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Months in Year 1831: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 89 of 89

Jan 1st - William Joseph Westbrook, composer
Jan 2nd - Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)
Jan 11th - James Ronald Chalmers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
Jan 14th - John Bullock Clark Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
Jan 17th - Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
Jan 18th - Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Jan 20th - Pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa)
Jan 26th - Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates)
Jan 28th - Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
Feb 3rd - Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1910
Feb 4th - Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
Feb 12th - John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track
Feb 13th - John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869
Feb 16th - Nikolai Leskow, writer
Feb 17th - Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer
Feb 21st - Eduard Rappoldi, composer
Feb 23rd - Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)
Feb 24th - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia
Feb 26th - Filippo Marchetti, composer
Feb 27th - Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
Mar 1st - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Mar 3rd - George M Pullman, inventor (railway sleeping car)
Mar 6th - Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)
Mar 6th - Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany NY, Major General (Union Army)
Mar 7th - John Bratton, [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brig Gen
Mar 12th - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
Mar 14th - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
Mar 15th - Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Mar 15th - Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)
Mar 20th - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
Mar 23rd - Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
Mar 29th - Amelia Barr, writer
Mar 31st - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
Apr 4th - Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
Apr 8th - Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet
Apr 12th - Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor
Apr 12th - George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Apr 12th - Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 14th - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia
Apr 22nd - Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General (Union volunteers)
May 1st - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)
May 13th - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies
May 16th - David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
May 24th - Richard Hoffman, composer
May 28th - Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor
Jun 1st - John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
Jun 2nd - Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General (Conf)/Lincoln's brother-in-law
Jun 2nd - Jan G Palm, Curacao, bandmaster/choir master/composer
Jun 3rd - Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Jun 5th - Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1922
Jun 7th - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
Jun 8th - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917)
Jun 10th - W A Remy, composer
Jun 13th - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (electromagnetic theory, speed of light)
Jun 26th - Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace)
Jun 28th - Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
Jun 29th - William Thomas Clark, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Jul 9th - Johan P van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter/lithographer/writer
Jul 14th - William Dwight, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
Jul 17th - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
Jul 30th - Helene P Blavatsky, founder (Theosophist Cooperation)
Aug 13th - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer
Aug 16th - Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Aug 16th - John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
Aug 19th - Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 28th - Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer
Aug 28th - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady (1877-81)
Sep 7th - Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
Sep 8th - Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor)
Sep 29th - John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers)
Oct 1st - Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Oct 6th - J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
Oct 8th - Michal Jelski, composer
Oct 15th - Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona)
Oct 18th - Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia
Oct 31st - Daniel Butterfield, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
Oct 31st - Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)
Nov 8th - Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880)
Nov 12th - Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist
Nov 19th - James A Garfield, Ohio, gen/(R) 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)
Nov 21st - John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Dec 6th - Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Dec 10th - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist
Dec 19th - Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)
Dec 22nd - Mark Rutherford, writer
Dec 22nd - Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874
Dec 25th - Johann Herbeck, composer
Dec 27th - Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
Dec 29th - Adam Badeau, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895

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