Birthdays Date 1824 | History by KabAstro

Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863)

Jan 21 Confederate general during the American Civil War, born in Clarksburg, Virginia

Jan 22 Josef Leopold Zvonař, Czech organist and composer, born in Kublov, Bohemia (d. 1865)
Jan 27 Jozef Israels, Dutch landscape painter, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1911)
Jan 29 Karl von Perfall, German composer and music director (Royal Bavarian Court and Residence Theater, 1868-92), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1907)
Feb 3 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Covington, Georgia (d. 1901)
Feb 3 Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, American Brigadier-General (Confederate States Army), born in Marion County, South Carolina (d. 1868)
Feb 3 Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
Feb 8 Barnard Elliott Bee, American military officer (US Army, 1845-61; Confederate Army, 1861), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1861)
Feb 10 Samuel Plimsoll, English politician and social reformer (invented Plimsoll line for ships), born in Bristol, England (d. 1898)
Feb 12 Dayananda Sarasvati, Indian hindu leader, founder of Arya Samaj reform movement, born in Tantara, India (d. 1883)
Feb 14 Winfield Scott Hancock, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania (d. 1886)
Feb 16 Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
Feb 17 William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, American Major General (Union Army), born in St. Albans, Vermont (d. 1903)
Feb 22 Pierre Janssen, French astronomer, discovered helium, born in Paris, France (d. 1907)
Feb 23 Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar), born in Malacca, Dutch Malaya (d. 1894)
Feb 23 Lewis Cass Hunt, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brown County Wisconsin (d. 1886)
Feb 24 John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1875)
Feb 26 Carlos Calvo, Argentine historian, diplomat and human rights scholar (Calvo Clause), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1906)
Feb 28 Charles Blondin, French acrobat and tight rope walker, born in St. Omer (d. 1897)
Feb 28 John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1910)
Mar 2 Henry Beebee Carrington, American lawyer, professor, prolific author, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Wallingford, Connecticut (d. 1912)
Mar 2 Konstantin Ushinsky, Russian educationalist (credited as the founder of scientific pedagogy in Russia), born in Tula, Russia (d. 1870)

Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884)

Mar 2 Czech composer (The Bartered Bride; Má Vlast; Moldau), born in Litomyšl, Bohemia

Mar 5 Elisha Harris, American physician (founded American Public Health Association, sanitary reform), born in Westminster, Vermont (d. 1884)
Mar 5 James Merritt Ives, American lithographer and businessman (Currier and Ives), born in New York City (d. 1895)

Leland Stanford (1824-1893)

Mar 9 American business tycoon (Southern Pacific Railroad), 8th Governor of California and founder of Stanford University, born in Watervliet, New York

Mar 10 Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1905)
Mar 12 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy, coined "black body" radiation), born in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1887)
Mar 15 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), born in Slavonski Brod, Austrian Empire (d. 1853)
Mar 15 Jules Chevalier, French Roman Catholic priest (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart), born in Richelieu, Touraine, France (d. 1907)
Mar 22 William Henry Chase Whiting, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Biloxi, Mississippi (d. 1865)
Mar 25 Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (Rep-R-NY) (d. 1900)
Mar 29 Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician, born in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse by the Rhine, German Confederation (d. 1899)
Mar 30 Innis Newton Palmer, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1900)
Apr 5 Sydney Thompson Dobell, English poet, born in Cranbrook, Kent (d. 1874)
Apr 20 Alfred H. Colquitt, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Monroe, Georgia (d. 1894)
Apr 21 Anselmo Clavé, Spanish politician and composer, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1874)
Apr 24 François Fournier, Swiss-French postage stamp forger, born in Croix-de-Rozon, Switzerland (d. 1917)
Apr 25 Gustave Boulanger, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1888)
Apr 27 William Richard Bexfield, English composer, born in Norwich, England (d. 1853)
May 8 William Walker, American physician and president of Nicaragua (1856-57), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1860)
May 9 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Washington County, Virginia (d. 1864)
May 10 Charles Henry Van Wyck, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 1895)
May 11 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1904)
May 16 Edmund Kirby Smith, American military officer (Confederate Army General), born in St Augustine, Florida (d. 1893)
May 16 Levi Parsons Morton, American ambassador and politician (R) (Vice President of the United States 1889-93, Governor of New York 1895-96), born in Shoreham, New York (d. 1920) [1]

Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881)

May 23 American soldier, industrialist and politician (Governor of Rhode Island, 1866-69) who popularized sideburns, born in Liberty, Indiana

May 29 Cadmus M. Wilcox, American Major General (Confederate Army - American Civil War), born in Wayne County, North Carolina (d. 1890)
Jun 2 Samuel Wilks, British physician and founding father of clinical science, born in London (d. 1911)
Jun 3 Charles Kinnaird Graham, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1889)
Jun 8 James Loudon, Dutch politician, Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1872-75), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1900)
Jun 8 William Montgomery Gardner, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1901)
Jun 13 Julius Eichberg, German composer, born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1893)
Jun 18 Johannes Heykamp, Dutch Catholic archbishop of Utrecht (The Declaration of Utrecht) (d. 1892)
Jun 20 George Edmund Street, English architect, born in Woodford, London (d. 1881)
Jun 20 John Tyler Morgan, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Athens, Tennessee (d. 1907)
Jun 22 Frédéric Louis Ritter, French composer and conductor, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1891)
Jun 23 Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer and teacher (Undine Sonata), born in Altona, Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1910)
Jun 26 Moritz Fürstenau, German composer, born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1889)

