| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 10 |
Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
Jan 11 |
Bayard Taylor, U.S. poet and writer (d. 1878 |
Jan 12 |
Joseph Robert Davis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
Jan 18 |
Edward Frankland, Lancaster, U.K, British structural chemist who co-discovered helium and developed the theory of valence |
Jan 21 |
Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864) |
Jan 28 |
George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 |
Feb 7 |
Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer |
Feb 15 |
Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893) |
Feb 18 |
Mór Jókai, Szaffi |
Feb 22 |
Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898) |
Feb 26 |
Hans Balatka, composer |
Feb 28 |
Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888 |
Mar 5 |
John Dunovant, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Mar 5 |
Joseph Albert, German photographer (albertotype) |
Mar 8 |
George William Martin, composer |
Mar 8 |
Jules Barbier, The Tales of Hoffmann |
Mar 9 |
Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890) |
Mar 16 |
Camilo Castelo Branco, Mysteries of Lisbon |
Mar 17 |
Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain) |
Mar 20 |
William Nelson Rector Beall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Mar 23 |
Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1898 |
Mar 30 |
Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
Apr 3 |
Adolf Rzepko, composer |
Apr 5 |
David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Apr 11 |
Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder (Allgemeiner) |
Apr 13 |
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868) |
Apr 24 |
R.M. Ballentyne, The Coral Island |
Apr 25 |
Charles Ferdinand Dowd, US, standardized time zones |
Apr 28 |
James Winning McMillan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
May 1 |
George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap) |
May 4 |
Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist |
May 4 |
Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908) |
May 6 |
Joseph Bailey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 |
May 8 |
George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer (d. 1898) |
May 10 |
Rudolf Viole, composer |
May 20 |
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy (1st ordained US female minister) |
May 21 |
George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
May 26 |
Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer |
May 29 |
David Bell Birney, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
Jun 1 |
John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate cavalry commander) |
Jun 5 |
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61) |
Jun 7 |
Richard D Blackmore, England, author (Norie, Lorna Doone) |
Jun 7 |
R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone |
Jun 10 |
Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897) |
Jun 10 |
Princess Hildegard of Bavaria d. 1864 |
Jun 12 |
John Cook, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910 |
Jun 13 |
Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
Jun 21 |
William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901) |
Jun 24 |
Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844) |
Jun 28 |
Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenemyer kolf) |
Jun 30 |
Hervé, Heavenly Swallows |
Jul 9 |
Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters) |
Jul 11 |
Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901 |
Jul 23 |
Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor |
Jul 28 |
William Duncan Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Jul 30 |
Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (d. 1893) |
Jul 31 |
Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
Jul 31 |
William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886) |
Aug 4 |
Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex & Surrey bat, famous biographer) |
Aug 9 |
Elisha Ferry, (Gov-R-Wash, 1872-80, 1889-93) |
Aug 12 |
Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer |
Aug 15 |
Bernardo Guimarães, Escrava Isaura |
Aug 21 |
Kate Fanny Loder, composer |
Aug 22 |
Julius Schulhoff, The Heiress |
Aug 25 |
Henry Warner Birge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 26 |
Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian |
Aug 30 |
George Frederick Root, Lincoln |
Sep 3 |
Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
Sep 3 |
William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
Sep 4 |
Dadabhai Naoroji, 1st Indian in British parliament |
Sep 11 |
Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904) |
Sep 17 |
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, MC (Confederacy), died in 1893 |
Sep 24 |
Frances E W Harper, famous African |
Oct 10 |
Paulus Kruger, Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader |
Oct 10 |
Paul Krüger, Kruger and Body Guard Leaving the Volksraad |
Oct 11 |
C F Meyer, writer |
Oct 11 |
Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 |
Oct 11 |
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Gustav Adolfs Page |
Oct 15 |
Queen Marie of Prussia (d. 1889) |
Oct 16 |
Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brig Genl (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
Oct 25 |
Johann Baptist Strauss, (the younger), Austria, composer (Waltz King) |
Oct 25 |
Johann Strauss, 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Oct 30 |
Randolph McCoy, Vendettas |
Oct 31 |
Raleigh Edward Colston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
Oct 31 |
Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal (d. 1892) |
Nov 1 |
Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890 |
Nov 5 |
Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Nov 9 |
Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), died in 1865 |
Nov 14 |
August Reissmann, composer |
Nov 25 |
Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891 |
Nov 29 |
Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893) |
Dec 2 |
Pedro II van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1831-89) |
Dec 4 |
Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer |
Dec 5 |
Eugenie Marlitt, El secreto de la solterona |
Dec 5 |
Prins Hans, De kongelige skal fotograferes |
Dec 16 |
Henry Heth, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
Dec 16 |
Robert Prescott Stewart, composer |
Dec 18 |
Charles Griffin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 |
Dec 19 |
George Frederick Bristow, composer |
Dec 20 |
Romeyn Beck Ayres, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 |
Dec 25 |
Esteban Salas y Castro, composer |
Dec 27 |
Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer |
Dec 31 |
Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
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