Notable Birthdays - 1809
1809 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet) |
Jan 2 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer |
Jan 4 |
Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind) |
Jan 15 |
Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus) |
Jan 15 |
Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist) |
Jan 18 |
Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
Jan 19 |
Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum) |
Jan 19 |
Edgar Allan Poe, Spirits of the Dead |
Jan 20 |
Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (La Paloma) |
Jan 20 |
Sebastián Yradier, Das Boot |
Jan 23 |
Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter |
Jan 26 |
J.H. Ingraham, The Ten Commandments |
Feb 3 |
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos) |
Feb 3 |
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, American Gangster |
Feb 7 |
Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden) |
Feb 12 |
Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th US President (1861-65) |
Feb 12 |
Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution (Origin of the Species) |
Feb 12 |
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address |
Feb 12 |
Charles Darwin, |
Feb 15 |
Cyrus Hall McCormick, Shenandoah Valley Virginia, American inventor (Mechanical reaper) |
Feb 15 |
André Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857) |
Feb 20 |
Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies |
Feb 20 |
Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 |
Feb 24 |
Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian) |
Feb 25 |
George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892 |
Feb 25 |
Charles d'Albert, The Heiress |
Mar 10 |
William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864 |
Mar 13 |
Fredrik Pacius, Here, Beneath the North Star |
Mar 15 |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia |
Mar 15 |
Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893) |
Mar 19 |
Fredrik Pacius, composer |
Mar 24 |
Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers |
Mar 27 |
Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect |
Mar 31 |
Edward FitzGerald, England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) |
Mar 31 |
Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer |
Mar 31 |
Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist (Dead Souls, The Inspector-General) |
Mar 31 |
Nikolai Gogol, Black Sunday |
Mar 31 |
Otto Lindblad, Episode #2.6 |
Apr 1 |
Willem Ruys J Dz, Dutch ship owner |
Apr 4 |
Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer |
Apr 14 |
George W Vreede, Dutch lawyer/politician |
Apr 15 |
Hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician |
Apr 17 |
Philip St George Cocke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
Apr 20 |
John Smith Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881 |
Apr 21 |
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secy State (Confederacy) |
Apr 23 |
Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer |
Apr 28 |
Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist |
May 6 |
William Walker, composer |
Jun 13 |
George Philip St Cooke, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895 |
Jun 15 |
François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866) |
Jun 18 |
Sylvanus William Godon, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1879 |
Jun 27 |
Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member |
Jul 8 |
Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja) |
Jul 9 |
Frederick Henle, Germany, pathologist |
Jul 10 |
Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889) |
Jul 28 |
Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 30 |
Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899) |
Aug 6 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Somersby, England, Poet Laureate of Great Britain |
Aug 6 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade |
Aug 9 |
William Barret Travis, commander at Battle of the Alamo |
Aug 21 |
Francesco Schira, composer |
Aug 23 |
Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land) |
Aug 27 |
Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65) |
Aug 28 |
Antonio Somma, Un ballo in maschera |
Aug 29 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) |
Aug 29 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner |
Aug 30 |
Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer |
Sep 5 |
Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880) |
Sep 9 |
William Radford, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890 |
Sep 20 |
Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Sep 21 |
Sophia Hawthorne, Salem Massachusetts, American writer, painter and illustator |
Sep 27 |
Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1877 |
Oct 2 |
Anton Emil Titl, composer |
Oct 4 |
Albrecht F H, prince of Prussia |
Oct 4 |
Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 |
Oct 11 |
Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887) |
Oct 22 |
Federico Ricci, composer |
Oct 22 |
Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889) |
Oct 22 |
Federico Ricci, Crispino e la comare: 'Una volta un ciabattino' |
Oct 27 |
Peter "Peerke" Donders, Dutch RC missionary to Suriname |
Nov 4 |
Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874) |
Nov 9 |
Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1877 |
Nov 13 |
John AB Dahlgren, US Union lt adm/inventor (Civil war Dahlgren-cannon) |
Nov 23 |
Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Nov 26 |
Mariano Obiols, composer |
Nov 27 |
Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, England, Shakespearian actress (Juliet) |
Nov 30 |
Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer |
Dec 3 |
Thomas Alfred Davies, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899 |
Dec 6 |
Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903 |
Dec 16 |
Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance |
Dec 19 |
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Belg, paleont (life cycle of tapeworms) |
Dec 20 |
Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer |
Dec 22 |
Benedict Augustin Morel, Vienna, Fren psychologist (dementia praecox) |
Dec 24 |
Christopher "Kit" Carson, KY, Union brig-general/indian fighter/frontiersman (d. 1868) |
Dec 26 |
William Nelson Pendleton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1883 |
Dec 29 |
Albert Pike, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
Dec 29 |
William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94), (d. 1898) |
4 |
Juliusz Slowacki, Blanche |
14 |
J.B. Buckstone, Married Life |
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