Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1825

January 10
  • Birth of Alexander Travis Hawthorn; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1899). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Joseph Robert Davis; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1896). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of George Edward Pickett; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1875). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Quincy Adams Gillmore; Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1888). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of John Dunovant; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1864). [1]
  • Birth of Joseph Albert; German photographer (albertotype). [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) (dies 1898). [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Samuel Bell Maxey; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1895). [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; standardized time zones. [1]
April 28
  • Birth of James Winning McMillan; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of George Inness; US landscape painter ("Delaware Water Gap"). [1]
May 6
  • Birth of Joseph Bailey; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1867). [1]

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May 21
  • Birth of George Lafayette Beal; Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
May 29
  • Birth of David Bell Birney; Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1864). [1]
June 1
  • Birth of John Hunt Morgan; Brigadier General (Confederate cavalry commander). [1]
June 5
  • Birth of Jabez Lamar Monroe in Curry, Georgia, USA; educator (Republican-Alabama, 1857-61). [1]
June 7
  • Birth of R.D. Blackmore; author (Norie). [1]
August 9
  • Birth of Elisha Ferry; American politician (Governor-Republican-Washington, 1872-80, 1889-93). [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 16
  • Birth of Henry Heth; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1899). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Charles Griffin; Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1867). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Romeyn Beck Ayres; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1888). [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Francis Trowbridge Sherman; Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1905). [1]

1826

January 6
  • Birth of Herman Grimm; German writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Charles Cruft; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1883). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Mikhail Saltykov in Spas-Ugol, Russia; radical novelist/satirist (Family of Noblemen). [1]
January 22
  • Birth of [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson; Partisan (Confederate Army) (dies 1876). [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Julia Boggs Dent in White Haven Plantation, Saint Louis County, Missouri, USA; spouse of US President Hiram Ulysses Grant. [1] [638.62]
January 27
  • Birth of Richard Taylor; Lieutenant-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1879). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Halbert Eleazer Paine; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1905). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of John Alexander Logan; Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1886). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Joseph V von Scheffel; German writer (Gaudeamus). [1]
March 4
  • Birth of John Buford; Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1863). [1]
March 17
  • Birth of Oskar Peschel; German journalist/geography (Völkerkunder). [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) (dies 1897). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Zénobe Théophile; Gramme inventor (electric motor). [1]
April 9
  • Birth of Thomas Hewson Neill; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1885). [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, wife of Napoleon III. [1] [405.22]
May 21
  • Birth of Danillo II; ruler of Montenegro. [1]
May 22
  • Birth of George Parr; cricket player (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]
July 26
  • Birth of Mahlon Loomis in Oppenheim, New York, USA; obtained patent for wireless technology (radio), first wireless telegrapher. [457]
December 1
  • Birth of William Mahone; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1895). [1]
December 3
  • Birth of George Brinton McClellan; Major General (US Army) (dies 1885). [1]
December 5
  • Birth of John Benjamin Sanborn; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1904). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Charles-A Chatrian [Erckmann-C]; French writer (L'ami Fritz). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of James Scott Negley; US volunteers Major General (dies 1901). [1]
December 26
  • 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]

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) (dies 1889). [1]
  • Birth of John Wesley Frazer; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1906). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Carlos Guido y Spano in 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) (dies 1864). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Charles Robert Woods; US Brevet Major General (US Army) (dies 1885). [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Edward Stuyvesant Bragg; Brigadier General (US volunteers) (dies 1912). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of James Barnet Fry; US Brevet Major General (US Army) (dies 1894). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Charles Davis Jameson; Brigadier General (US volunteers) (dies 1862). [1]
February 27
  • Birth of Richard W Johnson; US Brevet Major General (US Army) (dies 1897). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Henry DeLamar Clayton; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1889). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of John Robert Jones; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1901). [1]
  • Birth of William Richard Terry; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1897). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Alexander Shaler; US Brevet Major General (US volunteers) (dies 1911). [1]
April 2
  • Birth of William Holdman Hunt; English painter (Light of the World). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Joseph Lister in England; physician (founded aseptic surgery). [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Lewis Wallace; Major General (US volunteers)/lawyer/diplomat/author (Ben Hur). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of French C Baeckelmans; Flemish architect (Saint Amanduskerk, Antwerp). [1]
April 20
  • Birth of John Gibbon; Major General (US volunteers) (dies 1896). [1]
April 22
  • Birth of William Hopkins Morris; Major General (US volunteers) (dies 1900). [1]
April 26
  • Birth of Charles Edward Hovey; US Brevet Major General (US volunteers). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Francis Engle Patterson; Brigadier General (US volunteers) (dies 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) (dies 1890). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff; Austrian admiral (Helgoland/Lissa). [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Robert Latimer McCook; volunteers Brigadier-General (US) (dies 1862). [1]

