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Months in Year 1826: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 99 of 99

Jan 6th - Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Jan 12th - Charles Cruft, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Jan 15th - Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
Jan 22nd - [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Jan 25th - Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP
Jan 26th - Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady (1862-76)
Jan 27th - Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
Feb 3rd - Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
Feb 4th - Halbert Eleazer Paine, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Feb 9th - John Alexander Logan, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Feb 15th - George J Stoney, Irish physicist
Feb 16th - Franz von Holstein, composer
Feb 16th - Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Gaudeamus)
Mar 1st - John Thomas, composer
Mar 4th - John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Mar 4th - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
Mar 9th - Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist/composer
Mar 12th - Robert Lowry, composer
Mar 14th - William Fisk Sherwin, composer
Mar 17th - Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (Volkerkunder)
Mar 20th - Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor
Mar 23rd - Leon Minkus, composer
Mar 29th - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP (social-democratic)
Apr 2nd - Philip Dale Roddey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
Apr 4th - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901)
Apr 6th - Gustave Moreau, French painter
Apr 7th - Johann Hermann Berens, composer
Apr 8th - Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
Apr 9th - Thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Apr 20th - Dina M Craik, writer
Apr 26th - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
Apr 26th - Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872
Apr 28th - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
May 3rd - Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
May 4th - Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
May 5th - Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Empress of France
May 7th - Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
May 21st - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
May 22nd - George Parr, cricketer (legendary Notts batsman, 1st Eng touring capt)
May 29th - Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
Jun 1st - Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
Jun 1st - Hermann Zopff, composer
Jun 5th - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer
Jun 6th - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
Jun 16th - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
Jun 24th - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
Jul 4th - Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Jul 4th - Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
Jul 8th - Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General (Union volunteers)
Jul 8th - Robert Kingston Scott, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Jul 10th - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer
Jul 11th - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
Jul 13th - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro)
Jul 21st - James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General (Union volunteers)
Jul 24th - Francisco S Lopez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70)
Jul 24th - Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
Aug 2nd - William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902
Aug 6th - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
Aug 7th - Carl AE Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi)
Aug 13th - William Thomas Best, composer
Aug 21st - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
Aug 26th - Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
Aug 27th - Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Aug 27th - Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
Aug 28th - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer
Sep 4th - Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer (d. 1905)
Sep 5th - John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
Sep 8th - Disma Fumagalli, composer
Sep 9th - Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907)
Sep 9th - Thomas John Lucas, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
Sep 17th - G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function)
Oct 7th - William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86)
Oct 8th - Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
Oct 13th - Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Oct 16th - Piotr Studzinski, composer
Oct 22nd - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer
Oct 31st - Hugh Boyle Ewing, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Nov 2nd - Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Nov 2nd - William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Nov 3rd - Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Nov 13th - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)
Nov 17th - John McArthur, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
Nov 23rd - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curacao
Nov 24th - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio)
Nov 30th - George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Dec 1st - William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
Dec 3rd - Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist
Dec 3rd - George Brinton McClellan, Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
Dec 5th - John Benjamin Sanborn, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1904
Dec 8th - Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist
Dec 18th - Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz)
Dec 18th - Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), died in 1906
Dec 21st - Ernst Pauer, composer
Dec 22nd - James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901)
Dec 24th - Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer
Dec 26th - Franz Coenen, composer
Dec 26th - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book/publisher (Van Dale)
Dec 28th - Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar/literary (Country of Rubens)
Dec 31st - Henry Hiles, composer

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