Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 2 |
Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) |
Jan 4 |
Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899 |
Jan 5 |
Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
Jan 6 |
Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje) |
Jan 7 |
Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author (Goethe) |
Jan 7 |
Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist (Rigveda's Hymns) |
Jan 8 |
Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer |
Jan 9 |
John Porter Hatch, volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1901 |
Jan 12 |
Étienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900) |
Jan 14 |
Nicholas Mori, composer |
Jan 27 |
Thomas Leiper Kane, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 |
Jan 28 |
Alexander Mackenzie, Logierait Scotland, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78) |
Jan 30 |
John Basil Turchin, [Ivan Turchinoff], Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Jan 30 |
Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899) |
Feb 7 |
Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer |
Feb 8 |
Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres) |
Feb 9 |
Charles T Stork, Dutch industrialist |
Feb 13 |
Lev A Mej, Russian nobleman/poet |
Feb 13 |
Lev Mey, Tsarskaya nevesta |
Feb 15 |
Theodor Uhlig, composer |
Feb 16 |
Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist & geneticist |
Feb 16 |
James Patton Anderson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1872 |
Feb 17 |
Georg Weerth, Leben und Thaten des berühmten Ritters Schnapphahnski |
Feb 22 |
Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease) |
Feb 27 |
Eugene Gautier, composer |
Feb 28 |
Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
Mar 1 |
Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
Mar 1 |
Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
Mar 4 |
Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880) |
Mar 6 |
Stefan Mitrov Ljubisa, Pastrovski vitez |
Mar 7 |
Victor Masse, composer |
Mar 8 |
Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882) |
Mar 10 |
Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter/lithographer |
Mar 11 |
Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
Mar 13 |
Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet |
Mar 14 |
Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889) |
Mar 16 |
John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
Mar 16 |
Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill) |
Mar 22 |
Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education/Justice |
Mar 22 |
Isaac D Fransen van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866) |
Mar 22 |
Seth Williams, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1866 |
Mar 27 |
Henri Murger, La Vie de Bohème |
Mar 29 |
Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter |
Mar 31 |
Rafael Hernando, composer |
Apr 3 |
Edward Everett Hale, US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country) |
Apr 3 |
Edward Everett Hale, The Man Without a Country |
Apr 5 |
James Nagle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866 |
Apr 5 |
Paolo Ferrari, Le vie del cuore |
Apr 7 |
Gershom Mott, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Apr 13 |
Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Apr 13 |
William Stephen Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
Apr 15 |
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers) |
Apr 24 |
Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Apr 25 |
James Pierpont, Iron Man 3 |
Apr 26 |
Frederick Law Olmsted, Hartford, Connecticut, writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park) |
Apr 26 |
Jan Albert van Eyken, composer/organist |
Apr 27 |
Ulysses S. Grant, Ohio (R), 18th US president (1869-77) and Union general |
Apr 27 |
Ulysses S. Grant, The Last G.A.R. Parade at Rochester, N.Y. |
May 4 |
Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (d. 1915) |
May 10 |
August Ritter von Pettenkofen, painter |
May 13 |
Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902) |
May 16 |
Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor |
May 20 |
Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo) |
May 20 |
Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901) |
May 20 |
Emile Erckmann, The Bells |
May 21 |
Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 |
May 21 |
Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1865 |
May 26 |
E de Goncourt, writer |
May 26 |
Edmond de Goncourt, Élisa |
May 27 |
Henry Wylde, composer |
May 27 |
Josef Joachim Raff, composer |
Jun 11 |
Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889 |
Jun 13 |
Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884) |
Jun 18 |
Henry David Leslie, composer |
Jun 23 |
Young Marshall Moody, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 |
Jun 24 |
Birkett Davenport Fry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
Jul 2 |
Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails/trains) |
Jul 16 |
Luigi Arditi, violinist/composer |
Jul 19 |
Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916) |
Jul 19 |
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, |
Jul 20 |
Gregor Mendel, Austrian Empire, monk/geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), (d. 1884) |
Jul 21 |
Ludwig Theodore Gouvy, composer |
Jul 22 |
Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1897 |
Jul 22 |
John George Walker, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 |
Jul 22 |
Luigi Arditi, Every Sunday |
Jul 23 |
Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 |
Jul 25 |
Schuyler Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903 |
Aug 5 |
Johann Georg Herzog, composer |
Aug 15 |
Wilhelm Rust, composer |
Aug 22 |
George Stoneman, US Union general-major/(Gov-California, 1883-87) |
Aug 22 |
Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847) |
Aug 31 |
Fitz John Porter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901 |
Sep 9 |
Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention |
Sep 16 |
Charles S Crocker, Pres of Central & South Pacific Railroad |
Sep 19 |
Joseph Rodman West, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
Sep 22 |
Brig Gen Eppa Hunton, fought in most ANV campaigns |
Sep 25 |
Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen (Union vol) |
Oct 2 |
Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister (1877-79) |
Oct 4 |
Rutherford B. Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th US president (1877-81) |
Oct 4 |
Rutherford B. Hayes, In the Line of Fire |
Oct 5 |
Hans Hampel, composer |
Oct 7 |
Francis Frith, Gates of Heaven |
Oct 9 |
George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880 |
Oct 12 |
Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 |
Oct 13 |
Karl Reinthaler, composer |
Oct 15 |
Alfred Meissner, Austrian physician/writer |
Oct 20 |
Mansfield Lovell, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 |
Oct 20 |
Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays |
Oct 21 |
Levinus Keuchenius, Dutch minister of Colonies (1888-90) |
Oct 29 |
Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97) |
Oct 29 |
Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902) |
Nov 2 |
James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Nov 6 |
Gordon Granger, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876 |
Nov 7 |
Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer |
Nov 14 |
William Harrow, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872 |
Nov 16 |
Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891 |
Dec 3 |
Charles Adam Heckman, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896 |
Dec 4 |
Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society |
Dec 5 |
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president (d. 1907) |
Dec 6 |
John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US |
Dec 8 |
Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1910 |
Dec 10 |
Thomas Casimer Devin, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1878 |
Dec 10 |
César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890) |
Dec 10 |
César Franck, The Wolverine |
Dec 15 |
Edward Stephen, composer |
Dec 16 |
Charles Edward Horsley, composer |
Dec 23 |
Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875) |
Dec 24 |
Charles Hermite, French mathematician (E is Transcendent) |
Dec 24 |
Matthew Arnold, Laleham, Middlesex, poet/critic (Dover Beach), (d. 1888) |
Dec 26 |
Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor/playwright (Rip van Winkle) |
Dec 26 |
Dion Boucicault, Kathleen Mavourneen |
Dec 27 |
John Roberts, composer |
Dec 27 |
Louis Pasteur, Dole, France, bacteriologist (pasturization), (d. 1895) |
Dec 28 |
William Booth Taliaferro, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
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