1810

January 3

• Birth of Antoine T d'Abbadie French explorer (Ethiopia). [1]
• Birth of Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega Danish West Indies, baroness. [1]

January 5

• Birth of Auguste Mermet composer. [1]

January 8

• Birth of Robert Schumann Zwickau Germ, composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik). [1]

January 12

• Birth of Ferdinand II king of Sicily. [1]

January 29

• Birth of Earnest E Kummer German mathematician. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Daniel Ruggles Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897. [1]

February 1

• Birth of Charles Lenox Remond Salem Massachusetts, famous black. [1]

February 5

• Birth of Ole Bull composer. [1]

February 8

• Birth of Norbert Burgmuller composer. [1]

February 11

• Birth of Loisa Puget composer. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Frédéric F Chopin Polish/French pianist/composer. [1]
• Birth of Holger Simon Paulli composer. [1]

February 28

• Birth of Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink Dutch historian. [1]

March 1

• Birth of Frédéric Chopin Poland, composer/pianist (Concerto in F Minor). [1]

March 2

• Birth of Leo XIII [Vincenzo G Pecci], 256th pope (1878-1903). [1]

March 9

• Birth of Jean-Georges Kastner composer. [1]

March 10

• Birth of John McCloskey US, president of Saint John's College (Fordham University). [1]

March 15

• Birth of Aernout Drost Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen). [1]

March 27

• Birth of A Glabbrenner writer. [1]

April 6

• Birth of Philip Gosse intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos). [1]

April 13

• Birth of Félicien C David French composer (Perle du Brésil, Désert). [1]

April 23

• Birth of Thomas Wright historian. [1]

April 28

• Birth of Daniel Ullmann Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892. [1]

May 2

• Birth of Hans Christian Lumbye composer. [1]
• Birth of Leo XIII 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903). [1]

May 8

• Birth of James Cooper Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863. [1]

May 9

• Birth of Louis Gallait historical painter. [1]
• Birth of WFLC Marianne princess of Orange-Nassau/daughter of king Willem I. [1]

May 10

• Birth of James Shields Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1879. [1]

May 15

• Birth of Jacob Thompson (Confederacy), died in 1885. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Margaret Fuller writer/critic first pro book review column (New York Tribune). [1]

May 24

• Birth of Abraham Geiger theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism. [1]

May 28

• Birth of Alexandre Calamo Switzerland, painter/etcher/lithographer. [1]

May 29

• Birth of Erasmus Darwin Keyes Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895. [1]
• Birth of Juan B Alberdi [Figarillo] Argentina politician/writer. [1]
• Birth of Solomon Meredith Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875. [1]

May 31

• Birth of Horatio Seymour Governor (Union), died in 1886. [1]

June 3

• In Dublin, Ireland, Robert Mallet is born; engineer, inventor of the word seismology, considered the "first" seismologist. [53]

June 8

• Birth of Robert Schumann Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer (Fantastiestücke). [1]

July 1

• Birth of Walter White secretary (NAACP). [1]

July 5

• Birth of Phineas Taylor Barnum Bethel Conn, circus promoter (Barnum and Bailey). [1]

August 10

• Birth of Camilio Benso di Cavour Italy, Prime Minister. [1]

September 4

• Birth of Donald McKay US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships. [1]

October 28

• Birth of Brigadier General Adley H Gladden Louisiana, killed at Shiloh. [1]

November 18

• Birth of Asa Gray Sauquoit New York, botanist (Flora of North America). [1]

November 28

• Birth of William Froude England, engineer, naval architect. [1]

November 30

• Birth of Oliver Fisher Winchester rifle maker (Winchester). [1]

December 1

• Birth of Joseph Gungl composer. [1]

December 7

• Birth of Theodor Schwann German co-originator of cell theory. [1]

December 11

• Birth of Alfred de Musset Paris France, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine). [1]

December 13

• Birth of Clark Mills US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty). [1]

December 21

• Birth of Ludwig Schuncke composer. [1]

1811

January 5

• Birth of Cyrus Hamlin educator/missionary (established Robert College, Turkey). [1]

January 6

• Birth of Charles Sumner leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874. [1]

February 3

• Birth of Horace Greeley editor ("Go west, young man"). [1]

February 8

• Birth of Edwin Denison Morgan Secretary of War (Confederacy) (dies in 1883). [1]

February 15

• Birth of Domingo F Sarmiento President of Argentina (1868-74). [1]

February 23

• Birth of George Washington Hewitt composer. [1]

