Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 7 |
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817) |
Jan 21 |
John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author |
Jan 22 |
Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864) |
Jan 25 |
William McGillivray, Old Aberdeen, naturalist |
Feb 1 |
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865) |
Feb 17 |
Giovanni Pacini, composer |
Feb 17 |
Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866) |
Feb 20 |
Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician |
Feb 22 |
Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician |
Feb 22 |
Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837) |
Feb 29 |
[Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgian astronomer/meteorology |
Mar 20 |
Jean-François-Alfred Bayard, La fille du régiment |
Mar 24 |
John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878) |
Apr 8 |
Alfred Bunn, Chaplin |
Apr 10 |
James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836) |
Apr 12 |
George N. Briggs, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1861) |
Apr 24 |
K L Immermann, writer |
Apr 26 |
Auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer |
May 4 |
Horace Mann, Franklin Massachusetts, American educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools) |
May 4 |
Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1864 |
May 4 |
William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859) |
May 9 |
August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia) |
May 17 |
Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curacao (advocate for fair treatment and abolition of slavery) |
May 21 |
Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876 |
Jun 1 |
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832) |
Jun 14 |
Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866) |
Jun 22 |
Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [OS] |
Jun 25 |
Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer |
Jul 3 |
Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS] |
Jul 6 |
Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55) |
Jul 15 |
Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology) |
Jul 16 |
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter |
Jul 17 |
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum |
Jul 18 |
Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists |
Jul 20 |
Edward Hodges, composer |
Jul 23 |
Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer |
Jul 24 |
Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman |
Jul 24 |
John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50) |
Jul 26 |
George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes) |
Jul 26 |
George Catlin, A Man Called Horse |
Jul 28 |
Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859) |
Aug 25 |
James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876) |
Sep 19 |
Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849) |
Sep 22 |
Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880 |
Sep 25 |
Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875) |
Oct 4 |
John Richardson, Canadian writer (Wacousta, or the prophecy) |
Oct 9 |
Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878) |
Oct 14 |
Adolf Ganz, composer |
Oct 23 |
Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857) |
Oct 24 |
August v Platen, writer |
Nov 6 |
George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada) |
Nov 14 |
Carlo Conti, composer |
Nov 19 |
Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer |
Nov 30 |
Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer |
Nov 30 |
Carl Loewe, A Voice Out of the Cold: Vivica Genaux |
Dec 9 |
Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer |
Dec 17 |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865) |
Dec 19 |
Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright |
Dec 24 |
Fernán Caballero, Juan soldado |
Dec 27 |
Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (d. 1869) |
Dec 29 |
Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877) |
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