* 1891 – William Ferrel, American mathematician ( b. 1817 )

A part of the answer was suggested independently in the 1860s by Delaunay and by William Ferrel: tidal retardation of the Earth's rotation rate was lengthening the unit of time and causing a lunar acceleration that was only apparent.

The Ferrel cell, theorized by William Ferrel ( 1817-1891 ), is a secondary circulation feature, dependent for its existence upon the Hadley cell and the Polar cell.

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* William Ferrel set bar for hurricane predictions ( Times & Transcript, Moncton NB, Canada, 24 August 2009 )

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The contrast with his American contemporary, William Ferrel, who discovered Buys-Ballot's law slightly earlier, is striking.

Coffin and William Ferrel, is a direct consequence of Ferrel's law.

While William Ferrel theorized this first in 1856, Buys Ballot was the first to provide an empirical validation.

According to William Seale, he took several slaves with him to Washington to serve at the White House from 1817 to 1825.

On 8 January 1817, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, William I published a constitutional law governing the organization of a Militia, the main provisions of which were to remain in force until the Militia was abolished in 1881.

Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

Back to full fitness in 1868, he became the second batsman in history, following William Lambert in 1817, to score two centuries in a match.

* September 9 – William Bligh, English sailor ( d. 1817 )

The claim for the women's vote appears to have been first made by Jeremy Bentham in 1817 when he published his Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism and was taken up by William Thompson in 1825, when he published, with Anna Wheeler, An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery: In Reply to Mr. Mill's Celebrated Article on Government.

The Cherokee in Missouri Territory increased rapidly in population, from 1, 000 to 6, 000 over the next year ( 1816 – 1817 ), according to reports by Governor William Clark.

The second oldest book dedicated to Tonga was by William Mariner, adopted son of Finau ' Ulukalala, which was published in 1817.

The speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of commons ( 1817 ) online edition

William Bell, who arrived in June 1817, noted in his diaries that the settlement was more European than the Scottish settlement described to him.

* William Smith ( architect ) ( 1817 – 1891 ), Scottish architect

The county is named for William Rabun, who served as the 11th Governor of Georgia from his election in 1817 until his death in 1819.

Thomas Fitch eventually sold a large parcel of property to William Samuel Flemming Sr. in 1817.

William Maclure ( 1763 – 1840 ), president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from 1817 to 1840, came to New Harmony during the winter of 1825 – 26.

The post office was established January 22, 1817 with Jeremiah A. Matthews as first postmaster and named Lawrenceburgh, for William Lawrence, a local tavern owner.

The Shields brothers William and Arthur were born in 1811 and 1817 respectively in Ireland.

* William A. Newell, ( 1817 – 1901 ), physician and politician.

* William A. Newell ( 1817 – 1901 ), Governor of New Jersey who represented the state in the United States House of Representatives.

* William A. Newell ( 1817 – 1901 ), Governor of New Jersey who represented the state in the United States House of Representatives.

* William Collins ( Lord Provost ) ( 1817 – 1895 ), Scottish temperance movement activist ; son of William Collins ( 1789 – 1853 )

In 1817, William Sydney Smith inhabited the house and changed the name to Longwood.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist ( d. 1780 )

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

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

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )

* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )

* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )

* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )

* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )

* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )