1820

January 9

• Birth of Pavel Krizkovsky composer. [1]

January 16

• Birth of Johannes Rebmann in Gerlingen, Germany; missionary and explorer in Africa. [37]

January 17

• Birth of Anne Bronte English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall). [1]

January 18

• Birth of Abraham Buford Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884. [1]

January 19

• Birth of John Haskell King Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1888. [1]

January 20

• Birth of Anne Jemima Clough England, promoted higher education for women. [1]

January 22

• Birth of Hermann von Lingg German playwright/poet. [1]
• Birth of Johan Hendrik Koelman portrait painter (Jahresringe). [1]

January 23

• Birth of Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov composer. [1]

January 24

• Birth of John Milton Thayer Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906. [1]

February 2

• Birth of Hans E Schack Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne). [1]

February 3

• Birth of Elisha Kent Kane US arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland). [1]

February 4

• Birth of Bozena Nemcová [Barnora Panklová], Czechoslovakian author (Babicka). [1]

February 8

• Birth of William Tecumseh Sherman Major General (Union Army) (dies 1891). [1]

February 13

• Birth of Bela Albrecht Pal Keler composer. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Susan Brownell Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts; women's suffragette. [1] [5]

February 17

• Birth of Henri Vieuxtemps Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons). [1]

February 20

• Birth of Mahlon Dickerson Manson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895. [1]

February 28

• Birth of John Tenniel England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland). [1]

February 29

• Birth of Adolf Schimon composer. [1]

March 1

• Birth of George Davis Attorney General (Confederacy), died in 1896. [1]
• Birth of Richard Redhead composer. [1]

March 2

• Birth of Multatuli writer. [1]

March 3

• Birth of Eduard Douwes Dekker [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar). [1]

March 6

• Birth of Horatio Gouverneur Wright Major General (Union volunteers). [1]

March 7

• Birth of Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman composer. [1]

March 13

• Birth of Louis Herbert Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901. [1]

March 14

• Birth of Victor Emmanuel II King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78). [1]

March 17

• Birth of Patrick Edward Connor Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]

March 20

• Birth of Alexander J Cuza monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania. [1]

March 21

• Birth of Frank Mori composer. [1]

March 25

• Birth of Xavier F M G Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome). [1]

April 4

• Birth of Charles Devens Jr Major General, Brevet (Union volunteers), died in 1891. [1]

April 5

• Birth of Nadar [Félix Tournachon] French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist. [1]

April 7

• Birth of György Klapka Hungarian General/Member of Parliament (Komárom-castle). [1]

April 14

• Birth of Harry Thompson Hays Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876. [1]

April 15

• Birth of Evander McNair Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902. [1]

April 16

• Birth of Georg Curtius German classical linguist. [1]

April 17

• Birth of Gottfried Conradi composer. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Alice Cary Cincinnati Ohio, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel). [1]

April 27

• Birth of Herbert Spencer Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics). [1]

May 4

• Birth of Joseph Whitaker England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack. [1]
• Birth of Julia Gardiner Tyler second wife of President John Tyler (1841-45). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Florence Nightingale Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War). [1]

May 22

• Birth of Alexander Ernst Fesca composer. [1]

May 23

• Birth of James Buchanan Eads US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis). [1]

May 28

• Birth of Willem Doorenbos [Keerom] literary/critic. [1]

June 14

• Birth of John Bartlett US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations). [1]

August 12

• Birth of Oliver Mowat a founder of the Canadian Confederation. [1]

August 13

• Birth of Sir George Grove London, England, biblical scholar/musicologist. [1]

August 26

• Birth of James Harlan (Republican-Iowa)/US Seretary of Interior (1865-66). [1]

September 26

• Birth of Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita). [1]

October 6

• Birth of Jenny Lind Sweden, soprano/nightingale (Agathe-Der Freischultz). [1]

November 28

• Birth of Friedrich Engels Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator. [1]

December 10

• Birth of David Allen Russell Army Brevet Major General (Union), died in 1864. [1]

December 17

• Birth of Frederick Tracy Dent Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1892. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Gustavus Adolphus Smith Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1885. [1]

1821

January 3

• Birth of Joseph Reinkens in Aachen, Germany; Roman Catholic priest, leader in the "Old Catholic" movement in Germany and its first bishop. [37]

January 4

• Birth of John James Peck Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878. [1]

