Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1815

January 1
  • Birth of Charles Renouvier; French philosopher (neocriticism). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of George Webb Morell; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1883). [1]
  • Birth of Lawrence Pike Graham; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1905). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Alexander Brydie Dyer; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1874). [1]
  • Birth of Thomas Williams; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1862). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of John A MacDonald; first Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative, 1867-73). [1]
January 13
  • Birth of William Henry French; Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1881). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Henry Morris Naglee; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1886). [1]
January 16
  • Birth of Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck; US Major-General (Union Army). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of James Chesnut Junior; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1885). [1]
  • Birth of Richard Yates in Warsaw, Kentucky, USA; Governor of Illinois (1861-65) (dies 1873). [1]
  • Birth of Konstantin von Tischendorf in Lengefeld, Germany; Biblical critic, discovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a manuscript from the fourth century with most of the Old and New Testaments. [37]
January 21
  • Birth of Horace Wells; dentist (pioneered use of medical anesthesia). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Andrew Jackson Hamilton; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1875). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Nathaniel Collins McLean; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1905). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of Robert Hall Chilton; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1879). [1]

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April 1
  • Birth of Otto Von Bismarck in Germany; architect of German Empire, chancellor (1866-90). [1] [242.4]
April 11
  • Birth of Klara Fey; German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Anthony Trollope in England; novelist/poet (Barchester Towers). [1]
  • Birth of James Edward Harrison; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1875). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of Andrew Jackson Smith; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1897). [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Abram Duryee; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1890). [1]
May 19
  • Birth of John Gross Barnard; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1882). [1]
May 27
  • Birth of Henry Parkes; British journalist/premier of Australia. [1]
August 29
  • Birth of Anna Ella Carroll; US civil war writer (Reconstruction). [1]
September 7
  • Birth of Howell Cobb; US Treasury Secretary. [546.36]
October 31
  • Birth of Karl Weierstrass in Germany; mathematician (theory of functions). [1]
November 1
  • Birth of Crawford Williamson Long; surgeon/pioneer (use of ether). [1]
November 2
  • Birth of George Boole; mathematician (Boolean algebra). [1]
November 15
  • Birth of John Banvard in New York City, New York, USA; painted world's largest painting (3-mile canvas). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Ada Byron (Lovelace) in London, England; considered the first computer programmer. [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Israel Bush Richardson; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1862). [1]
December 31
  • Birth of George Gordon Meade; US Major General (Union Army) (dies 1872). [1]

1816

January 7
  • Birth of Stephen Miller; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1881). [1]
January 9
  • Birth of John Palmer Usher; US Secretary of the Interior (Union) (dies 1889). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of Fitz-Henry Warren; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1878). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Henry Gray; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1892). [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Lloyd Tilghman; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1863). [1]
January 30
  • Birth of Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1894). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of David Stuart; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1868). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of Montgomery Dent Corse in Alexandria, Virginia, USA; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1895). [1]
March 29
  • Birth of James Gallant Spears; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1869). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson; Major General (Confederate Army). [1]
April 21
  • Birth of Charlotte Brontë in Tornton, Yorkshire, England; novelist (Jane Eyre). [1]
April 22
  • Birth of Philip James Bailey; English poet (Festus). [1]
May 3
  • Birth of Montgomery Cunningham Meigs; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1892). [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Henry Hopkins Sibley; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1886). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Emanuel Leutze; US painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware). [1]
  • Birth of Robert Seaman Granger; Union Army Brevet Major General (dies 1894). [1]
July 21
  • Birth of Paul Julius, Baron von Reuter; founded Reuters news service. [1]
July 23
  • Birth of Charlotte Sanders Cushman; US actress (Lady MacBeth). [1]
August 24
  • Birth of Daniel Gooch; laid first successful transatlantic cables. [1]
December 6
  • Birth of Henry Eustace McCulloch; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1895). [1]
December 13
  • Birth of E Werner von Siemens; German artillery officer/inventor. [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Alfred Elzey Jones; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1871). [1]
December 27
  • Birth of Eliakim Parker Scammon; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1894). [1]

