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Months in Year 1824: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 122 of 122

Jan 7th - James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
Jan 8th - Per August Olander, composer
Jan 8th - William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (Woman in White)
Jan 8th - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
Jan 13th - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer
Jan 14th - Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
Jan 15th - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
Jan 21st - Thomas Jackson ["Stonewall"], Clarksburg, Virginia, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed), (d. 1863)
Jan 22nd - Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer
Jan 27th - Jozef Israels, Dutch painter
Jan 29th - Karl von Perfall, composer
Feb 3rd - George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Feb 3rd - Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868
Feb 3rd - Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
Feb 7th - William Higgins, discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
Feb 8th - Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
Feb 10th - Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships)
Feb 12th - Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader
Feb 14th - Winfield Scott Hancock, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Confederate General Thomas Jackson (Jan 21st) Feb 16th - Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
Feb 17th - William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1903
Feb 19th - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator [NS=Mar 2]
Feb 22nd - Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
Feb 23rd - Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
Feb 23rd - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Feb 24th - John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
Feb 26th - Carlos Calvo, Argentine diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
Feb 28th - Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
Feb 28th - John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
Mar 2nd - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
Mar 2nd - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian theorist [NS]
Mar 2nd - Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
Mar 5th - Elisha Harris, US, physician/found American Public Health Assoc
Mar 5th - James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
Mar 9th - Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U
Mar 10th - Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
Mar 12th - Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
Mar 15th - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
Mar 15th - Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
Mar 19th - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
Mar 22nd - William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army)
Mar 25th - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
Mar 29th - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
Mar 30th - Innis Newton Palmer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 5th - Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman)
Apr 20th - Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
Apr 21st - Anselmo Clave, composer
Apr 24th - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
Apr 25th - Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter
Apr 27th - William Richard Bexfield, composer
May 8th - William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57)
May 9th - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
May 10th - Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
May 11th - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
May 16th - Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
May 16th - Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
May 23rd - Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers)
May 29th - Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army)
Jun 3rd - Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Jun 8th - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
Jun 8th - William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Jun 13th - Julius Eichberg, composer
Jun 18th - Johannes Heykamp, Catholic archbishop of Utrecht
Jun 20th - George E Street, British (?) architect
Jun 20th - John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
Jun 22nd - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
Jun 23rd - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer
Jun 26th - Kelvin, [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin Scale)
Jun 26th - Moritz Furstenau, composer
Jun 28th - Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center)
Jun 28th - William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
Jun 29th - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT Stempels)
Jul 7th - Alfred Pleasonton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
Jul 8th - Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Jul 10th - Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician
Jul 11th - Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer
Jul 12th - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
Jul 20th - Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussia, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Jul 23rd - Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1906
Jul 25th - Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Jul 27th - Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
Jul 30th - Eugenio Terziani, composer
Aug 1st - Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer
Aug 3rd - William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 8th - Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
Aug 9th - Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 14th - William Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
Aug 19th - Georg Goltermann, composer
Aug 20th - Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905
Aug 21st - John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
Aug 27th - Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Aug 28th - Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician
Sep 1st - Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Sep 4th - Anton Bruckner, Ansfelden, Austria, Wagner disciple and "monumental bore"/composer
Sep 4th - Phoebe Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary)
Sep 8th - Jaime Nuno, composer
Sep 19th - Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer
Sep 21st - Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Sep 24th - Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
Sep 27th - William Nelson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Sep 28th - Alfred Gilpin Jones, Weymouth NS, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06)
Sep 28th - Francis Turner Palgrave, England, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)
Sep 30th - Peter Milne, composer
Oct 6th - Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
Oct 13th - Henry Stephen Cutler, composer
Oct 19th - Frantisek Pivoda, composer
Oct 19th - Rufus Saxton, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
Oct 23rd - Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Oct 26th - Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Oct 29th - Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
Nov 18th - Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Nov 18th - Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Nov 24th - Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist
Dec 5th - Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1867
Dec 10th - George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie)
Dec 14th - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
Dec 17th - John Kerr, System physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect)
Dec 17th - Manning Ferguson Force, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Dec 17th - Thomas Starr King, NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)
Dec 19th - Hercules Robinson, Ireland, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89, 1895-97)
Dec 24th - Peter Cornelius, composer
Dec 26th - Augustus Louis Chetlain, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1914

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