page_title: 1786
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1786 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Victoria, Duchess of Kent
context_page_description: 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1786th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 786th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1786, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 7 – John Catron, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1865)
  January 8 – Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (d. 1844)
  January 11 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English opticist, physician (d. 1869)
  January 12 – Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
  January 23 – Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
  February 16 – Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach (d. 1859)
  February 24 – Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
  February 26 – François Arago, French astronomer, physicist and politician (d. 1853)
  February 24 –  Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist, folklorist (d. 1859)
  March 4 – Agustina de Aragón, Spanish heroine (d. 1857)
  March 22 – Joachim Lelewel, Polish historian (d. 1861)
  March 25 –  Giovanni Battista Amici Italian astronomer, microscopist, and botanist (d. 1863)
  April 7 – William R. King, 13th Vice President of the United States (d. 1853)
  April 16 – John Franklin, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1847)
  April 28 – Elizabeth Andrew Warren, Cornish botanist, marine algolologist (d. 1864)
  May 12 – Jean-François Barrière, French historian (d. 1868)
  May 29 – Alexander Bryan Johnson, American philosopher (d. 1867)
  June 13 – Winfield Scott, American general, Presidential candidate (d. 1866)
  August 17
  Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (d. 1836)
  Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
  August 25 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
  August 31 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (d. 1889)
  September 10
  Nicolás Bravo, 3-time President of Mexico (d. 1854)
  William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
  September 11 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
  September 18
  King Christian VIII of Denmark (d. 1848)
  Justinus Kerner, German physician (d. 1862)
  September 24 – Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur (d. 1875)
  September 29 – Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
  November 18
  Henry Bishop, English composer (d. 1855)
  Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
  December 12 – William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
caption: Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
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