Johann Nestroy

Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath. He participated in the 1848 revolutions and his work reflects the new liberal spirit then spreading throughout Europe.

7 December 1801

Born on the same birth day (7 December): Allan Cunningham (author) • Andrew Goudelock • Billy Horschel • Bobby Osborne • Cameron Bairstow • Christopher Nicole • Daniel Jones (composer) • Gerard Kuiper • Henri Mathias Berthelot • Hilda Taba • Joseph Cook • Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein • Mason Phelps • Philip Larsen • Shiri Appleby • Thomas Bent • Tijjani Muhammad-Bande

Born in the same month (December 1801): Christian Dietrich Grabbe