Notable Birthdays - 1819
1819 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold |
Jan 1 |
George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1878 |
Jan 3 |
Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1892 |
Jan 3 |
Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900) |
Jan 6 |
Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886) |
Jan 9 |
James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884) |
Jan 12 |
Zealous Bates Tower, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1900 |
Jan 14 |
Fabio Campana, composer |
Jan 14 |
Frederick Steele, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
Jan 26 |
Abner Doubleday, Union general-major/inventor (baseball) [or Jun 26] |
Feb 1 |
Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885 |
Feb 4 |
Joshua Norton, SF, Norton I, emperor of USA |
Feb 8 |
John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite) |
Feb 10 |
Richard Storrs Willis, composer |
Feb 11 |
Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer |
Feb 14 |
James Green Martin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878 |
Feb 14 |
Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, newspaper man, politician and inventor of the typewriter |
Feb 17 |
Max Schneckenburger, Iron Sky |
Feb 18 |
Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer |
Feb 19 |
Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer |
Feb 20 |
Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882) |
Feb 22 |
Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer |
Feb 22 |
James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist |
Feb 22 |
J.P. Webster, Walk the Line |
Mar 4 |
Charles Oberthur, composer |
Mar 11 |
Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery) |
Mar 11 |
Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte) |
Mar 19 |
David Henry Williams, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891 |
Mar 22 |
William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
Mar 26 |
Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer |
Mar 26 |
Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist |
Mar 26 |
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge at the Richmond Horse Show |
Mar 28 |
Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891) |
Mar 29 |
Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive US oil well |
Mar 29 |
Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder (American Hebrew Congregations) |
Mar 31 |
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901) |
Apr 4 |
Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853) |
Apr 6 |
Johann A H Scheler, Belgian librarian |
Apr 7 |
Hubert Leonard, composer |
Apr 14 |
Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orch) |
Apr 18 |
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874) |
Apr 18 |
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895) |
Apr 18 |
Franz von Suppé, Beetlejuice |
Apr 28 |
Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884) |
May 1 |
William Steele, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
May 3 |
Nicola De Giosa, composer |
May 5 |
Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer |
May 5 |
Stanislaw Moniuszko, Halka |
May 15 |
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers) |
May 16 |
Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898 |
May 17 |
Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer |
May 18 |
Julius Hopp, composer |
May 24 |
Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901) |
May 24 |
Queen Victoria, Her Majesty, Queen Victoria |
May 27 |
Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic) |
May 27 |
Julia Ward Howe, Kick-Ass |
May 28 |
William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907 |
May 30 |
William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894) |
May 31 |
Walt Whitman, West Hills New York, American poet (Leaves of Grass) |
May 31 |
Walt Whitman, Messengers |
Jun 3 |
Johann Barthold Jongkind, Lattrop Neth, Dut/Fr painter (Winter Scenes) |
Jun 3 |
Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer |
Jun 5 |
John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discover Neptune) |
Jun 6 |
William Howard Glover, composer |
Jun 10 |
J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine) |
Jun 12 |
Charles Kingsley, [Parson Lot], Engl vicar/historian (Westward Ho!) |
Jun 14 |
Henry J. Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892) |
Jun 20 |
Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann) |
Jun 20 |
Jacques Offenbach, Full Metal Jacket |
Jun 20 |
Thomas Dunn English, Gone with the Wind |
Jun 26 |
Abner Doubleday, Mjr Gen (Union)/inventor (baseball) [or 1/26] |
Jun 27 |
Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer |
Jun 30 |
William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81) |
Jul 2 |
Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900) |
Jul 2 |
Thomas Anderson, Scottish Chemist (discovered pyridine) |
Jul 3 |
Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer |
Jul 4 |
Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885 |
Jul 6 |
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Berlin, German Physician and Physiologist |
Jul 8 |
Alexander Hays, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
Jul 8 |
Vatroslav Lisinski, composer |
Jul 8 |
Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907) |
Jul 9 |
Elias Howe, Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine |
Jul 12 |
Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies |
Jul 19 |
Gottfried Keller, writer |
Jul 19 |
Gottfried Keller, Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe |
Jul 20 |
Paul Henrion, composer |
Aug 1 |
Herman Melville, New York, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), (d. 1891) |
Aug 1 |
Herman Melville, Moby Dick |
Aug 6 |
Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 8 |
Charles Anderson Dana, Asst Secy War, (Union) died in 1897 |
Aug 9 |
William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920) |
Aug 9 |
Jonathan Homer Lane, Geneseo, New York, USA, American astrophysicist who mathmatically analyzed the Sun as a gaseous body. |
Aug 12 |
Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
Aug 13 |
George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope) |
Aug 15 |
Charles Morton, Good Night |
Aug 17 |
James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
Aug 18 |
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876) |
Aug 25 |
Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency |
Aug 26 |
Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria |
Aug 26 |
Prince Albert, Engines of Change |
Sep 6 |
Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer |
Sep 6 |
Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi) |
Sep 6 |
William Starke Rosecrans, Mjr General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 7 |
Jean E "Adriaan" van Bevervoorde, journalist (History of Holland) |
Sep 9 |
Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 |
Sep 13 |
Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896) |
Sep 14 |
Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889 |
Sep 17 |
Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates) |
Sep 17 |
Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa) |
Sep 17 |
Thomas Andrews Hendricks, (D) 21st US VP; died in office |
Sep 21 |
Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864) |
Sep 22 |
Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897) |
Sep 23 |
Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896) |
Sep 28 |
Jacob G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist |
Oct 2 |
George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901 |
Oct 6 |
Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer |
Oct 9 |
Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
Oct 10 |
Zebulon York, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 |
Oct 15 |
Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliography/literary |
Oct 16 |
Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886) |
Oct 19 |
Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist (Crises Commercial) |
Oct 20 |
Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1914 |
Oct 20 |
Karol Mikuli, composer |
Oct 20 |
The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850) |
Oct 23 |
Isac Baker Woodbury, composer |
Oct 23 |
Isaac Baker Woodbury, Gone with the Wind |
Oct 25 |
Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882 |
Nov 5 |
Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer |
Nov 10 |
Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable |
Nov 22 |
George Eliot, [Mary Anne Evans], Nuneaton England, author (Middlemarch, Silas Marner) |
Nov 22 |
George Eliot, Middlemarch |
Nov 23 |
Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1901 |
Nov 23 |
Josiah Dwight Whitney, Northampton Massachusetts, American Geologist who led the California Geological Survey (Mount Whitney and Whitney Glacier are named for him) |
Nov 23 |
Francesco Mastriani, The Blind Woman of Sorrento |
Dec 13 |
Edwin George Monk, composer |
Dec 16 |
Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
Dec 17 |
Samuel Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 |
Dec 18 |
Yakov Petrovich Polonsky, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija) |
Dec 19 |
James Clifford Veatch, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
Dec 20 |
John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850) |
Dec 22 |
Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor |
Dec 22 |
Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892) |
Dec 23 |
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889) |
Dec 26 |
E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899) |
Dec 30 |
John White Geary, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873 |
Dec 30 |
Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest) |
Dec 30 |
Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest |
10 |
Joseph M. Scriven, There Will Be Blood |
13 |
Clara Schumann, Management |
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