1825

January 10

• Birth of Alexander Travis Hawthorn Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899. [1]

January 12

• Birth of Joseph Robert Davis Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896. [1]

January 28

• Birth of George Edward Pickett Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875. [1]

February 7

• Birth of Crystobal Oudrid y Segura composer. [1]

February 26

• Birth of Hans Balatka composer. [1]

February 28

• Birth of Quincy Adams Gillmore Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888. [1]

March 5

• Birth of John Dunovant Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864. [1]
• Birth of Joseph Albert German photographer (albertotype). [1]

March 8

• Birth of George William Martin composer. [1]

March 17

• Birth of Rodolphe Bresdin French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain). [1]

March 20

• Birth of William Nelson Rector Beall Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]

March 23

• Birth of Edward Lloyd Thomas Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1898. [1]

March 30

• Birth of Samuel Bell Maxey Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895. [1]

April 3

• Birth of Adolf Rzepko composer. [1]

April 5

• Birth of David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones Major General (Confederate Army). [1]

April 11

• Birth of Ferdinand Lassalle French politician/founder (Allgemeiner). [1]

April 25

• Birth of Charles Ferdinand Dowd US, standardized time zones. [1]

April 28

• Birth of James Winning McMillan Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]

May 1

• Birth of George Inness US landscape painter ("Delaware Water Gap"). [1]

May 4

• Birth of Thomas Henry Huxley scientist/humanist/Darwinist. [1]

May 6

• Birth of Joseph Bailey Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867. [1]

May 10

• Birth of Rudolf Viole composer. [1]

May 20

• Birth of Antoinette Brown Blackwell clergy (first ordained US female minister). [1]

May 21

• Birth of George Lafayette Beal Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]

May 26

• Birth of Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza composer. [1]

May 29

• Birth of David Bell Birney Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864. [1]

June 1

• Birth of John Hunt Morgan Brigadier General (Confederate cavalry commander). [1]

June 5

• Birth of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Georgia, educator (Republican-Alabama, 1857-61). [1]

June 7

• Birth of R.D. Blackmore author (Norie). [1]

August 9

• Birth of Elisha Ferry (Governor-Republican-Washington, 1872-80, 1889-93). [1]

September 4

• Birth of Dadabhai Naoroji first Indian in British parliament. [1]

September 24

• Birth of Frances E.W. Harper famous African. [1]

September 27

• Railroad transportation is born with first track in England. [1]

October 10

• Birth of Paulus Kruger President of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader. [1]

October 25

• Birth of Johann Strauss (the younger) composer (Waltz King). [1]

November 9

• Birth of Ambrose P Hill Lieutenant General (Commander third Corps, ANV). [1]

December 2

• Birth of Pedro II van Alcantara Emperor of Brazil (1831-89). [1]

December 4

• Birth of Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek composer. [1]

December 16

• Birth of Henry Heth Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1899. [1]
• Birth of Robert Prescott Stewart composer. [1]

December 18

• Birth of Charles Griffin Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867. [1]

December 19

• Birth of George Frederick Bristow composer. [1]

December 20

• Birth of Romeyn Beck Ayres Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1888. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Esteban Salas y Castro composer. [1]

December 27

• Birth of Reinhold Finsterbusch composer. [1]

December 31

• Birth of Francis Trowbridge Sherman Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1905. [1]

1826

January 6

• Birth of Herman Grimm Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson). [1]

January 12

• Birth of Charles Cruft Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883. [1]

January 15

• Birth of Mikhail Saltykov Spas-Ugol Russia, radical novelist/satirist (Family of Noblemen). [1]

January 22

• Birth of [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876. [1]

January 25

• Birth of Rembt van Boneval Faure Dutch Member of Parliament. [1]

January 26

• Birth of Julia Dent Grant first lady (1869-77). [1]

January 27

• Birth of Richard Taylor Lieutenant-General (Confederate Army), died in 1879. [1]

February 3

• Birth of Walter Bagehot England, economist/sociologist. [1]

February 4

• Birth of Halbert Eleazer Paine Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905. [1]

February 9

• Birth of John Alexander Logan Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886. [1]

February 15

• Birth of George J Stoney Irish physicist. [1]

February 16

• Birth of Franz von Holstein composer. [1]
• Birth of Joseph V von Scheffel German writer (Gaudeamus). [1]

