Birthdays Date 1829 | History by KabAstro

Catherine Booth (1829-1890)

Jan 17 Co-founder of the Salvation Army known as the 'Army Mother', born in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England [1]

Jan 18 Louis van Haecke, Belgian chaplain and author (Blood to Bridge) (d. 1912)
Jan 21 Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (1872-1907), King of Norway (1872-1905) and poet, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1907)
Jan 24 William Mason, American pianist, pedagogue and composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1908)
Jan 30 Alfred Cummings, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1910)
Feb 1 John Potts Slough, American politician, lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1867)
Feb 2 Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
Feb 11 William Anderson Pile, American politician, minister, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1889)
Feb 13 Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Netherlands Spectator) (d. 1899)
Feb 14 Alfred Iverson Jr., Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Clinton, Georgia (d. 1911)
Feb 15 Silas Weir Mitchell, American physician (discovered causalgia, erythromelalgia) and author (Roland Blake, Hugh Wynne), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1914)
Feb 18 Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Opelousas, Louisiana (d. 1864)
Feb 21 Johnson Hagood, American politician (Governor of South Carolina 1880-82) and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Barnwell, South Carolina (d. 1898)

Levi Strauss (1829-1902)

Feb 26 German-born American clothing designer who founded the 1st company to manufacture blue jeans (Levi Strauss & Co.), born in Buttenheim, Bavaria

Mar 2 Carl Schurz, German-American journalist and Major General (Union Army), born in Erftstadt, Germany (d. 1906)
Mar 14 Charles Charlesworth, English boy who died of old age (Progoria) before he was 7 years old, born in Straffordshire, England (d. 1836)
Mar 18 William R Boggs, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and chief of engineers, born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1911)
Mar 19 Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist, born in Odense, Denmark (d. 1901)
Mar 20 Charles Albert White, American popular song composer ("Marguerite"), born in Taunton, Massachusetts (d. 1892)
Mar 24 George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
Mar 24 Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
Mar 29 Ritta & Christina Parodi, Siamese twins, born in Sassare, Sardinia (d. 1829)
Mar 29 Robert Emmet Rodes, American Civil War Confederate Army Major General, born in Lynchburg, Virginia (d. 1864)

William Booth (1829-1912)

Apr 10 English preacher and founder of the Salvation Army, born in Sneinton, Nottingham, England [1]

Apr 15 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon, born in Fort Ann, New York (d. 1895)
Apr 24 George Peabody Estey, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (d. 1881)
May 1 José de Alencar, Brazilian writer (O Guarani), born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Empire of Brazil (d. 1877)
May 6 Phoebe Ann Coffin Hanaford, 1st female ordained minister in New England, born in Siasconset, Massachusetts (d. 1921)
May 8 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1869)
May 9 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist and composer, born in Sinalunga, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1888)
May 12 Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (Isabella d'Aspeno), born in Zakynthos, Greece (d. 1896)
May 30 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, born in Gdańsk, Poland (d. 1897)
Jun 3 Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, French organist and composer, born in Montpelier, France (d. 1884)

Charles Brooke (1829-1917)

Jun 3 2nd White Rajah of Sarawak (1868-1917), born in Burnham-on-Sea, England

Jun 6 Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese professional Go player, born in Innoshima, Bingo Province, Japan (d. 1862)
Jun 6 John Baillie McIntosh, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Fort Brooke, Florida Territory (d. 1888)
Jun 8 John Everett Millais, English painter (Order of Release), born in Southampton, Hampshire, England (d. 1896)
Jun 9 Gaetano Braga, Italian composer, born in Giulianova, Italy (d. 1907)
Jun 11 Hendrik Gerhard, Dutch tailor, workers' rights activist (founder - Dutch Chapter of International Workingmen's Association), and "father of socialism in the Netherlands" (Chairman of Dutch Social-Democratic (SDB) political party), born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1886)
Jun 13 Antonio Zamara, Austrian harpist, teacher, and composer, born in Milan, Italy (d. 1901)

Geronimo (1829-1909)

