* 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer ( d. 1794 )

* 1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1847 )

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

* 1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.

* 1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French military leader and politician ( d. 1794 )

* 1794 – James Barton Longacre, American engraver ( d. 1869 )

In the late eighteenth and during the nineteenth century, Lithuanian participants in the 1794, 1830 – 1831, and 1863 rebellions against the Russian czarist rule were exiled to Abakan.

* 1794 – Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier, father of Axel von Fersen the Younger ( b. 1719 )

" Migration, Radicalism, and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canada and the United States c. 1794 – 1804 " in Studies in American Political Development, Volume 16, Issue 1, April 2002, 48 – 60

* William Placid Morris ( 1794 – 1872 )

* John Polding ( 1794 – 1877 )

Chemistry came of age when Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 1794 ) developed the theory of Conservation of mass in 1783 ; and the development of the Atomic Theory by John Dalton around 1800.

Clausewitz served in the Rhine Campaigns ( 1793 – 1794 ) including the Siege of Mainz, when the Prussian army invaded France during the French Revolution, and served in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.

* Cyril VII Siaj, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1794 – 1796

*" The Commodore ", the nickname of American entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt ( 1794 – 1877 )

* 1721 – Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman ( d. 1794 )

* 1715 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier ( d. 1794 )

* 1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general ( b. 1794 )

* 1720 – Justus Möser, German statesman ( d. 1794 )

* 1794 – Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician ( d. 1872 )

* 1868 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist ( b. 1794 )

* Limburg of the States ( 1648 – 1794 ), territories controlled by the Dutch States-General, see Generality Lands

The method of least squares was first described by Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1794.

Soon after that, in 1794, Carl Peter Thunberg collected and described Magnolia obovata from Japan and at roughly the same time Magnolia kobus was also first collected.

Since Carl Linnaeus published his description of leopards in the Systema Naturae in 1758, as many as 27 leopard subspecies were subsequently described by naturalists from 1794 to 1956.

The least-squares method was first described by Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1794.

* Carl Fridrik Krabbe 1794 – 1805

* Carl Fridrik Krabbe 1794 – 1805

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ( 17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868 ) was a German botanist and explorer.

* Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ( 1794 – 1868 ), German botanist

Other notable settings are by members of Goethe's circle, including the actress Corona Schröter ( 1782 ), Andreas Romberg ( 1793 ), Johann Friedrich Reichardt ( 1794 ) and Carl Friedrich Zelter ( 1797 ).

Chlorophytum comosum was first formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg as Anthericum comosum in the 1794 volume of Prodromus Plantarum Capensium, Thunberg's work on the plants of South Africa.

Inspired by the artistic work of Thomas Ender ( 1793 – 1875 ) and the travel accounts in the tropics by Austrian naturalists Johann Baptist von Spix ( 1781 – 1826 ) and Carl von Martius ( 1794 – 1868 ), Rugendas arrived in Brazil in 1821, where he was soon hired as an illustrator for Baron von Langsdorff's scientific expedition to Minas Gerais and São Paulo.

In 1794 the interior was remodeled by German architect Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe in the neoclassical style.

After that, with the marriage of D. João VI's son and Brazil's first Emperor, Dom Pedro I ( 1798 – 1834 ) with Princess Leopoldina of Austria, the Museum started to attract the greatest European naturalists of the 19th century, such as Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied ( 1782 – 1867 ), Johann Baptist von Spix ( 1781 – 1826 ) and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ( 1794 – 1868 ).

Karl Proske ( 11 February 1794, Upper Silesia-20 December 1861 ), was a German Catholic cleric, also known as Carolus Proske and Carl Proske.

* Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben ( 1730 – 1794 ), an American patriot

* October 15 – Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug, German statesman ( b. 1794 )

* September 17 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer ( d. 1794 )

The term was first used improperly in that sense by the pioneers of Romance-language philology: François Juste Marie Raynouard ( 1761 – 1836 ) and Friedrich Christian Diez ( 1794 – 1876 ).

With his report, Biot helped support Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni's argument that meteorites were debris from space, which he had published in 1794.

* Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck makes mention of playing faro in his memoirs ( February 1726 – 25 July 1794 ); he was a Prussian officer, adventurer, and author.

Caspar Friedrich Wolff ( 1733 – 1794 ) is considered to be the father of epigenetic descriptive embryology, that is, he marks the point when embryonic development began to be described in terms of the proliferation of cells rather than the incarnation of a preformed soul.

Laid out in 1794 by Johann Friedrich Reichardt ( 1752 – 1814 ) as an English garden, becoming the “ accommodation of Romanticism ”.

Brunck's edition was superseded by the standard one of Friedrich Jacobs ( 1794 – 1814, 13 vols.

Friedrich Christian Diez ( March 15, 1794 – May 29, 1876 ), German philologist, was born at Gießen, in Hessen-Darmstadt.

Dr. von Gräfe ’ s protégé, the medical and surgical polymath Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach ( 1794 – 1847 ), who was among the first surgeons to anaesthetize the patient before performing the nose surgery, published Die Operative Chirurgie ( Operative Surgery, 1845 ), which became a foundational medical and plastic surgical text.

* January 18-Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, German surgeon and physiologist ( died 1794 )

In 1794 the 63rd joined British forces already taking part in the Flanders Campaign, as part of 1st Brigade commanded by Lieutenant-General Friedrich von Buttlar.

Gustav Friedrich Waagen ( February 11, 1794 – July 15, 1868 ) was a German art historian.

* 14 October 1794 – 19 August 1835: Günther Friedrich Karl I

Caspar Friedrich Wolff ( January 18, 1733 – February 22, 1794 ) was a German physiologist and one of the founders of embryology.

Ernst Friedrich Poppo ( August 13, 1794 – November 6, 1866 ), German classical scholar and schoolmaster, was born at Guben in Brandenburg.