Date | Event |
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Jan 2 |
Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer |
Jan 3 |
Alexander Ewing, composer |
Jan 7 |
(Samuel) Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jan 7 |
Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes) |
Jan 8 |
Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882 |
Jan 8 |
Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894) |
Jan 19 |
George Blake Cosby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1909 |
Jan 23 |
Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/min of War (1899-1900) |
Jan 27 |
Georg Hellmesberger, composer |
Jan 27 |
William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jan 30 |
James G Blaine, US, minister of foreign affairs |
Jan 31 |
James G Blaine, the "Plumed Knight" |
Feb 3 |
Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902) |
Feb 3 |
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, |
Feb 6 |
Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brig gen (Union volunteers), died in 1865) |
Feb 9 |
Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876) |
Feb 11 |
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer |
Feb 11 |
Peter Arnold Heise, composer |
Feb 24 |
Karolina Svetlá, Kríz u potoka |
Mar 1 |
Guido Gezelle, Kerkhofblommen |
Mar 5 |
Étienne-Jules Marey, Falling Cat |
Mar 8 |
João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896) |
Mar 12 |
William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870 |
Mar 13 |
Paul Heyse, The Fury |
Mar 15 |
Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910) |
Mar 15 |
Élisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905) |
Mar 18 |
Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist |
Mar 18 |
Daniel Chonqadze, The Legend of Suram Fortress |
Mar 20 |
Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910 |
Mar 24 |
Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889) |
Mar 25 |
Julius Caesar, cricketer (prominent batsman for Surrey) |
Mar 26 |
Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer |
Mar 26 |
John Rogers Thomas, composer |
Mar 26 |
John Rogers Thomas, Reap the Wild Wind |
Mar 30 |
Auguste Tolbecque, composer |
Mar 30 |
Julius F A Bahnsen, German philosopher |
Apr 5 |
Alexander Muir, Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (Maple Leaf Forever) |
Apr 6 |
James Augustine Healy, Macon Ga, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop |
Apr 9 |
Eadweard Muybridge, England, pioneered study of motion, photography |
Apr 9 |
Eadweard Muybridge, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop |
Apr 13 |
Eduard Lassen, composer |
Apr 19 |
Rudolf Cornely, German bible expert/jesuit |
Apr 29 |
Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels |
Apr 30 |
Davis Tillson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
May 1 |
Mother (Mary Harris) Jones, US reformer and labor organizer |
May 4 |
Alberto Blest Gana, Martín Rivas |
May 5 |
John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906) |
May 6 |
Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet |
May 10 |
Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult) |
May 11 |
John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
May 13 |
Zebulon Baird Vance, Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894 |
May 14 |
George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
May 15 |
Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
May 15 |
Martinus W van der Aa, author/Dutch head-editor (The Time) |
May 18 |
Karl Goldmark, Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala) |
May 20 |
Amalia MdGA, princess of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach/wife of prince Henry |
May 20 |
Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family) |
May 20 |
Hector Malot, Nobody's Boy Remi |
May 24 |
Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897) |
May 25 |
Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International) |
May 28 |
George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 |
May 28 |
Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian Saxon composer and pianist |
May 30 |
Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jun 2 |
Olivier Metra, composer |
Jun 17 |
Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1913 |
Jun 22 |
Theodor Leschetizky, composer |
Jul 2 |
John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jul 8 |
Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915) |
Jul 8 |
Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg (d. 1911) |
Jul 10 |
Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean/French painter (Impressionism) |
Jul 14 |
Richard Henry Jackson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 17 |
Eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator) |
Jul 22 |
Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer |
Jul 22 |
William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1916 |
Jul 29 |
Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875 |
Jul 31 |
Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer |
Aug 5 |
James A Healy, 1st black bishop in America |
Aug 18 |
Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916) |
Aug 18 |
Emperor Franz Josef, Emperor Franz Josef Opening the Millenial Exhibition |
Aug 19 |
Julius Lothar Meyer, Varel Oldenburg, German Chemist who developed the first periodic table of chemical elements independently of Dimitri Mendeleev |
Aug 24 |
Adèle Hugo, The Story of Adele H |
Sep 2 |
William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911) |
Sep 8 |
Frederic Mistral, Maillane, France, Provencal poet (Nobel 1904), (d. 1914) |
Sep 12 |
William Sprague, governor of Rhode Island (1859-63) |
Sep 13 |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916) |
Sep 15 |
Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico (1877-1911) |
Sep 25 |
Karl Klindworth, pianist/conductor |
Sep 27 |
William Babcock Hazen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887 |
Sep 29 |
John Parker Hawkins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1914 |
Oct 1 |
Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1890 |
Oct 9 |
Harriet Hosmer, sculptor |
Oct 10 |
Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68) |
Oct 16 |
Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Flemish librarian/bibliography |
Oct 18 |
Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona |
Oct 24 |
Belva Bennett Lockwood, attorney (1st lady to argue in Supreme Court) |
Oct 26 |
Polibo Fumagalli, composer |
Oct 26 |
Stephen Elliott Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 |
Oct 30 |
John Stevens Bowen, Major General (Confederate Army) died in 1863 |
Nov 3 |
Esten Cooke, John (Confederate Army), died in 1886 |
Nov 3 |
Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist |
Nov 7 |
Sky Eagle, A White Indian |
Nov 8 |
Oliver Otis Howard, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1909 |
Nov 8 |
O.O. Howard, Major-General O. Howard, U.S.A., and Staff |
Nov 10 |
Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Nov 13 |
Chivot, La mascotte |
Nov 20 |
Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1900 |
Nov 23 |
Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austria sculptor |
Nov 27 |
Harrison Millard, composer |
Dec 5 |
Christina Rossetti, London, poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away) |
Dec 5 |
Christina Georgina Rossetti, The Hunt |
Dec 7 |
Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education |
Dec 10 |
Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems), (d. 1886) |
Dec 10 |
Emily Dickinson, Beauty Crowds Me |
Dec 12 |
Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
Dec 14 |
Allen Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
Dec 15 |
Francesco D'Arcais, composer |
Dec 16 |
John Frederick Hartranft, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889 |
Dec 16 |
Jules de Goncourt, Époque et apparences ou Le temps des Goncourt |
Dec 17 |
Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist (Germinie) |
Dec 19 |
George L. Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Dec 22 |
Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope) |
Dec 23 |
Adam Minchejmer, composer |
Dec 23 |
Claribel, Miller's Crossing |
Dec 31 |
Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79) |
8 |
Frédéric Mistral, Mireille's Sincere Love |
13 |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Krambambuli |
15 |
Porfirio Díaz, Fiestas presidenciales en Mérida |
25 |
Charles Manley, Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show |
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