In the year 1789, George Washington is elected as the first president of the United States (Feb 4), mutiny on HMS Bounty takes place (Apr 28), the French Revolution begins (Jul 14), William Herschel discovers Saturn’s moon Enceladus (Aug 28), r French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposes the use of a special device to carry out executions in France in a more human manner (Oct 10), Thomas Jefferson introduces the macaroni machine to United States from his trip to Europe - and all these fine people were born:
1789-xxxx Nikolai Sinebrychoff* businessman/ founder of the Sinebrychoff brewery in Helsinki - Gavrilov, Russian Empire (1848/c. 58)
1789-0104 Benjamin Lundy* abolitionist - Greensville, NJ USA (1839/50)
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1789-0222 Edward De Russy* American engineer/military educator/general - Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) (1865/76)
1789-0227 Karl Enok Sallmén** father of Ernst Fredrik Sallmén - Vähäkyrö, Sweden-Finland (1858/69)
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1789-0311 Carl Friedrich Bruch* German ornithologist - Zweibrücken (1857/68)
1789-0316 Georg Ohm* physicist/mathematician - Erlangen, Germany, Holy Roman Empire (1854/65)
1789-0407 Alberto della Marmora* Italian soldier/ornithologist - Turin, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia (1863/74)
1789-0409 Lars Johan Prytz* physician/ ornithologist - Tarvasjoki, Sweden-Finland (1823/34)
1789-0422 Manuel Gómez Pedraza* Mexican general/governor/P - Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro (1851/62)
1789-0501 George Fife Angas* businessman/ banker/founder of South Australia - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (1879/90)
1789-0531 Anton Wilhelm Arppe* architect - Kitee, Sweden-Finland (1862/72)
1789-0630 Horace Vernet* painter - Paris, France (1863/73)
1789-0710 Fredrik Sacklén* lawyer/mayor of Tampere - Perniö, Sweden-Finland (1866/76)
1789-0719 John Martin* painter/engraver/ illustrator - Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, England (1854/64)
1789-0806 Friedrich List* economist/journalist - Reutlingen, Duchy of Württemberg (1846/57)
1789-0909 William Cranch Bond* astronomer - Falmouth, Maine (1859/69)
1789-0915 James Fenimore Cooper* sailor/ writer - Burlington, NJ USA (1851/61)
1789-0923 Lars Gabriel von Haartman* economist/senator - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1859/70)
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1789-1005 William Scoresby* whaler/Arctic explorer/scientist - Cropton, Yorkshire, England (1857/67)
1789-1008 William John Swainson* ornithologist/ entomologist/artist - St Mary Newington, London, England (1855/66)
1789-1030 Hiram Bingham I* missionary in Hawaii - Bennington, Vermont (1869/80)
1789-1108 Anders Lindeberg* writer/publisher/ journalist - Stockholm, Sweden (1849/60)
1789-1126 Martin von Wahrendorff* entrepreneur/inventor/diplomat - Sweden (1861/71)
1789-1129 William Turner* landscape painter - Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England (1862/72)
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1789-1214 Maria Szymanowska* (b Wolowska) Polish virtuoso pianist/composer - Warsaw (1831/41)
1789-1217 Clement Comer Clay* attorney/politician/Governor of Alabama - Halifax County, VA USA (1866/76)
1789-1225 Elizabeth Jesser Reid* social reformer/anti-slavery activist/founder of Bedford College - London, England (1866/76)
1789-1228 Catharine Sedgwick* novelist - Stockbridge, MA USA (1867/77)
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