page_title: 1781
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1781 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: George Stephenson PD tekening van UT Library, ingekleurd naar bestaand schilderij
context_page_description: 1781 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1781st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 781st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1781, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 26 – Achim von Arnim, German writer (d. 1831)
  May 27 Kenneth parcel
  January 30 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
  February 17 – René Laennec, French physician, inventor (d. 1826)
  March 4 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator, philanthropist (d. 1869)
  March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect, painter (d. 1841)
  April 3 – Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu reformer and deity (d. 1830)
  May 9 – Henri Cassini, French botanist, naturalist (d. 1832)
  June 9 – George Stephenson, English engineer, designer of railway locomotives Locomotion No. 1, Rocket (d. 1848)
  June 21 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician, physicist (d. 1840)
  July 6
  Stamford Raffles, English founder of Singapore (d. 1826)
  John D. Sloat, American naval officer (d. 1867)
  July 25 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French painter (d. 1853)
  July 27 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1829)
  September 3 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Napoleon's wife Joséphine (d. 1824)
  September 5 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, composer (d. 1858)
  October 1 – James Lawrence, U.S. Navy officer (d. 1813)
  October 5 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech philosopher, mathematician (d. 1848)
  November 1 – Joseph Karl Stieler, German painter (d. 1858)
  November 6
  Lucy Aikin, English writer (d. 1864)
  Maha Bandula, Commander-in-chief of the Burmese military forces (d. 1825)
  November 20 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
  November 29 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher, sociologist (d. 1865)
  November 30 – Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer, Australian pioneer (d. 1873)
  December 11 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)
caption: George Stephenson
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