Notable Birthdays - 1824
1824 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 7 |
James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
Jan 8 |
Per August Olander, composer |
Jan 8 |
William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (Woman in White) |
Jan 8 |
Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861) |
Jan 8 |
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White |
Jan 13 |
Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer |
Jan 14 |
Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906) |
Jan 15 |
Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847) |
Jan 21 |
Thomas Jackson ["Stonewall"], Clarksburg, Virginia, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed), (d. 1863) |
Jan 22 |
Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer |
Jan 27 |
Jozef Israels, Dutch painter |
Jan 27 |
Josef Israels, The Bashful Suitor |
Jan 29 |
Karl von Perfall, composer |
Feb 3 |
George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Feb 3 |
Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868 |
Feb 3 |
Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894) |
Feb 7 |
William Higgins, discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae) |
Feb 8 |
Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
Feb 10 |
Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships) |
Feb 12 |
Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader |
Feb 14 |
Winfield Scott Hancock, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
Feb 16 |
Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879) |
Feb 17 |
William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1903 |
Feb 22 |
Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907) |
Feb 22 |
P.J.C. Janssen, Passage de Venus |
Feb 23 |
Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar) |
Feb 23 |
Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
Feb 24 |
John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 |
Feb 26 |
Carlos Calvo, Argentine diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause) |
Feb 28 |
Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist |
Feb 28 |
John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
Mar 2 |
Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau) |
Mar 2 |
Konstantin Ushinsky, Russian educationalist, credited as the founder of scientific pedagogy in Russia |
Mar 2 |
Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 |
Mar 2 |
Bedrich Smetana, The Tree of Life |
Mar 5 |
Elisha Harris, US, physician/found American Public Health Assoc |
Mar 5 |
James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives) |
Mar 9 |
Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U |
Mar 9 |
Leland Stanford, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop |
Mar 10 |
Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905 |
Mar 12 |
Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis) |
Mar 15 |
Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising) |
Mar 15 |
Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907) |
Mar 22 |
William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Mar 25 |
Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900) |
Mar 29 |
Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899) |
Mar 30 |
Innis Newton Palmer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Apr 5 |
Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman) |
Apr 20 |
Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
Apr 21 |
Anselmo Clave, composer |
Apr 24 |
Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger |
Apr 25 |
Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter |
Apr 27 |
William Richard Bexfield, composer |
May 8 |
William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57) |
May 9 |
William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
May 10 |
Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
May 11 |
Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904) |
May 11 |
Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Slave Market |
May 16 |
Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 |
May 16 |
Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93) |
May 23 |
Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers) |
May 29 |
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Jun 2 |
Samuel Wilks, London, British Physician and founding father of clinical science |
Jun 3 |
Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jun 8 |
James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies |
Jun 8 |
William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
Jun 13 |
Julius Eichberg, composer |
Jun 18 |
Johannes Heykamp, Catholic archbishop of Utrecht |
Jun 20 |
George E Street, British (?) architect |
Jun 20 |
John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
Jun 22 |
Frederic Louis Ritter, composer |
Jun 23 |
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer |
Jun 23 |
Carl Reinecke, Châteaux en Auvergne |
Jun 26 |
Kelvin, [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin Scale) |
Jun 26 |
Moritz Furstenau, composer |
Jun 28 |
Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center) |
Jun 28 |
William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 |
Jun 29 |
Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT Stempels) |
Jul 7 |
Alfred Pleasonton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 |
Jul 8 |
Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 10 |
Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician |
Jul 11 |
Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer |
Jul 12 |
Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898) |
Jul 20 |
Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussia, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 23 |
Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1906 |
Jul 25 |
Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899 |
Jul 27 |
Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille) |
Jul 27 |
Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille |
Jul 30 |
Eugenio Terziani, composer |
Aug 1 |
Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer |
Aug 3 |
William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 8 |
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880) |
Aug 9 |
Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 14 |
William Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
Aug 19 |
Georg Goltermann, composer |
Aug 20 |
Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905 |
Aug 21 |
John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 |
Aug 27 |
Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Aug 28 |
Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician |
Sep 1 |
Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902 |
Sep 4 |
Anton Bruckner, Ansfelden, Austria, Wagner disciple and "monumental bore"/composer |
Sep 4 |
Phoebe Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary) |
Sep 8 |
Jaime Nuno, composer |
Sep 19 |
Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer |
Sep 21 |
Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 24 |
Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1891 |
Sep 27 |
William Nelson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Sep 28 |
Alfred Gilpin Jones, Weymouth NS, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06) |
Sep 28 |
Francis Turner Palgrave, England, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford) |
Sep 30 |
Peter Milne, composer |
Oct 6 |
Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book |
Oct 6 |
Lajos Dobsa, István király |
Oct 13 |
Henry Stephen Cutler, composer |
Oct 19 |
Frantisek Pivoda, composer |
Oct 19 |
Rufus Saxton, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908 |
Oct 23 |
Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
Oct 23 |
Charles Fechter, Monte Cristo |
Oct 25 |
Antonio Ghislanzoni, Aida |
Oct 26 |
Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Oct 29 |
Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904 |
Nov 18 |
Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902 |
Nov 18 |
Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
Nov 21 |
Hieronymus Theodor Richter, Dresden, German Mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium |
Nov 24 |
Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist |
Dec 5 |
Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1867 |
Dec 10 |
George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie) |
Dec 10 |
George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin |
Dec 14 |
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898) |
Dec 17 |
John Kerr, System physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect) |
Dec 17 |
Manning Ferguson Force, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1899 |
Dec 17 |
Thomas Starr King, NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity) |
Dec 19 |
Hercules Robinson, Ireland, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89, 1895-97) |
Dec 24 |
Peter Cornelius, composer |
Dec 26 |
Augustus Louis Chetlain, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1914 |
4 |
Anton Bruckner, Bronson |
8 |
Juan Valera, Pepita Jiménez |
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