Notable Birthdays - 1821
1821 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 4 |
John James Peck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878 |
Jan 7 |
Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General (Confed Army), died in 1891 |
Jan 8 |
James Longstreet, Confederate general (1st Corps, ANV) |
Jan 12 |
Nikolai Afanisev, composer |
Jan 14 |
Ritter von Mosenthal, Leah, the Forsaken |
Jan 15 |
Lafayette McLaws, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
Jan 21 |
John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed) |
Jan 27 |
John Chivington, American officer, (d. 1892) |
Jan 29 |
Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891 |
Feb 1 |
Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer |
Feb 3 |
Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician |
Feb 10 |
William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brigadier General, died in 1864) |
Feb 11 |
Hermann Allmers, writer |
Feb 11 |
Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881) |
Feb 15 |
Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet |
Feb 16 |
Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa) |
Feb 17 |
Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861) |
Feb 19 |
Francis Preston Blair Jr, Lexington Ky, (Rep-Missouri) |
Feb 21 |
Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog) |
Feb 22 |
Giovanni Bottesini, composer |
Mar 1 |
Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Catholic bishop (d. 1896) |
Mar 12 |
John Abbott, Saint-Andre Quebec, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92) |
Mar 12 |
Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern |
Mar 14 |
Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archaeologist |
Mar 15 |
William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892) |
Mar 15 |
Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881) |
Mar 15 |
Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895) |
Mar 16 |
Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau) |
Mar 19 |
Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Mar 19 |
Richard Burton, explorer/translator (Arabian Nights) |
Mar 19 |
William Allingham, Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Irish poet (The Fairies, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland) |
Mar 23 |
Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper) |
Mar 24 |
Elisa Felix, [Rachel], tragedienne |
Mar 24 |
[George] Hector Tyndale, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Mar 25 |
Mrs. Linnaeus Banks, The Manchester Man |
Mar 26 |
Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel) |
Mar 29 |
Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887 |
Apr 3 |
T. Pelham Dale, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1892) |
Apr 4 |
Linus Yale, US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock) |
Apr 9 |
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil) |
Apr 9 |
Charles Baudelaire, Messengers |
Apr 15 |
Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894 |
Apr 16 |
Ford Maddox Brown, painter |
Apr 19 |
Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1896 |
Apr 23 |
Pierre Dupont, song writer |
May 2 |
Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1908 |
May 2 |
Jens Andreas Friis, Laila |
May 8 |
William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1885) |
May 11 |
[Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
May 16 |
Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894) |
May 17 |
Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897) |
May 17 |
Sebastian Kneipp, Wer ist der größte Deutsche? |
May 21 |
John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director |
May 22 |
Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879 |
May 25 |
Diederich Krug, composer |
Jun 2 |
Ion Bratianu, (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88) |
Jun 4 |
Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897) |
Jun 8 |
John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1897 |
Jun 8 |
Samuel White Baker, London England, explorer (Ceylon/Egypt) |
Jun 12 |
Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866 |
Jun 13 |
Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977) |
Jun 13 |
Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Asst Secy (Union), died in 1883 |
Jun 14 |
Jozef Lies, Flemish painter |
Jun 14 |
Vasile Alecsandri, Cucoana Chirita |
Jun 15 |
Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer |
Jun 16 |
Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908) |
Jun 26 |
Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine general |
Jun 27 |
August Conradi, composer |
Jul 2 |
Charles Tupper, Amherst Nova Scotia, (C) 6th Prime Minister of Canada (69-day term) |
Jul 3 |
F Kornberger, writer |
Jul 6 |
Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
Jul 8 |
William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 10 |
Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Jul 12 |
Cesare Dominiceti, composer |
Jul 12 |
Daniel Harvey Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
Jul 12 |
Alexander Afanasyev, Emelya-durak |
Jul 13 |
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Chapel Hill Tennessee, slave trader/Confed lt-gen/KKK Grand Wizard, (d. 1877) |
Jul 16 |
Mary Baker Eddy, Bow New Hampshire, founded Christian Science (Science & Health), (d. 1910) |
Jul 18 |
Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910) |
Jul 18 |
Pauline Viardot, A Voice Out of the Cold: Vivica Genaux |
Jul 20 |
Christian Molbech, Heart of an Actress |
Jul 21 |
Vasile Alecsandri, Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat |
Jul 24 |
William Poole, American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys) (d. 1855) |
Aug 4 |
James White, American theologian (d. 1881) |
Aug 4 |
Louis Vuitton, Anchay France, Founder of the leather goods company |
Aug 10 |
Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905) |
Aug 11 |
Octave Feuillet, A Parisian Romance |
Aug 14 |
Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
Aug 21 |
William Barksdale, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Aug 24 |
Emmanuele Muzio, composer |
Aug 29 |
Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Meylan, French Anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs |
Aug 30 |
Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849) |
Aug 31 |
Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer |
Sep 8 |
Henry Baxter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873 |
Sep 17 |
Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer |
Sep 24 |
Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda) |
Sep 26 |
Alvin Peterson Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 27 |
Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Grains de Mil) |
Sep 28 |
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874) |
Oct 2 |
Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army) |
Oct 7 |
Richard Heron Anderson, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
Oct 7 |
William Sill, with The Underground Railroad |
Oct 11 |
Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer |
Oct 11 |
George Williams, England, founder YMCA |
Oct 13 |
Rudolf Virchow, Schivelbein, Pomerania, Prussia, German politician/anthropologist/pathologist (cell pathology), (d. 1902) |
Oct 16 |
Albert Franz Doppler, composer |
Oct 20 |
Michel Carré, The Adventures of Tintin |
Oct 21 |
Emilio Arrieta, Espérame en el cielo |
Oct 22 |
Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900) |
Oct 30 |
Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer |
Oct 30 |
Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Idiot) [NS=11/11] |
Oct 30 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double |
Oct 31 |
Karel Havlícek Borovský, King Lavra |
Nov 2 |
Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899) |
Nov 9 |
Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer |
Nov 11 |
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment), (d. 1881) |
Nov 22 |
Johanne Louise Heiberg, En søndag på Amager |
Nov 23 |
Charles Meryon, British/French etcher |
Nov 30 |
Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1896 |
Nov 30 |
Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902) |
Dec 2 |
Rufus Barringer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
Dec 10 |
Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and publisher (Russkije Zjenjshiny) |
Dec 10 |
Nikolai A. Nekrasov, Svatovstvo gusara |
Dec 12 |
Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary) |
Dec 12 |
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary |
Dec 15 |
Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer |
Dec 17 |
Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 |
Dec 19 |
Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader |
Dec 22 |
Giovanni Bottesini, composer |
Dec 25 |
Clara Barton, Oxford Mass, nurse/founder (American Red Cross), (d. 1912) |
Dec 25 |
Clara Barton, The Flag of Humanity |
17 |
Arthur Saint-Leon, Dr. Coppelius |
24 |
Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Norwid |
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