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Months in Year 1834: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 85 of 85

Jan 1st - Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908)
Jan 5th - William John Wills, English explorer of Australia, member of the Burke and Wills expedition (d. 1861)
Jan 7th - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
Jan 10th - John Acton, English historian/MP
Jan 14th - William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer
Jan 16th - Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
Jan 17th - Wilhelmina J R Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress/daughter of Mimi Bia
Jan 17th - August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)
Jan 20th - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
Jan 25th - Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer
Jan 27th - Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements)
Jan 27th - Robert Sanford Foster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Jan 30th - Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician
Feb 6th - William Dorsey Pender, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Feb 6th - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
Feb 7th - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
Feb 9th - Felix Dahn, writer
Feb 9th - Franz Xaver Witt, composer
Feb 15th - William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
Feb 16th - Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist (Causes of Evolution)
Feb 22nd - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
Feb 23rd - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis
Feb 26th - Aleksander Zarzycki, composer
Mar 4th - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
Mar 6th - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
Mar 16th - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
Mar 17th - Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
Mar 20th - Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)
Mar 22nd - Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
Mar 23rd - Julius Reubke, composer
Mar 24th - John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist
Mar 24th - William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist
Apr 1st - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer
Apr 1st - Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)
Apr 21st - William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Apr 26th - Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist
Apr 26th - Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer
May 5th - Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
May 21st - Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
May 23rd - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
Jun 8th - George Garrett, composer
Jun 10th - Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (HP Foundation)
Jun 16th - Wesley Merritt, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1910)
Jun 19th - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
Jun 19th - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
Jul 1st - Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
Jul 2nd - Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank
Jul 10th - James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)
Jul 14th - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist (Whistler's Mother)
Jul 16th - Carlo Angeloni, composer
Jul 16th - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914)
Jul 19th - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
Jul 22nd - Daniel McCook Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Jul 23rd - James "Cardinal" Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore
Jul 31st - Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder (Free Parish)
Aug 2nd - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
Aug 2nd - Isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist
Aug 4th - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
Aug 9th - Elias Alvares Lobo, composer
Aug 17th - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (Leie/Rubens Cantata)
Aug 18th - Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner (Field Dept Store)
Aug 22nd - Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Aug 22nd - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
Aug 31st - Amilcare Ponchielli, Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani)
Sep 9th - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant)
Sep 9th - William MacRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
Sep 15th - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member
Sep 17th - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer
Oct 1st - Francis Marion Cockrell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1915
Oct 3rd - Vilem Blodek, composer
Oct 8th - Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
Oct 10th - Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finland, writer/poet (Nummisuutarit)
Oct 19th - Francis Channing Barlow, US lawyer/gen-major/co-founder (ABA)
Oct 28th - Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
Nov 10th - Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (MartinFierro)
Nov 10th - Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Nov 13th - Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco)
Nov 17th - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Nov 19th - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (test of Quincke)
Nov 20th - Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer
The Witch of Wall Street Hetty Green (Nov 21st) Nov 21st - Henrietta (Hetty) Green,New Bedford, Massachusetts, financier (Witch of Wall Street), (d. 1916)
Nov 21st - Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893
Nov 25th - Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer
Nov 29th - Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Dec 16th - Leon Walras, French economist (border use theory)

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