March 1

• Birth of John Thomas composer. [1]

March 4

• Birth of John Buford Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863. [1]

March 9

• Birth of Jean Joseph Bott German violinist/composer. [1]

March 12

• Birth of Robert Lowry composer. [1]

March 14

• Birth of William Fisk Sherwin composer. [1]

March 17

• Birth of Oskar Peschel German journalist/geography (Völkerkunder). [1]

March 20

• Birth of Carel Vosmaer Dutch art historian/poet/editor. [1]

March 23

• Birth of Leon Minkus composer. [1]

March 29

• Birth of Wilhelm Liebknecht German Member of Parliament (social-democratic). [1]

April 2

• Birth of Philip Dale Roddey Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897. [1]

April 4

• Birth of Zénobe Théophile Gramme inventor (electric motor). [1]

April 6

• Birth of Gustave Moreau French painter. [1]

April 7

• Birth of Johann Hermann Berens composer. [1]

April 9

• Birth of Thomas Hewson Neill Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1885. [1]

April 20

• Birth of Dina M Craik writer. [1]

April 28

• Birth of Alexander Stadtfeld composer. [1]

May 3

• Birth of Charles XV Louis E King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet. [1]

May 4

• Birth of Frederick Church US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School). [1]

May 5

• Birth of Eugénie M de Montijo y de Guzman Empress of France. [1]

May 7

• Birth of Varina Howell Davis first lady (Confederacy), died in 1905. [1]

May 21

• Birth of Danillo II ruler of Montenegro. [1]

May 22

• Birth of George Parr cricketer (legendary Notts batsman, first England touring captain). [1]

May 29

• Birth of Ebenezer Butterick inventor (tissue paper dress pattern). [1]

July 4

• Birth of Stephen Foster in Lawrencevil, Pennsylvania, USA; composer ("Oh! Susanna", "Swanee River"). [1] [5]

December 1

• Birth of William Mahone Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895. [1]

December 3

• Birth of Edmond van der Straeten Belgian lawyer/musicologist. [1]
• Birth of George Brinton McClellan Major General (Union Army), died in 1885. [1]

December 5

• Birth of John Benjamin Sanborn Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904. [1]

December 8

• Birth of Friedrich Siemens German industrialist. [1]

December 18

• Birth of Charles-A Chatrian [Erckmann-C] French writer (L'ami Fritz). [1]
• Birth of Mercer Brooke John (Confederate Navy), died in 1906. [1]

December 21

• Birth of Ernst Pauer composer. [1]

December 22

• Birth of James Scott Negley (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901). [1]

December 24

• Birth of Ignacy Krzyzanowski composer. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Franz Coenen composer. [1]
• Birth of Martinus Nijhoff founder Nijhoff's book/publisher (Van Dale). [1]

December 28

• Birth of Conrad Busken Huet Dutch vicar/literary (Country of Rubens). [1]

December 31

• Birth of Henry Hiles composer. [1]

1827

January 1

• Birth of William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]

January 6

• Birth of John Calvin Brown Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889. [1]
• Birth of John Wesley Frazer Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1906. [1]

January 19

• Birth of Carlos Guido y Spano Argentina, conductor (Ráfagas). [1]

February 1

• Birth of Alphonse de Rothschild French banker. [1]

February 2

• Birth of Abner Monroe Perrin Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864. [1]
• Birth of Oswald Aschenbach German painter. [1]

February 10

• Birth of Peter J Savelberg Dutch Limburgs monastery founder. [1]

February 19

• Birth of Charles Robert Woods Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1885. [1]

February 20

• Birth of Edward Stuyvesant Bragg Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912. [1]

February 22

• Birth of James Barnet Fry Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1894. [1]

February 24

• Birth of Charles Davis Jameson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862. [1]

February 27

• Birth of Richard W Johnson Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1897. [1]

March 7

• Birth of Henry DeLamar Clayton Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889. [1]

March 11

• Birth of Septimus Winner composer. [1]

March 12

• Birth of John Robert Jones Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901. [1]
• Birth of William Richard Terry Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897. [1]

March 19

• Birth of Alexander Shaler Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1911. [1]

March 26

• Birth of Emanuel Kania composer. [1]

