- April 2
- Birth of Hans Christian Andersen in Denmark; author of 150 fairy tales. [1]
- April 7
- Birth of Francis Wilkinson Pickens; governor (South Carolina, Confederacy) (dies 1869). [1]
- April 30
- Birth of William Kerley Strong; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1867). [1]
- June 29
- Birth of Hiram Powers; US sculptor (Greek Slave). [1]
- July 26
- Birth of Constantine Brumidi; artist (Myrtle Murdock). [1]
- July 29
- Birth of Alexis de Tocqueville in France; statesman/writer (Democracy in America). [1]
- November 19
- Birth of Ferdinand de Lesseps in France; diplomat (built Suez Canal). [1]
- November 28
- Birth of John Stephens; US archeologist, founded study of Central America. [1]
- December 10
- Birth of John E Feisser; theologist/founder first Dutch baptist church. [1]
- December 12
- Birth of Henry Wells; founder (American Express Company, and Wells Fargo and Company). [1]
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- Birth of William Lloyd Garrison; abolitionist publisher (The Liberator). [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Thomas Graham; father of colloid chemistry. [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Joseph Smith Junior in Sharon, Vermont, USA; founder of Mormon church. [1]
- December 31
- Birth of Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult [Daniel Stern]; French author (Knife). [1]
1806
- January 5
- Birth of Andre H C van Hasselt; Belgian poet ("La Belgium"). [1]
- January 14
- Birth of Matthew Fontaine Maury; Naval Commander (Confederacy). [1]
- January 20
- Birth of Nathaniel Willis; writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Magazine). [1]
- February 14
- Birth of Lajos Count Batthyány; revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49). [1]
- March 6
- Birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; poet ("Sonnets from the Portuguese"). [1]
- March 12
- Birth of Jane Means Appleton in Hampton, New Hampshire, USA; spouse of 14th US President Franklin Pierce. [1] [444.72]
- March 16
- Birth of Norbert Rillieux; inventor (sugar refiner). [1]
- March 21
- Birth of Benito Pablo Juárez in Oaxaca, Mexico; President of México (1858-72). [1]
- March 28
- Birth of Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele; Governor-General of Netherland Indies (1861-66). [1]
- April 2
- Birth of Giacomo Antonelli; Italian cardinal/Assistant Secretary of State for Pius IX. [1]
- April 9
- Birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel; designer of first transatlantic steamer. [1]
- Birth of Louis; count of Barrthyányi, premier of Hungary. [1]
- April 10
- Birth of Leonidas Polk; Lieutenant General (Confederate Army) (dies 1864). [1]
- May 6
- Birth of Chapin Aaron Harris in the USA; founded America Society of Dental Surgeons. [1]
- May 12
- Birth of Amos Beebe Eaton; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1877). [1]
- May 16
- Birth of George C Cadwalader; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1879). [1]
- May 26
- Birth of Henry Knox Thatcher; US Commander (Union Navy) (dies 1880). [1]
- December 3
- Birth of Henry Alexander Wise; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1876). [1]
- December 12
- Birth of Stand Watie; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1871). [1]
- Birth of twin brothers François and Louis Blanc in Courtezon, France; financiers, bankers, casino operators in Luxemburg, Homburg. [811.137]
1807
- January 6
- Birth of Joseph Holt; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1894). [1]
- January 11
- Birth of Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]
- Birth of Ezra Cornell; founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University). [1]
- January 13
- Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte Buford; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1883). [1]
- January 16
- Birth of Charles Henry Davis; Rear Admiral (Union Navy) (dies 1877). [1]
- January 19
- Birth of Robert Edward Lee Stratford in Virginia, USA; General-in-Chief (Confederacy). [1]
- February 1
- Birth of Henri Klimrath; French lawyer (Mémoire sur lesson Olim). [1]
- Birth of William Bowen Campbell; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1867). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; General (Confederate Army of Tennessee) (dies 1891). [1]
- February 10
- Birth of Abner Clark Harding; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1874). [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Bartolommea Capitanio; Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters). [1]
- February 16
- Birth of Lysander Cutler; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1866). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of George Alfred Trenholm; Secretary Treasurer (Confederacy) (dies 1876). [1]
- February 27
- Birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland, Maine, USA; poet (Hiawatha) (dies 1882). [1] [5]
- March 7
- Birth of Franz Grave von Pocci; German poet/composer (Der Alchemist). [1]
- April 24
- Birth of Charles Ferguson Smith; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1862). [1]
- May 1
- Birth of John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder; Major General (Confederate Army). [1]
- May 2
- Birth of William Barber; US Mint Chief Engraver. [491.48] [826.36]
- May 11
- Birth of Ira Aldridge; great 19th century Shakespearian actor (Othello). [1]
- May 28
- Birth of Jan van Swieten; Dutch general/Governor of West-Sumatra. [1]
- July 1
- Birth of Thomas Green Clemson; mining engineer, endowed Clemson University. [1]
- July 4
- Birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi; unified Italy. [1]
- December 17
- Birth of John Greenleaf Whittier; US poet (Snow-bound). [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Richard Lucian Page; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1901). [1]
1808
- January 7
- Birth of Jacob Ammen; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1894). [1]
- January 13
- Birth of Salmon P Chase; US Republican Senator, cabinet member, Treasury Secretary, 6th chief justice (1864-73). [1] [471.32]
- January 27
- Birth of David F Strauss; Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of James Bowen; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1886). [1]
- March 14
