In the year 1779, James Cook is killed on his third voyage, on the Sandwich Islands (Feb 14), in support of the U.S., Spain declares war on Britain (Jun 16), Fort Nashborough (later Nashville) is founded (Dec 25), the city of Tampere, Finland is founded, the American Revolutionary War goes on – and all these fine people were born:
1779-xxxx Giacomo Beltrami * jurist/ author/explorer - Bergamo, Italy (1855/c.75)
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1779-0105 Stephen Decatur* naval officer - Sinepuxent, Province of Maryland (1820/41)
1779-0107 Kristian Castrén* priest - Pudasjärvi, Sweden-Finland (1825/46)
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1779-0112 Nicolas Clément* physicist/ chemist - Dijon, Kingdom of France (1841/62)
1779-0118 Johan Gustaf Holmberg* judge/ senator - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1854/75)
1779-0118 Peter Mark Roget* physician/ natural theologian/lexicographer – London, England (1869/90)
1779-0124 Elizabeth Alexeievna* (b Louise of Baden) Empress of Russia as wife of Alexander I - Karlsruhe, Baden (1826/47)
1779-0201 Nikolaus von Krufft* Austrian composer/civil servant - Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (1818/39)
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1779-0306 Antoine-Henri Jomini* Swiss military officer/general in French and Russian service - Payerne (1869/90)
1779-0315 Henrik Gabriel Krusberg* priest/ hymnist - Huittinen, Sweden-Finland (after 1824)
1779-0315 William Lamb* politician/PM - London, England (1848/69)
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1779-0402 Ulrik Thersner* soldier/ illustrator/graphic artist - Kirkkonummi, Sweden-Finland (1828/49)
1779-0411 Louise Reichardt* German composer/choral conductor - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1826/47)
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1779-0502 John Galt* political novelist/ entrepreneur – Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland (1839/59)
1779-0508 Konstantin Pavlovich Romanov* Grand Duke of Russia - Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire (1831/52)
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1779-0528 Thomas Moore* poet/ singer/songwriter - Dublin, Ireland (1852/72)
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1779-0620 Dorothy Ann Thrupp* psalmist/ hymn writer/translator - Paddington Green, London, England (1847/68)
1779-0623 Charles Austen* officer in the Royal Navy/younger brother of Jane Austen - Steventon, Hampshire, England (1852/73)
1779-0708 Giorgio Pullicino* painter/ architect - Valletta, Malta (1851/72)
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1779-0801 Francis Scott Key* lawyer/writer of the lyrics for The Star-Spangled Banner - Frederick County, Province of Maryland (1843/63)
1779-0808 Benjamin Silliman* chemist/science educator - Trumbull, Connecticut Colony (1864/85)
1779-0820 Jöns Jacob Berzelius* chemist/one of the founders of modern chemistry – Väversunda, Kingdom of Sweden (1848/68)
1779-0829 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres* painter - Montauban, Kingdom of France (1867/86)
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1779-0908 Mustafa IV* Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1808/29)
1779-0918 Joseph Story* lawyer/justice of the Supreme Court of the United States - Marblehead, Province of Massachusetts (1845/65)
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1779-0927 Nils Jonas Gammal Ehrencrona* soldier/ civil servant - Loviisa, Sweden-Finland (1842/62)
1779-0927 Brita Johansdotter Smeds** (Långholm) mother of Susanna Elisabet Långholm - Nybyggar, Kofjoki, Uusikaarlepyy, Sweden-Finland (1846/66)
1779-0930 Johan Mattson Smeds** farmer/ father of Susanna Elisabet Långholm – Socklot, Smeds, Uusikaarlepyy, Sweden-Finland (1816/37)
1779-1004 Joseph A. Lopez* Mexican Catholic priest/Jesuit - Cotija, Michoacán, New Spain (1841/62)
1779-1010 Magnus Björnstjerna* Swedish count/military general - Dresden, Electorate of Saxony (1847/67)
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1779-1103 Hugh Gough* Irish officer of the British Army - Woodstown, Annacotty, Ireland (1869/89)
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1779-1114 Adam Oehlenschläger* Danish poet/playwright - Copenhagen, Denmark-Norway (1850/70)
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1779-1212 Madeleine Sophie Barat* saint of the Catholic Church/founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart - Joigny, Burgundy, Kingdom of France (1865/85)
1779-1226 Carl Gustaf Lundgren* etcher/active in Stockholm - Kuopio, Sweden-Finland (1854/c. 75)
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