Notable Birthdays - 1831
1831 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
William Joseph Westbrook, composer |
Jan 2 |
Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) |
Jan 11 |
James Ronald Chalmers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
Jan 14 |
John Bullock Clark Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 |
Jan 17 |
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903) |
Jan 18 |
Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899 |
Jan 20 |
Pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa) |
Jan 26 |
Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates) |
Jan 26 |
Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates |
Jan 28 |
Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
Jan 31 |
Lajos Tolnai, A pénzcsináló |
Feb 3 |
Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1910 |
Feb 4 |
Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895) |
Feb 12 |
John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track |
Feb 13 |
John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869 |
Feb 16 |
Nikolai Leskow, writer |
Feb 16 |
Nikolai Leskov, Siberian Lady Macbeth |
Feb 17 |
Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer |
Feb 21 |
Eduard Rappoldi, composer |
Feb 21 |
Henri Meilhac, Carmen |
Feb 23 |
Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag) |
Feb 24 |
Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia |
Feb 26 |
Filippo Marchetti, composer |
Feb 27 |
Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913) |
Mar 1 |
Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Mar 3 |
George M Pullman, inventor (railway sleeping car) |
Mar 6 |
Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission) |
Mar 6 |
Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany NY, Major General (Union Army) |
Mar 7 |
John Bratton, [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brig Gen |
Mar 12 |
Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker) |
Mar 14 |
Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer |
Mar 15 |
Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Mar 15 |
Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881) |
Mar 20 |
Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881) |
Mar 23 |
Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866) |
Mar 29 |
Amelia Barr, writer |
Mar 31 |
Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist |
Apr 4 |
Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
Apr 6 |
Lorrin A. Cooke, Governor Cook and Staff, Connecticut |
Apr 8 |
Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet |
Apr 12 |
Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor |
Apr 12 |
George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Apr 12 |
Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Apr 14 |
Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia |
Apr 22 |
Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General (Union volunteers) |
May 1 |
Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903) |
May 13 |
Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies |
May 16 |
David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter) |
May 24 |
Richard Hoffman, composer |
May 28 |
Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor |
Jun 1 |
John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
Jun 2 |
Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General (Conf)/Lincoln's brother-in-law |
Jun 2 |
Jan G Palm, Curacao, bandmaster/choir master/composer |
Jun 3 |
Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Jun 5 |
Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1922 |
Jun 7 |
Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892) |
Jun 8 |
Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917) |
Jun 10 |
W A Remy, composer |
Jun 13 |
James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (electromagnetic theory, speed of light) |
Jun 26 |
Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace) |
Jun 28 |
Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto) |
Jun 29 |
William Thomas Clark, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 |
Jul 9 |
Johan P van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter/lithographer/writer |
Jul 14 |
William Dwight, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888 |
Jul 17 |
Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861) |
Jul 27 |
Djura Jaksic, Noc na Gornjaku |
Jul 30 |
Helene P Blavatsky, founder (Theosophist Cooperation) |
Aug 12 |
Hélèna Pétrowna Blavatsky, Stanzas of Dzyan |
Aug 13 |
Salomon Jaoassohn, composer |
Aug 16 |
Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Aug 16 |
John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901) |
Aug 19 |
Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 28 |
Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer |
Aug 28 |
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady (1877-81) |
Sep 7 |
Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900) |
Sep 8 |
Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor) |
Sep 13 |
Andrew Noble, Greenock, Scottish Physicist who was a founder of the science of ballistics |
Sep 29 |
John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Oct 1 |
Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Oct 6 |
J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers) |
Oct 8 |
Michal Jelski, composer |
Oct 15 |
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona) |
Oct 16 |
Karl Blasel, Der Unbekannte |
Oct 18 |
Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia |
Oct 31 |
Daniel Butterfield, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901 |
Oct 31 |
Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910) |
Oct 31 |
Daniel Butterfield, Zombieland |
Oct 31 |
Paolo Mantegazza, Un giorno a Madera |
Nov 8 |
Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880) |
Nov 12 |
Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist |
Nov 19 |
James A Garfield, Ohio, gen/(R) 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881) |
Nov 21 |
John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
Nov 30 |
Ippolito Nievo, La pisana |
Dec 6 |
Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Dec 10 |
Alexander Conze, German archaeologist |
Dec 10 |
Philippe Gille, True Romance |
Dec 15 |
Lewis H. Redner, Boogie Nights |
Dec 19 |
Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884) |
Dec 22 |
Mark Rutherford, writer |
Dec 22 |
Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874 |
Dec 25 |
Johann Herbeck, composer |
Dec 27 |
Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896 |
Dec 29 |
Adam Badeau, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
5 |
Victorien Sardou, That Uncertain Feeling |
8 |
Wilhelm Raabe, Die schwarze Galeere |
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