Birth year 1778 celebrities

Birth year 1778

Lewis Weston Dillwyn Facts

Lewis Weston Dillwyn, FRS (21 Aug 1778 – 31 Aug 1855) was a British porcelain manufacturer, naturalist and Member of Parliament.

Sophie Blanchard Facts

Sophie Blanchard (25 March 1778 – 6 July 1819) was a French aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband’s death she continued balloonin

Betty Roose Facts

Betty Roose, (born Elisabeth Eckardt, October 20, 1778 in Hamburg, died October 24, 1808 in Vienna) was a German actress.

Kittur Chennamma Facts

Kittur Chennamma (23 October 1778 – 21 February 1829) was the Queen of Kittur, a princely state in South India. She was best known for leading an armed rebellion against the British East India Company in 1824. The resistance ended with her arrest

Coenraad Jacob Temminck Facts

Coenraad Jacob Temminck (31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch aristocrat, zoologist, and museum director.

George Catlin Facts

George Catlin (1778-1852) was a prominent American maker of musical instruments. He worked in Hartford, Connecticut from 1799 or earlier until about 1814, when he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to his advertisements in Connecticut new

Robert Emmet Facts

Robert Emmet (4 March 1778 – 20 September 1803) was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803. He was captured by the British, tried and executed for high treason against

Louis Bonaparte Facts

Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846), King of Holland (1806–10), known as Lodewijk Napoleon in Dutch, was the fifth surviving child and the fourth surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino. His brother was the

Florestano Pepe Facts

Florestano Pepe (March 4, 1778 – April 3, 1851) was an Italian patriot. He was brother to the more famous gene

Aleksey Merzlyakov Facts

Aleksey Fyodorovich Merzlyakov (Russian: Алексе́й Фёдорович Мерзляко́в; 22 March 17

John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland Facts

John Henry Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland KG (4 January 1778 – 20 January 1857), styled Lord Roos from 1778 un

Marie Thérèse of France Facts

Marie-Thérèse Charlotte of France (19 December 1778 – 19 October 1851), Madame Royale, was the eldest chil