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Months in Year 1811: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 85 of 85

Jan 5th - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey)
Jan 6th - Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874
Jan 9th - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
Feb 3rd - Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")
Feb 6th - Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
Feb 8th - Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883
Feb 15th - Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)
Feb 23rd - George Washington Hewitt, composer
Feb 24th - Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
Feb 24th - Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
Feb 25th - Carl Schuberth, composer
Feb 27th - [Catherine] Mildred Lee, daughter of US general Robert E Lee
Mar 1st - Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
Mar 3rd - Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review)
Mar 7th - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer
Mar 11th - Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Mar 11th - Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune)
Mar 15th - Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
Mar 20th - George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)
Mar 20th - Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II, Napoleon's son/King of Rome
Mar 21st - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
Mar 23rd - Camille Marie Stamaty, composer
Mar 23rd - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer
Mar 30th - Angelo Catelani, Italian composer/conductor
Mar 31st - Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
Apr 17th - Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer
Apr 21st - Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
May 11th - Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese Siamese twins
May 11th - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893)
May 24th - Charles Clark, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
Jun 7th - James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform)
Jun 14th - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
Jun 17th - Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter and Icelandic historian (d. 1879)
Jun 19th - Henry Prince, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Jun 21st - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
Jun 24th - John Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889
Jul 11th - Joseph Lanman, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
Jul 18th - William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair)
Jul 19th - Vincenz Lachner, composer
Jul 20th - James Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, governor (Jamaica)
Aug 3rd - Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
Aug 5th - Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896)
Aug 6th - Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11]
Aug 11th - Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy [or Aug 6]
Aug 17th - Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist (Free Will)
Aug 20th - Gilman Marston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Aug 22nd - William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
Aug 25th - Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 26th - Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
Aug 29th - Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA
Aug 30th - Thomas Gautier, writer
Aug 31st - Goode Bryan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
Aug 31st - Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus)
Sep 3rd - John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
Sep 6th - James Melville Gilliss, founder (Naval Observatory in Washington)
Sep 6th - Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot)
Sep 7th - William Hamsley Emory, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
Sep 12th - James Hall, US geologist (Natural history of NY)
Sep 15th - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer
Sep 15th - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
Sep 19th - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
Sep 28th - Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician
Sep 30th - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890)
Oct 16th - Gaetano Capocci, composer
Oct 17th - Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (owned land in Mich)
Oct 18th - Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt (Oct 22nd) Oct 22nd - Franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist ( Faust Symphony), (d. 1886)
Oct 24th - Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor
Oct 25th - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
Oct 27th - Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
Oct 27th - Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
Nov 7th - Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet)
Nov 10th - Louis Kufferath, composer
Nov 11th - Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Nov 13th - Yuri Arnold, composer
Nov 19th - John Ancrum Winslow, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1873
Nov 21st - Zeng Guofan, Chinese military (d. 1872)
Nov 24th - Ditler G Monrad, Danish theologist/bishop/premier (1863- )
Nov 24th - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
Nov 28th - Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern (1848-64)
Nov 29th - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
Dec 2nd - Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
Dec 8th - Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer
Dec 18th - Alexander Sandor Asboth, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Dec 25th - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz

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