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1792 births

  • Percy Bysshe ShelleyOn a summer day in 1804, Percy Bysshe Shelley stood before the wooden paling fence at Eton College. He held a bag of gunpowder he had stolen from the school…
  • James Beaumont NeilsonJames Beaumont Neilson was born on the 22nd of June 1792 in Shettleston. His father Walter Neilson worked as a millwright and later became an engine wright…
  • Gioachino RossiniOn the 29th of February 1792, a boy named Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born in Pesaro. His father Giuseppe played the trumpet and horn while his mother Anna…
  • John Russell, 1st Earl RussellJohn Russell entered the world on the 18th of August 1792 as the third son of John Russell, who would become the sixth Duke of Bedford.
  • George CruikshankGeorge Cruikshank was born on the 27th of September 1792 in London. His father, Isaac Cruikshank, was an Edinburgh-born caricaturist who led the field during…