Date | Event |
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Jan 3 |
Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jul 24] |
Jan 3 |
Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness |
Jan 5 |
Auguste Mermet, composer |
Jan 10 |
Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (d. 1883) |
Jan 12 |
Ferdinand II, king of Sicily |
Jan 29 |
Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician |
Jan 31 |
Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
Feb 1 |
Charles Lenox Remond, Salem Mass, famous black American orator and abolitionist |
Feb 5 |
Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880) |
Feb 8 |
Norbert Burgmuller, composer |
Feb 11 |
Loisa Puget, composer |
Feb 15 |
Mary Dana, Cat and Clown |
Feb 22 |
Holger Simon Paulli, composer |
Feb 28 |
Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian |
Mar 1 |
Frederic Chopin, Zelazowa Wola, (baptismal records 22nd Feb) Polish/French pianist/composer (Concert in F Minor) |
Mar 1 |
Frédéric Chopin, The Prestige |
Mar 2 |
Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], 256th pope (1878-1903) |
Mar 2 |
Leo XIII, M.H. Pope Leo in a Chair |
Mar 9 |
Jean-Georges Kastner, composer |
Mar 10 |
John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U) |
Mar 10 |
Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886) |
Mar 15 |
Aernout Drost, Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen) |
Mar 27 |
A Glabbrenner, writer |
Mar 27 |
William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886) |
Mar 27 |
Adolf Glasbrenner, 'Ne scheene jejend is det hier |
Apr 6 |
Philip Gosse, intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos) |
Apr 11 |
Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895) |
Apr 13 |
Felicien Alpar David, Un pique-nique chez Osiris |
Apr 21 |
John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864) |
Apr 23 |
Thomas Wright, historian |
Apr 28 |
Daniel Ullmann, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
May 2 |
Hans Christian Lumbye, composer |
May 2 |
Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903) |
May 2 |
H.C. Lumbye, Dorian Gray |
May 8 |
James Cooper, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
May 9 |
Louis Gallait, historical painter |
May 9 |
WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau/daughter of king Willem I |
May 10 |
James Shields, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1879 |
May 15 |
Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy), died in 1885 |
May 18 |
Francesco Maria Piave, La traviata |
May 23 |
[Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary (NY Tribune) |
May 24 |
Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism |
May 28 |
Alexandre Calamo, Switzerland, painter/etcher/lithographer |
May 29 |
Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
May 29 |
Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentina politician/writer |
May 29 |
Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875 |
May 31 |
Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886 |
Jun 8 |
Robert Schumann, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
Jun 9 |
Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer |
Jun 9 |
Otto Nicolai, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec |
Jun 17 |
F Freiligrath, writer |
Jun 19 |
Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels) |
Jun 23 |
Franziska"Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina |
Jun 24 |
Lady John Scott, Fûun kyû nari Ôsaka jô: Sanada jûyûshi sô shingun |
Jun 30 |
Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism) |
Jul 1 |
Walter White, secretary (NAACP) |
Jul 2 |
Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1885 |
Jul 5 |
Phineas Taylor Barnum, Bethel Conn, circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey) |
Jul 11 |
Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor |
Jul 18 |
Peter Singer, composer |
Jul 21 |
Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist |
Aug 10 |
Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM |
Aug 10 |
Cornelis Outshoorn, Dutch architect |
Aug 14 |
Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer |
Aug 18 |
Jules Perrot, The Turning Point |
Aug 21 |
Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 2 |
William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897) |
Sep 3 |
Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871) |
Sep 4 |
Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships |
Sep 7 |
Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist (d. 1858) |
Sep 10 |
Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Sep 20 |
Alpheus Starkey Williams, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 29 |
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, novelist |
Oct 4 |
Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son |
Oct 4 |
Félix Pyat, Le chiffonnier de Paris |
Oct 7 |
Fritz Reuter, Landmandsliv |
Oct 13 |
James Shedden Palmer, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867 |
Oct 19 |
Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903 |
Oct 22 |
Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Oct 28 |
Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Nov 2 |
Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 |
Nov 7 |
Fritz Reuter, German novelist |
Nov 7 |
Ferenc Erkel, Bánk bán |
Nov 9 |
Thomas Bragg, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1872 |
Nov 9 |
Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887) |
Nov 10 |
George Jennings English sanitary engineer (d. 1882) |
Nov 16 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer |
Nov 16 |
Karel Hynek Mácha, Máj |
Nov 18 |
Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America) |
Nov 18 |
Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1875 |
Nov 19 |
August Willich, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878 |
Nov 26 |
William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British industralist (hydraulic crane) |
Nov 28 |
William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect |
Nov 30 |
Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester) |
Dec 1 |
Joseph Gungl, composer |
Dec 7 |
Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory |
Dec 7 |
Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894) |
Dec 11 |
Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine) |
Dec 11 |
Alfred de Musset, Il ne faut jurer... de rien! |
Dec 13 |
Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty) |
Dec 21 |
Ludwig Schuncke, composer |
Dec 24 |
Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873) |
Dec 25 |
Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (d. 1892) |
29 |
Elizabeth Gaskell, Return to Cranford: Part One - August 1844 |
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