1796
1796 was a Leap year starting on Friday . (see link for calendar)
Events Ongoing events Births January 25 - William MacGillivray , Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852 ) February 22 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet , Belgian mathematician (d. 1874 ) March 18 - Jakob Steiner , Swiss mathematician (d. 1863 ) May 1 - Junius Brutus Booth , English actor (d. 1852 ) May 4 - Horace Mann , American educator and abolitionist (d. 1859 ) July 6 - Emperor Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855 ) July 16 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , French painter (d. 1875 ) July 23 - Franz Berwald , Swedish composer (d. 1868 ) August 15 - John Torrey , American botanist (d. 1873 ) August 25 - James Lick , American land speculator (d. 1876 ) September 19 - Hartley Coleridge , British poet (d. 1849 ) September 25 - Antoine-Louis Barye , French sculptor (d. 1875 ) October 23 - Stefano Franscini , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1857 ) November 30 - Carl Loewe , German composer (d. 1869 ) Deaths February 23 - Jean-Nicolas Stofflet , French royalist general (executed) (b. 1751 ) March 6 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal , French writer (b. 1713 ) March 19 - Hugh Palliser , British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722 ) May 12 - Johann Peter Uz , German poet (b. 1720 ) May 29 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin , Swedish politician (b. 1720 ) June 11 - Samuel Whitbread , Englsih brewer and politician (b. 1720 ) June 21 - Richard Gridley , American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710 ) July 16 - George Howard , British field marshal (b. 1718 ) July 21 - Robert Burns , Scottish poet (b. 1759 ) August 1 - Robert Pigot , British army officer (b. 1720 ) August 21 - John McKinly , Irish-born physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721 ) September 21 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers , French royalist general (killed in battle) (b. 1769 ) October 7 - Thomas Reid , Scottish philosopher (b. 1710 ) November 6 - Catherine the Great of Russia (b, 1729 )