Notable Birthdays - 1820
1820 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 9 |
Pavel Krizkovsky, composer |
Jan 17 |
Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall) |
Jan 17 |
Anne Brontë, Episode #1.3 |
Jan 18 |
Abraham Buford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 |
Jan 19 |
John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 |
Jan 20 |
Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women |
Jan 22 |
Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet |
Jan 22 |
Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe) |
Jan 22 |
Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899) |
Jan 23 |
Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer |
Jan 24 |
John Milton Thayer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906 |
Jan 31 |
William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887) |
Feb 1 |
George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897) |
Feb 2 |
Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne) |
Feb 3 |
Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland) |
Feb 4 |
Bozena Nemcová, Three Wishes for Cinderella |
Feb 8 |
William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891 |
Feb 11 |
Theodore O'Hara, Wandering Here and There |
Feb 13 |
Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer |
Feb 15 |
Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette |
Feb 17 |
Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons) |
Feb 17 |
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898) |
Feb 20 |
Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
Feb 23 |
David Kalisch, Hunderttausend Taler |
Feb 28 |
John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland) |
Feb 28 |
John Tenniel, Alice Through the Looking-Glass: Queen Alice |
Feb 29 |
Adolf Schimon, composer |
Mar 1 |
George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896 |
Mar 1 |
Richard Redhead, composer |
Mar 2 |
Multatuli, writer |
Mar 2 |
Eduard Douwes Dekker, [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar) |
Mar 3 |
Multatuli, Max Havelaar |
Mar 4 |
Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856) |
Mar 6 |
Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Mar 7 |
Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer |
Mar 9 |
Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893) |
Mar 13 |
Louis Herbert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
Mar 14 |
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78) |
Mar 17 |
Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Mar 17 |
Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897) |
Mar 20 |
Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania |
Mar 20 |
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty |
Mar 21 |
Frank Mori, composer |
Mar 24 |
A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891) |
Mar 24 |
Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915) |
Mar 25 |
Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome) |
Mar 30 |
Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878) |
Apr 4 |
Charles Devens Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1891 |
Apr 5 |
Nadar, [Félix Tournachon], French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist |
Apr 14 |
Harry Thompson Hays, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
Apr 15 |
Evander McNair, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
Apr 16 |
Georg Curtius, German classical linguist |
Apr 17 |
Gottfried Conradi, composer |
Apr 26 |
Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel) |
Apr 27 |
Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics) |
May 4 |
Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack |
May 4 |
Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45) |
May 12 |
Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War) |
May 12 |
Florence Nightingale, Biography of the Millennium: 100 People - 1000 Years |
May 22 |
Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer |
May 23 |
James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis) |
May 23 |
Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891) |
May 27 |
Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904) |
May 28 |
Willem Doorenbos, [Keerom], literary/critic |
May 30 |
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890) |
Jun 13 |
WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral |
Jun 14 |
John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations) |
Jun 16 |
Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875) |
Jun 18 |
Martin Andreas Udbye, composer |
Jun 24 |
Henry Rootes Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
Jun 24 |
Joaquim Manoel de Macedo, A Moreninha |
Jul 2 |
George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878) |
Jul 5 |
William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872) |
Jul 10 |
Andrew Porter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872 |
Jul 22 |
Louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), died in 1862 |
Jul 26 |
John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Jul 27 |
John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 29 |
Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871 |
Aug 2 |
John Tyndall, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow Ireland, Irish physicist who demonstrated why the sky is blue and proved that the Earth's atmosphere has a greenhouse effect |
Aug 3 |
Luther Orlando Emerson, composer |
Aug 3 |
William Miller, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1909 |
Aug 8 |
Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brigadier General (Confederate) |
Aug 12 |
Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation |
Aug 13 |
George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer |
Aug 13 |
Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande) |
Aug 16 |
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892) |
Aug 20 |
Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer |
Aug 24 |
Jacopo Tomadini, composer |
Aug 26 |
James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66) |
Aug 30 |
George Frederick Root, composer |
Sep 3 |
George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891) |
Sep 17 |
Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Sep 17 |
Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889) |
Sep 20 |
George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 20 |
John Fulton Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Sep 21 |
Williams Carter Wickham, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Sep 23 |
Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 26 |
Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) |
Sep 28 |
Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher |
Oct 1 |
Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer |
Oct 5 |
David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890) |
Oct 6 |
Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887) |
Oct 8 |
Stanislaw Katski, composer |
Oct 11 |
Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
Oct 13 |
John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899) |
Oct 20 |
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Oct 20 |
George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Oct 23 |
James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
Oct 28 |
John H. Hopkins, Still Alice |
Nov 4 |
Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870 |
Nov 9 |
Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling) |
Nov 23 |
John Willis Ellis, Governor (Confederacy) died in 1861 |
Nov 23 |
Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884) |
Nov 28 |
Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator |
Nov 28 |
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Nov 28 |
Friedrich Engels, Too Early/Too Late |
Dec 5 |
Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892) |
Dec 10 |
David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1864 |
Dec 10 |
Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821) |
Dec 17 |
Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
Dec 26 |
Gustavus Adolphus Smith, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885 |
17 |
Émile Augier, Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier |
26 |
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bhranti Bilas |
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