Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1822

January 2
  • Birth of Rudolf Clausius in Köslin, Germany; professor of physics, formulated second law of thermodynamics, contributed to the theory of electrolysis. [1] [37]
January 4
  • Birth of Joseph Jones Reynolds; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1899). [1]
January 5
  • Birth of Joseph Brevard Kershaw; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1894). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Heinrich Schliemann in Neubukow, Germany; polyglot/archeologist (Troje). [1] [37]
January 7
  • Birth of Lucius C M Bakker; Frisian physician/author (Goethe). [1]
  • Birth of Theodor Aufrecht; German indologist (Rigveda's Hymns). [1]
January 9
  • Birth of John Porter Hatch; US Brevet Major General (Union) (dies 1901). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Thomas Leiper Kane; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1883). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Alexander MacKenzie; second Prime Minister of Canada (Liberal, 1873-78). [1]
January 30
  • Birth of John Basil Turchin [Ivan Turchinoff]; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Maxime Du Camp in France; writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of James Patton Anderson; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1872). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Adolf Kuszmaul; German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Matthew Duncan Ector; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1879). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Albin Francisco Schoepf; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1886). [1]
  • Birth of Charles Champion Gilbert; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]

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March 11
  • Birth of Allison Nelson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1862). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of John Pope; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1892). [1]
  • Birth of Rosa Bonheur; French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill). [1]
March 22
  • Birth of Ahmed Djevdet Pasha; Turkish minister of Education/Justice. [1]
  • Birth of Isaac D Fransen van de Putte; Dutch premier (1866). [1]
  • Birth of Seth Williams; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1866). [1]
April 3
  • Birth of Edward Everett Hale; US clergyman/author (Man without a Country). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of James Nagle; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1866). [1]
April 7
  • Birth of Gershom Mott; US Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Leroy Augustus Stafford; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1864). [1]
  • Birth of William Stephen Walker; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1899). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana; US Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Erastus Barnard Tyler; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
April 26
  • Birth of Frederick Law Olmsted; architect/writer (designed Central Park). [1]
April 27
  • Birth of Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio, USA; 18th President of the USA (1869-77). [1] [638.56]
May 20
  • Birth of Emile Erckmann [E-Chatrian]; French writer (Waterloo). [1]
  • Birth of Frédéric Passy; French economist/pacifist; co-winner of first Nobel Peace Prize (1901). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of Dabney Herndon Maury; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1900). [1]
  • Birth of Mosby Monroe Parsons; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1865). [1]
July 22
  • Birth of Gregor Mendel; monk/geneticist, discoverer of the laws of heredity. [1] (July 20 [5])
September 16
  • Birth of Charles S Crocker; President of Central and South Pacific Railroad. [1]
September 22
  • Birth of Eppa Hunton; Brigadier General, fought in most ANV campaigns. [1]
October 4
  • Birth of Rutherford B. Hayes in Delaware, Ohio, USA; brevet major general in 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (1861-65), Ohio Representative in Congress (1865-67), Governor of Ohio (1867-72, 1876), US President (1877-81). [1] [692.46]
December 3
  • Birth of Charles Adam Heckman; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1896). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Frances Crabbe in England; feminist, founded Anti-Vivisection Society. [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Luther Prentice Bradley; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1910). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of César Franck in Liège, Belgium; composer (Rébecca). [1]
  • Birth of Thomas Casimer Devin; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1878). [1]
December 24
  • Birth of Charles Hermite; French mathematician (e is Transcendent). [1]
  • Birth of Matthew Arnold in England; poet/critic (Dover Beach). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Dion Boucicault; Irish/US actor/playwright (Rip van Winkle). [1]
December 27
  • Birth of Louis Pasteur in Dole, France; bacteriologist (pasteurization). [1]
December 28
  • Birth of William Booth Taliaferro; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1898). [1]

