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1809
1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
Ongoing events
Births
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January 4 - Louis Braille, French teacher, developed writing system for the blind (d. 1852).
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January 15 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1864)
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January 19 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849)
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February 3 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
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February 12
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February 15 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
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March 31 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
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April 15 - Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)
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June 4 - Columbus Delano, American statesman (d. 1896)
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June 8 - Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900)
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August 6 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892)
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August 8 - Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)
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August 27 - Hannibal Hamlin, American politician (d. 1891)
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August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
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October 22 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
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December 24 - Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
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December 29 - William Ewart Gladstone, British politician (d. 1898)
Deaths
Last updated: 10-23-2005 07:06:56
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