Notable Birthdays - 1801
1801 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 11 |
John Lodge Ellerton, composer |
Jan 21 |
Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer |
Jan 29 |
Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis) |
Feb 1 |
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer |
Feb 1 |
Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School) |
Feb 1 |
Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881) |
Feb 7 |
John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist |
Feb 21 |
Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer |
Feb 21 |
John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius) |
Feb 21 |
Jan Kalivoda, Episode dated 27 December 2010 |
Mar 15 |
Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer |
Mar 19 |
Salvatore Cammarano, Il trovatore |
Mar 21 |
Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855) |
Mar 23 |
Peterus D Regout, Dutch industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht) |
Apr 7 |
Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882 |
Apr 11 |
Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin) |
Apr 11 |
Claude Tillier, Ne goryuy! |
Apr 12 |
Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader |
Apr 12 |
Josef Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist |
Apr 12 |
Joseph Lanner, Miss April |
Apr 19 |
Gustav T Fechner, [Dr Mises], German philosopher/physicist |
Apr 26 |
Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889) |
May 6 |
George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899 |
May 9 |
Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver |
May 11 |
Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875) |
May 16 |
William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872) |
May 31 |
Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887) |
Jun 1 |
Brigham Young, Whitingham Vermont, American religious leader (Mormon church) |
Jun 3 |
Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer |
Jun 4 |
James Pennethorne, architect |
Jun 14 |
Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868) |
Jun 15 |
Benjamin Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883) |
Jun 16 |
Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868) |
Jun 23 |
Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Jul 5 |
David Farragut, Campbell's Station, Tennessee, US Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!") |
Jul 11 |
John Hill Hewitt, The Jail at Junction Flats |
Jul 12 |
John Hill Hewitt, composer |
Jul 14 |
Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858) |
Jul 26 |
John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy), died in 1867 |
Jul 27 |
George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal |
Jul 29 |
George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853) |
Aug 3 |
Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect (Crystal Palace) |
Aug 10 |
Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882 |
Aug 21 |
Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian |
Aug 28 |
Antoine A Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician (rule of Cournot) |
Sep 4 |
Cullen Whipple, Providence Rhode Island, American Inventor (pointed screw machine) |
Sep 10 |
Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881) |
Sep 12 |
Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing-teacher |
Sep 17 |
Edward William Lane, translator (Thousand & 1 Nights) |
Sep 24 |
Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862) |
Oct 6 |
Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888) |
Oct 7 |
Adolf Muller, composer |
Oct 7 |
Adolf Müller Sr., Wiener Blut |
Oct 12 |
Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss statesman (d. 1873) |
Oct 14 |
Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist (blinded-stared at Sun 25 secs) |
Oct 23 |
Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer |
Oct 23 |
Albert Lortzing, The Czar and the Carpenter |
Oct 28 |
Karl Georg Lickl, composer |
Nov 3 |
Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books |
Nov 3 |
Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma) |
Nov 3 |
Vincenzo Bellini, 2046 |
Nov 9 |
Gail Borden, Norwich New York, American Manufacturer and Inventor of condensed milk |
Nov 10 |
Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872) |
Nov 13 |
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia (d. 1873) |
Nov 13 |
Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, queen of Saxony (d. 1877) |
Nov 24 |
Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860) |
Nov 24 |
Ludwig Bechstein, Vom Knaben, der das Hexen lernen wollte |
Nov 27 |
Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer |
Dec 7 |
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Austrian actor (Judith und Holofernes) |
Dec 7 |
Johann Nestroy, Lumpaci the Vagabond |
Dec 11 |
Grabbe, writer |
Dec 11 |
Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Lesson Faust |
Dec 17 |
Johan NMJ, king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia) |
Dec 27 |
Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49) |
Dec 28 |
James Barnes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1869 |
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