Notable Birthdays - 1826
1826 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
Jan 12 |
Charles Cruft, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 |
Jan 15 |
Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen) |
Jan 22 |
[Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
Jan 25 |
Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP |
Jan 26 |
Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady (1862-76) |
Jan 27 |
Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
Jan 27 |
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ono |
Feb 3 |
Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist |
Feb 4 |
Halbert Eleazer Paine, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
Feb 9 |
John Alexander Logan, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
Feb 15 |
George J Stoney, Irish physicist |
Feb 16 |
Franz von Holstein, composer |
Feb 16 |
Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Gaudeamus) |
Feb 16 |
Julia Grant, First City Troop of Philadelphia |
Mar 1 |
John Thomas, composer |
Mar 4 |
John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Mar 4 |
Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863) |
Mar 9 |
Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist/composer |
Mar 12 |
Robert Lowry, composer |
Mar 12 |
Robert Lowry, Angels in America |
Mar 14 |
William Fisk Sherwin, composer |
Mar 17 |
Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (Volkerkunder) |
Mar 20 |
Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor |
Mar 23 |
Leon Minkus, composer |
Mar 23 |
Léon Minkus, Mao's Last Dancer |
Mar 29 |
Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP (social-democratic) |
Apr 2 |
Philip Dale Roddey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
Apr 4 |
Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901) |
Apr 6 |
Gustave Moreau, French painter |
Apr 7 |
Johann Hermann Berens, composer |
Apr 8 |
Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890) |
Apr 9 |
Thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1885 |
Apr 20 |
Dina M Craik, writer |
Apr 20 |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Episode #1.5 |
Apr 26 |
George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863) |
Apr 26 |
Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872 |
Apr 28 |
Alexander Stadtfeld, composer |
May 3 |
Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet |
May 4 |
Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch) |
May 5 |
Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Empress of France |
May 7 |
Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905 |
May 21 |
Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro |
May 22 |
George Parr, cricketer (legendary Notts batsman, 1st Eng touring capt) |
May 29 |
Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern) |
Jun 1 |
Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor |
Jun 1 |
Hermann Zopff, composer |
Jun 5 |
Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer |
Jun 6 |
Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist |
Jun 16 |
Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897) |
Jun 24 |
George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898) |
Jul 4 |
Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
Jul 4 |
Stephen Foster, Lawrenceville Pennsylvania, American composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River) |
Jul 4 |
Stephen Foster, Batman |
Jul 8 |
Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 8 |
Robert Kingston Scott, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 10 |
Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer |
Jul 11 |
Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871) |
Jul 13 |
Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro) |
Jul 21 |
James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 24 |
Francisco S Lopez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70) |
Jul 24 |
Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902) |
Aug 2 |
William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902 |
Aug 6 |
Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915) |
Aug 6 |
Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms |
Aug 7 |
Carl AE Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi) |
Aug 13 |
William Thomas Best, composer |
Aug 21 |
Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903) |
Aug 26 |
Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875) |
Aug 27 |
Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 27 |
Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer |
Aug 28 |
Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer |
Sep 4 |
Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer (d. 1905) |
Sep 5 |
John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884) |
Sep 8 |
Disma Fumagalli, composer |
Sep 9 |
Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907) |
Sep 9 |
Thomas John Lucas, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908 |
Sep 17 |
G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function) |
Oct 7 |
William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86) |
Oct 8 |
Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904 |
Oct 13 |
Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
Oct 16 |
Piotr Studzinski, composer |
Oct 22 |
Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer |
Oct 31 |
Hugh Boyle Ewing, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
Nov 2 |
Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Nov 2 |
William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Nov 3 |
Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 |
Nov 13 |
Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895) |
Nov 17 |
John McArthur, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906 |
Nov 23 |
Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curacao |
Nov 24 |
Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio) |
Nov 24 |
Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio |
Nov 30 |
George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Dec 1 |
William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
Dec 3 |
Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist |
Dec 3 |
George McClellan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Union army major general, (d. 1885) |
Dec 5 |
John Benjamin Sanborn, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1904 |
Dec 8 |
Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist |
Dec 18 |
Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz) |
Dec 18 |
Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), died in 1906 |
Dec 18 |
Alexandre Chatrian, The Bells |
Dec 21 |
Ernst Pauer, composer |
Dec 22 |
James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901) |
Dec 24 |
Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer |
Dec 26 |
Franz Coenen, composer |
Dec 26 |
Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book/publisher (Van Dale) |
Dec 28 |
Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar/literary (Country of Rubens) |
Dec 31 |
Henry Hiles, composer |
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