Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1840

January 3
  • Birth of Father Joseph Damien de Veuster in Belgium; helped lepers in Hawaii. [1]
January 5
  • Birth of John Doby Kennedy; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1896). [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Ernst Abbe in Germany; physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Hiram Stevens Maxim; inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle). [1]
  • Birth of John Boyd Dunlop in Scotland; developer (pneumatic rubber tire). [1] [5] [772.30]
February 11
  • Birth of Samuel Dana Greene; US Lieutenant Commander (Union Navy) (dies 1884). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of Otto Liebmann; German philosopher (Climax of Theories). [1]
February 29
  • Birth of John Philip Holland in Liscannor, Ireland; pioneer in submarine building. [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Constance Fenimore Woolson in Claremont, New Hampshire, USA; writer (Jupiter Lights). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Edmund Kirby Junior; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1863). [1]
March 26
  • Birth of George Smith in London, England; assyriologist (cuneiform (script)). [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Mehemed Emin Pasja; German explorer/Governor (Equatoria). [1]
March 31
  • Birth of John Herbert Kelly; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1864). [1]
April 2
  • Birth of Émile Zola in France; novelist (Nana, J'Accuse) (dies 1902). [1] [5]
April 20
  • Birth of Odilon Redon; French painter/author (La nuit, Rêves). [1]
April 21
  • Birth of Franz Xaver Haberl; German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis). [1]

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April 25
  • Birth of James Dearing; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1865). [1]
April 27
  • Birth of Edward Whymper; first to climb Matterhorn (1865). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Theodor Herzl; founded Zionist movement. [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Votkinsk, Russia; composer (The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, 1812 Overture) (dies 1893). [1] [5]
May 13
  • Birth of Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon). [1]
May 29
  • Birth of Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Plague in Florenz). [1]
June 2
  • Birth of Thomas Hardy in England; poet/novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge). [1]
June 21
  • Birth of Edward Stanley Gibbons in Plymouth, England; chemist, postage stamp dealer. [1016.95] [1249.924]
July 25
  • Birth of Flora Adams Darling; founded Daughters of American Revolution. [1]
August 17
  • Birth of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in England; writer (Irish Land League). [1]
September 27
  • Birth of Alfred Thayer Mahan; US naval officer (Influence of Sea Power). [1]
  • Birth of Thomas Nast; political cartoonist of late 1800s America. [1]
October 5
  • Birth of John Addington Symonds; British historian/writer (Problems in Greek Ethics). [1]
October 12
  • Birth of Helena Modjeska in Poland; Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian. [1]
November 12
  • Birth of François Auguste René Rodin in Paris, France; sculptor (The Age of Bronze, The Thinker). [1] [246.24]
November 14
  • Birth of Claude Monet in France; impressionist painter (Water Lilies) (dies 1926). [1] [5]
December 11
  • Birth of Kemal Bey in Turkey; poet/author (Fatherland - 1872). [1]
December 21
  • Birth of Mehmed N Kemal; Turkish journalist (Vatan). [1]

1841

January 15
  • Birth of Lord Frederick Stanley; presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup. [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier in France; composer (Le Roi Malgré Lui). [1]
January 25
  • Birth of John Arbuthnot Fisher in Ceylon; first Baron Fisher/admiral of the fleet. [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Clément Ader; French inventor (first to fly a heavier-than-air craft). [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Gijsbert van Tienhoven; Dutch mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister. [1]
February 25
  • Birth of Pierre Auguste Renoir in Limoges, France; Impressionist painter/sculptor. [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Evelyn Baring, Earl Cromer, English Consul-General (Egypt). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Blanche Kelso Bruce in Farmville, Virginia, USA; American politician (Senator-Mississippi, 1875-1881). [1]
March 3
  • Birth of John Murray; Canadian oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean). [1]
March 4
  • Birth of Kristian Mandrup Elster; Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Olegario Víctor Andrade in Argentina; poet (El nido de cóndores). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Massachusetts, USA; 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32). [1]
August 25
  • Birth of Theodor Kocher; Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel Prize 1909). [1]
September 8
  • Birth of Antonín Dvorák Nelahozeves; Czech composer (New World Symphony). [1]
September 28
  • Birth of Georges Clemenceau in France; statesman/Prime Minister (defended Dreyfuss). [1]
November 9
  • Birth of Edward VII; king of England (1901-10). [1]
November 12
  • Birth of Lord Rayleigh in England; physicist/chancellor of Cambridge (1908-14). [1]
November 20
  • Birth of Wilfrid Laurier; 7th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal, 1896-1911). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Ferdinand-Èdouard Buisson in France; educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927). [1]

1842

January 15
  • Birth of Josef Breuer in Vienna, Austria; initiated psychoanalysis which Freud later developed. [37]
January 17
  • Birth of Anton G van Hamel; founder (Roman Philology in Netherlands). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Carl Rosa in Hamburg, Germany; founder (Rosa opera company). [1]
  • Birth of Léon Vanderkindere; Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of Karl May; German writer (Old Shatterhand, Winnetou). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Ina Donna Coolbrith; US poet laureate of California. [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Stéphane Mallarmé; French poet (L'Après-midi d'un faune). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Antero Tarquinio de Quental in Portugal; poet (Beatrice). [1]
April 25
  • Birth of Antonio Fogazzarro; Italian writer/poet (Il santo, Leila). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of Louis of Orleans; Earl of Brazil (1870-89). [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Karl Millöcker; Austria conductor/composer (Beggar Student). [1]
May 12
  • Birth of Jules Emile Fred Massenet in Montaud, France; composer (Manon, Le Cid). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Arthur Seymour Sullivan in London, England; composer (Gilbert and Sullivan). [1]
July 24
  • Birth of Ambrose Bierce in Ohio, USA; writer (Nuggets and Dust), satirist (Devil's Dictionary). [1]
October 28
  • Birth of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson; orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War). [1]
November 14
  • Birth of Walter Williams; claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (dies 1959). [1]
December 3
  • Birth of Ellen Henrietta Richards; US chemist (American Home Economics Association-first president). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Otto Ammon; German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen). [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Marius Sophus Lie; Norwegian mathematician (continuous groups). [1]