January 6

• Birth of Jakob Frohschammer in Illkofen, Germany; Catholic priest, writer and philosopher, excommunicated for his insistence that philosophy is independent of Church authority. [37]

January 7

• Birth of Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891. [1]

January 8

• Birth of James Longstreet Confederate General (first Corps, ANV). [1]

January 12

• Birth of Nikolai Afanisev composer. [1]

January 15

• Birth of Lafayette McLaws Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897. [1]

January 21

• Birth of John Cabell Breckinridge (Democrat) 14th US Vice Pressident (1857-61)/Major-General (Confederacy). [1]

January 29

• Birth of Isaac Ferdinand Quinby Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891. [1]

February 1

• Birth of Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg composer. [1]

February 3

• Birth of Elizabeth Blackwell Bristol England, first woman physician. [1]

February 10

• Birth of William Read Scurry (Confederate Army Brigadier General, died in 1864). [1]

February 11

• Birth of Auguste Édouard Mariette French Egyptologist, (dug out Sphinx 12/16/42). [1]
• Birth of Hermann Allmers writer. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Abraham de Amorie van der de Have theologist/poet. [1]

February 16

• Birth of Heinrich Barth Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa). [1]

February 19

• Birth of Francis Preston Blair Jr Lexington Kentucky, (Representative-Missouri). [1]

February 21

• Birth of Charles Scribner US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog). [1]

February 22

• Birth of Giovanni Bottesini composer. [1]

March 12

• Birth of Luitpold von Bayern Prince-regent of Bayern. [1]
• Birth of Sir John Abbott Québec Canada, (Conservative) third Canadian Prime Minister (1891-92). [1]

March 14

• Birth of Jens Worsaae Denmark, archaeologist. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Ernest Feydeau French author (Georges Feydeau). [1]

March 19

• Birth of Francis Barretto Spinola Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]
• Birth of Sir Richard Burton explorer/translator (Arabian Nights). [1]
• Birth of William Allingham Irish poet (Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland). [1]

March 23

• Birth of Aleksej F Pisemski Russian writer (Clodhopper). [1]

March 24

• Birth of Elisa Felix [Rachel] tragedienne. [1]
• Birth of [George] Hector Tyndale Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]

March 26

• Birth of Earnest Angel German statistician (Law of Angel). [1]

March 29

• Birth of Joshua Thomas Owen Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887. [1]

April 4

• Birth of Linus Yale US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock). [1]

April 9

• Birth of Charles-Pierre Baudelaire France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil). [1]

April 15

• Birth of Emerson Brown Joseph (Confederacy), died in 1894. [1]

April 16

• Birth of Ford Maddox Brown painter. [1]

April 19

• Birth of Mortimer Dormer Leggett Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Pierre Dupont song writer. [1]

May 2

• Birth of Abram Sanders Piatt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1908. [1]

May 11

• Birth of [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]

May 21

• Birth of John F Loudon Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director. [1]

May 22

• Birth of Alfred Sully Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879. [1]

May 25

• Birth of Diederich Krug composer. [1]

June 2

• Birth of Ion Bratianu (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88). [1]

June 13

• Birth of Albert duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977). [1]

July 2

• Birth of Charles Tupper (Conservative) 6th Canadian Prime Minister (1896). [1]

July 13

• Birth of Nathan Bedford Forrest Tennessee, brilliant cavalry leader, Lieutenant General. [1]

July 16

• Birth of Mary Baker Eddy founded Christian Science (Science and Health). [1]

October 11

• Birth of Sir George Williams England, founder YMCA. [1]

October 30

• Birth of Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski; Russian novelist and short-story writer. [1] [5]

November 11

• Birth of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Russia, novelist (Crime and Punishment). [1]

November 28

• Birth of Nikolai Nekrasov Russia, poet/journalist (Who Can be Happy in Russia?). [1]

December 2

• Birth of Rufus Barringer Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1895. [1]

December 10

• Birth of Nikolai A Nekrasov Russian poet (Russkije Zjenjshiny). [1]

December 12

• Birth of Gustave Flaubert Rouen Normandy France, novelist (Madame Bovary). [1]

December 15

• Birth of Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil composer. [1]

December 17

• Birth of Frederick West Lander Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1862. [1]

December 19

• Birth of Mary Ashton Livermore American reformer/women's suffrage leader. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Giovanni Bottesini composer. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Clara Harlowe Barton Oxford Massachusetts, nurse (founder-American Red Cross). [1]