1781

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Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  - 1780s -  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1778 1779 1780 - 1781 - 1782 1783 1784

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• January 26 - Achim von Arnim, German writer (d. 1831)
• January 30 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
• February 17 - Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician and inventor (d. 1826)
• March 4 - Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
• March 13 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect and painter (d. 1841)
• June 9- George Stephenson, English engineer (d. 1848)
• June 21 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
• July 6 - Thomas Stamford Raffles, English founder of Singapore (d. 1826)
• July 6 - John D. Sloat, American naval officer (d. 1867)
• July 27 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
• September 3 - Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Napoleon's wife Josephine (d. 1824)
• September 6 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (d. 1858)
• October 1 - James Lawrence, U.S. Navy officer (d. 1813)
• November 6 - Lucy Aikin, English writer (d. 1864)
• November 20 - Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
• November 29 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaked, teacher, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1865)
• November 30 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer and Australian pioneer (d. 1873)
• December 11 - Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)
• William Williams of Wern, minister (d. 1840)

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