Notable Birthdays - 1839
1839 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
James Ryder Randall, Ring-a-Ding Rhythm! |
Jan 1 |
Ouida, A Dog of Flanders |
Jan 4 |
Carl Humann, German engineer (d. 1896) |
Jan 9 |
John Knowles Paine, Portland Maine, composer |
Jan 11 |
Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rico, patriot/scholar |
Jan 14 |
Emil Bohn, composer |
Jan 19 |
Bohumil Pazdirek, composer |
Jan 19 |
Paul Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence Provence, French painter (d. 1906) |
Jan 19 |
Paul Cézanne, Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 |
Jan 25 |
Seldon Connor, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1917 |
Feb 1 |
James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak) |
Feb 1 |
James A. Herne, Hearts of Oak |
Feb 7 |
Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901) |
Feb 7 |
Ricardo de la Vega, Fair of the Dove |
Feb 9 |
Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896) |
Feb 11 |
Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist |
Feb 20 |
Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908) |
Feb 22 |
Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906) |
Mar 3 |
Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904) |
Mar 8 |
James Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis) |
Mar 9 |
Felix Huston Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1928 |
Mar 9 |
Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908) |
Mar 10 |
Dudley Buck, Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer |
Mar 10 |
Joaquin Miller, The Danites |
Mar 16 |
René F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901) |
Mar 17 |
Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser) |
Mar 18 |
Francis Fessenden, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906 |
Mar 21 |
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Karevo, Russian composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt) [NS] |
Mar 21 |
Modest Mussorgsky, The Big Lebowski |
Mar 25 |
William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind |
Mar 27 |
John Ballance, Glenavy, Ulster, Ireland, 14th Premier of New Zealand and the founder of the Liberal Party |
Mar 31 |
Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS) |
Apr 5 |
Robert Smalls, Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Rep-SC) |
Apr 5 |
Stanislaw Pilinski, composer |
Apr 12 |
Victorin de Joncieres, composer |
Apr 18 |
Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer |
Apr 18 |
Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds) |
Apr 20 |
Carol I, King of Romania (1881-1914) |
Apr 22 |
August W Eichler, German botanist |
Apr 26 |
Cyrus Hamblin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 |
May 1 |
Chardonnet, inventor (rayon) |
May 8 |
Francis W Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton/writer |
May 8 |
Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920) |
May 19 |
Alice Mary Smith, composer |
May 25 |
John Eliot, English meteorologist |
May 27 |
Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (Roccaverdina) |
May 28 |
Luigi Capuana, Malìa |
May 29 |
Ned Gregory, cricketer (bro of Dave, father of Syd Played 1st Test) |
Jun 3 |
Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Der Herr im Hause) |
Jun 3 |
Paul Lindau, Der Andere |
Jun 10 |
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912) |
Jun 10 |
Ion Creanga, Memories of My Childhood |
Jun 10 |
Louis Holstein-Ledreborg, Dr. Cook at Copenhagen |
Jun 17 |
Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted for ritualist activities (d. 1931) |
Jun 18 |
William Henry Seward Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1920 |
Jun 21 |
Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner) |
Jun 21 |
Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician |
Jun 21 |
John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867 |
Jun 21 |
Machado de Assis, writer |
Jun 21 |
Machado de Assis, What Is It Worth? |
Jun 24 |
Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift & Co |
Jul 8 |
John D Rockefeller, Richford New York, US capitalist/founder (Standard Oil), (d. 1937) |
Jul 8 |
John D. Rockefeller, Freakonomics |
Jul 9 |
Carl Baermann, composer |
Jul 10 |
Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913) |
Jul 14 |
Edward Sydney Smith, composer |
Jul 16 |
Philipus J Hoedemaker, Dutch theologist |
Jul 17 |
Friedrich Gernsheim, composer |
Jul 17 |
Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916) |
Jul 17 |
Hector Monréal, Hugo |
Jul 25 |
Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873) |
Jul 26 |
Max Auzinger, Michael |
Aug 4 |
Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism) |
Aug 7 |
Sam Lucas, Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Aug 8 |
Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925 |
Aug 8 |
Nelson Appleton Miles, General Miles and Staff |
Aug 9 |
Gaston Paulin, Pauvre Pierrot |
Aug 10 |
Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896) |
Aug 15 |
Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer |
Aug 17 |
Hubert Platt Main, composer |
Aug 17 |
Thijs [Matthijs] Maris, Dutch painter/etcher |
Aug 19 |
Oskar Brefeld, German botanist |
Aug 24 |
Eduard Napravnik, composer |
Aug 24 |
Eduard Napravnik, Dubrovsky |
Aug 27 |
Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1881 |
Aug 30 |
Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903) |
Sep 2 |
Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty) |
Sep 10 |
Isaac Kauffman Funk, US, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls) |
Sep 10 |
Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914) |
Sep 25 |
Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya) |
Sep 25 |
[Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist |
Sep 28 |
Frances E C Willard, NY, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance Union) |
Oct 2 |
Hans Thoma, painter |
Oct 3 |
Alphonse Winckler, The Messers. Lumière at Cards |
Oct 9 |
Frederic Soler, Don Jaume, el conquistador |
Oct 9 |
Winfield S. Schley, Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade |
Oct 21 |
Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank) |
Oct 30 |
Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter |
Nov 7 |
Henry Holmes, composer |
Nov 14 |
Júlio Dinis, As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor |
Nov 16 |
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908) |
Nov 16 |
William de Morgan, Somehow Good |
Nov 18 |
August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt) |
Nov 20 |
Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882) |
Nov 21 |
Andrew Sheridan Burt, 25th Infantry |
Nov 25 |
Stanislaw Duniecki, composer |
Nov 29 |
Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright (Der Schandfleck) |
Nov 29 |
Ludwig Anzengruber, The Sternstein Manor |
Dec 4 |
Ignaz Schnitzer, The Gipsy Baron |
Dec 5 |
George Armstrong Custer, New Rumley, Ohio, Mjr General (Union volunteers), (d. 1876) |
Dec 7 |
Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal |
Dec 7 |
Redvers Buller, The Gordon Highlanders |
Dec 22 |
John Nevil Maskelyne, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Procession |
9 |
Devil Anse Hatfield, Vendettas |
29 |
James K. Jones, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
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