Date | Event |
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Jan 2 |
Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Jan 3 |
Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor |
Jan 5 |
Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer |
Jan 5 |
Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch gouvernement doctor on Saint Maarten |
Jan 8 |
H.J. Byron, Uncle Dick's Darling |
Jan 13 |
Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior |
Jan 17 |
Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian bishop/poet/dialectologist |
Jan 17 |
Johan Filip von Schantz, composer |
Jan 18 |
Caesar A Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer |
Jan 18 |
Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet |
Jan 25 |
Robert McWade Sr., Papa Puts One Over |
Jan 27 |
Heinrich Wilken, Kyritz - Pyritz |
Jan 29 |
Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did |
Jan 30 |
Oliver Edwards, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904 |
Jan 31 |
William Charles Lunalilo, Monarch of Hawaii (d. 1874) |
Feb 2 |
Luigi Manzotti, Milano, ballet choreographer |
Feb 8 |
Eduardo Pondal, Continental |
Feb 13 |
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908) |
Feb 14 |
Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer (Snikken en grimlachjes) |
Feb 14 |
Louis Gallet, Thaïs |
Feb 15 |
Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911 |
Feb 15 |
Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (d. 1908) |
Feb 20 |
Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist |
Feb 24 |
Josef Svátek, Prazský kat |
Feb 26 |
Richard Andree, German geography/etnologist (Andree's Handatlas) |
Feb 27 |
Charles Cartuyvels, Belgian pulprit orator |
Feb 27 |
Richard Garnett, English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker) |
Mar 1 |
Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade) |
Mar 4 |
Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars) |
Mar 4 |
John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911) |
Mar 6 |
Charles Ewing, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 |
Mar 6 |
Ludwik Grossman, composer |
Mar 12 |
Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer |
Mar 14 |
Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars) [or March 4] |
Mar 14 |
Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer |
Mar 14 |
Manuel Fernández Caballero, El dúo de la africana |
Mar 15 |
Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance) |
Mar 15 |
John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859) |
Mar 21 |
Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876) |
Mar 22 |
Matt Snyder, Money |
Mar 24 |
Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law) |
Mar 30 |
Bernhard Scholz, composer |
Mar 31 |
John La Farge, US painter |
Apr 5 |
Vitezslav Halek, Muzikantská Liduska |
Apr 6 |
Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer |
Apr 9 |
Leopold II, King of Belgians (1865-1909) |
Apr 9 |
King Leopold II, Funérailles solennelles de S.M. le roi Léopold II à Laeken et à Bruxelles |
Apr 27 |
John Murray Corse, Pitts, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) [or 9/27] |
May 1 |
Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers) |
May 4 |
Edmund Hart Turpin, composer |
May 5 |
Leopold II, Belgian crown prince, baptized |
May 8 |
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, St. Elmo |
May 11 |
Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905) |
May 21 |
Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
May 21 |
František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884) |
May 26 |
Edward Porter Alexander, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
May 30 |
Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden) |
May 31 |
Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese military leader (d. 1869) |
Jun 2 |
Pius X, [Giuseppe Sarto], 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14) |
Jun 2 |
Pope Pius X, His Holiness, the Late Pope Pius X, and the Vatican |
Jun 10 |
Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian |
Jun 10 |
Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane |
Jun 10 |
Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator (d. 1930) |
Jun 14 |
Nikolay Rubinstein, composer |
Jun 29 |
Anton Bergman, Dat Ernest met Bertha vrijdt... |
Jul 10 |
Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou) |
Jul 10 |
Henryk Wieniawski, Prometheus |
Jul 27 |
Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907) |
Jul 28 |
Jose Garcia Robles, composer |
Jul 31 |
Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912) |
Jul 31 |
Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903) |
Aug 2 |
Elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone) |
Aug 8 |
James William Forsyth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1906 |
Aug 10 |
Gyula Beliczay, composer |
Aug 26 |
Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Aug 27 |
Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter |
Sep 3 |
William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
Sep 11 |
William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
Sep 14 |
J A de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (Died 1940) |
Sep 14 |
Joseph Hayes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 |
Sep 14 |
YES de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (Died 5/30/1940) |
Sep 27 |
John Murray Corse, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893 [or 4/27] |
Oct 1 |
Robert Houston Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
Oct 1 |
William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Oct 1 |
Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (d. 1920) |
Oct 2 |
Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian |
Oct 4 |
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret |
Oct 7 |
Felix Draeseke, composer |
Oct 9 |
Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921) |
Oct 9 |
Camille Saint-Saëns, Babe |
Oct 11 |
Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director (Confederate Army), died in 1900 |
Oct 16 |
William Rufus Shafter, Major General Shafter |
Oct 23 |
Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97) |
Oct 31 |
Adelbert Ames, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1933 |
Oct 31 |
J F W Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905) |
Oct 31 |
Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (d. 1923) |
Nov 1 |
Godfrey Weitzel, (Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884) |
Nov 4 |
Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1913 |
Nov 5 |
Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist (d. 1902) |
Nov 9 |
Davorin Jenko, composer |
Nov 9 |
Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels) |
Nov 9 |
Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer |
Nov 9 |
Émile Gaboriau, Le petit vieux des Batignolles |
Nov 16 |
Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1887 |
Nov 16 |
Eugenio Beltrami, Cremona Lombardy, Italian Mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry) |
Nov 17 |
Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915) |
Nov 18 |
Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1904 |
Nov 18 |
Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist |
Nov 19 |
Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905 |
Nov 19 |
Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen (d. 1858) |
Nov 19 |
Fitzhugh Lee, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and Staff |
Nov 22 |
Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Nov 25 |
Andrew Carnegie, Dunfermline, Scottish/American industrialist/philanthropist |
Nov 25 |
Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie |
Nov 29 |
Empress Dowager Cixi, Chinese ruler (d. 1908) |
Nov 30 |
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) |
Nov 30 |
Mark Twain, Tom and Huck |
Dec 1 |
Micah Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Dec 4 |
Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh) |
Dec 6 |
Wilhelm Rudolf Fittig, Hamburg, German Chemist (synthesizing organic compounds) |
Dec 7 |
Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist |
Dec 11 |
Adolf Stoecker, German anti semite/PM |
Dec 12 |
Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer |
Dec 13 |
Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem) |
Dec 13 |
Phillips Brooks, The Family Stone |
Dec 17 |
Alexander E Agassiz, US, businessman/biologist/geology |
Dec 18 |
George Dashiell Bayard, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Dec 18 |
Lyman Abbott, American author (d. 1922) |
Dec 28 |
Archibald Geikie, British geologist |
25 |
Rev. Anderson Hatfield, |
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