Date | Event |
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Jan 4 |
Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59) |
Jan 4 |
Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand) |
Jan 4 |
Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator |
Jan 5 |
Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 |
Jan 15 |
James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation) |
Jan 18 |
Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire) |
Jan 19 |
Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine) |
Jan 20 |
Jacon Gartner Lauman, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 |
Jan 23 |
Franz Commer, composer |
Jan 26 |
Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876 |
Jan 31 |
Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist |
Feb 8 |
Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist |
Feb 11 |
Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865) |
Feb 12 |
Otto Ludwig, Der Erbförster |
Feb 13 |
Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname (1855-59) |
Feb 14 |
Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer |
Feb 14 |
John McNeil, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891 |
Feb 16 |
Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1892 |
Feb 16 |
Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer |
Feb 16 |
Semyon Artemovsky, Cossacks in Exile |
Mar 2 |
George Alexander Macfarren, composer |
Mar 4 |
Wijnand J J Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked) |
Mar 7 |
Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time) |
Mar 14 |
Hermann Kletke, Unser Sandmännchen |
Mar 15 |
John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858) |
Mar 18 |
Friedrich Hebbel, writer |
Mar 18 |
Friedrich Hebbel, Maria Magdalena |
Mar 19 |
David Livingstone, Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa) |
Mar 19 |
David Livingstone, The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone |
Mar 20 |
Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High) |
Mar 21 |
James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56) |
Mar 22 |
Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
Mar 26 |
Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 |
Mar 27 |
Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives) |
Mar 29 |
John Letcher, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1884 |
Apr 14 |
Junius S Morgan, US, merchant/philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art) |
Apr 17 |
Henry Washington Benham, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1884 |
Apr 18 |
James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865) |
Apr 22 |
Jørgen Moe, The Seventh Master of the House |
Apr 23 |
Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates) |
Apr 23 |
Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853) |
May 5 |
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855) |
May 5 |
Søren Kierkegaard, Le journal du séducteur |
May 6 |
Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1893 |
May 10 |
Montgomery Blair, Franklin County Ky, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford) |
May 12 |
Johann Czerski, German chaplin |
May 15 |
Stephen Heller, composer |
May 22 |
Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman) |
May 22 |
Richard Wagner, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
May 23 |
Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
Jun 5 |
Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer |
Jun 6 |
Israel Washburn, gov (Union), died in 1883 |
Jun 8 |
David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1891 |
Jun 10 |
Henry S. Washburn, Captain Hurricane |
Jun 16 |
Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869) |
Jun 18 |
Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian (Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti) |
Jun 24 |
Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (Independent) |
Jun 25 |
William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Jul 7 |
William Scott Ketchum, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871 |
Jul 26 |
Isaac Baumann, Kassel Hesse, Germany, a Jewish pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, South Africa |
Jul 28 |
Alberto Mazzucato, composer |
Aug 5 |
Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-general |
Aug 5 |
Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet |
Aug 15 |
Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891) |
Aug 18 |
Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1884 |
Aug 19 |
William Henry Fry, composer |
Aug 21 |
Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891) |
Aug 24 |
Pietari Hannikainen, Silmänkääntäjä |
Aug 26 |
Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle of Guilder Tracks) |
Aug 30 |
Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862 |
Sep 11 |
Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Sep 13 |
John Sedgwick, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
Sep 28 |
Anton Wallerstein, composer |
Oct 8 |
Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer |
Oct 9 |
John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63) |
Oct 10 |
Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto, First French Empire, Italian composer (La donna è mobile - Rigoletto), (d. 1901) |
Oct 10 |
Giuseppe Verdi, Django Unchained |
Oct 12 |
Lyman Trumbull, MC (Union) died in 1896 |
Oct 17 |
Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837) |
Oct 17 |
Georg Büchner, Woyzeck |
Oct 23 |
Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848) |
Oct 26 |
Henry Thomas Smart, composer |
Nov 13 |
John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885 |
Nov 13 |
Peter II Petrovic Njegos, poet/ruler of Montenegro (1830-51) |
Nov 27 |
Michele Puccini, composer |
Nov 29 |
Franz von Miklosich, Slovenian linguist (d. 1891) |
Nov 30 |
Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer |
Nov 30 |
Hermann Kurz, German author/poet |
Nov 30 |
Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890) |
Dec 2 |
Jacob Rosenhaim, composer |
Dec 10 |
Errico Petrella, composer |
Dec 10 |
Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party) |
Dec 19 |
Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist (ozone) |
Dec 20 |
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, (Gov-Iowa)/US Sect of Interior (1881-82) |
Dec 24 |
Henry Wellington Greatorex, composer |
Dec 25 |
Milledge Luke Bonham, (Confederacy) died in 1890 |
Dec 29 |
Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer |
Dec 29 |
Karel Sabina, Die verkaufte Braut |
3 |
József Eötvös, A falu jegyzöje |
13 |
Auguste Maquet, Monte Cristo |
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