In the year 1816, Davy’s lamp - for use in flammable atmospheres - is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp (Jan 9), Rossini’s The Barber of Seville premieres in Rome (Feb 20), the United States signs a treaty with the Cherokee Nation (Mar 22), the American Colonization Society is established in order to support the emigration of free African Americans to Africa (Dec 9-21), stethoscope is invented in France, E. Remington and Sons is founded  - and all these fine people were born:

1816-0103 Samuel C. Pomeroy* politician/railroad executive - Southampton, MA USA (1891/75) 1816-0110 1816-0125 Anna Gardner* teacher/ abolitionist/reformer - Nantucket, MA USA (1901/85) 1816-0201 1816-0210 1816-0225 Matías Ramón Mella* Dominican revolutionary/politician/as a national hero in the Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo, Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (1864/48) 1816-0302 Alexander Bullock* lawyer/ politician/businessman - Royalston, MA USA (1882/65) 1816-0310 1816-0314 William Marsh Rice* businessman/philanthropist - Springfield, MA USA (1900/84) 1816-0320 1816-0321 Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos* Mexican Roman Catholic prelate/lawyer/politician - Zamora, Michoacán (1891/74) 1816-0329 Tsultrim Gyatso* 10th Dalai Lama - Lithang, Chamdo, Tibet (1837/22) 1816-0405 Samuel Freeman Miller* physician/ lawyer/associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - Richmond, KY USA (1890/74) 1816-0410 1816-0421 Charlotte Bronte* novelist (Jane Eyre)/poet - Thornton, Yorkshire, England (1855/38) 1816-0425 Eliza Daniel Stewart* early temperance movement leader - Piketon, OH USA (1908/92) 1816-0509 Leonilla Bariatinskaya* Russian aristocrat/Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn - Moscow, Russian Empire (1918/101) 1816-0510 1816-0524 Emanuel Leutze* German-American history painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)/to U.S. at age 9 - Gmünd, German Confederation (1868/52) 1816-0602 Grace Aguilar* novelist/ poet/writer on Jewish history and religion - Hackney, London, England (1847/31) 1816-0610 1816-0614 Priscilla Cooper Tyler* (b Cooper) actress/daughter-in-law of president John Tyler - New York City, NY USA (1889/73) 1816-0619 William H. Webb* shipbuilder/philanthropist - New York, USA (1899/83) 1816-0630 Richard Lindon* leather worker/inventor of the rugby ball - Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, England (1887/) 1816-0714 Arthur de Gobineau* aristocrat/travel writer/racial ideologist - Ville-d’Avray, Kingdom of France (1882/66) 1816-0721 Paul Reuter* (b Israel Beer Josaphat) German-British pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting/founder of Reuters news agency - Kassel, German Confederation (1899/82) 1816-0723 Charlotte Cushmann* actress/with full contralto register, she played both male and female parts - Boston, MA USA (1876/59) 1816-0725 1816-0731 George Henry Thomas* general in the Union Army - Newsom’s Depot, VA USA (1870/53) 1816-0804 William Albert* politician/U.S. Congressman - Baltimore, MD USA (1879/62) 1816-0812 Ion Ghica* Romanian mathematician/ diplomat/statesman/PM - Bucharest, Wallachia (1897/80) 1816-0814 George Holdich* organist/organ builder - England (1896/79) 1816-0821 Jeanette Berglind* sign language teacher - Stockholm, Sweden (1903/87) 1816-0901 1816-0906 Henri Jules Bataille* soldier/ general - Le Bourg-d’Oisans, Kingdom of France (1882/65) 1816-0911 Carl Zeiss* optician/scientific instrument maker/ businessman - Weimar, German Confederation (1888/72) 1816-1001 1816-1011 William B. Renshaw* United States Navy officer - Brooklyn, NY USA (1863/46) 1816-1022 Prince Yamashina Akira* 山階宮 晃親王 Buddhist priest/diplomat - Kyoto, Japan (1898/81) 1816-1103 Jubal Early* lawyer/ military officer/politician - Franklin County, VA USA (1894/77) 1816-1111 1816-1126 Joseph Stevens* animalier painter/engraver - Brussels, Belgium (1892/75) 1816-1129 Morrison Waite* attorney/ politician/chief justice of the United States - Lyme, CT USA (1888/71) 1816-1213 Werner von Siemens* industrialist/founder of Siemens - Lenthe, German Confederation (1892/75) 1816-1214 Abraham Hochmuth* Hungarian rabbi - Bán, Kingdom of Hungary (1889/72) 1816-1229 Carl Ludwig* German physician/physiologist/researcher - Witzenhausen (1895/78) 1816-0 1816-0 1816-0 Updated 2025-0302 Helsinki Search for another year here