April 2

• Birth of William Holdman Hunt English painter (Light of the World). [1]

April 5

• Birth of Joseph Lister England, physician (founded aseptic surgery). [1]

April 10

• Birth of Lewis Wallace Major General (Union volunteers)/lawyer/diplomat/author (Ben Hur). [1]

April 12

• Birth of Edward Mollenhauer composer. [1]

April 15

• Birth of Julius Tausch composer. [1]

April 17

• Birth of French C Baeckelmans Flemish architect (Saint Amanduskerk, Antwerp). [1]

April 20

• Birth of John Gibbon Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896. [1]

April 22

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

April 23

• Birth of Johann F Ritter von Schulte German Catholic lawyer. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Charles Edward Hovey Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]

May 7

• Birth of Charles T H Coster Belgian literary (Légendes Flamandes) [or August 20]. [1]
• Birth of Francis Engle Patterson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862. [1]

May 16

• Birth of Petrus J H Cuypers architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station). [1]

May 29

• Birth of Reuben Lindsay Walker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890. [1]

October 16

• Birth of Arnold Böcklin Switzerland, landscape/allegory painter. [1]

December 16

• Birth of John A C Oudemans Dutch geographer/astronomer. [1]

December 23

• Birth of Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff Austrian admiral (Helgoland/Lissa). [1]

December 28

• Birth of Robert Latimer McCook volunteers Brigadier-General (Union), died in 1862. [1]

1828

January 5

• Birth of August Valentine Kautz Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1895. [1]

January 17

• Birth of Lewis Addison Grant Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1918. [1]

January 23

• Birth of Calvin Edward Pratt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896. [1]

January 24

• Birth of Adam Jacoby Slemmer Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868. [1]
• Birth of Ferdinand J Cohn German botanist/publicist. [1]
• Birth of Karol Studzinski composer. [1]

January 26

• Birth of Johan T Buys Dutch lawyer. [1]

January 27

• Birth of Louis Schubert composer. [1]
• Birth of Samuel Allen Rice Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864. [1]

January 28

• Birth of Michel Abeloos Flemish sculptor. [1]
• Birth of Thomas Carmichael Hindman Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1868. [1]

February 8

• Birth of Antonio Cagnoni composer. [1]
• Birth of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo premier of Spain. [1]
• Birth of Jules Verne in France; pioneer of sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon) (dies 1905). [1] [5]

February 12

• Birth of George Meredith England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat). [1]
• Birth of Robert Ransom Jr Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Johan H van Dale schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary). [1]

February 19

• Birth of Johannes von Miquel German politician. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Robert Alexander Cameron Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894. [1]

February 29

• Birth of Antonio Guzman Blanco President of Venezuela. [1]

March 1

• Birth of James Fleming Fagan Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893. [1]
• Birth of Vittorio Bersezio [Carlo Nugelli] Italian playwright. [1]

March 2

• Birth of Jefferson Columbus Davis Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1879. [1]

March 3

• Birth of Karl Collan composer. [1]

March 4

• Birth of Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]

March 5

• Birth of Johann Gungl composer. [1]

March 17

• Birth of Patrick Ronayne Cleburne the "Stonewall" of the West (Major General-Confederate Army). [1]

March 20

• Birth of Henrik Ibsen in Norway; dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler). [1] [5]

April 4

• Birth of Margaret Oliphant Scotland, novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City). [1]

April 5

• Birth of Pietro Plantania composer. [1]

April 6

• Birth of Charles William Field Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892. [1]

April 8

• Birth of George Baird Hodge Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]

April 13

• Birth of Joseph B Lightfoot English theologist/bishop of Durham. [1]

April 21

• Birth of Hippolyte Taine French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy). [1]

April 22

• Birth of Guilherme Antonio Cossoul composer. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Albert king of Saxon (1873-1902). [1]

April 24

• Birth of Robert Brank Vance Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899. [1]

April 27

• Birth of Gerben Colmjon Dutch Frisian linguist/publisher. [1]

May 8

• Birth of Jean Henri Dunant Switzerland, writer/founder (Red Cross (Nobel Peace Prize 1901)). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Gabriel Dante Rossetti England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite. [1]

May 13

• Birth of Josephine Elizabeth Butler social reformer. [1]

