Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (d. 1864) |
Jan 8 |
Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist |
Jan 8 |
Thomas Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Jan 10 |
Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer (Victorian Observer) |
Jan 11 |
James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget) |
Jan 11 |
Richard Griffith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Jan 12 |
Jones Mitchell Withers, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1890 |
Jan 14 |
Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer |
Jan 17 |
Ellen Wood, English author (East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey) |
Jan 17 |
Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne |
Jan 21 |
Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer |
Jan 24 |
Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector |
Jan 25 |
Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor (Union), died in 1899 |
Jan 26 |
Rufus King, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1876 |
Jan 27 |
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879) |
Jan 30 |
Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter |
Feb 7 |
Gardner Quincy Colton, Georgia, Vermont, USA, American lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry |
Feb 9 |
Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library |
Feb 18 |
Samuel Fenton Cary, U. S. Congressman (d. 1900) |
Feb 21 |
Nicolo Gabrielli, composer |
Feb 22 |
Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer |
Feb 25 |
Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS] |
Feb 26 |
Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876) |
Mar 3 |
Charles Kensington Salaman, composer |
Mar 5 |
Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889) |
Mar 8 |
Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878) |
Mar 8 |
Ede Szigligeti, Liliomfi |
Mar 9 |
Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet/painter/prof of Kiev [NS] |
Mar 9 |
Taras Sevchenko, Nazar Stodolya |
Mar 16 |
Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer |
Mar 22 |
Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood) |
Mar 24 |
Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered Mariposa Grove |
Apr 2 |
Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning, Brigadier General (Confederate Army |
Apr 2 |
Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879) |
Apr 3 |
Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (d. 1901) |
Apr 4 |
John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872 |
Apr 15 |
John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep) |
Apr 19 |
Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875) |
Apr 21 |
Beni Egressy, composer |
Apr 21 |
Béni Egressy, Bánk bán |
Apr 24 |
Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire |
Apr 24 |
Vincente F Lopez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje) |
May 6 |
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist/composer |
May 8 |
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, anarchist |
May 9 |
Adolph von Henselt, composer |
May 14 |
Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876) |
May 30 |
Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894) |
Jun 8 |
Charles Reade, England, novelist (Cloister & Hearth) |
Jun 8 |
Charles Reade, It's Never Too Late to Mend |
Jun 12 |
Zsigmond Kemény, Boldogtalan szerelmesek |
Jun 19 |
Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter |
Jun 22 |
James Henry Lane, MC (Union), died in 1866 [or Jul 28 1833] |
Jun 25 |
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896) |
Jul 2 |
Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer |
Jul 3 |
Janis Cimze, composer |
Jul 6 |
Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 |
Jul 19 |
Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862) |
Jul 20 |
Ivan S Gagarin, Russian theologist |
Aug 1 |
Maxcy Gregg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Aug 8 |
Esther Hobart Morris, suffragist/anti-slavery activist |
Aug 10 |
Jacob Edvard Gille, composer |
Aug 10 |
John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1881 |
Aug 10 |
William Lowndes Yancey, MC (Confederacy), died in 1863 |
Aug 10 |
Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890) |
Aug 13 |
Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874) |
Aug 14 |
Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1899 |
Aug 23 |
James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (d. 1877) |
Aug 28 |
Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873) |
Aug 28 |
Sheridan Le Fanu, Vampyr |
Sep 2 |
Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian |
Sep 6 |
George Cartier, (C) Canadian co-PM (1858-62) |
Sep 8 |
Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874) |
Sep 13 |
Nicolas Beets, [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura= |
Sep 17 |
Stefano Ronchetti-Molnteviti, composer |
Oct 3 |
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet/writer (Demon & other poems) |
Oct 11 |
Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888) |
Oct 15 |
Mikhail Lermontov, The Loneliest Planet |
Oct 25 |
Louis CPR van Orleans, French duke of Nemours |
Oct 27 |
Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891) |
Nov 6 |
Adolphe Sax, Belgium musician/inventor (saxophone) |
Nov 8 |
Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku) |
Nov 13 |
Joseph Hooker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879 |
Nov 14 |
Michael Kelly Lawler, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), dies in 1882 |
Nov 15 |
Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Nov 17 |
Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
Nov 22 |
Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893) |
Nov 25 |
Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878) |
Dec 1 |
August Rockel, composer |
Dec 17 |
Lõrinc Tóth, Hunyadi László |
Dec 19 |
Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, US Secretary of War (1861-65) |
Dec 25 |
Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder (Coop of Welfare of the People) |
Dec 27 |
James Henry Carleton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873 |
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