1823

January 1
  • Birth of Sándor Petöfi Kikkörös in Hungary; poet, revolutionary (Jáos Vitéz). [1]
January 4
  • Birth of Otto van Rees; Governor-General of Dutch-Indies (1884-88). [1]
  • Birth of Peter Joseph Osterhaus; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1917). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of Alfred Russel Wallace; British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution). [1]
January 9
  • Birth of Friedrich von Esmarch in Tönning, Germany; military surgeon, professor of surgery, handbook on first aid for civilians and military, first-aid bandage on the battlefield. [37]
January 27
  • Birth of Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo in France; composer (Symphonie Espagnole). [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Franklin Gardner; Major-General (US Civil War-fought at Shiloh and Port Hudson). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Spencer F Baird; US biologist (Wood's Hole Station). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Li Hung-Tshang; Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton. [1]
February 16
  • Birth of John D Imboden; Brigadier General, organized first Virginia Partisan Texas Rangers. [1]
February 27
  • Birth of Ferdinand Van Derveer; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1892). [1]
  • Birth of William Buel Franklin; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1903). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Ernest Renan; French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion. [1]
March 3
  • Birth of Guyla Andrássy; premier of Hungary (1867-71). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of William Flank Perry; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1901). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of Roswell Sabine Ripley; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1887). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Cornelis A van Sypesteyn; Dutch Governor of Surinam (1873-82). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of John Echols; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1896). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Schuyler Colfax; American politician (Republican) 17th Vice President (1869-73). [1]
March 25
  • Birth of William Thompson Martin; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1910). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Samuel Kosciusko Zook; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Joseph Farmer Knipe; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1901). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Simon Bolivar Buckner; Lieutenant General (Confederate Army) (dies 1914). [1]
April 3
  • Birth of William Marcy "Boss" Tweed; corrupt New York City political boss. [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Karl Wilhelm Siemens; inventor (laid undersea cables). [1]
  • Birth of Robert Byington Mitchell; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]
April 6
  • Birth of Joseph Medill in Saint John, New Brunswick; newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune). [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb; Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]
April 12
  • Birth of Aleksandr Ostrovsky; Russian playwright (Artists and Admirers). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Orlando Bolivar Wilcox; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1907). [1]
April 22
  • Birth of Alfred Gibbs; US Major General (Union Army) (dies 1868). [1]
April 23
  • Birth of Abdül-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61) (dies 1861). [1] [5]
April 30
  • Birth of George JD Campbell; Scottish/British Minister to Indies (1868-74, 1880-85). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of James Allen Hardie; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1876). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of John Sherman in Lancaster, Ohio, USA; canal engineer, lawyer, Representative (Ohio, 1854-61), US Senator (Ohio, 1861-77, 1881-97), Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, US Treasury Secretary (1877-81), Secretary of State (1897-98) (dies 1900). [1] [525.116]
May 27
  • Birth of John Gray Foster; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1874). [1]
June 5
  • Birth of George Thorndike Angell in Massachusetts, USA; lawyer (ASPCA). [1]
June 11
  • Birth of James L Kemper; US Major General, hero at Battle of Williamsberg. [1]
August 4
  • Birth of Oliver Perry Morton; American politician (Governor-Indiana). [1]
August 11
  • Birth of Charlotte Mary Yonge in England; writer (Heir of Redclyffe). [1]
September 16
  • Birth of Francis Parkman; American historian/author (Oregon Trail). [1]
October 20
  • Birth of Thomas Hughes in England; author (Tom Brown's School Days). [1]
November 8
  • Birth of Charles Kennedy Burt in Edinburgh, Scotland; chief engraver for US Treasury Department for 20 years. [452.70] [958.829]
December 7
  • Birth of Leopold Kronecker; German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker). [1]
December 21
  • Birth of Jean Henri Fabre in France; entomologist (insects and spiders). [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Preston Smith; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1863). [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Thomas Alexander Scott; US Assistant Secretary War (Union) (dies 1881). [1]

1824

January 7
  • Birth of James Morrison Hawes; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1889). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of William Wilkie Collins; English novelist (The Woman in White, The Moonstone). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson; Lieutenant-General second Corps (ANV, Confederacy). [1] [434.140]
February 3
  • Birth of George Thomas "Tige" Anderson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]
  • Birth of Nathan George "Shanks" Evans; Brigadier General (Confederacy) (dies 1868). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of William Higgins; discovered nature of spiral "nebulae". [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Barnard Elliot Bee; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1861). [1]
February 10
  • Birth of Samuel Plimsoll in Bristol, England; inventor (Plimsoll line for ships). [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati; Indian Hindu leader. [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Winfield Scott Hancock; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1886). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of William Farrar "Baldy" Smith; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1903). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Herman N van der Tuuk; Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar). [1]
  • Birth of Lewis Cass Hunt; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1886). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of John Crawford Vaughn; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1875). [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Carlos Calvo; Argentine diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of John Creed Moore; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1910). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of Bedrich Friedrich Smetana; Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau). [1]
  • Birth of Henry Beebee Carrington; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1912). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Elisha Harris; US physician/founded American Public Health Association. [1]
  • Birth of James Merritt Ives; lithographer (Currier and Ives). [1]
March 9
  • Birth of Leland Stanford; American politician (Governor/Senator), founded Stanford University. [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Thomas J Churchill; Major General (Confederate Army), fought at Wilson's Creek, Red River. [1]
March 12
  • Birth of Gustav R Kirchoff in Prussia; physicist (spectral analysis). [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Branko Radicevic; Serbian poet (first Serbian Uprising). [1]
March 22
  • Birth of William Henry Chase Whiting; Major General (Confederate Army). [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Innis Newton Palmer; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Sydney Thompson Dobell; poet (The Roman). [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Alfred Holt Colquitt; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1894). [1]
May 8
  • Birth of William Walker; filibuster/President of Nicaragua (1856-57). [1]
May 9
  • Birth of William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones; Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Charles Henry Van Wyck; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1895). [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Edmund Kirby-Smith in Florida; West Point graduate/educator/General (Confederate Army). [1]
  • Birth of Levi Parsons Morton; American politician (Republican) 22nd US Vice President (1889-93). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Ambrose Everett Burnside; Major General (US volunteers). [1]
May 29
  • Birth of Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox; Major General (Confederate Army). [1]
June 26
  • Birth of William Thomson Lord Kelvin, engineer/mathematician/physicist. [1] [5]
June 28
  • Birth of Paul Broca in France; brain surgeon/anthropologist (located speech center). [1]
July 27
  • Birth of Alexandre Dumas in France; playwright/novelist (Camille). [1]
September 4
  • Birth of Phoebe Cary in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; American poet (Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary). [1]
September 28
  • Birth of Francis Turner Palgrave in England; poet (Golden Treasury), professor (Oxford). [1]
October 6
  • Birth of Henry Chadwick; baseball pioneer, developed first rule book. [1]
December 5
  • Birth of Titian James Coffey; US Attorney General (Union) (dies 1867). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of George MacDonald in Scotland; sci-fi author (Lilith, Princess and Curdie). [1]
December 14
  • Birth of Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes; French painter (Panthéon). [1]
December 17
  • Birth of John Kerr in Ardrossan, Scotland; physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect). [1]
  • Birth of Manning Ferguson Force; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1899). [1]
  • Birth of Thomas Starr King in New York City, New York, USA; Unitarian clergyman (Christianity and Humanity). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Hercules Robinson in Ireland; South Africa Commissioner (1880-89, 1895-97). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Augustus Louis Chetlain; Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1914). [1]

End of 1822-1824. Next: 1825.

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