February 24

• Birth of Daniel A Payne Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church. [1]
• Birth of Edward Dickinson Baker Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861. [1]

February 25

• Birth of Carl Schuberth composer. [1]

February 27

• Birth of [Catherine] Mildred Lee sister of US General Robert E Lee. [1]

March 1

• Birth of Robert Christie Buchanan Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1878. [1]

March 3

• Birth of Vissarion Belinsky Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review). [1]

March 7

• Birth of Christian Heinrich Hohmann composer. [1]

March 11

• Birth of Marsena Rudolph Patrick Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
• Birth of Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier co-discovered Neptune. [1]

March 15

• Birth of Robert Allen Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1886. [1]

March 20

• Birth of George Caleb Bingham US, politician/painter (Country Election). [1]
• Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte II Napoleon's son/King of Rome. [1]

March 23

• Birth of Camille Marie Stamaty composer. [1]
• Birth of Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert composer. [1]

March 30

• Birth of Angelo Catelani Italian composer/conductor. [1]

March 31

• Birth of Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner). [1]

April 5

• Birth of Jules Dupré landscape painter. [1]

April 17

• Birth of Ann Sheppard Mounsey composer. [1]

May 11

• Birth of Chang and Eng Bunker Chinese Siamese twins. [1]

May 24

• Birth of Charles Clark Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877. [1]

June 7

• Birth of Sir James Young Simpson Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform). [1]

June 14

• Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe author (Uncle Tom's Cabin). [1]

June 17

• Birth of Jon Sigurdsson Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends. [1]

June 30

• Birth of Vissarion Belinsky Sveaborg, Finland, Russian critic, journalist. [1]

July 18

• Birth of William Makepeace Thackeray England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair). [1]

August 3

• Birth of Elisha Graves Otis inventor (safe elevator). [1]

August 5

• Birth of Ambroise Thomas Metz France, composer (Mignon). [1]

August 29

• Birth of Henry Bergh first president of SPCA. [1]

August 31

• Birth of Théophile Gautier Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus). [1]

September 3

• Birth of John Humphrey Noyes Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists). [1]

September 6

• Birth of James Melville Gilliss founded Naval Observatory in Washington. [1]

October 22

• Birth of Franz Liszt Raiding, Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist. [1]

October 27

• Birth of Issac Merrit Singer inventor (first practical home sewing machine). [1]

November 29

• Birth of Wendell Phillips women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer. [1]

December 8

• Birth of Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser composer. [1]

December 18

• Birth of Alexander Sandor Asboth Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1868. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler German politician/bishop of Mainz. [1]

1812

January 8

• Birth of Sigismund Fortune François Thalberg in Geneva, Switzerland; leading pianist, rival of Franz Liszt. [1] [37]
• Birth of William Henry Holmes composer. [1]

January 13

• Birth of Humphrey Marshall Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1872. [1]

January 14

• Birth of Carl Gradener composer. [1]

January 15

• Birth of Peter C Asbjørnsen Norwegian fairy tale writer. [1]

January 17

• Birth of Ludwig Windthorst in Kaldenhof, Germany; leader of Catholic Center Party. [37]

January 20

• Birth of Ralph Pomeroy Buckland Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892. [1]

January 31

• Birth of John Randolph Tucker Captain (Confederate Navy), died in 1883. [1]

February 7

• Birth of Charles Dickens England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities). [1]

February 11

• Birth of Alexander Hamilton Stephens Vice President (Confederacy), died in 1883. [1]
• Birth of Benjamin Franklin Sands Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Charles Lewis Tiffany Killingly Connecticut, jeweler (Tiffany). [1]

February 16

• Birth of Henry Wilson (Republican) 18th Vice-President (1873-75). [1]

February 19

• Birth of Lauro Rossi composer. [1]

February 28

• Birth of Berthold Auerbach German author (Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten). [1]

February 29

• Birth of Hermann Hirschboch German composer. [1]

March 6

• Birth of Aaron Lufkin Dennison father of American watchmaking. [1]

March 9

• Birth of Jakob Eduard Schmolzer composer. [1]

March 10

• Birth of Victor Tesch Belgian lawyer/minister of Justice. [1]

March 11

• Birth of James Speed Attorney General (Union), died in 1887. [1]
• Birth of Pieter Blussé van Oud-Alblas Dutch liberal minister of Finance. [1]
• Birth of William Vincent Wallace composer. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Henry Dwight Terry Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869. [1]

March 20

• Birth of George Bibb Crittenden Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880. [1]

April 3

• Birth of Louisa Maria Queen of the Belgians (1832-50/wife of Leopold I). [1]