May 19

• Birth of Adin Ballou Underwood Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]

May 20

• Birth of James William Reilly Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905. [1]

May 22

• Birth of Albrecht Gräfe pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Edward Hitchcock America's first professor of physical ed (Amherst College). [1]

May 28

• Birth of Alpheus Baker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891. [1]
• Birth of Bartel Wilton machinefabrikant/ship builder. [1]

September 9

• Birth of Leo Tolstoy Russia, novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina). [1]

December 8

• Birth of Clinton Bowen Fisk Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890. [1]
• Birth of Robert Bullock Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1905. [1]

December 16

• Birth of John Beatty Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1914. [1]

December 23

• Birth of Mathilde Wesendonk German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter). [1]

December 28

• Birth of Karl L Kahlbaum German psychiatrist (katatonie). [1]

December 30

• Birth of Mark Perrin Lowrey Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1885. [1]

1829

January 3

• Birth of John G R Acquoy theologist/church historian. [1]
• Birth of Konrad Duden in Germany; linguist, teacher, and publisher. [1] [37]

January 6

• Birth of Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki] Japanese humorist/gesaku-author. [1]

January 9

• Birth of Adolf von Schlagintweit German explorer (Tarimbekken). [1]
• Birth of Thomas William Robertson England, playwright (Caste). [1]

January 18

• Birth of Louis van Haecke Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge). [1]

January 21

• Birth of Oscar II Frederik King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet. [1]

January 24

• Birth of William Mason composer. [1]

January 30

• Birth of Alfred Cummings Georgia, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910. [1]

February 1

• Birth of John Potts Slough Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867. [1]

February 11

• Birth of William Anderson Pile Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889. [1]

February 13

• Birth of Gerard Keller writer (Netherlands Spectator). [1]

February 14

• Birth of Alfred Iverson Jr Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Silas Weir Mitchell US physician/author (Roland Blake). [1]

February 18

• Birth of Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864. [1]

February 21

• Birth of Johnson Hagood Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898. [1]

February 26

• Levi Strauss is born (dies 1902). [5]

March 2

• Birth of Carl Schurz Major General (Union volunteers) journalist/political reformer/Civil War general. [1]

March 14

• Birth of Charles Charlesworth England (dies at age 7 of old age). [1]

March 18

• Birth of William Robertson Boggs Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911. [1]

March 20

• Birth of Charles Albert White composer. [1]

March 29

• Birth of Ritta and Christina Siamese twins, in Sardinia. [1]
• Birth of Robert Emmet Rodes Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864. [1]

April 10

• Birth of William Booth founder (Salvation Army). [1]

April 15

• Birth of Mary Harris Thompson first American woman surgeon. [1]

April 24

• Birth of George Peabody Estey Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881. [1]

May 1

• Birth of José M de Alencar Brazilian writer/minister of Justice. [1]

May 6

• Birth of Phoebe Ann Coffin first female ordained minister in New England. [1]

May 8

• Birth of Louis Moreau Gottschalk first internationally recognized US pianist. [1]

May 9

• Birth of Ciro Pinsuti pianist/composer. [1]

May 12

• Birth of Paul Karrer composer. [1]

May 30

• Birth of Levin Goldschmidt German business law expert. [1]

June 8

• Birth of Sir John Everett Millais England, painter (Order of Release). [1]

June 12

• Birth of Johanna Spyri Switzerland, writer (Heidi). [1]

July 26

• Birth of Auguste Beernaert Belgium (Nobel Peace Prize-1909). [1]

September 7

• Birth of August Kekule von Stradonitz discovered structure of benzene ring. [1]
• Birth of Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden US, geologist (Geograph Survey 1859-86). [1]

September 12

• Birth of Charles Dudley Warner Massachusetts, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy). [1]

October 15

• Birth of Asaph Hall discovered satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. [1]

November 28

• Birth of Anton Rubinstein Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Donskoy). [1]

December 3

• Birth of Green Berry Raum Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1909. [1]

December 14

• Birth of John Mercer Langston first black to hold US political office. [1]

December 24

• Birth of Benjamin Ipavec composer. [1]
• Birth of Jose Rogel composer. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Patrick S Gilmore composer. [1]

December 27

• Birth of James Clay Rice Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1864. [1]