Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1830

January 7
  • Birth of (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
  • Birth of Albert Bierstadt in Dusseldorf, Germany; painter of grandiose scenes of the American West, part of the "Hudson River School". [1] [37]
January 8
  • Birth of Governer Kemble Warren; Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1882). [1]
  • Birth of Hans von Bülow in Dresden, Germany; pianist/virtuoso conductor/musical writer. [1] [37]
January 19
  • Birth of George Blake Cosby; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1909). [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet; French General, minister of War (1899-1900). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of William Henry Fitzhugh Payne; Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of James Gillespie Blaine in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania; American politician (Representative-Republican-Maine 1863-76/Senator-Republican-Maine 1876-81/Secretary of State 1889-92). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative), British Prime Minister (1885-1902). [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Marcellus Monroe Crocker; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (died in 1865). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Abdül Aziz in Istanbul, Ottoman; 32nd sultan of Turkey (1861-76). [1]
March 12
  • Birth of William Felix Brantley; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1870). [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Paul von Heyse in Germany; writer (Nobel Prize 1910). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of Eugene Asa Carr; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1910). [1]
March 25
  • Birth of Julius Caesar; cricket player (prominent batsman for Surrey). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Alexander Muir in Lesmahagow, Scotland; poet (The Maple Leaf Forever). [1]

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April 6
  • Birth of James Augustine Healy in Macon, Georgia, USA; first black Roman Catholic bishop. [1]
April 9
  • Birth of Eadweard Muybridge in England; pioneered study of motion, photography. [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Adolph Sutro; San Francisco mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels. [1]
April 30
  • Birth of Davis Tillson; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1895). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of François M Raoult; French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult). [1]
May 11
  • Birth of John Converse Starkweather; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Zebulon Baird Vance; Governor (Confederacy) (dies 1894). [1]
May 14
  • Birth of George Pierce Doles; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1864). [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Laurence Simmons Baker; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1907). [1]
  • Birth of Martinus W van der Aa; author/Dutch head-editor (The Time). [1]
May 18
  • Birth of Karl Goldmark Keszthely in Hungary; composer (Sakuhtala). [1]
May 20
  • Birth of Amalia, princess of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach/wife of prince Henry. [1]
  • Birth of Hector H Malot; French writer (Without Family). [1]
May 25
  • Birth of Jules de Geyter; Belgian poet (International). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of George Lucas Hartsuff; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1874). [1]
May 30
  • Birth of Edward Winslow Hinks; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
September 8
  • Birth of Frédéric Mistral Provençal; poet (Nobel Prize 1904). [1]
September 15
  • Birth of Porfirio Díaz; soldier, president of Mexico (1877-1911). [1]
October 10
  • Birth of Queen Isabella II; Queen of Spain (1833-68). [1]
October 30
  • Birth of John S Bowen; Major-General (Confederate). [1]
December 5
  • Birth of Christina Rossetti in London, England; poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Luigi Cremona; Italian mathematician/minister of Education. [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Emily Dickinson in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; poet (Collected Poems). [1]
  • Birth of Kálmán Tisza; premier of Hungary (1875-90). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Joseph Orville Shelby; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1897). [1]
December 14
  • Birth of Allen Thomas; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1907). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of John Frederick Hartranft; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1889). [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Jules de Goncourt in France; novelist (Germinie). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Justin M'Carthy in Ireland; Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Ezra Meeker in Huntsville, Ohio, USA; sculptor, co-founder of Puyallup Washington, grower of hops, promoter of the Oregon Trail. [663.44]
December 31
  • Birth of Ismail Pasha; kedive of Egypt (1863-79). [1]

1831

January 2
  • Birth of Justin Winston; historian/librarian (Harvard). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of James Ronald Chalmers; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1898). [1]
January 14
  • Birth of John Bullock Clark Junior; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1903). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Edward Ferrero; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1899). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Pieter J Joubert; General (South Africa). [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Mary Mapes Dodge in New York City, New York, USA; writer (Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Henry Brevard Davidson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1899). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Cyrus Ballou Comstock; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1910). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of John M. Eckfeldt; US Mint Chief Coiner. [477.74]
February 12
  • Birth of John Morrissey; boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track. [1]
February 13
  • Birth of John Aaron Rawlins; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1869). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Hendrik W Mesdag; Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Georg Leo earl von Caprivi; German chancellor/premier of Prussia. [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Hiram Bronson Granbury; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1864). [1]
March 3
  • Birth of George M Pullman; inventor (railway sleeping car). [1]
March 6
  • Birth of Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh; German theologist (Home Mission). [1]
  • Birth of Philip Henry Sheridan in Albany, New York, USA; four-star general, Union Army (dies 1888). [1] [501.128]
March 7
  • Birth of John Bratton [Old Reliable]; US physician/Confederate Brigadier General. [1]
March 12
  • Birth of Clement Studebaker; automobile pioneer (Studebaker). [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Edward Aylesworth Perry; Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Edward Cary Walthall; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1898). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Allard Pierson; Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet. [1]
April 12
  • Birth of George Burgwyn Anderson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army). [1]
  • Birth of Grenville Mellen Dodge; US Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Gerhard Rohlfs; German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia. [1]
April 22
  • Birth of Alexander McDowell McCook; US Major General (Union volunteers). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Willem, baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller; Dutch minister of Colonies. [1]
May 16
  • Birth of David Edward Hughes; inventor (microphone, teleprinter). [1]
June 1
  • Birth of John B Hood; Confederate general (lost Atlanta, Georgia). [1]
June 13
  • Birth of James Clerk Maxwell; physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory. [1]
June 28
  • Birth of Joseph Joachim Kittsee in Germany; violinist (Hungarian Concerto). [1]
August 28
  • Birth of Lucy Ware Webb in Chillicothe, Ohio, USA; spouse of US President Ruthorford B. Hayes. [1] [692.65]
October 6
  • Birth of Richard Dedekind; mathematician (Nature and Meaning of Numbers). [1]
October 15
  • Birth of Helen Maria Hunt Jackson; author (Ramona). [1]
November 13
  • Birth of James Maxwell in Edinburgh, Scotland; physicist (Treatise on Electricity). [1]
November 19
  • Birth of James A. Garfield in Orange Township, Ohio, USA; President of Eclectic Institute (1857), Senator for Ohio (1859-61), colonel and major general of 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry regiment (1861-63), US House of Representatives for Ohio (1862-79), 20th President of the USA (1881). [1] [718.50]
December 6
  • Birth of Joshua Woodrow Sill; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1862). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Robert Ogden Tyler; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1874). [1]
December 27
  • Birth of Lucius Fairchild; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1896). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Adam Badeau; US Brevet Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1895). [1]

End of 1830-1831. Next: 1832.

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