Famous Birthdays for Year 1818

Months in Year 1818: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 101 of 101

Jan 11th - John Reese Kenly, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Jan 14th - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish historical novelist (Surgeon's Stories)
Jan 17th - Antoine Dorion, (L) joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
Jan 18th - Johannes van Vloten, Dutch literary/theologist
Jan 28th - George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905
Jan 31st - William Raine Peck, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
Feb 6th - William Maxwell Evarts, (Union), died in 1901
Feb 8th - Austin Blair, Gov/MC (Union), died in 1894
Feb 10th - Isham Green Harris, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1897
Feb 12th - Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei)
Feb 14th - Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor (exact year unknown)
Feb 23rd - Jeremy F Gilmer, Maj Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
Mar 6th - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
Mar 10th - George Wythe Randolph, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1867
Mar 11th - John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
Mar 12th - John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
Mar 13th - Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
Mar 15th - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
Mar 22nd - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass (Feb 14th) Mar 23rd - Don Carlos Buell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898
Mar 25th - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Mar 27th - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
Mar 28th - Wade Hampton, SC, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1902
Apr 4th - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
Apr 5th - Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 6th - Francis Henry Brown, composer
Apr 6th - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
Apr 8th - Christaan IX, king of Denmark (1863-1906)
Apr 14th - Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, queen of Hanover (d. 1909)
Apr 20th - Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
Apr 22nd - Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 23rd - James Anthony Froude, historian
Apr 23rd - John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
Apr 25th - Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer
Apr 29th - Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
May 1st - Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet
Communist Philosopher Karl Marx (May 5th) May 5th - Karl Marx, Trier, Prussia, philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), (d. 1883)
May 20th - William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)
May 25th - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian
May 27th - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
May 28th - Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, US Confederate gen (Hero of Sumter)
May 31st - John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867
Jun 3rd - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
Jun 17th - Charles Francois Gounod, Paris France, opera composer (Faust)
Jun 17th - Sophia Frederika Mathilde, queen of Netherlands/wife of William III
Jun 21st - Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
Jun 21st - Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Jun 23rd - Simon Vissering, Dutch economist/minister of Finances (1879-81)
Jun 30th - Edward John Hopkins, composer
Jul 1st - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist
Jul 6th - Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
Jul 10th - John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Jul 14th - Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
Jul 15th - Heinrich Esser, composer
Jul 18th - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1896)
Jul 24th - Felix Godefroid, composer
Novelist Emily Jane Bronte (Jul 30th) Jul 30th - Emily Jane Bronte, Thornton England, novelist (Wuthering Heights), (d. 1848)
Jul 30th - John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch minister of Internal minister (1866..88)
Jul 31st - Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer
Aug 1st - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
Aug 2nd - [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of the Netherlands/general-major
Aug 3rd - HM Jozef Schadde, Flemish architect (New Stock exchange Antwerp)
Aug 4th - Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 7th - Henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist
Aug 13th - Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Association)
Aug 18th - William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
Aug 23rd - Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
Aug 30th - Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
Sep 7th - Thomas Talbot, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1886)
Sep 12th - Richard Jordan Gatling, US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun)
Sep 13th - Olivier Gloux, [Aimard], Fren world explorer/writer (Grande Flibuste)
Sep 16th - Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist
Sep 17th - Halfdan Kjeruif, composer (Kjerulf)
Sep 18th - Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Oct 4th - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier
Oct 6th - Joseph Rummel, composer
Oct 8th - John Henninger Reagan, Atty Gen (Confederacy)
Oct 15th - Irvin McDowell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Oct 18th - Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Oct 22nd - Leconte de Lisle, writer
Oct 25th - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [NS=Nov 6]
Oct 26th - Stefano Golinelli, composer
Oct 28th - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [OS]
Nov 3rd - Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Nov 4th - Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
Nov 5th - Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
Nov 6th - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [OS=Oct 25]
Nov 7th - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
Nov 9th - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]
Nov 22nd - Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
Nov 26th - Louis Lacombe, composer
Nov 29th - George Brown, Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
Dec 4th - William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army)
Dec 12th - Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
Dec 13th - Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady (1861-65)
Dec 21st - Amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece
Dec 21st - Lewis H Morgan, US, etnologist (Systems of Consanguinity)
Dec 23rd - David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
Dec 24th - James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy)
Dec 30th - James Cantey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1874
Dec 31st - Maria J Small-Gartmann, actress