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Months in Year 1836: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 87 of 87

Jan 2nd - Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
Jan 2nd - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
Jan 3rd - Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
Jan 8th - Fannie M Jackson, pioneer & educator, 1st US Black woman college grad
Jan 8th - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps
Jan 10th - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
Jan 14th - [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1881
Jan 14th - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
Jan 16th - King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
Jan 17th - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer
Jan 27th - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (masochism)
Jan 29th - Benjamin Franklin Potts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1887
Jan 29th - James Meech Warner, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
Jan 31st - Henryk Szulc, composer
Feb 16th - Benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer
Feb 17th - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
Feb 18th - Swami Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji], Hooghly Bengal, Indian mystic/hindu leader (preached unity of religions).
Feb 21st - Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer
Feb 21st - Emil Hartmann, composer
Feb 22nd - Eduard Wachmann, composer
Feb 24th - Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream)
Mar 2nd - Henry Billings Brown, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1913)
Mar 5th - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
Mar 8th - Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army)
Mar 15th - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
Mar 16th - Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
Mar 20th - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (d. 1886)
Mar 20th - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (d. 1919)
Mar 21st - Jesus Monasterio, composer
Mar 28th - Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
Mar 30th - Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist/politician
Apr 4th - Jerome Hopkins, composer
Apr 24th - Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist
Apr 26th - Erminnie Adelle Platt, US, ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary)
May 8th - Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
May 14th - James Patrick Major, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
May 17th - Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer (Helium)/founder (Nature magazine)
May 17th - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)
May 17th - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (d. 1923)
May 18th - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer
May 24th - Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925)
May 27th - Edwin Gray Lee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
May 27th - Jay Gould, US railroad executive, financier
May 28th - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
Jun 9th - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England (Aldeburgh)
Jun 10th - Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman/master of kendo
Jun 14th - Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Jul 2nd - Henry Eugene Davies, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Jul 8th - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies
Jul 9th - Camille de Renesse, Belgian count (d. 1904)
Jul 11th - Carlos Gomez, composer
Jul 20th - Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist (Diseases of the Heart)
Aug 7th - Evander McIvor Law, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1920
Aug 10th - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer
Aug 11th - Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician
Aug 11th - Warren Brown, American politician (d. 1919)
Aug 14th - Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)
Aug 16th - John Farmer, composer
Aug 22nd - Archibald M Willard, US, artist (Spirit of '76)
Aug 23rd - Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902)
Aug 25th - Bret Harte, US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat)
Sep 5th - Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
Sep 7th - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British PM (L) (1905-08)
Sep 7th - August Toepler, German physicist (d. 1912)
Sep 10th - Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen (Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee)
Sep 10th - Karl Merz, composer
Sep 11th - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
Sep 13th - John McCausland, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1927
Sep 14th - Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister (Liberal, 1918-27)
Oct 4th - Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue)
Oct 5th - George Washington Gordon, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1911
Oct 15th - Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
Oct 15th - James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902)
Nov 4th - Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman and sawmill partner (d. 1912)
Nov 6th - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism)
Nov 8th - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
Nov 11th - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US, author/editor (Story of a Bad Boy)
Nov 15th - Pierce Manning Butler Young, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1896
Nov 16th - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (d. 1891)
English Dramatist William Schwenck Gilbert (Nov 18th) Nov 18th - William Schwenck Gilbert, London, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Nov 20th - John Thomas Croxton, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Nov 30th - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
Dec 11th - Jan Boissevain, Dutch politician/ship owner
Dec 13th - Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)
Dec 15th - Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel)
Dec 19th - Maria L Sanford, pioneer educator (PTA)
Dec 27th - Henricus Oort, Dutch theologist (Leidse translation)

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