Date | Event |
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Jan 1 |
Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902) |
Jan 2 |
Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893) |
Jan 7 |
Henry Enfield Roscoe, London, English Chemist (vanadium and photochemistry) |
Jan 21 |
Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress) |
Jan 23 |
John Randolph Chambliss Jr, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Jan 26 |
Cornelius Bliss, Republican National Committee of 1900 |
Jan 28 |
Charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum) |
Feb 1 |
Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop |
Feb 3 |
Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian |
Feb 5 |
John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag) |
Feb 6 |
J.E.B. Stuart [James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart], Patrick County, Virginia, Confederate General |
Feb 6 |
José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906) |
Feb 7 |
Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas) |
Feb 11 |
Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice |
Feb 11 |
Melville W. Fuller, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
Feb 13 |
William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1915 |
Feb 18 |
James Deshler, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Feb 22 |
Josef Foerster, composer |
Feb 24 |
Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93) |
Feb 25 |
Clement Anselm Evans, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911 |
Feb 25 |
Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress |
Feb 28 |
Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-fieldmarshal |
Mar 9 |
Frederick A. Schroeder, tobacco industrialist and mayor of Brooklyn (d. 1899) |
Mar 10 |
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, The Prodigal Woman |
Mar 14 |
John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Mar 14 |
Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist (1866) |
Mar 20 |
Henry Southwick Perkins, composer |
Mar 26 |
Betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist |
Apr 2 |
Thomas Howard Ruger, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Apr 6 |
Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskrit, Old Javan) |
Apr 10 |
David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Apr 10 |
James Edward Rains, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Apr 17 |
Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (d. 1900) |
May 5 |
Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer |
May 7 |
Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer |
May 7 |
Johannes Brahms, The Truman Show |
May 8 |
Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903 |
May 9 |
Boleslaw Dembinski, composer |
Jun 1 |
John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911) |
Jun 1 |
John M. Harlan, |
Jun 4 |
Garnet Joseph, 1st viscount Wolseley soldier |
Jun 4 |
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Scots Grey |
Jun 7 |
Alexander Ritter, composer |
Jun 9 |
John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
Jun 15 |
Edward Moody McCook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1909 |
Jun 20 |
Leon-J-F Bonnat, painter |
Jun 27 |
Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer |
Jul 1 |
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army) |
Jul 10 |
Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
Jul 19 |
John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1899 |
Jul 22 |
Benjamin Hanby, composer |
Jul 27 |
Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923) |
Jul 28 |
James Henry Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) [or Jun 22 1814] |
Jul 31 |
G. Bruno, Connu/Géométrie/Géographie |
Aug 3 |
Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist |
Aug 5 |
Carola of Vasa, Queen consort of Saxony (d. 1907) |
Aug 7 |
Powell Clayton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)/(Gov-R-Ark) |
Aug 11 |
Robert Green Ingersoll, NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill) |
Aug 11 |
Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877) |
Aug 12 |
William Price Sanders, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Aug 20 |
Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893) |
Aug 20 |
Benjamin Harrison, |
Aug 26 |
Charles Jackson Paine, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 28 |
Edward Burne-Jones, England, Pre-Raphaelite painter/designer |
Aug 28 |
Teixeira de Melo, Marajó, Barreira do Mar |
Sep 20 |
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Milan, Italy, journalist/soldier/pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), (d. 1918) |
Sep 21 |
Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer |
Sep 22 |
Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1908 |
Sep 24 |
Henry Alanson Barnum, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 28 |
James Deering Fessenden, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 30 |
Ferdinand von Saar, writer |
Oct 2 |
Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (d. 1897) |
Oct 5 |
Cyrus Bussey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1915 |
Oct 15 |
Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader |
Oct 16 |
Denman Thompson, The Hazards of Helen |
Oct 17 |
Paul Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body, such as altitude sickness and 'the bends', made possible space and ocean exploration |
Oct 18 |
Johannes Habert, composer |
Oct 19 |
Adam Lindsay Gordon, The Sick Stockrider |
Oct 21 |
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes, (d. 1896) |
Nov 2 |
Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904) |
Nov 3 |
Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Nov 6 |
Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908) |
Nov 6 |
Jonas Lie, Troll |
Nov 9 |
Sally Louisa Tompkins, nurse and philanthropist, only woman commissioned in Confederate army during US Civil War, born Mathews City, Virginia (D. 1916) |
Nov 10 |
Dobri Voynikov, composer |
Nov 10 |
Dobri Voynikov, The Phoney Civilization |
Nov 12 |
Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable) |
Nov 12 |
Aleksandr Borodin, Heartbreakers |
Nov 13 |
Edwin Thomas Booth, US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet) |
Nov 14 |
Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian/chess player |
Nov 19 |
Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans) |
Nov 24 |
Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (d. 1891) |
Nov 24 |
Jovan Jovanovic-Zmaj, Nesrecna Kafina |
Nov 27 |
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897) |
Nov 29 |
Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
Dec 6 |
John Singleton Mosby, Powhatan County, Virginia, lawyer/Col (Confederate Army), (d. 1916) |
Dec 12 |
Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica) |
Dec 17 |
James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 |
Dec 20 |
Samuel A Mudd, doctor, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth |
Dec 28 |
Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
Dec 29 |
John James Ingalls, (Rep-Ks) |
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