Notable Birthdays - 1837
1837 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) |
Jan 4 |
Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau) |
Jan 5 |
A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] |
Jan 12 |
Adolf Jensen, composer |
Jan 12 |
Carlos Troyer, composer |
Jan 16 |
James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 |
Jan 19 |
William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) |
Jan 20 |
David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) |
Jan 23 |
Amanda Berry Smith, American former slave, singer and evangelist |
Jan 24 |
Alois Vojtech Smilovský, Za ranních cervánku |
Feb 5 |
Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement) |
Feb 7 |
James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary |
Feb 10 |
Harrison G. Otis, Gen. Otis with His Troops in the Philippines |
Feb 13 |
Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer |
Feb 15 |
Wilhelm Jensen, Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle) |
Feb 17 |
Francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902 |
Feb 17 |
Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws) |
Feb 24 |
Rosalía de Castro, Santiago de Compostela Galician writer and poet ('Séculos Escuros') (d.1885) |
Feb 24 |
Rosalía de Castro, La hora bruja |
Feb 26 |
Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice |
Mar 1 |
Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie) |
Mar 1 |
William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic) |
Mar 1 |
William Dean Howells, Christmas Every Day |
Mar 7 |
Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter) |
Mar 12 |
Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer |
Mar 14 |
Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification) |
Mar 18 |
Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97) |
Mar 18 |
Grover Cleveland, President Cleveland and President McKinley |
Mar 19 |
Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 |
Mar 23 |
Joseph Wieniawski, composer |
Mar 23 |
Charles Wyndham, David Garrick |
Mar 24 |
Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium |
Mar 28 |
Jacob Gallinger, Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
Mar 31 |
Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA |
Mar 31 |
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Apr 1 |
Jorge Isaacs, María |
Apr 3 |
John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake) |
Apr 5 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon) |
Apr 5 |
Charles Algernon Swinburne, Sea Without Shore |
Apr 5 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Between the Sunset and the Sea |
Apr 10 |
Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867) |
Apr 11 |
Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861 |
Apr 15 |
Horace Porter, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921 |
Apr 17 |
J. P. Morgan, Hartford, Connecticut, American banker/CEO (US Steel Corporation) |
Apr 17 |
J.P. Morgan, |
Apr 21 |
Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908) |
Apr 24 |
Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) |
Apr 25 |
William Charles Levey, composer |
Apr 29 |
Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891) |
Apr 30 |
Alfred Gaul, composer |
May 2 |
Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order) |
May 9 |
Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars) |
May 10 |
Pinckney B S Pinchback, Lt gov (Louisiana) |
May 18 |
J.A. Butterfield, Jonah Hex |
May 23 |
James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
May 27 |
"Wild Bill" Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout |
May 27 |
Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912 |
May 27 |
Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887) |
May 28 |
George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921) |
May 28 |
Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908) |
May 29 |
Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU) |
May 29 |
Luca Fumagalli, composer |
May 31 |
Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror) |
May 31 |
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
May 31 |
William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army) |
Jun 7 |
Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903) |
Jun 8 |
Jan Kleczynski, composer |
Jun 8 |
Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf) |
Jun 16 |
Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903 |
Jun 17 |
Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863 |
Jun 20 |
David J. Brewer, |
Jun 22 |
Paul Morphy, New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time (1857-61) |
Jun 23 |
Ernest Guiraud, composer |
Jun 26 |
Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1923 |
Jun 26 |
Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Jun 30 |
Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen |
Jul 3 |
Hawes Craven, Beerbohm Tree, the Great English Actor |
Jul 6 |
Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer |
Jul 11 |
Paul Lacombe, composer |
Jul 15 |
Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, queen of Portugal (d. 1859) |
Jul 18 |
Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873) |
Jul 19 |
Will S. Hayes, Thunder in God's Country |
Jul 20 |
Hans Sommer, composer |
Jul 28 |
Christian Barnekow, composer |
Jul 30 |
Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Jul 31 |
William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
Aug 1 |
Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930) |
Aug 11 |
Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated |
Aug 14 |
Boleslaw Leszczynski, Zaczarowane kolo |
Aug 16 |
Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer |
Aug 24 |
Theodore Dubois, composer |
Aug 27 |
Heinrich Urban, composer |
Aug 30 |
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85) |
Sep 2 |
James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925 |
Sep 14 |
Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903) |
Sep 15 |
Leo van Gheluwe, composer |
Sep 16 |
Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61) |
Sep 18 |
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880) |
Sep 19 |
Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer |
Oct 8 |
Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer |
Oct 10 |
Robert Gould Shaw, Glory |
Oct 14 |
Ellison Capers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1908 |
Oct 16 |
John Francis Barnett, composer |
Oct 18 |
Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter |
Oct 25 |
Edward M. Alfriend, The Great Diamond Robbery |
Oct 26 |
James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869 |
Oct 28 |
Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun (d. 1913) |
Oct 29 |
Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-12) |
Oct 29 |
Harriet Powers, US, slave/writer (Creation of Animals) |
Nov 2 |
Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891) |
Nov 9 |
Alfred Holmes, composer |
Nov 9 |
Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician |
Nov 9 |
Captain Bates, Freaks Uncensored! |
Nov 13 |
James T. Rapier, American politician (d. 1883) |
Nov 15 |
Robert Henry Hall, Funeral of Major-General Henry W. Lawton |
Nov 17 |
David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao |
Nov 17 |
Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor |
Nov 17 |
Willem Coenen, composer |
Nov 23 |
Johannes van der Waals, Leiden, Netherlands, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States), (d. 1923) |
Nov 28 |
John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid) |
Dec 2 |
Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
Dec 9 |
Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915) |
Dec 9 |
Emil Waldteufel, The Book Thief |
Dec 14 |
William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
Dec 18 |
A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder (CVP) |
Dec 19 |
John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Dec 24 |
Sissi, Emperor of Austria |
Dec 24 |
Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Wer ist der größte Deutsche? |
Dec 25 |
Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner |
Dec 26 |
Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila |
Dec 26 |
Morgan Bulkeley, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1922) |
Dec 26 |
George Dewey, Admiral Dewey Landing at Gibraltar |
Dec 28 |
Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer |
2 |
James H. Wilson, The War in China |
24 |
Marcus Hanna, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
29 |
Michal Balucki, For Crimes Not Theirs |
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