| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jan 2 |
Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914) |
Jan 6 |
John Calvin Brown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
Jan 6 |
John Wesley Frazer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1906 |
Jan 7 |
Sir Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915) |
Jan 19 |
Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,) |
Jan 21 |
Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900) |
Jan 23 |
Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877) |
Feb 1 |
Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker |
Feb 2 |
Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Feb 2 |
Oswald Aschenbach, German painter |
Feb 10 |
Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder |
Feb 19 |
Charles Robert Woods, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855 |
Feb 20 |
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 |
Feb 22 |
James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894 |
Feb 24 |
Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Feb 27 |
Richard W Johnson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897 |
Mar 7 |
Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
Mar 8 |
Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875) |
Mar 11 |
Septimus Winner, composer |
Mar 12 |
John Robert Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
Mar 12 |
William Richard Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
Mar 19 |
Alexander Shaler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1911 |
Mar 23 |
Ludwig Minkus, Center Stage |
Mar 26 |
Emanuel Kania, composer |
Apr 2 |
William Holman Hunt, Cheapside London, English painter (Light of the World), (d. 1910) |
Apr 5 |
Joseph Lister, England, physician (founded aseptic surgery) |
Apr 8 |
Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898) |
Apr 10 |
Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur) |
Apr 10 |
Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur |
Apr 12 |
Edward Mollenhauer, composer |
Apr 14 |
Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900) |
Apr 15 |
Julius Tausch, composer |
Apr 16 |
Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879) |
Apr 17 |
French C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (St Amanduskerk, Antwerp) |
Apr 20 |
John Gibbon, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896 |
Apr 22 |
William Hopkins Morris, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900 |
Apr 23 |
Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer |
Apr 26 |
Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
May 4 |
John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864) |
May 7 |
Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
May 11 |
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875) |
May 11 |
Septimus Winner, Trees Lounge |
May 16 |
Petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station) |
May 19 |
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896) |
May 21 |
William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899) |
May 27 |
Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892) |
May 29 |
Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890 |
Jun 5 |
Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jun 12 |
Johanna Spyri, Hirzel Switzerland, Swiss children's author (Heidi) (d. 1901) |
Jun 12 |
Johanna Spyri, Heidi |
Jun 13 |
Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882) |
Jul 7 |
James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 7 |
William Montague Browne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jul 17 |
Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet) |
Jul 18 |
Pierre L Goossens, archbishop of Mechelen/Cardinal |
Jul 19 |
Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857) |
Jul 23 |
Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway) |
Jul 24 |
Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1912 |
Aug 5 |
Deodoro da Fonseca, first President of Brazil (d.1892) |
Aug 13 |
Francisco Gomes de Amorim, A Proibição |
Aug 20 |
Josef Strauss, Austria, composer (Dorfschwalben aus Austria) |
Aug 22 |
Edouard Silas, composer |
Aug 22 |
Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870 |
Aug 22 |
Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906) |
Aug 22 |
Josef Strauß, Madame Bovary |
Aug 24 |
Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867 |
Aug 27 |
Charles de Coster, Legenda o Tile |
Aug 28 |
Teresa Milanollo, composer |
Aug 28 |
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894) |
Aug 30 |
Gisela von Arnim, Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns |
Aug 31 |
Anna B. Warner, Phantoms |
Sep 1 |
Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Overbetuwsche Novellen) |
Sep 5 |
Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849) |
Sep 6 |
John Morrison Oliver, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 8 |
Emil Naumann, composer |
Sep 16 |
Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908) |
Sep 21 |
Michael Corcoran, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Sep 22 |
John Grubb Parke, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900 |
Sep 24 |
Henry Warner Slocum, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894 |
Sep 30 |
Carlo A Alfieri, Italian MP (Liberal) |
Sep 30 |
Kenner Garrard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 |
Sep 30 |
Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918) |
Oct 2 |
Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 |
Oct 6 |
Cark Reidel, composer |
Oct 14 |
James Sidney Robinson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
Oct 14 |
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Excheque |
Oct 16 |
Arnold Böcklin, The Isle of the Dead |
Oct 21 |
Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer |
Oct 29 |
Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907) |
Oct 31 |
Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895) |
Nov 10 |
Alfred Howe Terry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 |
Nov 12 |
Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer |
Nov 14 |
Isaac Wistar, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
Nov 16 |
James Southerton, cricketer (Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49) |
Nov 17 |
Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895) |
Nov 19 |
Isaac Munroe St John, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
Nov 26 |
Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
Nov 26 |
Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915) |
Nov 30 |
Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer/senator |
Nov 30 |
Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants) |
Dec 7 |
Teodoro Cottrau, Nobel's Last Will |
Dec 10 |
Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913) |
Dec 16 |
John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer |
Dec 23 |
Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral (Helgoland/Lissa) |
Dec 28 |
Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General (Union), died in 1862 |
18 |
John Townsend Trowbridge, The Vagabonds |
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