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Months in Year 1819: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Results 1 - 125 of 125

Jan 1st - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold
Jan 1st - George Foster Shepley, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
Jan 3rd - Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1892
Jan 3rd - Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
Jan 6th - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
Jan 9th - James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
Jan 12th - Zealous Bates Tower, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1900
Jan 14th - Fabio Campana, composer
Jan 14th - Frederick Steele, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Jan 26th - Abner Doubleday, Union general-major/inventor (baseball) [or Jun 26]
Feb 1st - Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Feb 4th - Joshua Norton, SF, Norton I, emperor of USA
Feb 8th - John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite)
Feb 10th - Richard Storrs Willis, composer
Feb 11th - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer
Feb 14th - James Green Martin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
Feb 15th - Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter)
Feb 18th - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer
Feb 19th - Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer
Feb 20th - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
Feb 22nd - Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
Feb 22nd - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
Mar 4th - Charles Oberthur, composer
Mar 11th - Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery)
Mar 11th - Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte)
Mar 19th - David Henry Williams, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Mar 22nd - William Wirt Adams, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
Mar 26th - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
Mar 26th - Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
Mar 28th - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
Mar 29th - Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive US oil well
Mar 29th - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder (American Hebrew Congregations)
Mar 31st - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
Apr 4th - Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
Apr 6th - Johann A H Scheler, Belgian librarian
Apr 7th - Hubert Leonard, composer
Apr 14th - Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orch)
Apr 18th - Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
Apr 18th - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
Apr 28th - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
May 1st - William Steele, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
May 3rd - Nicola De Giosa, composer
May 5th - Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer
May 15th - Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)
May 16th - Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898
May 17th - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer
May 18th - Julius Hopp, composer
May 24th - Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901)
May 27th - Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
May 28th - William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
May 30th - William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
May 31st - Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass)
Jun 3rd - Johann Barthold Jongkind, Lattrop Neth, Dut/Fr painter (Winter Scenes)
Jun 3rd - Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer
Jun 5th - John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discover Neptune)
Jun 6th - William Howard Glover, composer
Jun 10th - J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine)
Jun 12th - Charles Kingsley, [Parson Lot], Engl vicar/historian (Westward Ho!)
Jun 14th - Henry J. Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
Jun 20th - Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
Jun 26th - Abner Doubleday, Mjr Gen (Union)/inventor (baseball) [or 1/26]
Jun 27th - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer
Jun 30th - William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
Jul 2nd - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
Jul 3rd - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer
Jul 4th - Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885
Jul 8th - Alexander Hays, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Jul 8th - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer
Jul 8th - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
Jul 9th - Elias Howe, Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine
Jul 19th - Gottfried Keller, writer
Jul 20th - Paul Henrion, composer
Aug 1st - Herman Melville, US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
Aug 6th - Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 8th - Charles Anderson Dana, Asst Secy War, (Union) died in 1897
Aug 9th - William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920)
Aug 12th - Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Aug 13th - George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)
Aug 17th - James Henry Van Alen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Aug 18th - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876)
Aug 25th - Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
Aug 26th - Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria
Sep 6th - Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer
Sep 6th - Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi)
Sep 6th - William Starke Rosecrans, Mjr General (Union volunteers)
Sep 7th - Jean E "Adriaan" van Bevervoorde, journalist (History of Holland)
Sep 9th - Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
Sep 13th - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
Sep 14th - Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
Sep 17th - Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates)
Sep 17th - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa)
Sep 17th - Thomas Andrews Hendricks, (D) 21st US VP; died in office
Sep 21st - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
Sep 22nd - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
Sep 23rd - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
Sep 28th - Jacob G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist
Oct 2nd - George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901
Oct 6th - Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer
Oct 9th - Samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
Oct 10th - Zebulon York, Brig general (Confederate Army), died in 1900
Oct 15th - Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliography/literary
Oct 16th - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
Oct 19th - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist (Crises Commercial)
Oct 20th - Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
Oct 20th - Karol Mikuli, composer
Oct 20th - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
Oct 23rd - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer
Oct 25th - Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
Nov 5th - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer
Nov 10th - Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable
Nov 22nd - George Eliot, [Mary A Evans], England, author (Silas Marner)
Nov 23rd - Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1901
Dec 13th - Edwin George Monk, composer
Dec 16th - Robert Selden Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
Dec 17th - Samuel Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
Dec 18th - Yakov Petrovich Polonsky, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija)
Dec 19th - James Clifford Veatch, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Dec 20th - John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850)
Dec 22nd - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor
Dec 22nd - George Eliot, England, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede)
Dec 22nd - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)
Dec 23rd - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
Dec 26th - E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899)
Dec 30th - John White Geary, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
Dec 30th - Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest)