Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1810

January 3
  • Birth of Antoine T d'Abbadie; French explorer (Ethiopia). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of Robert Schumann in Zwickau, Germany; composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Ferdinand II, king of Sicily. [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Daniel Ruggles; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1897). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Frédéric Chopin in Poland; composer/pianist (Concerto in F Minor). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci; Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903). [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]
April 6
  • Birth of Philip Gosse; inventor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Félicien C David; French composer (Perle du Brésil, Désert). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of Daniel Ullmann; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1892). [1]
May 8
  • Birth of James Cooper; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1863). [1]
May 9
  • Birth of WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau/daughter of King Willem I. [1]
May 10
  • Birth of James Shields; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1879). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Margaret Fuller; writer/critic first professional book review column (New York Tribune). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Abraham Geiger; theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism. [1]

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May 29
  • Birth of Erasmus Darwin Keyes; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1895). [1]
  • Birth of Solomon Meredith; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1875). [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Horatio Seymour; US Governor (Union) (dies 1886). [1]
June 3
  • Birth of Robert Mallet in Dublin, Ireland; engineer, inventor of the word seismology, considered the first seismologist. [53]
June 8
  • Birth of Robert Schumann in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany; composer (Fantastiestücke). [1]
July 1
  • Birth of Walter White; secretary (NAACP). [1]
July 5
  • Birth of Phineas Taylor Barnum in Bethel, Connecticut, USA; circus promoter (Barnum and Bailey). [1] [1101.631]
August 10
  • Birth of Camilio Benso di Cavour in Italy; Prime Minister. [1]
September 4
  • Birth of Donald McKay; US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships. [1]
September 11
  • Birth of James Pollock; US Mint Director. [546.36]
October 4
  • Birth of Elizabeth McDardle in Greeneville, Tennessee, USA; spouse of US President Andrew Johnson (dies 1876). [603.68]
October 28
  • Birth of Adley H Gladden in Louisiana, USA; Brigadier General, killed at Shiloh. [1]
November 18
  • Birth of Asa Gray in Sauquoit, New York, USA; botanist (Flora of North America). [1]
November 30
  • Birth of Oliver Fisher Winchester; rifle maker (Winchester). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Theodor Schwann; German co-originator of cell theory. [1]
December 11
  • Birth of Alfred de Musset in Paris, France; writer (Un Caprice, Bettine). [1]
December 13
  • Birth of Clark Mills; US sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty). [1]

1811

January 5
  • Birth of Cyrus Hamlin; educator/missionary (established Robert College, Turkey). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Charles Sumner; leading American Reconstruction senator (dies 1874). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Horace Greeley; editor ("Go west, young man"). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Edwin Denison Morgan; Secretary of War (Confederate States of America) (dies in 1883). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Domingo F Sarmiento; President of Argentina (1868-74). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Daniel A Payne; Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church. [1]
  • Birth of Edward Dickinson Baker; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1861). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Robert Christie Buchanan; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1878). [1]
March 3
  • Birth of Vissarion Belinsky in Sveaborg, Finland; Russian author (Literary Review). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Marsena Rudolph Patrick; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
  • Birth of Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier; co-discovered Neptune. [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Robert Allen; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 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 31
  • Birth of Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen in Germany; chemist (Bunsen Burner). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Charles Clark; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1877). [1]
June 7
  • Birth of James Young Simpson in Scotland; obsterician (used chloroform). [1]
June 14
  • Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe; author (Uncle Tom's Cabin). [1]
July 18
  • Birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in England; Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair). [1]
August 3
  • Birth of Elisha Graves Otis; inventor (safe elevator). [1]
August 5
  • Birth of Ambroise Thomas in Metz, France; composer (Mignon). [1]
August 29
  • Birth of Henry Bergh; first president of Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the USA. [1]
August 31
  • Birth of Théophile Gautier in Tarbas, France; writer/poet (Albertus). [1]
September 3
  • Birth of John Humphrey Noyes in Vermont, USA; founded Oneida Community (Perfectionists). [1]
September 6
  • Birth of James Melville Gilliss; founded Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, USA. [1]
October 27
  • Birth of Issac Merrit Singer; inventor (first practical home sewing machine). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Alexander Sandor Asboth; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 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]
January 13
  • Birth of Humphrey Marshall; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1872). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Ludwig Windthorst in Kaldenhof, Germany; leader of Catholic Center Party. [37]
January 20
  • Birth of Ralph Pomeroy Buckland; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1892). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of John Randolph Tucker; Captain (Confederate Navy) (dies 1883). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Charles Dickens in England; novelist (Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities). [1]
February 11
  • Birth of Alexander Hamilton Stephens; Vice President (Confederate States of America) (dies 1883). [1]
  • Birth of Benjamin Franklin Sands; US Commander (Union Navy) (dies 1883). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Charles Lewis Tiffany in Killingly, Connecticut, USA; jeweler (Tiffany). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Henry Wilson; 18th US Vice-President (Republican, 1873-75). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Berthold Auerbach; German author (Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten). [1]
March 6
  • Birth of Aaron Lufkin Dennison; father of American watchmaking. [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Victor Tesch; Belgian lawyer/minister of Justice. [1]
March 11
  • Birth of James Speed; Attorney General (Union) (dies 1887). [1]
  • Birth of Pieter Blussé van Oud-Alblas; Dutch liberal minister of Finance. [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Henry Dwight Terry; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1869). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of George Bibb Crittenden; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1880). [1]
April 3
  • Birth of Louisa Maria; Queen of the Belgians (1832-50, wife of Leopold I). [1]
April 9
  • Birth of Randolph Barnes Marcy; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1887). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of Daniel Henry Rucker; Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1910). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Robert Browning in London, England; poet (The Pied Piper). [1]
May 12
  • Birth of Edward Lear in England; landscape painter (Complete Nonsense Book). [1]
  • Birth of Louis Ludwig Blenker; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1863). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Joseph Warren Revere; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1880). [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Felix Kirk Zollicoffer; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1862). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Henri A Esquiros; French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles). [1]
May 30
  • Birth of John Alexander McClernand; US Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
June 18
  • Birth of Ivan Goncharov in Russia; novelist/travel writer (Oblomov). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Elias Smith Dennis; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1894). [1]
December 14
  • Birth of Charles J Canning; English earl/first viceroy of British-Indies. [1]
December 16
  • Birth of William Grose; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1900). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Johanne Luise Heiberg in Copenhagen, Denmark; actress (Romeo and Juliet). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Samuel Smiles in Scotland; author (Self-Help, Character, Duty). [1]