Jun 16 Apache leader and resistance fighter, born in No-doyohn Canon, Mexico

Jul 4 Hermann Kotzschmar, German-American composer, born in Finsterwalde, Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1909)
Jul 5 Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican lawyer and diplomat (Secretary of Foreign Affairs), born in Oaxaca, Mexico (d. 1910)
Jul 8 Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer (Rocambole), born in Montmaur, France (d. 1871)
Jul 16 Robert Brown Potter, American lawyer and Major General (Union Army), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 1887)
Jul 26 Auguste Beernaert, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium (1884-94) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1909, born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1912)
Aug 5 Heinrich Stiehl, German organist and composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Lübeck (d. 1886)
Aug 5 Milo Smith Hascall, American banker, real estate executive, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Le Roy, New York (d. 1904)
Aug 7 Thomas Ewing Jr, American attorney, 1st chief justice of Kansas, congressman, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1896)
Aug 12 John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1902)
Aug 15 Eduard de Hartog, Dutch composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1909)
Aug 21 Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1907)
Aug 23 Moritz B. Cantor, German historian of mathematics, born in Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German Confederation (d. 1920)
Aug 28 Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor, born in Meissen, Germany (d. 1908)
Sep 1 James Conner, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1883)
Sep 6 Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1902)
Sep 7 August Kekule von Stradonitz, German chemist who discovered structure of benzene ring, born in Darmstadt, rand Duchy of Hesse by the Rhine, German Confederation (d. 1896)
Sep 7 Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, American geologist (Geograph Survey 1859-86), born in Westfield, Massachusetts (d. 1887)
Sep 8 George Crook, American Major General (Union Army), born in Taylorsville, Ohio (d. 1890)
Sep 8 Seth Barton, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia (d. 1900)
Sep 12 Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, born in Speyer, Germany (d. 1880)
Sep 12 Charles Dudley Warner, American novelist (Being a Boy), born in Plainfield, Massachusetts (d. 1900)
Sep 22 Tự Đức, Emperor of Vietnam (1847-1883) (d. 1883)
Sep 22 William Worth Belknap, American lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1876)
Sep 24 Charles S. West, American jurist and politician, born in Camden, South Carolina (d. 1885)
Sep 24 James St Clair Morton, American engineer, author, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1864)
Sep 25 William Michael Rossetti, English writer and civil servant, born in London, England (d. 1919)
Sep 29 Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1903)
Sep 29 Giles Alexander Smith, American Major General (Union Army), born in Jefferson County, New York (d. 1876)

Chester A. Arthur (1829-1886)

Oct 5 21st President of the United States (1881-85), born in Fairfield Vermont

Oct 10 Dandridge McRae, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Baldwin County, Alabama (d. 1899)
Oct 15 Asaph Hall, American astronomer who discovered satellites of Mars (Phobos & Deimos), born in Goshen, Connecticut (d. 1907)
Oct 18 Charles S. Winder, American military officer and Confederate Brigadier General (US Army, 1850-61; Confederate Army, 1861-62), born in Easton, Maryland (d. 1862)
Oct 18 Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1863)
Oct 27 Christopher Columbus Andres, American diplomat, newspaperman, author, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire (d. 1922)
Oct 30 Roscoe Conkling, American politician (U.S. Senator from New York 1867-81), born in Albany, New York (d. 1888)
Nov 8 Samuel Wylie Crawford, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania (d. 1892)
Nov 14 Giulio Roberti, Italian composer, born in Barge, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1891)
Nov 15 Petrus Abraham Samuel van Limburg Brouwer, Dutch politician and critic (Akbar), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1873)
Nov 21 Petrus Augustus de Génestet, Dutch vicar and poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 1861)
Nov 24 William Passmore Carlin, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Greene County, Illinois (d. 1903)

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)

Nov 28 Russian pianist and composer (Dmitri Donskoi), born in Vikhvatinets, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire

Dec 3 Green Berry Raum, American lawyer, politician, author, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Golconda, Illinois (d. 1909)
Dec 5 Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian politician (7th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia), born in Épernay, France (d. 1908)
Dec 14 John Mercer Langston, 1st African-American to hold US political office, born in Louisa County, Virginia (d. 1897)
Dec 24 Benjamin Ipavec, Slovene Romantic composer, born in Šentjur, Slovenia (d. 1909)
Dec 24 José Rogel, Spanish composer, born in Orihuela, Spain (d. 1901)
Dec 25 Patrick Gilmore, Irish-born American bandmaster and composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home), born in Ballygar, Ireland (d. 1892)
Dec 27 James Clay Rice, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Worthington, Massachusetts (d. 1864)