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1799
1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Events
Ongoing events
Births
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James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
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January 6 - Jedediah Smith United States fur trapper and explorer
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January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, and caricature artist
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April 12 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1855)
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May 13 - Catherine Gore, author (d. 1861)
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May 20- Honoré de Balzac, French author (d. 1850)
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May 21 - Mary Anning, British paleontologist
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June 6 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author
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July 4 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway
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June 18 - Prosper Ménière, French physician
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September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor
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November 1 - Thomas Baldwin Marsh, early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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December 30 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist
Deaths
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January 17 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician
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February 7 - Qianlong Emperor of China
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February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
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May 4 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler
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May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer (b. 1732)
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June 6 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician
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August 2 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor
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August 4 - John Bacon, British sculptor
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August 29 - Pope Pius VI
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October 6 - William Withering, British physician
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October 24 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
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December 14 - George Washington, first President of the United States
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Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect
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