Date | Event |
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Jan 1 |
Aloys Martin Kunc, The Last Metro |
Jan 4 |
George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893) |
Jan 6 |
Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883) |
Jan 6 |
Gustave Doré, Oliver Twist |
Jan 7 |
James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908) |
Jan 9 |
Esquire Maurits A de Savornin Lohman, Dutch governor of Suriname |
Jan 9 |
Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900) |
Jan 12 |
Richard Waterhouse Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
Jan 13 |
Horatio Alger, Jr., Chelsea Massachusetts, American minister and author (Lost at Sea, Work & Win) |
Jan 19 |
Ferdinand Laub, composer |
Jan 19 |
Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer |
Jan 23 |
Edouard Manet, Paris, French impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass), (d. 1883) |
Jan 23 |
Édouard Manet, Édouard Manet 1832-1883 |
Jan 24 |
John Pegram, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
Jan 26 |
George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924) |
Jan 27 |
Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Halton, Cheshire, author (Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1898) |
Jan 27 |
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland |
Jan 28 |
Franz Wullner, composer |
Jan 30 |
Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897) |
Feb 2 |
Carl Costa, Bruder Martin |
Feb 6 |
John Brown Gordon, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1904 |
Feb 16 |
Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Mjr General (Confederate Army) |
Feb 25 |
Theodorus J I Arnold, bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian) |
Feb 26 |
John George Nicolay, US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer) |
Feb 27 |
Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, died in 1872 |
Mar 1 |
Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer |
Mar 7 |
Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
Mar 10 |
William Henry Penrose, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903 |
Mar 11 |
Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde test) |
Mar 11 |
William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 |
Mar 12 |
Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts |
Mar 13 |
Alberto Randegger, composer |
Mar 16 |
Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer) |
Mar 17 |
Moncure Daniel Conway, US, abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine) |
Mar 17 |
Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Apr 4 |
Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre, playwright/scientist (Teatro Escogido) |
Apr 5 |
Jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman |
Apr 8 |
Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal |
Apr 13 |
James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator) |
Apr 13 |
Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889) |
Apr 14 |
James Hewett Ledlie, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882 |
Apr 15 |
Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908) |
Apr 15 |
Wilhelm Busch, Max und Moritz |
Apr 16 |
John A Neuhuys, painter |
Apr 19 |
Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist (Nobel 1904) |
Apr 19 |
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, 1st lady (1881) |
Apr 19 |
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, El gran Galeoto |
Apr 22 |
Julius Sterling Morton, Nebraska, (Gov-Neb), started Arbor Day |
May 5 |
H H Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States) |
May 7 |
Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist (Neumann-functions) |
May 14 |
Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903) |
May 16 |
Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods) |
May 21 |
Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917) |
May 23 |
Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer |
May 30 |
George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jun 3 |
Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer |
Jun 3 |
Charles Lecocq, La petite mariée |
Jun 10 |
Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India) |
Jun 10 |
Nikolaus A Otto, German technician (gas motor, otto motor) |
Jun 17 |
William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium) |
Jun 24 |
Edward Harland, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1915 |
Jul 6 |
Maximilian I of Mexico and Archduke of Austria, Vienna, Austria, first and only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire |
Jul 10 |
Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897) |
Jul 11 |
Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (d. 1896) |
Jul 16 |
Camille du Locle, Aida |
Jul 17 |
Johan August Soderman, composer |
Jul 21 |
Henrietta Marie Morse King, cattlewoman |
Jul 24 |
Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist |
Jul 25 |
Simon Hassler, composer |
Jul 31 |
Gustaf Fredrikson, Mästerkatten i stövlar |
Aug 2 |
Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society) |
Aug 3 |
Ivan Zajc, composer |
Aug 11 |
Thomas Ogden Osbord, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 12 |
Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor |
Aug 16 |
Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher |
Aug 20 |
Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor, died in 1913 |
Aug 23 |
Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888 |
Aug 27 |
James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
Sep 4 |
Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (d. 1915) |
Sep 10 |
Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
Sep 16 |
George Washington Custis Lee, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Sep 20 |
Johann Joseph Abert, composer |
Sep 21 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer |
Sep 21 |
Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893 |
Sep 25 |
William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect/"father of skyscraper" |
Sep 26 |
Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer |
Sep 30 |
Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, Brit gov of Natal (Ireland-Boer war) |
Oct 1 |
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison |
Oct 1 |
Henry Clay Work, composer |
Oct 1 |
Henry Clay Work, A Prairie Home Companion |
Oct 2 |
Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist |
Oct 2 |
Julius von Sachs, botanist/naturalist |
Oct 4 |
William Griggs, inventor (photo chromo lithography) |
Oct 8 |
Alfred von Waldersee, Field-Marshal Count von Waldersee |
Oct 10 |
Theodore Shelton Bowers, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1866 |
Oct 12 |
Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin) |
Oct 15 |
Henry Harrison Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1912 |
Oct 16 |
George Crockett Strong, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Oct 16 |
Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexico, writer/diplomat |
Oct 20 |
Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894) |
Oct 22 |
August Labitzky, composer |
Oct 22 |
Leopold Damrosch, composer |
Nov 1 |
Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer |
Nov 5 |
William Woods Averell, Major General (Union Army), died in 1900 |
Nov 7 |
Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell |
Nov 9 |
Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873) |
Nov 11 |
Paolo Giorza, composer |
Nov 18 |
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (d. 1901) |
Nov 22 |
George Henry Chapman, Bvt Maj Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882 |
Nov 26 |
Mary Edwards Walker, American doctor/women's rights leader and only woman to receive Medal of Honor (bravery during Civil War) |
Nov 26 |
Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901) |
Nov 28 |
Leslie Stephen, Secrets from the Asylum |
Nov 29 |
Louisa May Alcott, Germantown Pennsylvania, American author (Little Women) |
Nov 29 |
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women |
Dec 1 |
Archibald Gracie Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Dec 8 |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author "Pa Guds Veje" and Nobel laureate (d. 1910) |
Dec 8 |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, The Greatest Thing |
Dec 12 |
Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (liberal) |
Dec 14 |
Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
Dec 15 |
Gustave Eiffel [Alexandre], French engineer (Eiffel tower), (d. 1923) |
Dec 19 |
John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone |
Dec 21 |
John Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906 |
Dec 22 |
Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 |
Dec 25 |
Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1865 |
Dec 27 |
Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897) |
7 |
Emilio Castelar, Isabel de Solís, reina de Granada |
30 |
Mrs. J.H. Riddell, The Beckoning Shadow |
30 |
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, England's King at Liverpool |
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