Notable Birthdays - 1802
1802 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Feliks Ostrowski, composer |
Jan 3 |
Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898) |
Jan 6 |
Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica) |
Jan 13 |
Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright |
Jan 19 |
[Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belgium min of Foreign affairs (1831) |
Jan 22 |
Richard Upjohn, US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY) |
Jan 31 |
Jan C J van Speijk, Dutch naval hero |
Feb 2 |
Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist |
Feb 4 |
Mark Hopkins, US, educator/philosopher (Williams College) |
Feb 6 |
Charles Wheatstone, English physicist/musician [or Feb 7] |
Feb 11 |
Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany) |
Feb 11 |
Lydia Maria Child, Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift |
Feb 16 |
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, American philosopher (d. 1866) |
Feb 19 |
Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881) |
Feb 20 |
Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer |
Feb 20 |
Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
Feb 21 |
George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882 |
Feb 26 |
Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables) |
Feb 26 |
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables |
Feb 27 |
William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck, Lord George Bentinck |
Mar 16 |
George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
Mar 24 |
Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch MP |
Mar 24 |
Jacob Van Lennep, De zomer van 1823 - In het voetspoor van Jacob van Lennep |
Apr 1 |
Hubert Reis, composer |
Apr 4 |
Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887) |
Apr 9 |
Elias Lönnrot, Iron Danger |
Apr 12 |
Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader (Congregation of Heart) |
Apr 13 |
Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884) |
Apr 27 |
Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer |
May 6 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist |
May 15 |
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
May 31 |
Cesare Pugni, composer |
Jun 2 |
Adrian van der Hoop Jr, Dutch poet/critic |
Jun 12 |
Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876) |
Jul 1 |
Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union), died in 1878 |
Jul 3 |
Joseph Labitzky, composer |
Jul 9 |
Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor |
Jul 12 |
Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer |
Jul 15 |
John Barnett, composer |
Jul 21 |
David Hunter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
Jul 24 |
Alexandre Dumas, Aisne France, author (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo), (d. 1870) |
Jul 24 |
Ira Aldridge, African American stage actor |
Jul 24 |
Alexandre Dumas père, The Man in the Iron Mask |
Jul 26 |
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician |
Jul 26 |
Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855) |
Jul 27 |
Benedikt Randhartinger, composer |
Aug 2 |
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster |
Aug 2 |
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, Fabiola |
Aug 5 |
Niels H Abel, Norwegian mathematician (Abel's Comparisons) |
Aug 13 |
Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser) |
Aug 13 |
Nikolaus Lenau, Don Juan et Faust |
Aug 14 |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty) |
Aug 20 |
Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867 |
Sep 4 |
Marcus Whitman, missionary, led to US securing Oregon |
Sep 6 |
Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857) |
Sep 13 |
Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880) |
Sep 19 |
Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary (1849) |
Sep 24 |
Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868) |
Oct 7 |
Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer |
Oct 8 |
Peter Hofstede, the Great, Dutch reformed theologist |
Oct 16 |
Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882) |
Oct 25 |
Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864) |
Oct 26 |
King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866) |
Nov 9 |
Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist |
Nov 14 |
August F Pott, German philologist (Etymology Forschungen) |
Nov 19 |
Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866) |
Nov 20 |
James Lawrence Lardner, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1881 |
Nov 29 |
Wilhelm Hauff, writer |
Nov 29 |
Wilhelm Hauff, Das Wirtshaus im Spessart |
Dec 2 |
Melancthon Smith Wade, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
Dec 15 |
Janos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry) |
Dec 27 |
Thomas Fearnley, Norway, landscape painter |
5 |
Frederick Oakeley, Catch Me If You Can |
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