In the year 1784, the Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain to end the American Revolutionary War (Jan 14), the composition of water is revealed (Jan 15), the Emerald Buddha is installed at the Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok (Mar 22), Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska (Sep 22), the phenomenon of black holes is first posited in a paper by John Michell in London (Nov 27), - and all these fine people were born:
1784-xxxx Sarah Biffen* painter with no arms - East Quantoxhead, Somerset, England (1850/c.65)
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1784-0128 George Hamilton-Gordon* landowner/ diplomat/statesman - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (1860/76)
1784-0205 Nancy Hanks Lincoln* mother of Abraham Lincoln - Hampshire County, VA USA (1818/34)
1784-0217 Johan Lefrén* military leader in Sweden/military theorist/illustrator - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1862/77)
1784-0229 Leo von Klenze* painter/ court architect of Ludwig I of Bavaria - Schladen, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneberg, Holy Roman Empire (1864/79)
1784-0311 Otto Julius Hagelstam* (b Hagelberg) Swedish colonel/ cartographer/farmer - Nauvo, Sweden-Finland (1870/86)
1784-0312 William Buckland* theologian/ palaeontologist - Axminster, Devon, England (1856/72)
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1784-0322 Samuel Hunter Christie* mathematician/ physicist - London, England (1865/80)
1784-0327 Jonathan Jennings* politician/the first governor of the State of Indiana - USA (1834/50)
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1784-0405 Louis Spohr* German violinist/ composer/conductor - Braunschweig, Holy Roman Empire (1859/75)
1784-0413 Friedrich Graf von Wrangel* Baltic German military leader- Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia (1877/93)
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1784-0422 Eric Junnelius* merhant/shipowner/sea captain - Ylitornio, Sweden-Finland (1836/51)
1784-0503 Vicente López y Planes* Argentine writer/politician/interim President of Argentina - Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (1856/72)
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1784-0528 Robert Pemberton Milnes* landowner/ politician - England (1858/74)
1784-0530 William Brown* banker/politician/philanthropist - Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (1864/79)
1784-0603 William Yarrell* zoologist /writer/bookseller - Westminster, London, England (1856/72)
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1784-0624 Juan Antonio Lavalleja* Uruguyan revolutionary/political figure - Minas, Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata (1853/69)
1784-0704 Fredrik Magnus Orraeus* Finnish military leader in the Russian army - Viipuri, Russian Empire (1866/81)
1784-0721 Charles Baudin* admiral - Sedan, Kingdom of France (1854/69)
1784-0722 Friedrich Bessel* mathematician/astronomer - Minden, Westphalia, Holy Roman Empire (1846/61)
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1784-0810 Avraam Melnikov* Russian architect - Oranienbaum (1854/69)
1784-0818 Robert Taylor* clergyman turned freethinker - Edmonton, London, England (1844/60)
1784-0904 William Pope Duval* the first civilian governor of the Florida Territory - Richmond, Virginia (1854/69)
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1784-0921 Karl Thomas Mozart* pianist/son of WAM - Vienna, Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1858/74)
1784-1003 Louise Lehzen* the governess and later companion to Queen Victoria - Hanover, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (1870/85)
1784-1014 Ferdinand VII of Spain* King of Spain (1808) + (1813-1833) - El Escorial, Spain (1833/48)
1784-1017 Fructuoso Rivera* general/politician/P - Durazno, Uruguay (1854/69)
1784-1104 Joseph Bové* Italian-Russian architect/reconstruction of Moscow after the Fire of 1812 - Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1834/49)
1784-1124 Johann Ludwig Burckhardt* traveller/ geographer/Orientalist - Lausanne, Switzerland (1817/32)
1784-1124 Zachary Taylor* politician/12usp - Barboursville, VA USA (1850/65)
1784-1210 Pali-Maija* (b Maria Johansdotter Berg) teacher/folk poet - Pirttikylä, Ostrobothnia, Sweden-Finland (1867/82)
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1784-1230 Stephen Harriman Long* army civil engineer/explorer/inventor - Hopkinton, NH USA (1864/79)
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