April 6

• Birth of Aaron Bernstein writer. [1]
• Birth of Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin composer. [1]

April 9

• Birth of Randolph Barnes Marcy Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1887. [1]

April 15

• Birth of Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau painter. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Louis-Antoine Julien conductor. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Alfred Krupp German arms merchant. [1]

April 27

• Birth of Friedrich von Flotow composer. [1]

April 28

• Birth of Daniel Henry Rucker Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1910. [1]

April 30

• Birth of Kaspar Hauser German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe. [1]

May 6

• Birth of Martin Robinson Delaney Charlestown Virginia, first black major in US Medical Corps. [1]

May 7

• Birth of Robert Browning London England, poet (The Pied Piper). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Edward Lear England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book). [1]
• Birth of Louis Ludwig Blenker Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863. [1]

May 17

• Birth of Joseph Warren Revere Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1880. [1]

May 19

• Birth of Felix Kirk Zollicoffer Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862. [1]

May 20

• Birth of Gustav Adolf Mankell composer. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Henri A Esquiros French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles). [1]

May 30

• Birth of John Alexander McClernand Major General (Union volunteers). [1]

June 18

• Birth of Ivan Goncharov Russia, novelist/travel writer (Oblomov). [1]

October 20

• Birth of Austin Flint 19th century heart research pioneer. [1]

December 4

• Birth of Elias Smith Dennis Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894. [1]

December 14

• Birth of Charles J Canning English earl/first viceroy of British-Indies. [1]

December 15

• Birth of Isidor Dannstrom composer. [1]

December 16

• Birth of William Grose Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900. [1]

December 18

• Birth of Wiktor Kazynski composer. [1]

December 20

• Birth of Achille Peri composer. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Johanne Luise Heiberg Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Romeo and Juliet). [1]

December 23

• Birth of Samuel Smiles Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty). [1]
• Birth of William Hauser composer. [1]

December 24

• Birth of Henry Russell composer. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Wilhelm Volkmar composer. [1]

December 28

• Birth of Julius Reitz composer. [1]

1813

January 4

• Birth of Alexander Freiherr von Bach Austria attorney/premier (1852-59). [1]
• Birth of Louis L Bonaparte English/French linguist/senator. [1]
• Birth of Sir Isaac Pitman inventor (shorthand). [1]

January 5

• Birth of Thomas Neville Waul Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903. [1]

January 15

• Birth of James Marion Sims South Carolina, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation). [1]

January 18

• Birth of Joseph Farwell Glidden; inventor (first commercial usable barbed wire) (dies 1906). [1] [5]

January 19

• Birth of Sir Henry Bessemer engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine). [1]

January 20

• Birth of Jacon Gartner Lauman Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867. [1]

January 21

• Birth of John C Frémont [Pathfinder], map maker/explorer (western US)/Governor (AZ). [1]

January 23

• Birth of Franz Commer composer. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Samuel Sarphati Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist. [1]

February 2

• Birth of József Eötvös Hungarian Minister of Education (1848). [1]

February 8

• Birth of Jacob G Agarah Swedish algologist. [1]

February 13

• Birth of Charles Pierre Schimpf Governor of Suriname (1855-59). [1]

February 14

• Birth of Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky composer. [1]
• Birth of John McNeil Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891. [1]

February 16

• Birth of Joseph Reid Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1892. [1]
• Birth of Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky composer. [1]

March 2

• Birth of George Alexander Macfarren composer. [1]

March 4

• Birth of Wijnand J J Nuijen romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked). [1]

March 7

• Birth of Judocus Smits Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time). [1]

March 18

• Birth of Friedrich Hebbel writer. [1]

March 19

• Birth of David Livingstone Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa). [1]

March 20

• Birth of Matthias Keller Ulm Germany, hymn writer (O Farther un High). [1]

March 21

• Birth of James Jesse Strang king of Mormons on Beaver Island Michigan (1850-56). [1]

March 22

• Birth of Gabriel Rene Paul Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886. [1]

March 26

• Birth of Thomas West Sherman Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1879. [1]

March 27

• Birth of Nathaniel Currier lithographer (Currier and Ives). [1]

March 29

• Birth of John Letcher Governor (Confederacy), died in 1884. [1]

April 14

• Birth of Junius S Morgan US, merchant/philanthropist (Metropolitan Museum of Art). [1]

April 17

• Birth of Henry Washington Benham Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1884. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Stephen Arnold Douglas [Little Giant] US Senator (Lincoln debates). [1]

May 5

• Birth of Søren Kierkegaard Denmark, philosopher (founded Existentialism). [1]