1828

January 5
  • Birth of August Valentine Kautz; US Brevet Major General (US Army) (dies 1895). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Lewis Addison Grant; US Brevet Major General (US volunteers) (dies 1918). [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Calvin Edward Pratt; US Brigadier General (US volunteers) (dies 1896). [1]
January 24
  • Birth of Adam Jacoby Slemmer; US Brigadier General (US volunteers) (dies 1868). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Samuel Allen Rice; US Brigadier General (US volunteers) (dies 1864). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Thomas Carmichael Hindman; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1868). [1]
February 8
  • 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 in England; poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat). [1]
  • Birth of Robert Ransom Junior; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1892). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Johan H van Dale; schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Robert Alexander Cameron; US Brevet Major General (US volunteers) (dies 1894). [1]
February 29
  • Birth of Antonio Guzman Blanco; President of Venezuela. [1]
March 1
  • Birth of James Fleming Fagan; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1893). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of Jefferson Columbus Davis; US Brevet Major General (US Army) (dies 1879). [1]
March 4
  • Birth of Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton; Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [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 in Scotland; novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City). [1]
April 6
  • Birth of Charles William; Field Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 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 23
  • Birth of Albert; king of Saxon (1873-1902). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Robert Brank Vance; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1899). [1]
May 8
  • Birth of Jean Henri Dunant in Switzerland; writer/founder (Red Cross (Nobel Peace Prize 1901)). [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Adin Ballou Underwood; US Brevet Major General (US volunteers). [1]
May 20
  • Birth of James William Reilly; US Brigadier General (US volunteers) (dies 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 education (Amherst College). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Alpheus Baker; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1891). [1]
September 9
  • Birth of Leo Tolstoy in Russia; novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Clinton Bowen Fisk; US Brevet Major General (US volunteers) (dies 1890). [1]
  • Birth of Robert Bullock; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1905). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of John Beatty; US Brigadier-General (US volunteers) (dies 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) (dies 1885). [1]

1829

January 9
  • Birth of Adolf von Schlagintweit; German explorer (Tarimbekken). [1]
  • Birth of Thomas William Robertson in 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 30
  • Birth of Alfred Cummings in Georgia, USA; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1910). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of John Potts Slough; Brigadier General (US volunteers) (dies 1867). [1]
February 11
  • Birth of William Anderson Pile; US Brevet Major General (US volunteers) (dies 1889). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Gerard Keller; writer (Netherlands Spectator). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Alfred Iverson Junior; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 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) (dies 1864). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Johnson Hagood; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1898). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of Carl Schurz; Major General (US volunteers) journalist/political reformer/Civil War general. [1]
  • Birth of William B. Allison; US Senator for Ohio, co-author of Bland-Allison silver dollar act. [706.70]
March 14
  • Birth of Charles Charlesworth in England; (dies at age 7 of old age). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of William Robertson Boggs in Georgia, USA; Brigadier General (Confederate Army), chief of engineers under Braxton Bragg (dies 1911). [1]
March 29
  • Birth of Robert Emmet Rodes; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1864). [1]
April 10
  • Birth of William Booth; founder (Salvation Army). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of George Peabody Estey; US Brigadier General (US volunteers) (dies 1881). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of José M de Alencar; Brazilian writer/minister of Justice. [1]
June 8
  • Birth of John Everett Millais in England; painter (Order of Release). [1]
June 12
  • Birth of Johanna Spyri in Switzerland; writer (Heidi). [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 in Warner, Massachusetts, USA; newspaperman/author (Being a Boy). [1]
October 5
  • Birth of Chester Alan Arthur in Fairfield, Vermont, USA; 21st US President (Republican, 1881-85). [825.52] (1830 [1] [525.44])
October 15
  • Birth of Asaph Hall; discovered satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. [1]
November 28
  • Birth of Anton Rubinstein in Vykhvatinetz, Podolia, Russia; composer (Omitri Donskoy). [1]
December 3
  • Birth of Green Berry Raum; Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1909). [1]
December 27
  • Birth of James Clay Rice; Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1864). [1]

End of 1825-1829. Next: 1830.

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