1813

January 4
  • Birth of Alexander Freiherr von Bach in Austria; attorney/premier (1852-59). [1]
  • Birth of Louis L Bonaparte; English/French linguist/senator. [1]
  • Birth of Isaac Pitman; inventor (shorthand). [1]
January 5
  • Birth of Thomas Neville Waul; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1903). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of James Marion Sims in South Carolina, USA; surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Joseph Farwell Glidden; inventor (first commercially usable barbed wire) (dies 1906). [1] [5]
  • Birth of John Geikie Wellstood in Edinburgh, Scotland; engraver (American Bank Note Company), designed and partly engraved backs of all US Treasury notes issued in 1870s. [958.833]
January 19
  • Birth of Henry Bessemer; engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Jacon Gartner Lauman; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1867). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of John C Frémont; map maker/explorer (western US), Governor of Arizona. [1]
February 2
  • Birth of József Eötvös; Hungarian Minister of Education (1848). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Charles Pierre Schimpf; Governor of Suriname (1855-59). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of John McNeil; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1891). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Joseph Reid Anderson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1892). [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 19
  • Birth of David Livingstone in Scotland; explorer (found by Stanley in Africa). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of Matthias Keller in 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 Thomas Crawford in New York City, New York, USA; sculptor (Freedom atop dome of US Capitol). [1058.796]
  • Birth of Gabriel Rene Paul; Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1886). [1]
March 26
  • Birth of Thomas West Sherman; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1879). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Nathaniel Currier; lithographer (Currier and Ives). [1]
March 29
  • Birth of John Letcher; Governor (Confederacy) (dies 1884). [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Junius S Morgan; US merchant/philanthropist (Metropolitan Museum of Art). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Henry Washington Benham; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1884). [1]
April 23
  • Birth of Stephen Arnold Douglas; US Senator (Lincoln debates). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Søren Kierkegaard in Denmark; philosopher (founded Existentialism). [1]
May 6
  • Birth of Joseph Tarr Copeland; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1893). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Montgomery Blair in Franklin County, Kentucky, USA; lawyer (Dred Scot versus Sandford). [1]
May 22
  • Birth of Richard Wagner in Leipzig, Germany; composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Mason Brayman; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1895). [1]
June 8
  • Birth of David D Porter; US Admiral (Civil War). [1]
June 24
  • Birth of Henry Ward Beecher in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA; clergyman/orator (The Independent). [1]
October 10
  • Birth of Giuseppe Verdi in Italy; composed operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Zachariah Chandler; US merchant/politician (founder of Republican Party). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Thomas Andrews in Belfast, Ireland; chemist/physicist (ozone). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Samuel Jordan Kirkwood; Governor of Iowa, US Secretary of Interior (1881-82). [1]

1814

January 8
  • Birth of Thomas Green; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 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) (dies 1862). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Jones Mitchell Withers; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1890). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Ellen Wood; English author (East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey). [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Francis Harrison Pierpont; Governor (Union) (dies 1899). [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Rufus King; Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1876). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Samuel Jones Tilden; philanthropist for New York Public Library. [1]
March 9
  • Birth of Taras Shevchenko in Ukraine; national poet/painter/professor of Kiev. [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) (dies in 1872). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of John Lothrop Motley; US historian/author (Rise of the Dutch Republic). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Angela Burdett-Coutts; philanthropist extrordinaire. [1]
  • Birth of Vincente F López in Argentina; historian (La Novia del Hereje). [1]
June 1
  • Birth of Philip Kearney; American Civil War general (Union). [1]
June 8
  • Birth of Charles Reade in England; novelist (The Cloister and the Hearth). [1]
July 19
  • Birth of Samuel Colt; inventor (colt revolver). [1]
August 13
  • Birth of Anders Jonas ÅÅngström in Sweden; physicist, founded spectroscopy. [1]
September 6
  • Birth of George Cartier; Canadian co-Prime Minister (Conservative, 1858-62). [1]
October 3
  • Birth of Mikhail (Yurevich) Lermontov in Russia; romantic poet/novelist (Demon). [1]
November 6
  • Birth of Adolphe Sax in Belgium; musician/inventor (saxophone). [1] [5]
December 19
  • Birth of Edwin McMasters Stanton in Steubenville, Ontario, Canada; US Attorney General (1860-61), US Secretary of War (1862-68). [1] [548.106]
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; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1873). [1]

End of 1810-1814. Next: 1815.

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