Notable Birthdays - 1815
1815 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neocriticism) |
Jan 8 |
George Webb Morell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 |
Jan 8 |
Lawrence Pike Graham, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
Jan 9 |
William Jackson, composer |
Jan 10 |
Alexander Brydie Dyer, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874 |
Jan 10 |
Thomas Williams, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Jan 11 |
John A. Macdonald, Glasgow Scotland, First Prime Minister of Canada (1867-1873 and 1878-1891) |
Jan 13 |
William Henry French, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 |
Jan 13 |
Ernst Elias Niebergall, Der Datterich |
Jan 15 |
Henry Morris Naglee, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
Jan 16 |
Adolph Trube, composer |
Jan 16 |
Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck, Maj-General (Union Army) |
Jan 18 |
James Chesnut Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
Jan 18 |
Richard Yates Gov, MC (Union), died in 1873 |
Jan 18 |
Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874) |
Jan 21 |
Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia) |
Jan 21 |
John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900) |
Jan 22 |
Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer |
Jan 28 |
Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1875 |
Feb 2 |
Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
Feb 12 |
Edward Forbes, Douglas Isle of Man, English Naturalist and pioneer in the field of biogeography |
Feb 18 |
Henri Leys, Flemish painter |
Feb 21 |
Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor |
Feb 25 |
Robert Hall Chilton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
Mar 2 |
Antonio Buzzolla, composer |
Mar 5 |
John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888) |
Mar 9 |
David Davis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1886) |
Mar 13 |
James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911) |
Mar 14 |
Josephine Lang, composer |
Mar 28 |
Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896) |
Mar 30 |
Wincenty Studzinski, composer |
Apr 1 |
Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90) |
Apr 1 |
Otto von Bismarck, Film socialisme |
Apr 6 |
Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer |
Apr 11 |
Klara Fey, German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein) |
Apr 12 |
Henry Hugo Pierson, composer |
Apr 24 |
Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) |
Apr 24 |
James Edward Harrison, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 |
Apr 24 |
Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right |
Apr 28 |
Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 |
Apr 29 |
Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 |
May 3 |
Hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist |
May 5 |
Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright |
May 6 |
Eugène Labiche, The Horse Ate the Hat |
May 8 |
Jean Delphin Alard, French violinist/composer |
May 18 |
Thomas Stanhope Bocock, rep (Confederacy), died in 1891 |
May 19 |
John Gross Barnard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1882 |
May 27 |
Henry Parkes, British journalist/premier of Australia |
Jun 1 |
Otto of Greece (d. 1862) |
Jun 2 |
Philip Kearny, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Jun 3 |
Martin Edward Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Jun 4 |
Paul Jones Semmes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Jun 6 |
Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer |
Jun 11 |
Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879) |
Jun 19 |
John William Glover, composer |
Jun 19 |
Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872) |
Jul 13 |
James Alexander Seddon, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1880 |
Jul 21 |
Stewart Van Vliet, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901 |
Jul 24 |
Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jan 3, 1810] |
Jul 28 |
Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889) |
Jul 30 |
Thomas Jackson Rodman, Salem Indiana, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers) was an American military inventor of the rodman gun and perforated-cake gunpowder |
Aug 1 |
Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast |
Aug 1 |
Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast |
Aug 2 |
Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894) |
Aug 4 |
Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, Sulz am Neckar, German Physician and advocate of scientific medicine |
Aug 5 |
Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica) |
Aug 16 |
John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888) |
Aug 19 |
John Porter McCown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
Aug 29 |
Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction) |
Sep 4 |
Andreas I Schaepman, archbishop of Utrecht 1868-82 |
Sep 4 |
Mihaly Mosonyi, composer |
Sep 5 |
Carl Wilhelm, composer |
Sep 5 |
Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
Sep 6 |
John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Sep 6 |
Karol Katski, composer |
Sep 7 |
Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treas (Union), died in 1868 |
Sep 7 |
John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (d. 1866) |
Sep 8 |
Alexander Ramsey, Gov (Union), died in 1903 |
Sep 10 |
Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 18 |
Henry Constantine Wayne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Sep 29 |
Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver |
Oct 11 |
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican representative of the people |
Oct 12 |
William Joseph Hardee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1873 |
Oct 13 |
Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist |
Oct 16 |
Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905) |
Oct 17 |
Emanuel Geibel, writer |
Oct 23 |
João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889) |
Oct 24 |
John Edwards, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894 |
Oct 25 |
Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer |
Oct 25 |
Philipp Fahrbach, composer |
Oct 29 |
Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904) |
Oct 29 |
Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856) |
Oct 29 |
Daniel Decatur Emmett, The Lone Ranger |
Oct 31 |
Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician (theory of functions) |
Nov 1 |
Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether) |
Nov 1 |
Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
Nov 2 |
George Boole, mathematician (Boolean algebra) |
Nov 3 |
Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer |
Nov 3 |
John Mitchel, Fenian |
Nov 5 |
Martins Pena, O Grande Desbum... |
Nov 12 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, women's rights activist |
Nov 15 |
John Banvard, NYC, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas) |
Nov 23 |
William Dennison, postmaster/general (Union), died in 1882 |
Nov 24 |
James Trapier, N Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
Nov 24 |
Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842) |
Nov 29 |
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882 |
Dec 8 |
Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905) |
Dec 10 |
Ada Lovelace, London, English mathematician (d. 1852) |
Dec 21 |
Thomas Couture, French painter/author |
Dec 22 |
Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian |
Dec 22 |
Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader |
Dec 23 |
Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat |
Dec 25 |
Temistocle Solera, composer |
Dec 25 |
Temistocle Solera, Giovanna d'Arco |
Dec 26 |
Israel Bush Richardson, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Dec 31 |
George Gordon Meade, Major General (Union Army), died in 1872 |
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