Notable Birthdays - 1817
1817 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 8 |
John Selden Roane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867 |
Jan 8 |
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893) |
Jan 14 |
Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna) |
Jan 15 |
Lewis Golding Arnold, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1871 |
Jan 18 |
Jacques Gregoir, composer |
Jan 29 |
Edwin Waugh, Ten Nights in a Barroom |
Jan 31 |
Antony Winkler Prins, Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia) |
Feb 2 |
John Glover, English chemist (sulfuric acid) |
Feb 2 |
Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer |
Feb 3 |
Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer |
Feb 3 |
Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866 |
Feb 3 |
Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881) |
Feb 7 |
Leroy Pope Walker, US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861) |
Feb 8 |
Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1872 |
Feb 15 |
Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter |
Feb 18 |
Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Feb 18 |
Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
Feb 19 |
Willem III, last male King of Netherlands (1849-90) |
Feb 21 |
Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco) |
Feb 22 |
Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor |
Feb 22 |
Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880) |
Feb 23 |
George Watts, London, painter |
Feb 23 |
George Frederic Watts, Hope |
Feb 28 |
James Craig, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888 |
Mar 1 |
Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882) |
Mar 2 |
Janos Arany, Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda) |
Mar 2 |
János Arany, Daliás idök |
Mar 4 |
Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892) |
Mar 5 |
Austen H Layard, British archaeologist/diplomat |
Mar 6 |
Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907) |
Mar 19 |
Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Mar 22 |
Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
Mar 24 |
Aime Maillart, composer |
Mar 26 |
Herman Haupt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
Mar 27 |
Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891) |
Mar 28 |
Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer |
Mar 29 |
Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet |
Apr 1 |
Johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist |
Apr 2 |
Teodulo Mabellini, composer |
Apr 4 |
John Wilson Sprague, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893 |
Apr 13 |
Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels) |
Apr 18 |
George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe) |
Apr 19 |
John Philip, painter |
May 2 |
Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer |
May 5 |
George Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899 |
May 11 |
Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909) |
May 14 |
Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893) |
May 15 |
Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905) |
May 18 |
James William Denver, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
May 31 |
Edouard Deldevez, composer |
May 31 |
Georg Herwegh, writer |
Jun 17 |
Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1906 |
Jun 21 |
James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887 |
Jun 30 |
Joseph D Hooker, British botanist |
Jul 6 |
Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905) |
Jul 12 |
Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond), (d. 1862) |
Jul 12 |
Henry David Thoreau, I Went to the Woods Because... |
Jul 15 |
John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway) |
Jul 17 |
Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer |
Jul 17 |
Ivan Aivazovsky, Aivazovsky and Armenia |
Jul 19 |
Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union) |
Jul 21 |
John Gilbert, painter/illustrator |
Jul 21 |
Joseph K Barnes, Major General (Union Army), died in 1883 |
Jul 24 |
Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905) |
Jul 28 |
Carlo Gatti, |
Jul 29 |
James Blair Steedman, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 |
Jul 30 |
Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer |
Jul 31 |
Philip Cook Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
Aug 3 |
Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austria (Battle at Custozza) |
Aug 13 |
Karoly Thern, composer |
Aug 14 |
Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874) |
Aug 16 |
Henry Winter Davis, MC (Union), died in 1865 |
Aug 17 |
Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister (1870-71) |
Aug 24 |
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, writer and playwright (d. 1875) |
Sep 5 |
Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [NS] |
Sep 6 |
Alexander Tilloch Galt, a Canadian founding father |
Sep 7 |
Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark (d. 1898) |
Sep 9 |
Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
Sep 13 |
John McAuley Palmer, US Union msj-gen/(Gov-Ill, 1868-72) |
Sep 14 |
Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Imense China) |
Sep 21 |
Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Sep 21 |
Charles Balmer, composer |
Sep 23 |
Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer |
Sep 24 |
Ramon de Campoamor Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Doloras) |
Sep 27 |
Hiram R. Revels, Fayetteville NC, 1st black US senator |
Oct 2 |
Gunnar Wennerberg, composer |
Oct 2 |
Gunnar Wennerberg, Swedish Portraits |
Oct 5 |
Eduard Franck, composer |
Oct 7 |
Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
Oct 10 |
Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI |
Oct 17 |
Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan) |
Oct 17 |
Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist (Fugitive Negro) |
Oct 19 |
Tom Taylor, The Ticket of Leave Man |
Oct 23 |
Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875) |
Oct 24 |
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés, Draguignan, France, French chemist and inventor of margarine |
Oct 27 |
Antoni Katski, composer |
Oct 30 |
Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry) |
Nov 8 |
Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
Nov 8 |
Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter |
Nov 9 |
Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Nov 12 |
Carlo Pedrotti, composer |
Nov 12 |
Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer |
Nov 12 |
Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892) |
Nov 21 |
Richard Brooke Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Nov 24 |
Juan de la Cruz Moreno Maisonave, Guatemala |
Nov 25 |
John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911) |
Nov 30 |
Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author (Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902) |
Dec 2 |
Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895) |
Dec 2 |
José Mármol, Amalia |
Dec 8 |
Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896) |
Dec 19 |
James Jay Archer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1864 |
5 |
Aleksei Tolstoy, Black Sabbath |
14 |
Theodor Storm, John Glueckstadt |
29 |
Paul Féval, On Guard |
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