1817

January 8
  • Birth of John Selden Roane; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1867). [1]
January 14
  • Birth of Harmen S Sytstra; Dutch poet/editor (Iduna). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Lewis Golding Arnold; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1871). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Antony Winkler Prins; Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of John Glover; English chemist (sulfuric acid). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Samuel Ryan Curtis; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1866). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Leroy Pope Walker; US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Richard Stoddert Ewell; Lieutenant General (Confederate Army) (dies 1872). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Lewis Addison Armistead; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1863). [1]
  • Birth of Walter Page Lane; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1892). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Willem III; last male King of Netherlands (1849-90). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of José Zorrilla y Moral in Vallodolid, Spain; poet/dramatist (El rey Loco). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of James Craig; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1888). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of János Arany in Hungary; epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Lewis Henry Little; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1862). [1]
March 22
  • Birth of Braxton Bragg; General (Confederate Army) (dies 1876). [1]
March 26
  • Birth of Herman Haupt; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (dies 1905). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of John Wilson Sprague; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1893). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Alphonse Wauters; Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of George Henry Lewes; English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe). [1]
May 18
  • Birth of James William Denver; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1892). [1]
September 6
  • Birth of Alexander Tilloch Galt; a Canadian founding father. [1]
November 8
  • Birth of Philos Tyler in Connecticut, USA; engineer (Pontchartrain Railroad), coiner (New Oleans Mint (1839-1847)), superintendent (American Machine Works), mayor (Springfield (1854)). [1652.55]
November 12
  • Birth of Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn Ali); founded Bahá'ís faith. [1]
November 21
  • Birth of Richard B Garnett; US Brigadier General (killed during Pickett's charge). [1]
November 30
  • Birth of Theodor Mommsen in Germany; historian/writer (Nobel Prize 1902). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of James Jay Archer; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1864). [1]

1818

January 11
  • Birth of John Reese Kenly; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1891). [1]
January 14
  • Birth of Zacharias Topelius; Finnish historical novelist (Surgeon's Stories). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Antoine Dorion; joint premier of Canada (Liberal, 1858, 1863-64). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of William Raine Peck; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1871). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Austin Blair; Governor/MC (Union) (dies 1894). [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Otto Ludwig; German writer (Die Heiterethei). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Jeremy F Gilmer; Major General, Chief Engineer Confederate War Department. [1]
March 10
  • Birth of George Wythe Randolph; Secretary of War (Confederacy) (dies 1867). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of John Wilkins Whitfield; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1879). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of John Lorimar Worden; US Captain (Union Navy) (dies 1897). [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Albion Parris Howe; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1897). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Don Carlos Buell; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1898). [1]
March 25
  • Birth of Isaac Ingalls Stevens; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1862). [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Wade Hampton in Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Lieutenant General (Confederate Army) (dies 1902). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Lewis Baldwin Parsons; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Christaan IX; king of Denmark (1863-1906). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Charles J. Folger; US Treasury Secretary. [618.77]
April 22
  • Birth of Cadwallader Colden Washburn; US Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Alexander II [N Romanov]; Tsar of Russia (1855-81). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Karl Marx; philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of James Parsons Major in Somersetshire, England; designer and engraver, designed first US postage stamps (1847 5-cent, 10-cent), banknote engraver with American Banknote Company. [958.832]
May 20
  • Birth of William George Fargo; founder (Wells Fargo). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard in St-Bernard, Louisiana, USA; Confederate General (Hero of Sumter). [1]
June 17
  • Birth of Charles Gounod in Paris, France; opera composer (Faust). [1]
July 6
  • Birth of Adolf Anderssen in Prussia; world chess champion (1851-66). [1]
July 30
  • Birth of Emily Brontë in England; novelist (Wuthering Heights). [1]
September 12
  • Birth of Richard Jordan Gatling; American inventor (hand-cranked machine gun) (dies 1903). [1] [5]
November 5
  • Birth of Benjamin F Butler; US Union general/presidential candidate (anti-monopoly). [1]
November 9
  • Birth of Ivan Turgenev in Russia; novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers and Sons). [1]
November 29
  • Birth of George Brown; Canadian publisher (Toronto Globe), Prime Minister (Liberal, 1858). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring; Major General (Confederate Army). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Paul Octave Hebert; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1880). [1]
December 13
  • Birth of Mary Todd in Lexington, Kentucky, USA; spouse of President Abraham Lincoln. [1] [547.66]
December 21
  • Birth of Lewis H Morgan; US etnologist (Systems of Consanguinity). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of David Addison Weisiger; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1899). [1]
December 24
  • Birth of James Prescott Joule; physicist (discovered conservation of energy). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of James Cantey; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1874). [1]

