1839: Lady Hester Stanhope
A pioneer in modern archaeology.
1840: Niccolo Paganini, Italian composer and violinist
1841: William Henry Harrison, US President (briefly)
1842: Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus.
1843: Noah Webster
1844: Joseph Smith
Founder of the LDS Church.
1845: John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)
1846: Pope Gregory XVI
1847: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist/composer
1848: John Quincy Adams
1849: Edgar Allan Poe
Sorry to break in like this, but this means my maternal grandmother(12/17/04) was born when Jules Verne was still alive. OMG
1850: William Wordsworth, poet
1851: Mary Shelley
1852: Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington
1853: William Beaumont, physiologist
1854: Samuel “Uncle Sam” Wilson
1855: Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
1856: Amedeo Avogadro
I’m not exactly sure what he did but based on all the talk about his “number” I’m assuming he won the lottery.
1857: Naturalist John Fleming and explorer David Thompson, who mapped nearly 2 million square miles of North America.