| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 8 |
Lowell Mason, Medfield Mass, organist/composer (Zebulo) |
Jan 8 |
Lowell Mason, Titanic |
Jan 12 |
Robert Patterson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 |
Jan 12 |
Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841) |
Jan 14 |
Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865) |
Jan 21 |
Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, Fries story teller (Rhymes & Tales) |
Feb 8 |
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873) |
Feb 12 |
Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Belgian painter |
Feb 19 |
Roderick Murchison, Muir of Ord Ross-shire, Scottish Geologist (Silurian system) |
Feb 23 |
Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor |
Feb 27 |
Don Joaquin B F Espartero, Spanish adventurer/fieldmarshal |
Feb 28 |
Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist |
Feb 29 |
Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville) |
Feb 29 |
Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist (discovered human ovum) |
Feb 29 |
Gioachino Rossini, A Clockwork Orange |
Mar 7 |
John Herschel, Slough England, William Herschel's son, astronomer |
Apr 4 |
Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R) |
Apr 12 |
John George Lambton, London, statesman (1st Earl of Durham) |
Apr 23 |
John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882) |
Apr 25 |
John Keble, Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement) |
Apr 30 |
Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer |
May 13 |
Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Pope (1846-78) |
May 21 |
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843) |
Jun 9 |
Frederic L G, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary |
Jun 16 |
Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855) |
Jun 16 |
John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882) |
Jun 19 |
Gustav Schwab, writer |
Jul 8 |
Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen of Bavaria (d. 1854) |
Jul 10 |
George Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49) |
Jul 10 |
Frederick Marryat, Children of the New Forest |
Jul 27 |
Maria Quitéria, Um Caipira em Bariloche |
Aug 4 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais) |
Aug 4 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gothic |
Aug 13 |
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849) |
Aug 18 |
John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66) |
Aug 26 |
Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857) |
Sep 5 |
Alexis-Charles-Maximilien Thibault, composer |
Sep 5 |
Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857). |
Sep 8 |
Joseph Netherclift, composer |
Sep 14 |
Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane |
Sep 26 |
William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi, born Waterford, Ireland (D.1842) |
Sep 27 |
George Cruikshank, London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist) |
Oct 2 |
Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer |
Oct 3 |
Cipriani Potter, composer |
Oct 3 |
Francisco Morazán, Central American statesman |
Oct 5 |
Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844) |
Oct 12 |
Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860) |
Oct 13 |
Moritz Hauptmann, composer |
Oct 19 |
Dirk Donker Curtius, Dutch attorney/minister of Justice (liberal) |
Oct 20 |
Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer |
Oct 20 |
Colin Campbell/Lord Clyde, British officer (Sepoy-uprising) |
Nov 11 |
Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872) |
Nov 13 |
Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son) |
Nov 23 |
Václav Kliment Klicpera, The Magical Hat |
Nov 28 |
Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education |
Dec 1 |
Lobachevsky, mathematician |
Dec 6 |
Abraham J van de Aa, lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary) |
Dec 6 |
King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849) |
Dec 11 |
Joseph Mohr, L.A. Confidential |
Dec 12 |
Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter |
Dec 19 |
[Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal |
Dec 20 |
Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845) |
Dec 29 |
Archibald Alison, Scottish historian (History of Europe) |
21 |
Johann P. Eckermann, Werther |
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