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

* 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

* 1794 – Louis Léopold Robert, French painter ( d. 1835 )

Robert Baddeley ( 1733 – 1794 ) was an English actor.

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

Further camellias imported in the East Indiamen were associated with the patrons whose gardeners grew them: a double red for Sir Robert Preston in 1794 and the pale pink named " Lady Hume's Blush " for Amelia, the lady of Sir Abraham Hume of Wormleybury, Hertfordshire ( 1806 ).

Brooke County was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796.

More than 200 U. S. marshals, deputy marshals, and special deputy marshals have been slain in the line of duty since Marshal Robert Forsyth was shot dead by an intended recipient of court papers in Augusta, Georgia, on January 11, 1794.

* Bolton, Arthur T. ( 1922, reprinted 1984 ) The Architecture of Robert & James Adam, 1785 – 1794, 2 volumes ISBN 0-907462-49-9

* Robert William Sievier ( 1794 – 1865 ), sculptor ( also member of Cemetery board )

In 1794 Boydell commissioned and donated Industry and Prudence by Robert Smirke.

In 1794, Leyden formed an acquaintance with Dr Robert Anderson, editor of The British Poets, and of The Literary Magazine.

* The Cenotaph of Jean Jacques Rousseau ( Hubert Robert, 1794 )

* The erection of the Rotunda ( replacing Robert Taylor's rotunda ) ( 1794 ).

Robert was appointed Surveyor General of India in 1794 and Henry was posted as Assistant Commissioner of Purnea.

Robert Nelson ( August 8, 1794 – March 1, 1873 ) was an Anglo-Quebecer physician and a leading figure in the Lower Canada Rebellion in 19th century Quebec ( Lower Canada ).

* John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian ( 1794 – 1841 )

The barony which had been dormant since 1791 was successfully claimed in 1794 by the late Earl of Orford's cousin Robert George William Trefusis ( 1764 – 1797 ), who became the seventeenth Baron Clinton.

* Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney ( 1712 – 1794 )

* Robert Campbell Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger ( 1794 – 1861 )

His father Robert Forsyth was the first U. S. Marshal to be killed in the line of duty in 1794.

On October 12, 1794, Reverend Robert Blackwell announced that the congregation was received in full fellowship in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

* Robert Towns ( c. 1794 – 1873 ), Australian businessman, pastoralist, and founder of Townsville, Queensland

Egbert Benson was born in New York City, the son of Robert Benson ( 1715 – 1762 ) and Catherine ( Van Borsum ) Benson ( 1718 – 1794 ).

* 1794 – Robert Fulton took out a British patent (# 1988 ), for improvements to inclined planes including a double inclined plane system to be used to raise canal boats without locks.

During 1794 and 1796 Robert Peter, Georgetown's pioneer businessman, conducted title descriptions and maps were created for tracts of some of his land in Mount Pleasant for transactions with commissioners of the city.