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Months in Year 1809: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 83 of 83

Jan 1st - John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet)
Jan 2nd - Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer
Jan 4th - Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind)
Jan 15th - Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus)
Jan 15th - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist)
Jan 18th - Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
Jan 19th - Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum)
Jan 20th - Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (La Paloma)
Jan 23rd - Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter
Feb 3rd - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
Feb 7th - Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)
Feb 12th - Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th US President (1861-65)
Feb 12th - Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution (Origin of the Species)
Feb 15th - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)
Feb 15th - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857)
Feb 20th - Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
Feb 20th - Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Feb 24th - Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
Feb 25th - George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
Naturalist Charles Darwin (Feb 12th) Mar 3rd - Sophia Hawthorne, writer
Mar 10th - William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864
Mar 15th - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
Mar 15th - Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893)
Mar 19th - Fredrik Pacius, composer
Mar 24th - Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers
Mar 27th - Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
Mar 31st - Edward FitzGerald, England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
Mar 31st - Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer
Mar 31st - Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist (Dead Souls, The Inspector-General)
Apr 1st - Willem Ruys J Dz, Dutch ship owner
Apr 4th - Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer
Apr 14th - George W Vreede, Dutch lawyer/politician
Apr 15th - Hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician
Apr 17th - Philip St George Cocke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
Apr 20th - John Smith Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881
Apr 21st - Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secy State (Confederacy)
Apr 23rd - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
Apr 28th - Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist
May 6th - William Walker, composer
Jun 13th - George Philip St Cooke, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895
Jun 15th - François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
Jun 18th - Sylvanus William Godon, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1879
Jun 27th - Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member
Jul 8th - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja)
Jul 9th - Frederick Henle, Germany, pathologist
Jul 10th - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
Jul 28th - Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General (Union volunteers)
Jul 30th - Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
Aug 6th - Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
Aug 9th - William Barret Travis, commander at Battle of the Alamo
Aug 21st - Francesco Schira, composer
Aug 23rd - Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land)
Aug 27th - Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
Aug 29th - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
Aug 30th - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer
Sep 5th - Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880)
Sep 9th - William Radford, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
Sep 20th - Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army)
Sep 27th - Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1877
Oct 2nd - Anton Emil Titl, composer
Oct 4th - Albrecht F H, prince of Prussia
Oct 4th - Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Oct 11th - Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
Oct 22nd - Federico Ricci, composer
Oct 22nd - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
Oct 27th - Peter "Peerke" Donders, Dutch RC missionary to Suriname
Nov 4th - Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
Nov 9th - Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1877
Nov 13th - John AB Dahlgren, US Union lt adm/inventor (Civil war Dahlgren-cannon)
Nov 23rd - Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Nov 26th - Mariano Obiols, composer
Nov 27th - Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, England, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)
Nov 30th - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer
Dec 3rd - Thomas Alfred Davies, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Dec 6th - Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
Dec 16th - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance
Dec 19th - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Belg, paleont (life cycle of tapeworms)
Dec 20th - Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer
Dec 22nd - Benedict Augustin Morel, Vienna, Fren psychologist (dementia praecox)
Dec 24th - Christopher "Kit" Carson, KY, Union brig-general/indian fighter/frontiersman (d. 1868)
Dec 26th - William Nelson Pendleton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1883
Dec 29th - Albert Pike, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
British Prime Minister William Gladstone (Dec 29th) Dec 29th - William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94), (d. 1898)

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