Date | Event |
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Jan 3 |
John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian |
Jan 3 |
Konrad Duden, German linguist (Der grosse Duden) |
Jan 5 |
Sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854) |
Jan 6 |
Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author |
Jan 6 |
Robun Kanagaki, Takahashi Oden - Kôhen |
Jan 9 |
Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (Tarimbekken) |
Jan 9 |
Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste) |
Jan 18 |
Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge) |
Jan 21 |
Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet |
Jan 21 |
King Oscar II, Royal Shooting Party on Hveen |
Jan 24 |
William Mason, composer |
Jan 30 |
Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
Feb 1 |
John Potts Slough, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 |
Feb 2 |
Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884) |
Feb 11 |
William Anderson Pile, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889 |
Feb 11 |
Friedrich Zell, Joseph Balsamo |
Feb 13 |
Gerard Keller, writer (Netherlands Spectator) |
Feb 14 |
Alfred Iverson Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911 |
Feb 15 |
Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake) |
Feb 18 |
Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Feb 20 |
Joseph Jefferson, Rip Van Winkle |
Feb 21 |
Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
Feb 24 |
Friedrich Spielhagen, Problematische Naturen |
Feb 26 |
Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902) |
Mar 2 |
Carl Schurz, Major General (Union volunteers)journalist |
Mar 14 |
Charles Charlesworth, England, (dies at 7 of old age) |
Mar 18 |
William Robertson Boggs, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911 |
Mar 19 |
Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901) |
Mar 20 |
Charles Albert White, composer |
Mar 24 |
George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904) |
Mar 24 |
Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862) |
Mar 24 |
George Francis Train, Train vs. Donovan |
Mar 29 |
Ritta & Christina, Siamese twins, in Sardinia |
Mar 29 |
Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Apr 10 |
William Booth, founder (Salvation Army) |
Apr 10 |
William Booth, General and Staff Leaving Strand Hall |
Apr 15 |
Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon |
Apr 19 |
Qorpo Santo, Eu Sou Vida, Eu Não Sou Morte |
Apr 24 |
George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 |
May 1 |
Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice |
May 1 |
José de Alencar, Essas Mulheres |
May 6 |
Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England |
May 8 |
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist |
May 8 |
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Original Sin |
May 9 |
Ciro Pinsuti, pianist/composer |
May 12 |
Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896) |
May 30 |
Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert |
Jun 3 |
Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer |
Jun 6 |
John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 |
Jun 6 |
Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862) |
Jun 8 |
John Everett Millais, England, painter (Order of Release) |
Jun 9 |
Gaetano Braga, composer |
Jun 11 |
Hendrik Gerhard, Founder (Dutch Social-Democratic) |
Jun 13 |
Antonio Zamara, composer |
Jun 16 |
Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909) |
Jun 16 |
Geronimo, |
Jul 4 |
Hermann Kotzchmar, composer |
Jul 5 |
Ignacio Mariscal, Writer and Mexican diplomat (d. 1910) |
Jul 8 |
Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer |
Jul 8 |
Pierre-Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Rocambole |
Jul 16 |
Robert Brown Potter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887 |
Jul 26 |
August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94) (Nobel-1909) |
Aug 5 |
Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer |
Aug 5 |
Milo Smith Hascall, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1904 |
Aug 7 |
Thomas Ewing Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1896 |
Aug 12 |
John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
Aug 15 |
Eduard de Hartog, composer |
Aug 21 |
Otto Goldschmidt, composer |
Aug 23 |
Moritz B Cantor, German math historian |
Aug 28 |
Albert Dietrich, composer |
Sep 1 |
James Conner, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883 |
Sep 6 |
Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902) |
Sep 7 |
August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring |
Sep 7 |
Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, US, geologist (Geograph Survey 1859-86) |
Sep 8 |
George Crook, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 |
Sep 8 |
Seth Maxwell Barton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 |
Sep 12 |
Anselm Feuerbach, German painter |
Sep 12 |
Charles Dudley Warner, Mass, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy) |
Sep 22 |
William Worth Belknap, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 22 |
Tự Đức, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883) |
Sep 24 |
James St Clair Morton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
Sep 24 |
Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885) |
Sep 25 |
William Michael Rossetti, civil servant |
Sep 29 |
Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 |
Sep 29 |
Giles Alexander Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876 |
Oct 5 |
Chester A. Arthur, Fairfield Vermont, (Republican) 21st American President (1881-85) |
Oct 10 |
Dandridge McRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
Oct 15 |
Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars (Phobos & Deimos) |
Oct 18 |
Charles Sidney Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Oct 18 |
Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Oct 27 |
Christopher Columbus Andres, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Oct 30 |
Roscoe Conkling, MC (Union), died in 1888 |
Nov 8 |
Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892 |
Nov 14 |
Giulio Roberti, composer |
Nov 15 |
Petrus A S van Limburg Brouwer, MP/critic (Akbar) |
Nov 15 |
Emmy von Rhoden, Ilsa |
Nov 16 |
Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS] |
Nov 16 |
Anton Rubinstein, Evening |
Nov 21 |
Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet |
Nov 24 |
William Passmore Carlin, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903 |
Nov 28 |
Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy) [NS] |
Dec 3 |
Green Berry Raum, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1909 |
Dec 5 |
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French Canadian politician (d. 1908) |
Dec 14 |
John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office |
Dec 24 |
Benjamin Ipavec, composer |
Dec 24 |
Jose Rogel, composer |
Dec 25 |
Patrick S Gilmore, composer |
Dec 25 |
Louis Lambert, Antz |
Dec 27 |
James Clay Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
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T.W. Robertson, Caste |
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