[caption id=“attachment_6008” align=“alignleft” width=“360”] Replica of the Clermont steamboat operating on the North River (now Hudson River)[/caption]

In the year 1807, the United Kingdom abolishes the slave trade in its colonies (Jan 22), the Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire - slavery though remains legal until 1833 (Mar 25), the first commercial steamboat service between New York City and Albany starts operating (Aug 17), serfdom is abolished in Prussia by law (Oct 9), the Geological Society of London is founded (Oct 13) - and all these fine people were born:

1807-0115 Hermann Burmeister* German-Argentine zoologist/ entomologist/ botanist - Stralsund, (1892/85) 1807-0119 Robert E. Lee*  Confederate States Army commander - Stratford Hall, Virginia USA (1870/63) 1807-0210 Sarah Lincoln Grigsby* sister of Abraham Lincoln - Elizabethtown, KY USA (1828/20) 1807-0216 Niilo Kustaa Malmberg* preast/evangelist preacher - Ylistaro, Sweden-Finland (1858/51) 1807-0227 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* poet (The song of Hiawatha)/ educator - Portland, Maine (1882/75) 1807-0301 Wilford Woodruff* Mormon leader - Farmington, CT USA (1898/91) 1807-0309 Carl Peter Mazer* portrait painter - Stockholm, Sweden (1884/76) 1807-0401 Fredrik Cygnaeus* poet/art critic/collector - Hämeenlinna, Finland-Sweden (1881/73) 1807-0403 Jane Digby* aristocrat famed for her remarkable love life and lifestyle - Holkham Hall, Norfolk, England (1881/74) 1807-0420 John Milton* lawyer/Governor of Florida - Louisville, GA USA (1865/57) 1807-0514 Charlotta Djurström* actress/theater director - Kalmar, Sweden (1877/70) 1807-0528 Louis Agassiz* Swiss-American biologist/geologist  - Haut-Vully, Freiburg, Switzerland (1873/66) 1807-0606 Adrien-François Servais* cellist - Halle, Belgium (1866/59) 1807-0704 Giuseppe Garibaldi* Italian general/nationalist/helped bring about the Kingdom of Italy - Nice, First French Empire (1882/74) 1807-0901 1807-0902 Fredrika Runeberg* novelist/journalist - Pietarsaari, Finland-Sweden (1879/71) 1807-0910 1807-0920 1807-0925 Alfred Vail* machinist/ inventor/co-creator of the Morse code - Morristown, NJ USA (1859/51) 1807-0930 1807-1026 Barbu Catargiu* Romanian journalist/politician/the first Prime Minister of Romania - Bucharest, Wallachia (1862/54) 1807-1112 Bengt Olof Lille* theologist/hymn writer - Heinola, Sweden-Finland (1875/67) 1807-1208 Friedrich Traugott Kützing* pharmacist/ botanist/ phycologist - Ritteburg, Germany (1893/85) 1807-1214 Francis Hincks* Irish Canadian businessman/British colonial administrator/ governor - Cork, Ireland (1885/77) Updated 19.1.2023-2 Search for another year here