William Thomson (1824-1907)

Jun 26 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist (Kelvin Scale) and engineer (transatlantic telegraph), born in Belfast, Ireland

Jun 28 Paul Broca, French brain surgeon and anthropologist (located speech center), born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France (d. 1880)
Jun 28 William T. Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army-American Civil War), born in Toccoa, Habersham County, Georgia (d. 1884)
Jul 7 Alfred Pleasonton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1897)
Jul 8 Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Polish-American engineer, politician, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland (d. 1887)
Jul 10 Rudolf von Bennigsen, German lawyer and politician, born in Lüneburg, Hanover (d. 1902)
Jul 11 Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, Belgian composer, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1898)
Jul 12 Eugène Boudin, French painter (beach scenes), born in Honfleur, France (d. 1898)
Jul 20 Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussian-American political revolutionary and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Bromberg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1865)
Jul 23 Gabriel C. Wharton, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Culpeper County, Virginia (d. 1906)
Jul 25 George B. Vashon, American, lawyer, academic and poet, first African American lawyer in NY, born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (d. 1878)
Jul 25 Richard James Oglesby, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Oldham County, Kentucky (d. 1899)
Jul 28 Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, born in Verona, Italy (d. 1858)
Jul 30 Eugenio Terziani, Italian composer, born in Rome, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1889)
Aug 1 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, English composer, born in Deal, Kent, England (d. 1857)
Aug 3 William Burnham Woods, American politician, judge, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1887)
Aug 8 Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
Aug 9 Simon Goodell Griffin, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1887)
Aug 14 William Terry, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Amherst County, Virginia (d. 1888)
Aug 19 Georg Goltermann, German cellist and composer, born in Hanover, Kingdom of Hanover, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1898)
Aug 20 Absalom Baird, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Rockland, Maine (d. 1905)
Aug 21 John Sanford Mason, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Steubenville, Ohio (d. 1897)
Aug 27 Hiram Gregory Berry, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Thomaston, Main (d. 1863)
Aug 28 Carel van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician, born in Zevenaar, Netherlands (d. 1884)
Sep 1 Isaac Hardin Duval, American businessman and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Wellsburg, West Virginia (d. 1902)

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Sep 4 Austrian composer (Te Deum; Wagner Symphony), Wagner disciple and "monumental bore", born in Ansfelden, Austria

Sep 4 Phoebe Cary, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1871)
Sep 8 Jaime Nunó, Spanish composer (Mexican national anthem), born in Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Catalonia (d. 1908)
Sep 19 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, Austrian zither player and composer, born in Baden, Austria (d. 1902)
Sep 19 William Sellers, American engineer and inventor (US standard screw thread), born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania (d. 1905) [1]
Sep 21 Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, American Baptist Minister and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Webster, Pennsylvania (d. 1901)
Sep 24 Truman Seymour, American artist and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 1891)
Sep 27 William "Bull" Nelson, American Major General (Union Army), born in Maysville, Kentucky (d. 1862)
Sep 28 Alfred Gilpin Jones, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1900-06), born in Weymouth, NOva Scotia, Canada (d. 1906)
Sep 28 Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet (Golden Treasury), born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (d. 1897)
Sep 30 Peter Milne, Scottish composer and violinist, born in Kincardine O'Neil (d. 1908)
Oct 6 Henry Chadwick, English-American Baseball HOF pioneer (1st rule book; created game stats eg. BA, ERA; box scores), born in Exeter, England (d. 1908)
Oct 13 Henry Stephen Cutler, American church organist and hymn composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1902)
Oct 19 František Pivoda, Moravian composer, born in Žeravice, Austrian Empire (d. 1898)
Oct 19 Rufus Saxton, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Greenfield, Massachusetts (d. 1908)
Oct 23 Thomas Gamble Pitcher, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Rockport, Indiana (d. 1895)
Oct 26 Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1886)
Oct 29 Joseph Horace Lewis, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Barren County, Kentucky (d. 1904)
Nov 18 Franz Sigel, German-American teacher, newspaperman, politician, and Major General (Union Army), born in Sinsheim, Grand Duchy of Baden (d. 1902)
Nov 18 Isham Nicholas Hayne, American lawyer, politician, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Dover, Tennessee (d. 1868)
Nov 21 Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1898)
Nov 24 Charles Verlat, Flemish painter, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1890)
Dec 5 Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen (Union), (d. 1867)
Dec 10 George MacDonald, Scottish poet and sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (d. 1905)
Dec 14 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter, born in Lyon, Rhône, France (d. 1898)
Dec 17 John Kerr, Scottish physicist and pioneer in the field of electro-optics (electro-visually Kerr-effect), born in Ardrossan, Scotland (d. 1907)
Dec 17 Manning Ferguson Force, American lawyer, judge and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1899)
Dec 17 Thomas Starr King, American Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), born in New York City (d. 1864)
Dec 19 Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (Ceylon, Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa), born in County Westmeath Ireland (d. 1897)
Dec 24 Peter Cornelius, German composer (The Barber of Baghdad), and educator, born in Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse (d. 1874)
Dec 26 Augustus Louis Chetlain, American Major General (Union Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1914)