Notable Birthdays - 1842
1842 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist |
Jan 4 |
Frederic T. Greenhalge, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896) |
Jan 6 |
Clarence King, mining engineer (geologist) |
Jan 7 |
Johan Lindegren, composer |
Jan 11 |
William James, New York City New York, American psychologist/philosopher (Pragmatism) |
Jan 12 |
Francois Coppee, French poet |
Jan 13 |
Franklin Távora, 0' Cabeleira |
Jan 15 |
Blessed Mary McKillop, Australian candidate for sainthood (d. 1909) |
Jan 15 |
Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (d. 1925) |
Jan 15 |
Paul Lafargue, Prodannyy appetit |
Jan 17 |
Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman Philology in Netherlands) |
Jan 18 |
Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911) |
Jan 22 |
Charles Henri Marechal, composer |
Jan 26 |
François Coppée, Une femme innocente |
Feb 2 |
Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927) |
Feb 3 |
Sidney Clopton Lanier, US, composer/poet (Hall of Fame) |
Feb 4 |
Georg Brandes, [Morris Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic |
Feb 4 |
Vasili O Klyutshevski, Russian historian |
Feb 4 |
Georg Brandes, Professor Georg Brandes paa Universitetets Katheder |
Feb 7 |
Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923) |
Feb 20 |
István Szentgyörgyi, The Exile |
Feb 22 |
Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company) |
Feb 22 |
Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel) |
Feb 23 |
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906) |
Feb 24 |
Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer |
Feb 24 |
Arrigo Boito, Otello |
Feb 25 |
Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou) |
Feb 25 |
Karl May, Winnetou |
Feb 26 |
Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy |
Feb 26 |
Camille Flammarion, End of the World |
Mar 1 |
Nicholaos Gysis, Greek painter (d. 1901) |
Mar 2 |
Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914) |
Mar 7 |
Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist |
Mar 10 |
Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif |
Mar 17 |
George Leybourne, George of the Jungle |
Mar 18 |
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898) |
Mar 18 |
Stéphane Mallarmé, Toute révolution est un coup de dés |
Mar 22 |
Carl A N Rosa, German violinist/composer |
Mar 22 |
Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer |
Mar 25 |
Antonio Fogazzaro, Daniele Cortis |
Mar 28 |
William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officier (d. 1908) |
Mar 29 |
Octavius L. Pruden, Admiral Dewey Receiving the Washington and New York Committees |
Mar 30 |
John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher |
Apr 3 |
Ulric Dahlgren, Col (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
Apr 4 |
Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891) |
Apr 8 |
Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933) |
Apr 14 |
Sven August Korling, composer |
Apr 14 |
Adna R. Chaffee, The War in China |
Apr 17 |
Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911) |
Apr 18 |
Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice) |
Apr 20 |
Cardinal Farley, But the Greatest of These Is Charity |
Apr 22 |
Joseph Spillman, Die Tat des Abbé Montmoulin |
Apr 25 |
Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila) |
Apr 28 |
Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil (1870-89) |
Apr 29 |
Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899) |
Apr 29 |
Karl Millöcker, Mephisto |
May 5 |
Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer |
May 5 |
August Warberg, En av de många |
May 8 |
Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist |
May 12 |
Jules Emile Fred Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid) |
May 12 |
Jules Massenet, Transamerica |
May 13 |
Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan) |
May 13 |
Arthur Sullivan, The Talented Mr. Ripley |
May 14 |
Alphons Czibulka, Hour of Glory |
May 23 |
Maria Konopnicka, Marysia i krasnoludki |
May 26 |
Giorgi Tsereteli, Sami sitsotskhle |
Jun 2 |
Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher |
Jun 6 |
James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art) |
Jun 6 |
Steele MacKaye, The Miller's Daughter |
Jun 8 |
John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918) |
Jun 10 |
Adolf Stoltze, Rendezvous im Palmengarten |
Jun 11 |
Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician |
Jun 11 |
Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934) |
Jun 12 |
Rikard Nordraak, composer |
Jun 12 |
Rikard Nordraak, Rikard Nordraak |
Jun 14 |
John M. Snyder, As Ye Sow |
Jun 15 |
Daniel M. Ransdell, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
Jun 19 |
Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer |
Jun 19 |
Carl Zeller, Der Vogelhändler |
Jun 24 |
Ambrose Bierce, Meigs County, Ohio, American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets & Dust) |
Jun 24 |
Ambrose Bierce, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
Jun 26 |
Frank D. Baldwin, The Indian Wars |
Jun 29 |
Josef Labor, composer |
Jul 4 |
Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal |
Jul 4 |
Gyula Erkel, composer |
Jul 26 |
Alfred Marshall, London, economist |
Aug 14 |
Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author |
Aug 14 |
George K. Nash, Governor Nash of Ohio |
Aug 15 |
Ferenc Csepregi, Piros bugyelláris |
Aug 16 |
Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922) |
Aug 20 |
Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter |
Aug 24 |
Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market) |
Aug 26 |
Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (Lumbaalpunctie) |
Aug 28 |
Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist |
Aug 28 |
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, Roundhay Garden Scene |
Aug 29 |
Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) |
Aug 30 |
Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer |
Aug 30 |
Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849) |
Sep 5 |
Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare) |
Sep 7 |
John H Zuckertort, German chess player |
Sep 13 |
Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer |
Sep 13 |
John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920) |
Sep 20 |
James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet) |
Sep 21 |
Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918) |
Sep 23 |
Karl Munzinger, composer |
Sep 27 |
Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903) |
Sep 29 |
Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902) |
Oct 1 |
Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur) |
Oct 1 |
Charles Cros, Felicity Lott in Recital |
Oct 7 |
Bronson Howard, The Saphead |
Oct 14 |
Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927) |
Oct 24 |
Josef Nesvera, composer |
Oct 27 |
Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921) |
Oct 28 |
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War) |
Oct 28 |
Charles Boissevain, editor Dutch Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908) |
Nov 2 |
Otto Reubke, composer |
Nov 4 |
William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1874 |
Nov 8 |
Eugen Gura, Ein Fest auf Hederlevhuus. Drama in einem Vorspiel und vier Akten |
Nov 13 |
Manuel Pinheiro Chagas, La mantilla de Beatriz |
Nov 14 |
Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959) |
Nov 14 |
Oliver Doud Byron, Across the Continent |
Nov 22 |
Anna S Barbiers, actress (Uncle Tom) |
Nov 23 |
James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (1st England Test captain) |
Nov 24 |
Peter Jerndorff, Der var engang |
Dec 3 |
Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist (Amer Home Economics Association-1st Pres) |
Dec 3 |
Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919) |
Dec 3 |
Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (d. 1899) |
Dec 7 |
Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen) |
Dec 8 |
Gergely Csiky, A nagymama |
Dec 9 |
Pjotr A Kopotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist |
Dec 14 |
Victor Langer, Die Liebe der Brüder Rott |
Dec 15 |
Henry Gadsby, composer |
Dec 16 |
Gertrude Smith, Rainbow Island |
Dec 17 |
Marius Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (continous groups) |
Dec 18 |
Nathan Bay Scott, Republican National Committee of 1900 |
Dec 20 |
Levicy Chafin, |
Dec 22 |
Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet |
Dec 22 |
Nicola d' Arienzo, composer |
Dec 28 |
Calixa Lavallee, composer |
Dec 28 |
Calixa Lavallée, Goon |
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