Famous Birthdays
- Jan 3 Friedrich Schneider, German keyboardist, composer, and conductor, born in Alt-Waltersdorf, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1853)
- Jan 7 John Catron, American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, born in Pennsylvania (d. 1865)
- Jan 8 Nicholas Biddle, American financier, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1844)
- Jan 11 Joseph Jackson Lister, British optician who perfected the optical microscope by designing the achromatic objective lens, born in London (d. 1869)
- Jan 12 Robert Inglis, English Conservative politician known for his staunch high church views, born in Snelston, England (d. 1855)
- Jan 23 Auguste de Montferrand, French architect, born in Trocadéro, Paris (d. 1858)
- Jan 26 Benjamin Haydon, British painter (Waiting for The Times), born in Plymouth, England (d. 1846)
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