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Notable Birthdays - 1822

1822Ulysses S. Grant, Ohio (R), 18th US president (1869-77) and Union general

1822Matthew Arnold, Laleham, Middlesex, poet/critic (Dover Beach), (d. 1888)

1822Gregor Mendel, Austrian Empire, monk/geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), (d. 1884)

1822Rutherford B. Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th US president (1877-81)

1822Louis Pasteur, Dole, France, bacteriologist (pasturization), (d. 1895)

1822Frederick Law Olmsted, Hartford, Connecticut, writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park)

1822 Birthdays
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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