Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam painter/decorater, dies at 58

Death

Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War (1807-10)

Birth

Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Zealand poet

Birth

General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks

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Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler

Birth

Jean-Sylvain, French historian (Napol‚on), executed at 53

Death

Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 62

Death

Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth

Event

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years and More)

Birth

Ida von Dringsfeld, German author (Vd Schelde bis zur Mas)

Birth

Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer

Birth

Bah 'u'll h (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bah '¡ faith

Birth

Carlo Pedrotti, composer

Birth

Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens

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Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer, dies at 75

Death

Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer

Birth

Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist

Birth

Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)

Birth

Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)

Birth

John W Rayleigh, England, physicist (Nobel 1904)/Cambridge (1908-14)

Birth

Octave Fouque, composer

Birth

Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22

Death

Oskar Panizza, writer

Birth

Alexis Contant, composer

Birth

Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name

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