Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
Sydney Nelson, composer |
Jan 1 |
Vaclav Horak, composer |
Jan 6 |
Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician |
Jan 7 |
Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53) |
Jan 11 |
Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895) |
Jan 14 |
Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877) |
Jan 24 |
Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer |
Feb 11 |
William Henry Fox Talbot, Wiltshire England, photographic pioneer |
Feb 14 |
Emory Washburn, 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1877) |
Feb 15 |
Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer |
Feb 21 |
John Henry Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
Mar 2 |
Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844) |
Mar 3 |
Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862) |
Mar 12 |
Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian |
Mar 14 |
James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings) |
Mar 16 |
Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846) |
Mar 25 |
Paulin Paris, French historian |
Apr 15 |
James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic) |
Apr 16 |
Jozef Stefani, composer |
Apr 16 |
William Chambers, author/publisher (Basis of Communication & Coding) |
Apr 16 |
George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888) |
May 1 |
Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874 |
May 5 |
Louis Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette) |
May 6 |
Ferdinand Marcucci, composer |
May 6 |
Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881) |
May 9 |
John Brown, Torrington, Connecticut, American revolutionary abolitionist (d. 1859) |
May 10 |
Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer |
May 17 |
Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer |
May 30 |
Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach) |
Jun 1 |
Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879) |
Jun 23 |
Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846) |
Jul 6 |
Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer |
Jul 9 |
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (d. 1885) |
Jul 19 |
Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864) |
Aug 6 |
Catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women) |
Aug 21 |
Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880) |
Aug 22 |
William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889) |
Aug 22 |
Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865) |
Sep 11 |
Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866) |
Sep 16 |
Jozef Nowakowski, composer |
Sep 17 |
Franklin Buchanan, Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1874 |
Sep 19 |
William Wister McKean, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1865 |
Sep 23 |
William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers) |
Sep 30 |
Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881) |
Oct 1 |
Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861) |
Oct 2 |
Nat Turner, Southhampton County Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831) |
Oct 3 |
George Bancroft, Worcester Massachusetts, American historian (History of the United States) |
Oct 25 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby) |
Oct 26 |
Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian general-fieldmarshal |
Oct 27 |
Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC (Union), died in 1878 |
Nov 4 |
Eduard Brendler, composer |
Nov 6 |
Eduard Grell, composer |
Nov 14 |
Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer |
Nov 15 |
George Rodwell, composer |
Nov 23 |
Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti) |
Dec 3 |
France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Krst pri Savici) |
Dec 4 |
Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen) |
Dec 17 |
Gergely Czuczor, Hung/Czech poet/translator (Great Hung dictionary) |
Dec 21 |
Barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy), died in 1876 |
Dec 27 |
John Goss, composer |
Dec 29 |
Charles Goodyear, New Haven Connecticut, American inventor (vulcanization process for rubber) |
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