In the year 1791, the Big Bottom Massacre in the Ohio country takes place (Jan 2), Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is published in London, defending i.a. the ongoing French Revolution (Mar 13), the construction of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is finished (Aug 6), Washington, D.C., is named after President George Washington (Sep 9), the world’s first Sunday newspaper, The Observer, starts being published in London (Dec 4), the first American ship enters Japan, the French Revolution goes on - and all these fine people were born:

1791-xxxx Helena Antintytär Junni** (b Venäläinen) mother of Vappu Eliaantytär Käki - Viipuri, Russsian Empire (1868/72-81) 1791-xxxx George Pollard Jr.* captain of the whalers Essex and Two Brothers, both of which sank/night watchman - Nantucket, MA USA (1870/c.79) 1791-0101 1791-0115 Franz Grillparzer* Austrian writer/dramatist - Vienna (1872/81) 1791-0128 Ferdinand Hérold* operatic composer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1833/41) 1791-0203 Catharina Sofia Topelius* mother of Zachris Topelius - Uusikaarlepyy, Sweden-Finland (1868/77) 1791-0210 Francesco Hayez* painter - Venice, Republic of Venice (1882/91) 1791-0211 Louis Visconti* architect/ designer/of French descent - Rome, Papal States (1853/62) 1791-0212 Peter Cooper* industrialist/ inventor/philanthropist - New York City, NY USA (1883/92) 1791-0221 Carl Czerny* Austrian teacher/ pianist/composer/of Czech descent - Vienna (1857/66) 1791-0221 John Mercer* dye and fabric chemist/scientist - Great Harwood, Lancashire, England (1866/75) 1791-0224 Sveinbjörn Egilsson* teacher/ linguist/translator - Innri-Njarðvík, Gullbringusýsla, Iceland (1852/61) 1791-0308 Kazimierz Brodzíski* Polish poet - Królówka, Galicia, Habsburg monarchy (1835/44) 1791-0315 Charles Knight* author/ editor/publisher - Windsor, Berkshire, England (1873/81) 1791-0331 Franciszek Mirecki* composer/ conductor/music teacher - Krakow, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1862/71) 1791-0403 Anne Lister* landowner/ businesswoman/diarist - Halifax, West Yorkshire, England (1840/49) 1791-0411 Désiré Beaulieu* composer/ concert organizer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1863/72) 1791-0420 1791-0423 James Buchanan* politician/15usp – Cove Gap, PA USA (1868/77) 1791-0427 Samuel Morse* painter/developer of the Morse code – Charlestown, MA USA (1872/80) 1791-0502 Timotheus Wahlberg* priest/ diarist - Askola, Sweden-Finland (1833/41) 1791-0503 Henryk Rzewuski* Polish nobleman/journalist/novelist - Slavuta, Volhynia (1866/74) 1791-0511 Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek* pianist/ organist/composer - Vamberk, Bohemia (1825/34) 1791-0524 Gustaf Adolf Montgomery* Swedish colonel/military historian - Kemi, Sweden-Finland (1861/70) 1791-0525 Minh Mang* the second emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam - Gia Định, Việt Nam (1841/49) 1791-0529 Eric Gustaf Ehrström* priest/ writer - Luoto, Sweden-Finland (1835/43) 1791-0601 John Nelson* lawyer/ statesman - Frederick, MD USA (1860/68) 1791-0605 1791-0609 John Howard Payne* actor/ playwright/author - New York City, NY USA (1852/60) 1791-0610 1791-0620 1791-0630 Félix Savart* physicist/mathematician - Paris, France (1841/49) 1791-0701 1791-0718 Isaac D. Barnard* militia leader/lawyer/politician - Aston Township, PA USA(1834/42) 1791-0726 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart* composer/pianist/son of WAM – Vienna, Austria (1844/53) 1791-0731 1791-0804 Henry Savery* busnessman/ convict transported to Tasmania/Australia’s first novelist - Somerset, England (1842/50) 1791-0807 Adolf Ivar Arwidsson* political journalist/ writer/historian - Padasjoki, Sweden-Finland (1858/66) 1791-0810 1791-0817 Richard Lalor Sheil* politician/ writer/orator - Drumdowney, County Kilkenny, Ireland (1851/59) 1791-0820 Robert Fredrik von Krämer* Swedish nobleman/governor - Lammi, Sweden-Finland (1880/88) 1791-0830 1791-0904 Robert Knox* anatomist/ethnologist - Edinburgh, Scotland (1862/71) 1791-0905 Giacomo Meyerbeer* (b Jakob Beer) German opera composer - Tasdorf, Brandenburg (1864/72) 1791-0914 Franz Bopp* German linguist - Mainz, Holy Roman Empire (1867/76) 1791-0922 Michael Faraday* scientist/contributed to the study of electrochemistry – Newington Butts, England (1867/75) 1791-0923 Johann Franz Encke* astronomer - Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (1865/73) 1791-0923 Theodor Körner* poet/soldier - Dresden, Saxony (1813/21) 1791-0926 Théodore Géricault* painter/lithographer - Rouen, Normandy, France (1824/32) 1791-1001 Sergey Aksakov* writer - Ufa, Russian Empire (1858/67) 1791-1010 1791-1027 Pehr Adolf von Bonsdorff* chemist /son of Gabriel von Bonsdorff - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1839/47) 1791-1029 John Elliotson* physician - Southwark, London, England (1868/76) 1791-1101 1791-1110 David Emanuel Kriander* priest/ ornithologist - Merikarvia, Sweden-Finland (1822/30) 1791-1110 Karl August Ramsay* politician/senator - Kuopio, Sweden-Finland (1855/64) 1791-1111 Josef Munzinger* Swiss merchant/revolutionary/politician - Olten (1855/63) 1791-1130 1791-1201 1791-1203 George Rennie* engineer - Southwark, London, England (1866/74) 1791-1212 Marie Louise* Duchess of Parma/Napoleon’s second wife – Hofburg, Vienna, Austria (1847/56) 1791-1213 Phillip Parker King* an early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts - Norfolk Island, Colony of New South Wales (1856/64) 1791-1214 Johan Ludvig Heiberg* poet/ playwright/literary historian - Copenhagen, Denmark (1860/68) 1791-1224 Eugéne Scribe* dramatist/ librettist - Paris, Kingdom of France (1861/69) 1791-1226 Charles Babbage* polymath/inventor/originated the concept of a digital programmable computer - London, England (1871/79) 1791-0 1791-0 1791-0 Updated 2025-0301 Helsinki Search for another year here