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The Commissioners' Plan for Manhattan is presented (Mar 22), Paraguay and Venezuela declare their independence from the Spanish Empire (May 14&Jul 5), Jane Austen’s _Sense and Sensibility _is published - anonymously “By A Lady” - for the first time, at her own expense (Oct 30), the Mexican War on Independence goes on until 1821 - and all these fine people were born:
1811-xxxx Isaac Baker Brown* gynaecologist/obstetrical surgeon - Colne Engaine, Essex, England (1873/c.61)
1811-xxxx William Denison* railway guard - Tipperary, Ireland (1881 or later)
1811-0106 Charles Sumner* politician/powerful orator - Boston, MA USA (1874/63)
1811-0109 Ture Reinhold Nordenstreng* officer in the Russian army/ philanthropist - Rantasalmi, GD of Finland (1880/69)
1811-0118 Édouard René de Laboulaye* jurist/anti-slavery activist/man behind the Statue of Liberty - Paris, French Empire (1883/72)
1811-0127 Ernst Dieffenbach* physician/geologist/naturalist - Giessen, Germany (1855/44)
1811-0202 Delia Bacon* writer/Shakespeare scholar - Tallmadge, OH USA (1859/48)
1811-0215 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento* activist/statesman/P- San Juan, Argentina (1888/77)
1811-0220 Johanna Wilhelmina Thurman* (b Ahlsten) first female licensed merchant in Tampere - GD of Finland (1870/59)
1811-0311 Urbain Le Verrier* mathematician/astronomer/best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics - Saint-Lô, French Empire (1877/66)
1811-0320 Napoleon II* Prince Imperial - Tuileries Palace, Paris, French Empire (1832/21)
1811-0327 Samuel Mulledy* Catholic priest - Romney, VA USA (1866/54)
1811-0330 Robert Bunsen* chemist/pioneer in photochemistry - Göttingen, Rhine Confederation (1899/88)
1811-0419 Pehr Arvid Säve* teacher/cultural historian/artist - Roma, Sweden (1887/76)
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1811-0507 Thomas Helmore* choirmaster/writer about singing/author of hymns & carols - Kidderminster, England (1890/79)
1811-0511 Chang and Eng Bunker* Siamese-American conjoined twins/ their fame propelled the namesake expression Siamese twins - Samut Songkhram, Siam (1874/62)
1811-0520 Alfred Domett* colonial statesman/ poet/premier in New Zealand - Camberwell, Surrey, England (1887/76)
1811-0607 James Young Simpson* pioneering obstetrician - Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland (1870/58)
1811-0611 Vissarion Belinsky* Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency - Sveaborg, Helsinki, GD of Finland (1848/36)
1811-0614 Harriet Beecher Stowe* author/abolionist/author (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) - Litchfield, CT USA (1896/85)
1811-0617 Jón Sigurðsson* leader of the Icelandic independence movement - Arnarfjörður, Iceland (1879/68)
1811-0713 George Gilbert Scott* architect - Parsonage, Buckinghamshire, England (1878/66)
1811-0718 William Makepeace Thackerey* novelist/author - Kolkata, British India (1863/52)
1811-0803 Elisha Otis* founder of the Otis Elevator Company - Halifax, VT USA (1861/49)
1811-0830 Théophile Gautier* poet/novelist/journalist - Tarbes, French Empire (1872/61)
1811-0901 Richard Dybeck* jurist/lyricist of the Swedish National Anthem - Köping, Sweden (1877/65)
1811-0902 J.C. Jacobsen* industrialist/founder of the Carlsberg brewery/ philanthropist - Copenhagen, Denmark (1887/75)
1811-1022 Franz Liszt* composer - Raiding, Kingdom of Hungary (1886/74)
1811-1024 Georg August Wallin* a.k.a. Abd al-Wali, orientalist/ explorer - Sund, Åland, GD of Finland (1852/40)
1811-1025 Évariste Galois* mathematician/ political activist - Bourg-la-Reine**,** French Empire (1832/20)
1811-1027 Isaac Singer* actor/ inventor/founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company - Pittstown, NY USA (1875/63)
1811-1108 John Tarleton* Royal Navy officer - Bolesworth Castle, Cheshire, England (1880/68)
1811-1121 **Ludwik Gorzkowsk**i* Polish physicist/politician/revolutionary activist - Kraków (1857/c.45)
1811-1121 Ludwig Preiss* German-British botanist/zoologist/active in Australia - Herzberg am Harz (1883/71)
1811-1128 Maximilian II of Bavaria* King of Bavaria - Munich, Bavaria (1864/52)
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1811-1201 Pierre Millière* pharmacist/ entomologist - Saint-Jean-de-Losne, French Empire (1887/75)
1811-1219 Edward Cabot Clark* lawyer/businessman/investor - USA (1882/70)
1811-1221 Archibald Campbell Tait* Archbishop of Canterbury - Edinburgh, Scotland (1882/70)
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