- Birth of Catharinus Putnam Buckingham; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]
- March 23
- Birth of Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper; sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook). [1]
- March 25
- Birth of José de Espronceda y Delgado; Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes). [1]
- April 16
- Birth of Caleb Blood Smith; US Secretary of Interior (Union) (dies 1864). [1]
- April 20
- Birth of Louis-Napoleon; emperor of France (Napoleon III, 1852-71). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Samuel Jameson Gholson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1883). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of Gérard de Nerval [Labrunie]; French poet/writer (Sylvia). [1]
- June 3
- Birth of Jefferson Davis in Kentucky, USA; President of Confederate States of America (1861-65). [1]
- December 4
- Birth of Ernest Panckoucke; French publisher (Horatius). [1]
- December 6
- Birth of Johan M Dautzenberg; Flemish author (Future). [1]
- December 7
- Birth of Hugh McCulloch; US Secretary of Treasury. [1]
- December 20
- Birth of Thomas Tinsley Craven; Commander (Union Navy) (dies 1887). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Thomas Cook in England; tour director (Thomas Cook and Son). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Thomas Turner; Commander (Union Navy) (dies 1883). [1]
- December 25
- Birth of Stephen Cleeg Rowan; Commander (Union Navy) (dies 1890). [1]
- December 29
- Birth of Andrew Johnson in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; American politician (Representative, Tennessee, 1843-53), governor of Tennessee (1853-57), US Senator (Tennessee, 1857-62, 1875), military governor of Tennessee (1862-64), 17th US President (1865-69). [1] [603.66]
1809
- January 1
- Birth of John Pieter Heije; Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet). [1]
- January 4
- Birth of Louis Braille in Coupvray, France; developer of reading system for blind (dies 1852). [1] [5] [505.50]
- January 13
- Birth of Friedrich Graf von Beust in Dresden, Germany; foreign minister of the Austrian Empire from 1867-1871. [37]
- January 15
- Birth of Cornelia Connelly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Richard Caswell Gatlin; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1896). [1]
- January 19
- Birth of Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; poet, author and literary critic (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, The Raven). [1] [129]
- January 20
- Birth of Sebastian de Iradier; Spanish composer (La Paloma). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Hamburg, Germany; composer (Great Scherzos). [1]
- February 7
- Birth of Frederik Paludan-Müller; Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Abraham Lincoln in Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA; (Republican) 16th President (1861-65) (dies 1865). [1] [5] [547.52]
- Birth of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; postulated theory of evolution (On the Origin of the Species By Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life). [1] [5] [477.92]
- February 15
- Birth of Cyrus Hall McCormick; inventor (Mechanical reaper). [1]
- February 20
- Birth of Albertus J Duymaer van Twist; Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies. [1]
- Birth of Henry Walton Wessells; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1889). [1]
- February 24
- Birth of Albert Schäffle; German sociologist (Abriss der Soziologie). [1]
- Birth of Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel; governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of George Washington Cullom; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1892). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of William David Porter; Commander (Union Navy) (dies 1864). [1]
- March 15
- Birth of Joseph Jenkins Roberts; first President of Liberia. [1]
- March 24
- Birth of Joseph Liouville Saint Omer in Pas-de-Calais, France; discover of transcendental numbers. [1]
- March 31
- Birth of Edward FitzGerald in England; writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam). [1]
- Birth of Nikolai Gogol; writer, father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls). [1]
- April 17
- Birth of Philip Saint George Cocke; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1861). [1]
- April 20
- Birth of John Smith Preston; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1881). [1]
- April 21
- Birth of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter; Secretary of State (Confederate States of America). [1]
- August 6
- Birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson; poet laureate of England. [1]
- August 27
- Birth of Hannibal Hamlin; (Republican) 15th US Vice President (1861-65). [1]
- August 29
- Birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; physician/author (Old Ironsides). [1]
- November 27
- Birth of Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble in England; Shakespearian actress (Juliet). [1]
- December 3
- Birth of Thomas Alfred Davies; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1899). [1]
- December 6
- Birth of Stephen Thomas; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1903). [1]
- December 9
- Birth of James Ross Snowden in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA; US Mint Treasurer (1848-1850), US Mint Director (1853-1861). [1105.169]
- December 16
- Birth of Peter P van Bosse; Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance. [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Pierre-Joseph van Beneden in Belgium; paleontologist (life cycle of tapeworms). [1]
- December 22
- Birth of Benedict Augustin Morel in Vienna; French psychologist (dementia praecox). [1]
- December 24
- Birth of Christopher "Kit" Carson in Kentucky, USA; Union Brigadier-General/Indian fighter. [1]
- December 26
- Birth of William Nelson Pendleton; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1883). [1]
- December 29
- Birth of Albert Pike in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), Indian Commissioner, governor of Indian Territory (dies 1891). [1] [916.65]
- Birth of William Ewart Gladstone in Liverpool, England; British Prime Minister (Liberal, 1868-1874, 1880-1886, 1892-1894). [1458.11]
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