May 6

• Birth of Joseph Tarr Copeland Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1893. [1]

May 10

• Birth of Montgomery Blair Franklin County Kentucky, lawyer (Dred Scot v Sandford). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Johann Czerski German chaplin. [1]

May 15

• Birth of Stephen Heller composer. [1]

May 22

• Birth of Richard Wagner Leipzig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman). [1]

May 23

• Birth of Mason Brayman Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895. [1]

June 8

• Birth of David D Porter US Admiral (Civil War). [1]

June 24

• Birth of Henry Ward Beecher Litchfield Connecticut, clergyman/orator (The Independent). [1]

October 10

• Birth of Giuseppe Verdi Italy, composed operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello). [1]

December 2

• Birth of Jacob Rosenhaim composer. [1]

December 10

• Birth of Errico Petrella composer. [1]
• Birth of Zachariah Chandler US, merchant/politician (founder of Republican Party). [1]

December 19

• Birth of Thomas Andrews Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist (ozone). [1]

December 20

• Birth of Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (Governor-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1881-82). [1]

December 24

• Birth of Henry Wellington Greatorex composer. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Milledge Luke Bonham (Confederacy) died in 1890. [1]

December 29

• Birth of Etienne-Joseph Soubre composer. [1]

1814

January 8

• Birth of Johannes Kneppelhout [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist. [1]
• Birth of Thomas Green Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864. [1]

January 10

• Birth of Aubrey de Vere Irish writer (Victorian Observer). [1]

January 11

• Birth of James Paget English surgeon (disease of Paget). [1]
• Birth of Richard Griffith Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862. [1]

January 12

• Birth of Jones Mitchell Withers Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1890. [1]

January 14

• Birth of Johannes Josephus Viotta composer. [1]

January 15

• Birth of Ludwig Schläfli Swiss vicar/mathematician. [1]

January 17

• Birth of Ellen Wood English author (East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey). [1]

January 21

• Birth of Thomas Attwood Walmisley composer. [1]

January 24

• Birth of Abraham van Stolk Dutch resources/art collector. [1]

January 25

• Birth of Francis Harrison Pierpont Governor (Union), died in 1899. [1]

January 26

• Birth of Rufus King Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1876. [1]

January 30

• Birth of Jean-Baptist Capronnier French/Belgian glass painter. [1]

February 9

• Birth of Samuel Jones Tilden philanthropist for New York Public Library. [1]

February 21

• Birth of Nicolo Gabrielli composer. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Henryk Oskar Kolberg composer. [1]

February 25

• Birth of Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian national poet/painter. [1]

March 3

• Birth of Charles Kensington Salaman composer. [1]

March 9

• Birth of Taras Shevchenko Ukraine, national poet/painter/professor of Kiev. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Jules Eugene Abraham Alary composer. [1]

March 22

• Birth of Thomas Crawford US sculptor (Babes in the Wood). [1]

March 24

• Birth of Galen Clark US, naturalist, discovered Mariposa Grove. [1]

April 2

• Birth of Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]

April 4

• Birth of John Blair Smith Todd Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872. [1]

April 15

• Birth of John Lothrop Motley US, historian/author (Rise of the Dutch Republic). [1]

April 21

• Birth of Beni Egressy composer. [1]

April 24

• Birth of Angela Burdett-Coutts philanthropist extrordinaire. [1]
• Birth of Vincente F López Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje). [1]

May 6

• Birth of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst composer. [1]

May 8

• Birth of Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin anarchist. [1]

May 9

• Birth of Adolph von Henselt composer. [1]

June 1

• Birth of Philip Kearney Civil War general (Union). [1]

June 8

• Birth of Charles Reade England, novelist (The Cloister and the Hearth). [1]

July 19

• Birth of Samuel Colt inventor (colt revolver). [1]

August 13

• Birth of Anders Jonas Ångström Sweden, physicist, founded spectroscopy. [1]

September 6

• Birth of Sir George Cartier (Conservative) Canadian co-Prime Minister (1858-62). [1]

October 3

• Birth of Mikhail (Yurevich) Lermontov Russia, romantic poet/novelist (Demon). [1]

November 6

• Birth of Adolphe Sax in Belgium; musician/inventor (saxophone). [1] [5]

December 1

• Birth of August Rockel composer. [1]

December 19

• Birth of Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton Ohio, US Secretary of War (1861-65). [1]

December 25

• Birth of Jan de Liefde II Dutch vicar/founder (Co-op of Welfare of the People). [1]

December 27

• Birth of James Henry Carleton Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1873. [1]