1805

January 4

• Birth of Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh composer. [1]

January 27

• Birth of Samuel Palmer London, painter/etcher (Valley of Vision). [1]

February 1

• Birth of Auguste Blanqui France, revolutionary (workers' leader). [1]

February 3

• Birth of Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel premier Prussia. [1]

February 4

• Birth of Georg Andreas Henkel composer. [1]
• Birth of William H Ainsworth English writer (Old Saint Paul's, Rookwood). [1]

February 13

• Birth of David Dudley Field lawyer/law codifier. [1]
• Birth of Peter G L Dirichlet Germany, number theorist/analyst. [1]

February 18

• Birth of Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough Rear Admiral (Union Navy). [1]

February 20

• Birth of Angelina Grimke reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer. [1]

February 21

• Birth of David Tod US diplomat/(Governor-Republican-Ohio, 1861-63). [1]

March 5

• Birth of Theodore Labarre composer. [1]

March 30

• Birth of Adrien de La Fage composer. [1]

April 2

• Birth of Hans Christian Andersen Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales. [1]

April 7

• Birth of Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Governor-South Carolina, Confederacy), died in 1869. [1]

April 19

• Birth of Charles Edmond-Hénri de Coussemaker Belgian musicologist/historian. [1]

April 30

• Birth of William Kerley Strong Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867. [1]

May 14

• Birth of Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann composer. [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 France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America). [1]

September 6

• Birth of Horatio Greenough US, neoclassical sculptor/writer. [1]

September 23

• Birth of Matthew Adams Stickney Rowley Massachusetts, numismatist. [1]

November 19

• Birth of Ferdinand de Lesseps 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]
• 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 Jr Sharon Vermont, founder of Mormon church. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Joseph-Leon Gatayes composer. [1]

December 28

• Birth of Tomas Genoves y Lapetra composer. [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 17

• Birth of James Madison Randolph (Jefferson's grandson) first born in White House. [1]

January 19

• Birth of Vaclav Jindrich Veit composer. [1]

January 20

• Birth of Nathaniel Willis writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Magazine). [1]

January 25

• Birth of Daniel Maclise Irish painter. [1]

January 27

• Birth of Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga y Balzola Spanish composer. [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 Pierce first lady-Franklin Pierce (1853-57). [1]

March 16

• Birth of Norbert Rillieux inventor (sugar refiner). [1]

March 21

• Birth of Benito Pablo Juárez Oaxaca Mexico, President of México (1858-72). [1]

March 26

• Birth of Josef Slavik composer. [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 6

• Birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)/Mrs Robert Browning. [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), died in 1864. [1]

April 18

• Birth of Ludwig Schuberth composer. [1]

April 21

• Birth of Peter van Schendel Dutch painter. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch composer. [1]

April 29

• Birth of Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben Austria, physician/philosopher. [1]

May 6

• Birth of Chapin Aaron Harris US, founded America Society of Dental Surgeons. [1]

May 8

• Birth of Jan Bedrich Kittl composer. [1]

May 12

• Birth of Amos Beebe Eaton Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1877. [1]
• Birth of J V Snellman Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist. [1]

May 16

• Birth of George C Cadwalader Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879. [1]

May 20

• Birth of John Stuart Mill United Kingdom, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian. [1]

May 26

• Birth of Henry Knox Thatcher Commander (Union Navy), died in 1880. [1]

May 27

• Birth of Charles-Joseph Tolbecque composer. [1]

December 3

• Birth of Henry Alexander Wise Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1876. [1]

December 6

• Birth of Louis-Gilbert Duprez composer. [1]

December 12

• Birth of Stand Watie Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1871. [1]

1807

January 2

• Birth of Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki composer. [1]

January 4

• Birth of Baltasar Saldoni composer. [1]

January 6

• Birth of Joseph Holt Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1894. [1]
• Birth of Ludwig Erk composer. [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 12

• Birth of Jan T Beelen Dutch/Belgian bible expert. [1]

January 13

• Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte Buford Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883. [1]

January 16

• Birth of Charles Henry Davis Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877. [1]

January 19

• Birth of Robert Edward Lee Stratford Virginia, General-in-Chief (Confederacy). [1]

February 1

• Birth of Henri Klimrath French lawyer (Mémoire sur lesson Olim). [1]
• Birth of William Bowen Campbell Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867. [1]

February 3

• Birth of Joseph E Johnston General (Commander army of Tennessee). [1]
• Birth of Joseph Eggleston Johnston General (Confederate Army), died in 1891. [1]

February 6

• Birth of Hans Matthison-Hansen composer. [1]

February 8

• Birth of Franciscus J van Vree Dutch Catholic foreman. [1]

February 10

• Birth of Abner Clark Harding Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874. [1]

February 13

• Birth of Bartolommea Capitanio Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters). [1]

February 15

• Birth of Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski composer. [1]

February 16

• Birth of Lysander Cutler Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866. [1]

February 25

• Birth of George Alfred Trenholm Secretary Treasurer (Confederacy), died in 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 1

• Birth of Fredrik Cygnaeus Finnish poet/literature critic. [1]

April 24

• Birth of Charles Ferguson Smith Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862. [1]

May 1

• Birth of John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder Major General (Confederate Army). [1]

May 11

• Birth of Ira Aldridge Great 19th century black Shakespearian actor (Othello). [1]

May 15

• Birth of Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata composer. [1]

May 24

• Birth of Cornelis E van Koetsveld vicar/literature. [1]
• Birth of Thomas Duncan painter. [1]

May 28

• Birth of Jan van Swieten Dutch general/Governor of West-Sumatra. [1]
• Birth of Louis Agassiz Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher. [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), died in 1901. [1]

