Louis-Honoré Fréchette

Louis-Honoré Fréchette,, was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Académie française, as well as the first Canadian to receive any honor of this kind from a European nation.

16 November 1839

Born on the same birth day (16 November): Angelo Gilardino • Annely Peebo • Arjo Atayde • Bol Bol • Bonnie Greer • Bruno Guimarães • Carol Huynh • Charles Duncombe (English banker) • Eliška Junková • Francesco Cattani da Diacceto • Noah Gray-Cabey • Oksana Baiul • Pierre Larouche • Princess Cecilia of Sweden • Sanna Marin • Tahir Shah

Born in the same month (November 1839): Ahmed Muhtar Pasha • August Kundt