1843

January 20
  • Birth of Pierre-Paul Cambon; French diplomat (Madrid, Constantinople, London). [1]
January 29
  • Birth of William McKinley in Niles, Ohio, USA; 25th American President (Republican, 1897-1901) (dies 1901). [1] [5]
February 19
  • Birth of Adelina Patti in Madrid, Spain; operatic coloratura (Lucia). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay; French/Brazilian writer (Inocencia). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Jules Vandenpeereboom; premier of Belgium (1899). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Hans Richter Györ (Raab/Gyoer) in Hungary; conductor (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Henry James in New York City, New York, USA; American/British writer/critic (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Elijah McCoy; inventor, granted over 50 patents including a lubricator for steam engines ("the Real McCoy") (born 1929). [5] (1844 [1])
May 6
  • Birth of Grove Karl Gilbert; geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah. [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Benito Pérez Galdós in Spain; novelist (Fountain of Gold, Nazáarin). [1]
June 7
  • Birth of Susan Elizabeth Blow; American, pioneered kindergarten education. [1]
June 9
  • Birth of Bertha von Suttner in Austria; novelist/pacifist (Nobel Prize 1905). [1]
June 15
  • Birth of Edvard Grieg in Bergen, Norway; composer (Bewitched One). [1]
October 25
  • Birth of Gleb Uspensky in Russia; author (Power of the Soil). [1]
December 9
  • Birth of P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu; French economist (Economiste Français). [1]
December 11
  • Birth of Robert Koch; German bacteriologist (tiberculosis, cholera, Nobel Prize 1905). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Elisabeth, queen of Romania/poet (Rumänische Dichtungen). [1]

1844

January 30
  • Birth of Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing; German General/Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of Eduard Adolf Strasburger; German botanist (Angiospermen). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of A Montgomery Ward; founded US mail-order business (Montgomery Ward). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Willem Maris; Dutch painter (Hague School). [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann in Austria; physicist (statistical mechanics). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Charles-Marie Widor in Lyons, France; composer/professor (Paris Conservatory). [1]
March 4
  • Birth of Josip Jurcic; Slovenian writer (10th Brother). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez; composer (Spanish Dancing). [1]
March 14
  • Birth of King Umberto I of Italy (1878-1900). [1]
March 15
  • Birth of Bransby Cooper; cricket player (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's first Test). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Nicolai Andreevich Rimski-Korsakov in Tikhvin, Russia; composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Scheherazade). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown; Finnish playwright (Kovan onnen lapsia). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Adolphus Washington Greely; American Arctic explorer, US Army General, Medal of Honor recipient, Chief Signal Officer (1887-1906). [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Paul M Verlaine in France; lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur). [1]
March 31
  • Birth of Andrew Lang in Scotland; author (The Blue Fairy Book). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault AKA Anatole France in France; writer (Thaïs, The Wickerwork Woman, Nobel Prize 1921). [1]
May 3
  • Birth of Richard D'Oyly Carte in England; opera impresario (Ivanhoe). [1]
May 9
  • Birth of [Maria] Catharina Beersmans; Belgian actress (Bad Herders). [1]
May 20
  • Birth of Henri Julien Felix Rousseau; French ambassador, painter (The Dream). [1]
May 22
  • Birth of Mary Cassatt; US impressionist painter (Woman Bathing). [1]
June 3
  • Birth of Garret Augustus Hobart; 24th US Vice President (Republican, 1897-99). [1]
July 22
  • Birth of William Archibald Spooner in London, England; reverend, invented "spoonerisms". [1]
July 28
  • Birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins in England; poet (The Windhover). [1]
August 17
  • Birth of Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913). [1]
August 19
  • Birth of Minna Canth in Finland; novelist/dramatist (social evils). [1]
September 17
  • Birth of Tivadar Puská in Hungary; inventor of telephone-newspaper. [404.58]
October 3
  • Birth of Patrick Manson; "Father of tropical medicine". [1]
October 11
  • Birth of Henry John Heinz; founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties). [1]
October 12
  • Birth of George W Cable; American writer (Northampton Years). [1]
October 15
  • Birth of Friedrich Nietzsche in Germany; philosopher/anti-semite (Ubermensch). [1]
October 22
  • Louis Riel is born in Saint Boniface, Assiniboia, Canada; member of Parliament 1873-74, president of Council of Assiniboia, Métis leader of Red River Uprising 1869-70 and Northwest Rebellion 1885. [1] [271.556]
October 23
  • Birth of Robert Bridges; poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty). [1]
October 27
  • Birth of Klas Arnoldson in Sweden; politician/pacifist (Nobel Prize 1908). [1]
November 10
  • Birth of John SD Thompson; fourth Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative, 1892-94). [1]
December 1
  • Birth of Alexandra; Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland. [1]

End of 1840-1844. Next: 1845.

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