas Boutillier, Quebec doctor, political figure (d. 1861)
  Henry Collen, English miniature portrait painter to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and the Duchess of Kent (d. 1879)
  Philippe Suchard, Swiss chocolatier, industrialist (d. 1884)
  October 10
  August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff, Prussian diplomat (d. 1874)
  Thomas Drummond, British army officer, civil engineer, senior public official (d. 1840)
  October 12 – Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois, French naturalist (d. 1876)
  October 13
  George Anson, British military officer, Whig politician (d. 1857)
  Thomas Haynes Bayly, English poet (d. 1839)
  Dong Haichuan, Chinese martial artist, credited to be the founder of Baguazhang (d. 1882)
  John H. McHenry, United States House of Representatives (d. 1871)
  William Motherwell, Scottish poet, antiquary and journalist (d. 1835)
  October 14
  Jean Crespon, French zoologist and naturalist (d. 1857)
  Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Austrian traveler and travel book author (d. 1858)
  October 15
  Johann Gottlieb Fleischer, German botanist and ornithologist (d. 1838)
  Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse, German philologist (d. 1855)
  William Siborne, British officer and military historian whose most notable work was a history of the Waterloo Campaign (d. 1849)
  October 16 – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (d. 1868)
  October 17
  Mario Aspa, Italian composer (d. 1868)
  Juan Lavalle, Argentine military and political figure (d. 1841)
  October 18
  Gallus Jacob Baumgartner, Swiss statesman and prominent federalist (d. 1869)
  Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont, French physician and psychiatrist (d. 1881)
  October 19 – Littleton Kirkpatrick, American Whig Party politician (d. 1859)
  October 20 – José Bernardo Escobar, interim President of Guatemala (d. 1849)
  October 21
  Thomas M. Allen, clergyman who played a prominent role in establishing the Christian Church in Missouri (d. 1871)
  William Hale, British inventor (d. 1870)
  October 24 – Štefan Moyses, Slovak bishop, teacher, patriot, co-founder and first chairman of Matica slovenská (d. 1869)
  October 25
  Crispino Agostinucci, Italian Catholic bishop (d. 1856)
  Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran, first Police Commissioner and first Police Magistrate of South Australia (d. 1870)
  October 26
  Johann Adam Philipp Hepp, German physician, lichenologist (d. 1867)
  Luther Severance, United States Representative, diplomat from Maine (d. 1855)
  Antoine-Charles Taschereau, Quebec official, political figure (d. 1862)
  October 27 – Andrew Combe, Scottish physician, phrenologist (d. 1847)
  October 28 – James C. Curtis, American lawyer, politician (d. 1881)
  October 30
  Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1829)
  Lott Warren, United States Representative from Georgia (U (d. 1861)
  October 31
  Jacob Bailey Moore, American journalist, historical writer (d. 1853)
  Benjamin H. Smith, American politician from Vir
caption: Charles Hodge
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