1860 Birthday William Jennings Bryan, "The Great Commoner" orator/statesman 1842 Birthday Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War 1835 Birthday Charles Cartuyvels, Belgian pulprit orator 1813 Birthday Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield, Connecticut, clergyman/orator, Independent 1782 Birthday Daniel Webster, Salisbury, New Hampshire, orator, politician, and lawyer