1808

January 7

• Birth of Jacob Ammen Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894. [1]

January 11

• Birth of Antoine GB Schayes Belgian historian/archaeologist. [1]

January 12

• Birth of Paul "the Great" Taglioni Vienna, ballet choreographer. [1]

January 13

• Birth of Salmon P Chase (Senator-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73). [1]

January 27

• Birth of David F Strauss Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life). [1]

February 9

• Birth of Francesco Gomez da Rocha composer. [1]

February 20

• Birth of Daumier Marseilles France, artist. [1]

February 25

• Birth of James Bowen Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886. [1]

February 26

• Birth of Honoré Daumier France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist. [1]

March 12

• Birth of Gerrit van der Linde Jz "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet. [1]

March 14

• Birth of Catharinus Putnam Buckingham Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]

March 15

• Birth of Gaetano Gaspari composer. [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 10

• Birth of Auguste Franchomme composer. [1]

April 16

• Birth of Caleb Blood Smith Secretary of Interior (Union), died in 1864. [1]

April 20

• Birth of Louis-Napoleon [Napoleon III] emperor of France (1852-71). [1]

April 26

• Birth of Martha Finley children's book author. [1]

April 29

• Birth of Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch German politician/reformer [or 1883]. [1]

May 15

• Birth of Gottfried Herrmann composer. [1]
• Birth of Michael William Balfe composer. [1]

May 17

• Birth of Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel composer. [1]

May 19

• Birth of Samuel Jameson Gholson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883. [1]

May 21

• Birth of Gérard de Nerval [Labrunie] French poet/writer (Sylvia). [1]

May 22

• Birth of G de Nerval writer. [1]

May 30

• Birth of Joaquim Casimiro Jr composer. [1]

June 3

• Birth of Jefferson Davis Kentucky, President of Confederate States of America (1861-5). [1]

December 4

• Birth of Ernest Panckoucke French publisher (Horatius). [1]

December 6

• Birth of Johan M Dautzenberg Flemish author (Future). [1]
• Birth of Johann Christian Gebauer composer. [1]

December 7

• Birth of Hugh McCulloch US Secretary of Treasury. [1]

December 20

• Birth of Thomas Tinsley Craven Commander (Union Navy), died in 1887. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Thomas Cook England, tour director (Thomas Cook and Son). [1]

December 23

• Birth of Thomas Turner Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Stephen Cleeg Rowan Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Albert Grisar composer. [1]

December 29

• Birth of Andrew Johnson Raleigh North Carolina, (Unionist), 17th President (1865-69). [1]
• Birth of György Apponyi Hungarian Parliament member. [1]

1809

January 1

• Birth of John Pieter Heije Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet). [1]

January 2

• Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns composer. [1]

January 4

• Birth of Louis Braille in Coupvray, France; developer (reading system for blind) (dies 1852). [1] [5]

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 Philadelphia Pennsylvania, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus). [1]
• Birth of Pierre Joseph Proudhon France, politician (libertarian socialist). [1]

January 18

• Birth of Richard Caswell Gatlin Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 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 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]
• Birth of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury, England; discovered evolution (Origin of species). [1] [5]

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 Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 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 Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892. [1]

March 3

• Birth of Sophia Hawthorne writer. [1]

March 10

• Birth of William David Porter Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864. [1]

March 15

• Birth of Joseph Jenkins Roberts first President of Liberia. [1]

March 18

• Birth of Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés [Placido], Cuban poet. [1]

March 19

• Birth of Fredrik Pacius composer. [1]

March 24

• Birth of Joseph Liouville Saint Omer Pas-de-Calais France, discover of transcendental numbers. [1]

March 27

• Birth of Georges Eugene Haussmann Paris France, architect. [1]

March 31

• Birth of Edward FitzGerald England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam). [1]
• Birth of Nikolai Gogol father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls). [1]
• Birth of Otto Jonas Lindblad composer. [1]

April 1

• Birth of Nikolai Gogol writer. [1]
• Birth of Willem Ruys J Dz Dutch ship owner. [1]

April 4

• Birth of Benjamin Pierce US mathematician/astronomer. [1]

April 14

• Birth of George W Vreede Dutch lawyer/politician. [1]

April 15

• Birth of Hermann Günther Grassmann mathematician. [1]

April 17

• Birth of Philip Saint George Cocke Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861. [1]

April 20

• Birth of John Smith Preston Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881. [1]

April 21

• Birth of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Secretary of State (Confederacy). [1]

April 23

• Birth of Eugene-Prosper Prevost composer. [1]

April 28

• Birth of Conradus Leemans Dutch archaeologist. [1]

May 6

• Birth of William Walker composer. [1]

August 6

• Birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson poet laureate of England. [1]

August 27

• Birth of Hannibal Hamlin (Republican) 15th Vice President (1861-65). [1]

August 29

• Birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes Cambridge, Massachusetts, physician/author (Old Ironsides). [1]

November 27

• Birth of Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble England, Shakespearian actress (Juliet). [1]

December 3

• Birth of Thomas Alfred Davies Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899. [1]

December 6

• Birth of Stephen Thomas Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1903. [1]

December 16

• Birth of Peter P van Bosse Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance. [1]

December 19

• Birth of Pierre-Joseph van Beneden Belgium, paleontologist (life cycle of tapeworms). [1]

December 20

• Birth of Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt composer. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Benedict Augustin Morel Vienna, French psychologist (dementia praecox). [1]

December 24

• Birth of Christopher "Kit" Carson Kentucky, Union Brigadier-General/Indian fighter. [1]

December 26

• Birth of William Nelson Pendleton Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1883. [1]

December 29

• Birth of Albert Pike Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1891. [1]
• Birth of William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) British Prime Minister (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94). [1]