page_title: 1795
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1795 / Births
context_page_description: 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1795th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 795th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1795, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 6 – Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1878)
  January 18 – Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Dutch queen (d. 1865)
  January 26 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian spy, revolutionary heroine who worked for the independence of Colombia (d. 1817)
  February 3 – Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan revolutionary leader, general and statesman (d. 1830)
  February 4 – Jakob von Hartmann, Bavarian general (d. 1873)
  February 8 – Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, German chemist (d. 1867)
  February 18 – George Peabody, American businessman; "Father of modern philanthropy" (d. 1869)
  February 16 – Sarah Ann Gill, Barbadian national heroine (d. 1866)
  March 12 – William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish journalist, 1st Mayor of Toronto (d. 1861)
  March 14 – Robert Lucas de Pearsall, English composer; setting of "In dulce jubilo" (d. 1856)
  April 15 – Maria Schicklgruber, mother of Alois Hitler and paternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler (d. 1847)
  May 4 – Annestine Beyer, Danish reform pedagogue (d. 1884)
  May 19 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 1873)
  May 23 – Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
  June 11 – Sara Torsslow, Swedish actor (d. 1859)
  June 13 – Thomas Arnold, English school reformer (d. 1842)
  June 19 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon, hypnotism pioneer (d. 1860)
  June 21 – José María Pinedo, Argentinian naval commander (d. 1885)
  June 24 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician, psychologist (d. 1878)
  July 5 – Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe, German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist (d. 1880)
  July 7 – Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Bavarian field marshal (d. 1875)
  August 25 – Luis José de Orbegoso, Peruvian general and politician, 11th and 12th President of Peru (d. 1847)
  August 27 – Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (d. 1885)
  September 1 – James Gordon Bennett, American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
  September 6 – Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Marshal of France (d. 1878)
  September 7 – John William Polidori, English writer and physician (d. 1821)
  September 16 – Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer (d. 1870)
  September 18 – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet, Decembrist (d. 1826)
  October 13 – James McDowell, American politician (d. 1851)
  October 15 – King Frederick William IV of Prussia (d. 1861)
  October 16 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman, author (d. 1876)
  October 26 – Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (d. 1872)
  October 31 – John Keats, English poet (d. 1821)
  November 2 – James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
  November 12 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)
  December 2 – Guillermo (William) Miller, English-born military leader in Peru (d. 1861)
  December 3 – Rowland Hill, English teacher, inventor and social reformer (d. 1879)
  December 4 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer, historian (d. 1881)
  December 10 – Matthias W. Baldwin, American locomotive manufacturer (d. 1866)
  December 21 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
caption: Anna Pavlovna of Russia
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