What is 1809?
{{Year nav|1809}} {{Year in various calendars|1809}} {{Year article header|1809}} == Events == {{none}} == Births == * [[January 4]] – [[Louis Braille]], French teacher of the blind (d. [[1852]]). * [[January 15]] – [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]], French anarchist (d. [[1864]]) * [[January 19]] – [[Edgar Allan Poe]], American writer (d. [[1849]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Felix Mendelssohn]], German composer (d. [[1847]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Abraham Lincoln]], 16th [[President (United States)|President of the United States]] (d. [[1865]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Charles Darwin]], British naturalist (d. [[1882]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Cyrus McCormick]], American inventor (d. [[1884]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Nikolai Gogol]], Russian writer (d. [[1852]]) * [[April 15]] – [[Hermann Gunter Grassmann]], Prussian mathematician (d. [[1877]]) * [[June 4]] – [[Columbus Delano]], American statesman (d. [[1896]]) * [[June 4]] – [[John Henry Pratt]], English clergyman and mathematician (d. [[1871]]) * [[June 8]] – [[Richard Wigginton Thompson]], American politician (d. [[1900]]) * [[August 6]] – [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]], British poet (d. [[1892]]) * [[August 8]] – [[Heinrich Abeken]], German theologian (d. [[1872]]) * [[August 27]] – [[Hannibal Hamlin]], American politician (d. [[1891]]) * [[August 29]] – [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]], American physician and writer (d. [[1894]]) * [[October 22]] – [[Volney E. Howard]], American politician (d. [[1889]]) * [[December 24]] – [[Kit Carson]], American frontiersman (d. [[1868]]) * [[December 29]] – [[William Ewart Gladstone]], British politician (d. [[1898]]) == Deaths == {{none}} [[Category:1809| ]]