Notable Birthdays - 1838
1838 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
William Hugh Young, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
Jan 4 |
Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person) |
Jan 4 |
Tom Thumb, |
Jan 5 |
Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922) |
Jan 6 |
Max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer |
Jan 6 |
Max Bruch, Kinsey |
Jan 16 |
Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917) |
Feb 6 |
Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], England, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet) |
Feb 6 |
Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933) |
Feb 6 |
Henry Irving, The Bells |
Feb 12 |
Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898 |
Feb 14 |
Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison" |
Feb 16 |
Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist |
Feb 16 |
Henry Adams, Boston Mass, historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams) |
Feb 18 |
Ernst Mach, Chirlitz-Turas Austria, physicist/philosopher/psychologist |
Feb 20 |
James Barbour Terrill, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
Feb 22 |
Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun |
Feb 23 |
Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
Feb 24 |
Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1923 |
Feb 26 |
Wendelin Weissheimer, composer |
Feb 28 |
Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910) |
Mar 1 |
Gabriele dell' Addolorata, [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest |
Mar 2 |
David Duffle Wood, composer |
Mar 3 |
George William Hill, US astronomer (calculated Moon's orbit) |
Mar 4 |
Paul Lacome, composer |
Mar 7 |
Edward Payson Roe, Barriers Burned Away |
Mar 12 |
William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye) |
Mar 15 |
Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land) |
Mar 15 |
Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889) |
Mar 18 |
Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter |
Mar 18 |
Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903) |
Mar 25 |
Elwell Stephen Otis, Funeral of Major-General Henry W. Lawton |
Mar 31 |
Leon Dierx, French poet |
Apr 3 |
Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82) |
Apr 5 |
Alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist |
Apr 11 |
Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer |
Apr 12 |
John Shaw Billings, US, librarian/army physician |
Apr 16 |
Karel Bendl, composer |
Apr 18 |
Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912) |
Apr 21 |
John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras) |
Apr 21 |
Nat Thompson, cricketer (1st batsman dismissed in a Test match) |
Apr 21 |
Frantisek Ferdinand Samberk, Jedenácté prikázání |
Apr 23 |
Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter |
Apr 28 |
Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law (Nobel 1911) |
May 6 |
Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer |
May 10 |
James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman |
May 10 |
John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin (President Lincoln) |
May 11 |
Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (d. 1912) |
May 12 |
B.L. Farjeon, Miriam Rozella |
May 20 |
Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925) |
May 24 |
Paul Laband, German lawyer |
May 28 |
Basil Wilson Duke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1916 |
May 31 |
Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University) |
Jun 2 |
Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900) |
Jun 4 |
Servaas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flemish writer (Lute & Flute) |
Jun 10 |
Meyer E van Beem, actor (Black Venus) |
Jun 10 |
Meyer van Beem, Mottige Janus |
Jun 16 |
Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900) |
Jun 17 |
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya/Chatterjee, Bengali writer and poet (Vande Mataram) |
Jun 23 |
Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
Jun 24 |
Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism) |
Jun 26 |
Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Anand Math |
Jun 27 |
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath) |
Jun 27 |
Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914) |
Jul 6 |
Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923) |
Jul 8 |
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Baden Germany, inventor (rigid dirigibles), (d. 1917) |
Jul 8 |
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, |
Jul 11 |
John Wanamaker, merchant (Wanamakers Dept Store) |
Jul 15 |
Loyd Wheaton, A Charge of the Insurgents |
Jul 19 |
Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen) |
Jul 20 |
Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899) |
Jul 20 |
George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928) |
Jul 20 |
Augustin Daly, Madelaine Morel |
Jul 23 |
Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist |
Jul 23 |
Colonne, Terror's Advocate |
Jul 30 |
Eugen Richter, German parliament member (Liberal) |
Aug 12 |
Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal |
Aug 12 |
Joseph Barnby, Gone with the Wind |
Sep 2 |
Liliuokalani, [Lydia Paki], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93) |
Sep 6 |
Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906) |
Sep 11 |
John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul |
Sep 14 |
John Pelham, Major (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
Sep 16 |
James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad) |
Sep 18 |
Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh |
Sep 23 |
Victoria Woodhull, Ohio US, feminist/reformer - first woman to be nominated for US presidency |
Sep 27 |
Antony E J Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83) |
Sep 29 |
Henry Hobson Richardson, St James LA, Romanesque revival architect |
Oct 6 |
Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910) |
Oct 6 |
Giuseppe Cesare Abba, A Sicilian Heroine |
Oct 8 |
John Milton Hay, politician (Union), died in 1905 |
Oct 8 |
John Hay, Jim Bludso |
Oct 14 |
August Senoa, Cuvaj se senjske ruke |
Oct 22 |
Carl Fuchs, composer |
Oct 23 |
F. Hopkinson Smith, Desperate Youth |
Oct 25 |
Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen) |
Oct 25 |
Georges Bizet, Trainspotting |
Oct 27 |
John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915) |
Oct 27 |
John Davis Long, Secretary Long and Captain Sigsbee |
Oct 31 |
King Louis of Portugal (d. 1889) |
Nov 6 |
John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1894 |
Nov 7 |
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889) |
Nov 7 |
Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje |
Nov 8 |
Rufus W. Peckham, |
Nov 13 |
Joseph F Smith, 6th pres of Mormon church |
Nov 13 |
Joseph F. Smith, Latter-Day Saint Leaders: Past and Present |
Nov 14 |
August Senoa, Croatian author (Zlatarevo zlato) |
Nov 22 |
Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer |
Nov 29 |
Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies |
Dec 3 |
Cleveland Abbe, US, meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau) |
Dec 3 |
Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement |
Dec 4 |
Melesio Morales, composer |
Dec 11 |
Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG) |
Dec 11 |
Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer |
Dec 12 |
Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (binary stars) |
Dec 13 |
Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer |
Dec 17 |
Berthold Tours, composer |
Dec 20 |
Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926) |
Dec 20 |
Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland |
Dec 30 |
Emile Loubet, Arrival and Departure of President Loubet |
Dec 31 |
Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906) |
2 |
Queen Liliuokalani, The Descendants |
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