Notable Birthdays - 1811
1811 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 5 |
Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey) |
Jan 6 |
Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874 |
Jan 9 |
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856) |
Jan 18 |
Édouard René Lefebvre de Laboulaye, The Princess and the Magic Mirror |
Feb 3 |
Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") |
Feb 6 |
Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898) |
Feb 8 |
Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883 |
Feb 15 |
Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74) |
Feb 15 |
Domingo F. Sarmiento, Su mejor alumno |
Feb 19 |
Jules Sandeau, Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier |
Feb 23 |
George Washington Hewitt, composer |
Feb 24 |
Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church |
Feb 24 |
Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861 |
Feb 25 |
Carl Schuberth, composer |
Mar 1 |
Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878 |
Mar 3 |
Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review) |
Mar 7 |
Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer |
Mar 11 |
Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Mar 11 |
Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune) |
Mar 15 |
Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886 |
Mar 17 |
Karl Gutzkow, Die preußische Heirat |
Mar 20 |
George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election) |
Mar 20 |
Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II, Napoleon's son/King of Rome |
Mar 21 |
Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891) |
Mar 23 |
Camille Marie Stamaty, composer |
Mar 23 |
Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer |
Mar 30 |
Angelo Catelani, Italian composer/conductor |
Mar 31 |
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner) |
Apr 17 |
Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer |
Apr 21 |
Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903) |
May 11 |
Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese Siamese twins |
May 11 |
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893) |
May 24 |
Charles Clark, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 |
Jun 7 |
James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform) |
Jun 14 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Litchfield Connecticut, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin) |
Jun 14 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Jun 17 |
Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter and Icelandic historian (d. 1879) |
Jun 17 |
Adolphe d'Ennery, Orphans of the Storm |
Jun 19 |
Henry Prince, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
Jun 21 |
Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868) |
Jun 24 |
John Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889 |
Jul 11 |
Joseph Lanman, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874 |
Jul 11 |
William Robert Grove, Swansea, Welsh Physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell |
Jul 18 |
William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair) |
Jul 18 |
William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon |
Jul 19 |
Vincenz Lachner, composer |
Jul 20 |
James Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, governor (Jamaica) |
Aug 3 |
Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator) |
Aug 5 |
Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896) |
Aug 5 |
Ambroise Thomas, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
Aug 6 |
Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11] |
Aug 11 |
Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy [or Aug 6] |
Aug 17 |
Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist (Free Will) |
Aug 20 |
Gilman Marston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 |
Aug 22 |
William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888) |
Aug 25 |
Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 26 |
Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 |
Aug 29 |
Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA |
Aug 30 |
Thomas Gautier, writer |
Aug 31 |
Goode Bryan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
Aug 31 |
Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus) |
Aug 31 |
Théophile Gautier, The Voyage of Captain Fracassa |
Sep 3 |
John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists) |
Sep 6 |
James Melville Gilliss, founder (Naval Observatory in Washington) |
Sep 6 |
Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot) |
Sep 7 |
William Hamsley Emory, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887 |
Sep 12 |
James Hall, US geologist (Natural history of NY) |
Sep 15 |
Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer |
Sep 15 |
Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author |
Sep 19 |
Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881) |
Sep 28 |
Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician |
Sep 30 |
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890) |
Oct 16 |
Gaetano Capocci, composer |
Oct 17 |
Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (owned land in Mich) |
Oct 18 |
Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 |
Oct 22 |
Franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony), (d. 1886) |
Oct 22 |
Franz Liszt, Shine |
Oct 24 |
Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor |
Oct 25 |
Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832) |
Oct 27 |
Isaac Merrit Singer, Pittstown New York, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine) |
Oct 27 |
Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843) |
Nov 7 |
Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet) |
Nov 7 |
Karel Jaromír Erben, Greedy Guts |
Nov 10 |
Louis Kufferath, composer |
Nov 11 |
Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Nov 13 |
Yuri Arnold, composer |
Nov 19 |
John Ancrum Winslow, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1873 |
Nov 21 |
Zeng Guofan, Chinese military (d. 1872) |
Nov 23 |
H.P. Holst, Den lille hornblæser |
Nov 24 |
Ditler G Monrad, Danish theologist/bishop/premier (1863- ) |
Nov 24 |
Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890) |
Nov 28 |
Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern (1848-64) |
Nov 29 |
Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer |
Dec 2 |
Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885) |
Dec 8 |
Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer |
Dec 18 |
Alexander Sandor Asboth, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
Dec 25 |
Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz |
17 |
August Blanche, The Springtime of Life |
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