1800: Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
1801: Benedict Arnold, American Revolution hero and traitor
1802: Martha Washington
1803: Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer
1804: Alexander Hamilton, slain in a duel by Aaron Burr
1805: Spread Eagle, thoroughbred racehorse
1806: Henry Knox, US Secretary of War, namesake of Fort Knox.
1807: John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (Amazing Grace)
1808: Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer
1809: Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis & Clark
1810: Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist
1811: Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal
1812: Sacagawea
1813: Tecumseh
1814: Marquis de Sade
1815: Lady Hamilton, Nelson’s mistress
1816: Samuel Hood, admiral
1817: I want to post Jane Austen, but I figure she’s been posted before. I can’t find the list, though. The board is slow for some reason, and I keep getting script errors. If she’s been posted before, just do 1817 again.
I don’t think we’ve done 1817 before.
1818: Paul Revere
1819: James Watt