Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1820

January 16
  • Birth of Johannes Rebmann in Gerlingen, Germany; missionary and explorer in Africa. [37]
January 17
  • Birth of Anne Brontë in Thornton, Yorkshire, England; English novelist/poet (Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall). [1615.11]
January 18
  • Birth of Abraham Buford; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1884). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of John Haskell King; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1888). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Anne Jemima Clough in England; promoted higher education for women. [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Johan Hendrik Koelman; portrait painter (Jahresringe). [1]
January 24
  • Birth of John Milton Thayer; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 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 northwest Greenland). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Bozena Nemcová [Barnora Panklová]; Czechoslovakian author (Babicka). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of William Tecumseh Sherman; US Major General (Union Army) (dies 1891). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Susan Brownell Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts, USA; women's suffragette (dies 1906). [5] [576.71]
February 17
  • Birth of Henri Vieuxtemps in Verviers, Belgium; composer/teacher (Brussels Conservatory). [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Mahlon Dickerson Manson; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1895). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of John Tenniel in England; cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of George Davis; Attorney General (Confederacy) (dies 1896). [1]

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March 3
  • Birth of Eduard Douwes Dekker [Multatuli]; Dutch writer (Max Havelaar). [1]
March 6
  • Birth of Horatio Gouverneur Wright; US Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Louis Herbert; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1901). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61), King of Italy (1861-78). [1]
March 17
  • Birth of Patrick Edward Connor; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of Alexander J Cuza; monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania. [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 Junior; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1891). [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) (dies 1876). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Evander McNair; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1902). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Alexander Joy Cartwright; inventor of modern baseball field. [400.56]
April 26
  • Birth of Alice Cary in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel). [1]
April 27
  • Birth of Herbert Spencer in Derby, England; Victorian philosopher (Social Statics). [1]
May 4
  • Birth of Joseph Whitaker in England; publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack. [1]
  • Birth of Julia Gardiner; second wife of US President John Tyler. [1] [403.60]
May 12
  • Birth of Florence Nightingale in Florence, Italy; nurse (Crimean War). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of James Buchanan Eads; US engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge in Saint Louis, Missouri). [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 26
  • Birth of James Harlan; American politician (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 Johanna Maria Lind AKA Jenny Lind in Stockholm, Sweden; soprano/nightingale (Agathe - "Der Freischultz"). [1] [988.650]
November 28
  • Birth of Friedrich Engels in Germany; social philosopher, Karl Marx's collaborator. [1]
December 10
  • Birth of David Allen Russell; US Army Brevet Major General (Union) (dies 1864). [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Frederick Tracy Dent; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1892). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Gustavus Adolphus Smith; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 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; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 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) (dies 1891). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of James Longstreet; Confederate General (first Corps, ANV). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Lafayette McLaws; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1897). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of John Cabell Breckinridge; American politician (Democrat) 14th US Vice President (1857-61)/Major-General (Confederacy). [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Isaac Ferdinand Quinby; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1891). [1]
February 10
  • Birth of William Read Scurry; Confederate Army Brigadier General (dies 1864). [1]
February 11
  • Birth of Auguste Édouard Mariette; French Egyptologist, dug out the Sphinx. [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Heinrich Barth in Hamburg; German geographer/explorer (Central Africa). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Francis Preston Blair Junior in Lexington, Kentucky, USA; American politician (Representative-Missouri). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Charles Scribner; US music publisher (Scribner Catalog). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of Luitpold von Bayern; Prince-regent of Bayern. [1]
  • Birth of John Abbott in Québec; third Canadian Prime Minister (Conservative, 1891-92). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Ernest Feydeau; French author (Georges Feydeau). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Francis Barretto Spinola; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]
  • Birth of 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 [George] Hector Tyndale; US 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; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1887). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Linus Yale; US portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock). [1]
April 9
  • Birth of Charles-Pierre Baudelaire in France; symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil) (dies 1867). [1] [5]
April 19
  • Birth of Mortimer Dormer Leggett; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1896). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Abram Sanders Piatt; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1908). [1]
May 11
  • Birth of [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of John F Loudon; Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director. [1]
May 22
  • Birth of Alfred Sully; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1879). [1]
June 2
  • Birth of Ion Bratianu; premier of Romania (Liberal, 1876-88). [1]
June 13
  • Birth of Albert duc de Broglie in France; premier (1873-74, 1877). [1]
July 2
  • Birth of Charles Tupper; 6th Canadian Prime Minister (Conservative, 1896). [1]
July 13
  • Birth of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee, USA; brilliant cavalry leader, Lieutenant General. [1]
July 16
  • Birth of Mary Baker Eddy; founded Christian Science (Science and Health). [1]
October 11
  • Birth of George Williams in England; founder of YMCA. [1]
October 30
  • Birth of Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski; Russian novelist and short-story writer (Crime and Punishment). [1] [5]
November 28
  • Birth of Nikolai Nekrasov in Russia; poet/journalist (Who Can be Happy in Russia?). [1]
December 2
  • Birth of Rufus Barringer; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1895). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Nikolai A Nekrasov; Russian poet (Russkije Zjenjshiny). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Gustave Flaubert in Rouen, Normandy, France; novelist (Madame Bovary). [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Frederick West Lander; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1862). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Mary Ashton Livermore; American reformer/women's suffrage leader. [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Clara Harlowe Barton in Oxford, Massachusetts, USA; nurse (founder-American Red Cross). [1]

End of 1820-1821. Next: 1822.

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