1819

January 1
  • Birth of Philip Schaff in Chur, Switzerland; early proponent of Protestant/Catholic ecumenicism. [37]
  • Birth of George Foster Shepley; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1878). [1]
January 3
  • Birth of Thomas Hill Watts; Attorney General (Confederacy) (dies 1892). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Zealous Bates Tower; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1900). [1]
January 14
  • Birth of Frederick Steele; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1868). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of Henry Lawrence Eustis; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1885). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Joshua Norton in San Francisco, California; Norton I, emperor of USA. [1]
February 8
  • Birth of John Ruskin; writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of James Green Martin; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1878). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Christopher Sholes in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, USA; inventor (typewriter). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Henry Tate; English sugar producer (Tate Gallery). [1]
  • Birth of Marius Petipa; French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of David Henry Williams; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1891). [1]
March 22
  • Birth of William Wirt Adams; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1888). [1]
March 29
  • Birth of Edwin Drake; drilled first productive US oil well. [1]
  • Birth of Isaac Mayer Wise; rabbi, founded American Hebrew Congregations. [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Charles Halle; pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orchestra). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Franz von Suppé in Spalato, Dalmatia; composer (Light Cavalry Overture). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of William Steele; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1885). [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden; US Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Daniel Ammen; US Captain (Union Navy) (dies 1898). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Victoria Alexandrine in London, England; Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901). [1]
May 27
  • Birth of Julia Ward Howe; US author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of William Birney; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1907). [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Walt Whitman in West Hills, New York, USA; poet (Leaves of Grass). [1]
June 5
  • Birth of John Couch Adams; co-discover (Neptune). [1]
June 10
  • Birth of Gustave Courbet in France; realist painter (Funeral at Ornans). [1]
June 12
  • Birth of Charles Kingsley in England; clergyman/novelist (Westward Ho!). [1]
June 20
  • Birth of Jacques Offenbach in Cologne; French composer (Tales of Hoffmann). [1]
June 30
  • Birth of William A Wheeler; 19th Vice President (Republican, 1877-81). [1]
July 9
  • Birth of Elias Howe in Spencer, Massachusetts, USA; invented sewing machine. [1]
August 1
  • Birth of Herman Melville; US author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd). [1]
August 13
  • Birth of George Gabriel Stokes; physicist/mathematician (Spectroscope). [1]
August 25
  • Birth of Allan Pinkerton; founded Chicago detective agency. [1]
August 26
  • Birth of Prince Albert in Saxon; duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; Consort to Queen Victoria. [729.51]
September 17
  • Birth of Thomas Andrews Hendricks; 21st US Vice President (Democrat). [1]
September 18
  • Birth of Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault; his pendulum proved Earth rotates (dies 1868). [1] [5]
October 20
  • Birth of Mirza Ali Mohammad [The Báb]; forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh. [1]
November 10
  • Birth of Cyrus West Field; financier/success of first transatlantic cable. [1]
November 22
  • Birth of George Eliot in England; novelist (Silas Marner). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Robert Selden Garnett; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1861). [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Samuel Jones; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1887). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Jakov P Polonski; Russian poet (Stichotvorenija). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of James Clifford Veatch; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1895). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of George Eliot in England; Victorian novelist (Adam Bede). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of John White Geary; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1873). [1]
  • Birth of Theodor Fontane; German writer (Effi Briest). [1]

End of 1815-1819. Next: 1820.

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