* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

* 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist ( d. 1802 )

* 1802 – Franz Aepinus, German philosopher ( b. 1724 )

** 1802 – 1803 Johann Heinrich Rothpletz ( b. 1766 – d. 1833 )

His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).

After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.

#* Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1839 )

#* Napoleon Charles Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1807 )

* 7 Dukes and Duchess of Parma ( 1731 – 1735, 1748 – 1802, 1814 – 1859 )

** Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ), physician and biologist, grandfather of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* 1724 – Franz Aepinus, German scientist ( d. 1802 )

In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

In England Rees's Cyclopaedia ( 1802 – 1819 ) contains an enormous amount in information about the industrial and scientific revolutions of the time.

Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

In August 1827, against his mother's wishes, he married Rosina Doyle Wheeler ( 1802 – 1882 ), a famous Irish beauty.

* 1802 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor ( d. 1881 )

* 1734 – William Stacy, American Army officer and pioneer ( d. 1802 )

* August 22 – Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet ( b. 1802 )

* Forkel, Johann Nikolaus ( 1802 ).

Friedemann's students included Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who in 1802 published the first biography of Johann Sebastian Bach ; Friedemann, as well as his younger brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, were major informants for Forkel.

Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau ( 25 August 1802 – 22 August 1850 ), a German-language Austrian poet.

The Bagatelle, like the Mephisto Waltzes, could be considered a typical example of program music, taking for its program an episode from Faust, not by Goethe but by Nikolaus Lenau ( 1802 – 1850 ).

The Mephisto Waltz No. 1 is a typical example of program music, taking for its program an episode from Faust, not by Goethe but by Nikolaus Lenau ( 1802 – 50 ).

There have been numerous proposed explanations for this, ranging from Beethoven's uncertainty as to whether Johann's full name ( Nikolaus Johann ) should be used on this quasi-legal document, to his mixed feelings of attachment to his brothers, to transference of his lifelong hatred of the boys ' alcoholic, abusive father ( ten years dead in 1802 ), also named Johann.

Poets of that time in Austria were Nikolaus Lenau ( 1802 – 1850 ) and Franz Grillparzer.

** Fanny von Arnstein, Austrian society hostess ( d. 1802 )

When Gustav IV of Sweden attained his majority, Armfelt was completely rehabilitated and sent as Swedish ambassador to Vienna in 1802, but was obliged to quit the post two years later for sharply attacking the Austrian government's attitude towards Napoleon Bonaparte.

These wars were the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1744 – 1748 ), the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), the War of the American Revolution ( 1778 – 1783 ), the French Revolutionary Wars ( 1793 – 1802 ) and the Napoleonic Wars ( 1803 – 1815 ).

Eduard von Bauernfeld ( January 13, 1802 – August 9, 1890 ), Austrian dramatist, was born at Vienna.

After study at military college in Dresden, Biela joined the Austrian army in 1802, serving as a cadet in the Infantry Regiment ' Graf Stuart ' Nr.

For many years her salon was the centre of the literary life in the Austrian capital, frequented by Beethoven, Schubert, Friedrich von Schlegel and Grillparzer, among many others, from 1802 to 1824.

* 1769 – Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin ( d. 1802 )

* July 15 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English politician and poet ( b. 1802 )

In Wordsworth's sonnet " The World Is Too Much with Us " ( ca 1802, published 1807 ), the poet regrets the prosaic humdrum modern world, yearning for

* Joel Hills Johnson ( 1802 – 1883 ), Mormon pioneer, published poet and gospel hymn writer, Utah politician, founded the Utah towns of Enoch and Johnson.

* Solomon Ettinger ( 1802 – 1856 )-was a 19th century Yiddish-and Hebrew-language playwright, poet and writer of songs and fables.

* May 22-Victor Hugo, poet and novelist ( born 1802 )

* October 22-Alexander Odoevsky, Russian poet ( born 1802 )

* November 18-Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist ( born 1802 )

Winthrop Mackworth Praed ( 28 July 1802 – 15 July 1839 ) was an English politician and poet.

* February 9-Susette Borkenstein Gontard, lover of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin ( died 1802 )

Karl Joseph Simrock ( August 28, 1802 – July 18, 1876 ), was a German poet and writer.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon ( 14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838 ), English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.

Thomas Aird ( 28 August 1802 – 28 April 1876 ), Scottish poet, was born at Bowden, Roxburghshire.

Richard Hengist Horne ( born Richard Henry Horne ) ( 31 December 1802 – 13 March 1884 ) was and English poet and critic most famous for his poem Orion.

The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge probably made a descent on 5 August 1802 ; he wrote:

* Józef Bohdan Zaleski ( 1802 – 1886 ), Polish poet

Wilhelm Hauff ( 29 November 1802 – 18 November 1827 ) was a German poet and novelist.

Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ) was a physician, botanist and poet from Lichfield, whose lengthy botanical poems gave insights into medicine and natural history, and outlined an evolutionist theory that anticipated both Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his grandson Charles.

Thomas Dermody ( 1775 – 1802 ), poet, born in Ennis, showed great capacity for learning, but fell into idle and dissipated habits, and threw away his opportunities.

* Edward Coote Pinkney ( 1802 – 1828 ), poet.

* Edward Coote Pinkney ( 1802 – 1828 ), poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor

John Kennedy-Erskine ( 1802 – 1831 ), married Lady Augusta FitzClarence, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV and Dorothy Jordan and had issue ( their granddaughter was the writer and poet Violet Jacob ).