| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Karl Collan, Finnish composer |
Jan 5 |
August Valentine Kautz, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895 |
Jan 10 |
Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892) |
Jan 17 |
Lewis Addison Grant, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1918 |
Jan 17 |
Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist (d. 1898) |
Jan 23 |
Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896 |
Jan 24 |
Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
Jan 24 |
Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist |
Jan 24 |
Karol Studzinski, composer |
Jan 26 |
Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer |
Jan 27 |
Louis Schubert, composer |
Jan 27 |
Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
Jan 28 |
Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor |
Jan 28 |
Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1868 |
Feb 8 |
Antonio Cagnoni, composer |
Feb 8 |
Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon) |
Feb 8 |
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth |
Feb 12 |
George Meredith, England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat) |
Feb 12 |
Robert Ransom Jr, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
Feb 12 |
George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel |
Feb 14 |
Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885) |
Feb 14 |
Edmond About, L'uomo dall'orecchio mozzato |
Feb 15 |
Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary) |
Feb 19 |
Johannes von Miquel, German politician |
Feb 22 |
Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894 |
Feb 29 |
Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela |
Mar 1 |
James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 |
Mar 1 |
Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright |
Mar 2 |
Jefferson Columbus Davis, Bvt Mjr General (Union Army), died in 1879 |
Mar 4 |
Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Mar 5 |
Johann Gungl, composer |
Mar 7 |
Edmond Gondinet, True Romance |
Mar 17 |
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Mar 18 |
William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908) |
Mar 20 |
Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler) |
Mar 20 |
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House |
Apr 4 |
Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City) |
Apr 4 |
Mrs. Oliphant, The Open Door |
Apr 5 |
Pietro Plantania, composer |
Apr 6 |
Charles William Field, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
Apr 8 |
George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Apr 13 |
Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham |
Apr 21 |
Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy) |
Apr 22 |
Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer |
Apr 23 |
Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902) |
Apr 23 |
King Albert of Saxony, Der Kaiser von Deutschland, der Kaiser von Österreich und der König von Sachsen am Tage der Jubiläumsfeier in Dresden |
Apr 24 |
Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
Apr 24 |
Charles Nuitter, Dr. Coppelius |
Apr 27 |
Gerben Colmjon, Dutch Frisian linguist/publisher |
May 2 |
Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915) |
May 8 |
Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901) |
May 8 |
Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk (d. 1898) |
May 12 |
Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite figure |
May 13 |
Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer |
May 19 |
Adin Ballou Underwood, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
May 20 |
James William Reilly, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
May 23 |
Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College) |
May 28 |
Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
May 28 |
Bartel Wilton, machinefabrikant/ship builder |
Jun 2 |
James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer |
Jun 3 |
Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer |
Jun 3 |
Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer |
Jun 4 |
Alexander William Campbell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jun 9 |
Carlo Marsili, composer |
Jun 17 |
Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian |
Jun 27 |
Junius Daniel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Jul 3 |
John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
Jul 4 |
James Johnston Pettigrew, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jul 4 |
Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist |
Jul 5 |
Paul J C Gabriel, painter/water colors painter/etcher |
Jul 9 |
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913) |
Jul 9 |
Daddy Taylor, The Gold Rush |
Jul 9 |
Pop Taylor, As the Sun Went Down |
Jul 12 |
Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889) |
Jul 12 |
Nikolay Chernyshevskiy, Che fare? |
Jul 19 |
Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 |
Jul 21 |
John Rutter Brooke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 23 |
Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist |
Jul 29 |
Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1885 |
Jul 31 |
Francois Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer (Le diable au moulin) |
Aug 2 |
Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895) |
Aug 5 |
Giovanni Rossi, composer |
Aug 5 |
WFAA Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway/princess of Netherlands |
Aug 11 |
Edward Saloman, Gov (Union), died in 1909 |
Aug 16 |
Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 17 |
George William Warren, composer |
Aug 17 |
Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897) |
Aug 24 |
George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Aug 26 |
Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer |
Aug 28 |
William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1900 |
Aug 28 |
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina |
Aug 31 |
George Leonard Andrews, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 8 |
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 9 |
Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [OS] |
Sep 15 |
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886) |
Sep 19 |
Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880) |
Sep 28 |
Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism) |
Oct 2 |
Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896) |
Oct 3 |
Woldemar Bargiel, composer |
Oct 8 |
Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic |
Oct 10 |
Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890) |
Oct 19 |
Adolfo Fumagalli, composer |
Oct 23 |
Turner Ashby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Oct 27 |
Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900 |
Nov 2 |
Byron Grimes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
Nov 7 |
Ludwig Deppe, composer |
Nov 10 |
Hector Crémieux, Orphée aux enfers |
Nov 14 |
James Birdseye MacPherson, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
Nov 21 |
William McComb, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1918 |
Nov 25 |
Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician |
Nov 26 |
René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905) |
Nov 30 |
Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
Dec 8 |
Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 |
Dec 8 |
Robert Bullock, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905 |
Dec 14 |
Emile DeNajac, That Uncertain Feeling |
Dec 16 |
John Beatty, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1914 |
Dec 18 |
Viktor Rydberg, Tomten |
Dec 23 |
Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter) |
Dec 28 |
Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie) |
Dec 30 |
Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
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