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Months in Year 1812: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 95 of 95

Jan 6th - Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (d. 1919)
Jan 8th - Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer
Jan 8th - William Henry Holmes, composer
Jan 10th - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
Jan 13th - Humphrey Marshall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1872
Jan 13th - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
Jan 14th - Carl Gradener, composer
Jan 15th - Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer
Jan 20th - Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Jan 20th - Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
Jan 31st - John Randolph Tucker, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1883
Feb 7th - Charles Dickens, England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)
Feb 11th - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice Pres (Confederacy), died in 1883
Feb 11th - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
Feb 14th - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (d. 1846)
Feb 15th - Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany)
Feb 16th - Henry Wilson, (R) 18th VP (1873-75)
Feb 19th - Lauro Rossi, composer
Feb 29th - Hermann Hirschboch, German composer
Novelist Charles Dickens (Feb 7th) Feb 29th - Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1880, also on 29 February)
Mar 1st - Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
Mar 6th - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
Mar 9th - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer
Mar 10th - Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice
Mar 11th - James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1887
Mar 11th - William Vincent Wallace, composer
Mar 16th - Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
Mar 20th - George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
Mar 22nd - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
Apr 2nd - Louise-Marie of France, queen of Belgium (d. 1850)
Apr 3rd - Louisa Maria, Queen of the Belgians (1832-50/wife of Leopold I)
Apr 6th - Aaron Bernstein, writer
Apr 6th - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer
Apr 6th - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
Apr 9th - Randolph Barnes Marcy, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
Apr 15th - Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter
Apr 22nd - Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)
Apr 23rd - Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
Apr 26th - Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant
Apr 27th - Friedrich von Flotow, composer
Apr 27th - William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
Apr 28th - Daniel Henry Rucker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910
Apr 30th - Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe
May 6th - Marin R Delany, Charlestown Va, 1st black major in US Medical Corp
May 7th - Robert Browning, London England, poet (Pied Piper)
May 12th - Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)
May 12th - Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
May 17th - Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
May 19th - Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
May 20th - Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer
May 23rd - Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles)
May 30th - John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers)
Jun 3rd - Pieter Mijer, Dutch gov-gen of Neth Indies (1866-72)
Jun 7th - Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Jun 8th - Robert Schumann, Zwickau Germany, composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik)
Jun 8th - Spyridon Xyndas, composer
Jun 9th - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens)
Jun 9th - Johann G Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune)
Jun 12th - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
Jun 14th - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (d. 1881)
Jun 18th - Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer (Oblomov)
Jun 21st - Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
Jun 27th - John Pike Hullah, composer
Jun 28th - Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter
Jul 1st - Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dutch genealogist/heraldicus
Jul 15th - Benno Adam, animal painter
Jul 15th - James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
Jul 27th - Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
Aug 8th - John Rodgers II, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
Aug 25th - Percival Drayton, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1865
Sep 12th - Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886)
Sep 18th - Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
Sep 29th - Gopel, mathematician
Oct 20th - Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
Nov 2nd - Abraham I van Lier, theater director (Gran Theatre-van Lier)
Nov 4th - Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet (Lettere a Maria)
Nov 9th - Paul Abadie, French master builder (renovated Notre Dame)
Nov 14th - Maria Christina of Savoy, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1836)
Nov 18th - Jesse Johnson Finley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
Nov 19th - Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
Nov 28th - Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer
Dec 4th - Elias Smith Dennis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died 1894
Dec 6th - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (d. 1884)
Dec 14th - Charles J Canning, English earl/1st viceroy of British-Indies
Dec 15th - Isidor Dannstrom, composer
Dec 16th - William Grose, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
Dec 18th - Wiktor Kazynski, composer
Dec 20th - Achille Peri, composer
Dec 22nd - Johanne Luise Heiberg, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Romeo & Juliet)
Dec 23rd - Samuel Smiles, Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
Dec 23rd - William Hauser, composer
Dec 24th - Henry Russell, composer
Dec 24th - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist (d. 1894)
Dec 26th - Wilhelm Volkmar, composer
Dec 28th - Julius Reitz, composer

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