Date | Event |
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Jan 2 |
Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer |
Jan 4 |
Baltasar Saldoni, composer |
Jan 6 |
Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894 |
Jan 6 |
Ludwig Erk, composer |
Jan 6 |
Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891) |
Jan 11 |
Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jan 11 |
Ezra Cornell, founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University) |
Jan 12 |
Jan T Beelen, Dutch/Belgian bible expert |
Jan 13 |
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1883 |
Jan 16 |
Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877 |
Jan 19 |
Robert E. Lee, Stratford Virginia, American Confederate General in Chief during US Civil War, (d. 1870) |
Feb 1 |
William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 |
Feb 3 |
Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
Feb 6 |
Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer |
Feb 8 |
Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman |
Feb 8 |
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889) |
Feb 10 |
Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 |
Feb 13 |
Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters) |
Feb 14 |
Ernest Legouve, Adriana Lecouvreur |
Feb 15 |
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer |
Feb 16 |
Lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866 |
Feb 25 |
George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876 |
Feb 27 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha) |
Feb 27 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The White Angel |
Mar 1 |
Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898) |
Mar 7 |
Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Der Alchemist) |
Mar 14 |
Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876) |
Apr 1 |
Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic |
Apr 18 |
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Jaatishwar |
Apr 24 |
Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
May 1 |
John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army) |
May 11 |
Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century black Shakespearian actor (Othello) |
May 15 |
Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer |
May 24 |
Cornelis E van Koetsveld, vicar/literature |
May 24 |
Thomas Duncan, painter |
May 28 |
Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra |
May 28 |
Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher |
Jun 2 |
Robert Fuhrer, composer |
Jun 6 |
Adrien Francois Servais, composer |
Jun 11 |
James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882 |
Jun 30 |
Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer) |
Jul 1 |
Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University |
Jul 4 |
Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter (Risorgimento)/unified Italy |
Jul 12 |
Silas Casey, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1882 |
Jul 14 |
Ventura de la Vega, El hombre de mundo |
Jul 22 |
Karolina Pawlowa, writer |
Aug 8 |
Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892) |
Aug 8 |
Emilie Flygare-Carlén, The Vultures of the Coast |
Aug 11 |
David R Atchison, pres of USA on March 3rd 1849 |
Aug 18 |
Charles Francis Adams, (Union), died in 1886 |
Sep 5 |
Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886) |
Sep 11 |
Ignaz Lachner, composer |
Sep 25 |
Alfred Vail, Morristown New Jersey, American Inventor, early telegraph pioneer, and financial backer to Samuel Morse |
Sep 28 |
Arnold Henry Guyot, Switzerland, US geologist/geographer/meteorologist |
Oct 3 |
Heinrich Panofka, composer |
Oct 4 |
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864) |
Oct 12 |
John Tideman, Dutch Remonstrant theologist |
Oct 21 |
Hanri Reber, composer |
Oct 21 |
Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer |
Oct 22 |
Magnus Huss, Swedish Physician who coined the word alcoholism and was the first to define it as a disease |
Oct 30 |
James Samuel Wadsworth, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Nov 16 |
Francois Hainl, composer |
Dec 17 |
John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound) |
Dec 17 |
John Greenleaf Whittier, Barbara Fritchie: The Story of a Patriotic American Woman |
Dec 20 |
Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
Dec 22 |
Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873) |
20 |
Giovanni Ruffini, Don Pasquale |
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