Notable Birthdays - 1840
1840 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Marchesa Colombi, Un matrimonio in provincia |
Jan 2 |
Joseph Allen, The What NOW Caper |
Jan 3 |
Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii |
Jan 5 |
John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
Jan 10 |
Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925) |
Jan 18 |
Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer |
Jan 18 |
Ernst Rudorff, composer |
Jan 21 |
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, Hastings, English Physician and feminist who was one of the first female medical students at a British university |
Jan 22 |
Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907) |
Jan 22 |
Wincenty Rapacki Sr., Cud nad Wisla |
Jan 23 |
Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company) |
Jan 29 |
Jacob H. Smith, The 17th Infantry, U.S.A. |
Jan 31 |
William Pittenger, The General |
Feb 2 |
Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer |
Feb 5 |
Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle) |
Feb 5 |
John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire) |
Feb 8 |
William T. Sampson, Admiral Sampson on Board the Flagship |
Feb 11 |
Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884 |
Feb 13 |
Georg Jacobi, composer |
Feb 17 |
Charles Warren, |
Feb 22 |
F August Bebel, German social-democrat |
Feb 23 |
Carl Menger, Austrian economist |
Feb 25 |
Alexis Hollander, composer |
Feb 25 |
Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Climax of Theories) |
Feb 28 |
Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892) |
Feb 29 |
John Philip Holland, Liscannor Ireland, father of the modern submarine |
Mar 5 |
Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights) |
Mar 8 |
Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor |
Mar 11 |
Edmund Kirby Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
Mar 13 |
Antoine Lumière, The Lumière Brothers' First Films |
Mar 16 |
Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931) |
Mar 18 |
William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901) |
Mar 20 |
Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894) |
Mar 25 |
Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876) |
Mar 26 |
Carli Zoeller, composer |
Mar 26 |
George Smith, London England, Archaeologist and assyriologist (cuneiform (script)) |
Mar 28 |
Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer/governor (Equatoria) |
Mar 31 |
John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Mar 31 |
Benjamin Baker, Frome Somerset, English Engineer who designed the bridge over the Firth of Forth, Scotland and the London underground |
Apr 2 |
Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902) |
Apr 2 |
Émile Zola, Thirst |
Apr 11 |
John Conrad Nordqvist, composer |
Apr 11 |
Edward Sylvester Ellis, The Break-Out |
Apr 12 |
Edmond Audran, composer |
Apr 12 |
Edmond Audran, La mascotte |
Apr 19 |
Andrea Bezzola, writer |
Apr 21 |
Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis) |
Apr 22 |
Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916) |
Apr 25 |
James Dearing, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
Apr 27 |
Edward Whymper, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865) |
May 7 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk, Russia, composer (1812 Overture, Swan Lake), (d. 1893) [NS] |
May 7 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Black Swan |
May 10 |
Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionist (d. 1868) |
May 11 |
Filippo Capocci, composer |
May 13 |
L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon) |
May 13 |
Alphonse Daudet, Letters from My Windmill |
May 24 |
Frederick Walker, painter |
May 29 |
Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Plague in Florenz) |
Jun 2 |
Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) |
Jun 2 |
Thomas Hardy, Tess |
Jun 3 |
Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight) |
Jun 6 |
John Stainer, composer |
Jun 6 |
William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jun 7 |
Carlota of Mexico, Brussels, Belgium, princess of Belgium and empress consort of Mexico (1864-67) |
Jun 9 |
Akaki Tsereteli, Bashi-Achuki |
Jun 10 |
Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
Jun 10 |
Theodor Philipsen Danish painter (d. 1920) |
Jun 11 |
Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser |
Jun 12 |
Jakub Arbes, Stedrý den bratrí Mánesu |
Jun 16 |
Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913) |
Jun 22 |
Ernest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker) |
Jun 24 |
Louis Brassin, composer |
Jul 1 |
Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer |
Jul 4 |
James McGranahan, composer |
Jul 12 |
Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist |
Jul 24 |
Abraham Goldfaden, Komediantn |
Jul 25 |
Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution |
Jul 27 |
Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Aug 1 |
Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer |
Aug 13 |
Frans Hodell, Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström |
Aug 14 |
Baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist |
Aug 14 |
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Libidomania |
Aug 17 |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League) |
Aug 28 |
Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel hymns) |
Aug 28 |
Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900) |
Sep 2 |
Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros) |
Sep 3 |
Jacob Fabricius, composer |
Sep 9 |
Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer |
Sep 14 |
George Elbridge Whiting, composer |
Sep 21 |
Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876) |
Sep 26 |
Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923) |
Sep 27 |
Alfred Thayer Mahan, US, naval officer (Influence of Sea Power) |
Sep 27 |
Thomas Nast, Landau Germany, political cartoonist of late 1800s America |
Sep 28 |
Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, Lt-Col (Confederate Army) |
Sep 28 |
Rudolf Baumbach, Thuringia [Germany], writer of student drinking songs |
Sep 30 |
Johan Severin Svendsen, composer |
Oct 4 |
Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer |
Oct 5 |
Fran Gerbic, composer |
Oct 5 |
John Addington Symonds, Brit historian/writer (Probs in Greek Ethics) |
Oct 9 |
Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905) |
Oct 12 |
Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian |
Oct 15 |
Honoré Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894) |
Oct 16 |
Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900) |
Oct 30 |
Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano |
Oct 30 |
William G Sumner, US sociologist/political analyst |
Nov 9 |
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898) |
Nov 12 |
Auguste Rodin, Meudon, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), (d. 1917) |
Nov 12 |
Auguste Rodin, Auguste Rodin |
Nov 14 |
Claude Monet, Paris, impressionist (Water Lilies), (d. 1926) |
Nov 14 |
Claude Monet, Claude Monet 1840-1926 |
Nov 15 |
Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [NS=11/27] |
Nov 16 |
Frederick Scotson Clark, composer |
Nov 19 |
Aleksandr Kovalevsky, Shustyanka near Dvinsk, Russian Biologist who founded comparative embryology and experimental histology and who identified a common pattern of embryological development in all multi-cellular animals |
Nov 21 |
Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia |
Nov 25 |
Hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish Movement) |
Nov 27 |
Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15] |
Nov 30 |
Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928) |
Dec 3 |
Jules Clarétie, Le petit Jacques |
Dec 4 |
Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], Fort Robinson Nebraska, Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn) |
Dec 7 |
Hermann Goetz, composer |
Dec 11 |
Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872) |
Dec 17 |
Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer |
Dec 21 |
Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan) |
2 |
Giovanni Verga, Sparrow |
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