Famous Birthdays for Year 1837

Months in Year 1837: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 109 of 109

Jan 2nd - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
Jan 4th - Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)
Jan 5th - A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]
Jan 12th - Adolf Jensen, composer
Jan 12th - Carlos Troyer, composer
Jan 16th - James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
Jan 19th - William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)
Jan 20th - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
Jan 23rd - Amanda Berry Smith, American former slave, singer and evangelist
Feb 5th - Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
Feb 7th - James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
Feb 13th - Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer
Feb 17th - Francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Feb 17th - Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)
Feb 26th - Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice
Mar 1st - Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
Mar 1st - William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
Mar 7th - Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)
Mar 12th - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer
Mar 14th - Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)
US President Grover Cleveland (Mar 18th) Mar 18th - Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)
Mar 19th - Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
Mar 23rd - Joseph Wieniawski, composer
Mar 24th - Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium
Mar 31st - Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
Mar 31st - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Apr 3rd - John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
Apr 5th - Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
Apr 10th - Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)
Apr 11th - Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861
Apr 15th - Horace Porter, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921
Apr 17th - John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)
Apr 17th - J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
Apr 21st - Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
Apr 24th - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
Apr 25th - William Charles Levey, composer
Apr 29th - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
Apr 30th - Alfred Gaul, composer
May 2nd - Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
May 9th - Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars)
May 10th - Pinckney B S Pinchback, Lt gov (Louisiana)
May 23rd - James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Folk Hero of the American Old West Wild Bill Hickok (May 27th) May 27th - "Wild Bill" Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout
May 27th - Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
May 27th - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
May 28th - George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
May 28th - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
May 29th - Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU)
May 29th - Luca Fumagalli, composer
May 31st - Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
May 31st - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
May 31st - William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
Jun 7th - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
Jun 8th - Jan Kleczynski, composer
Jun 8th - Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf)
Jun 16th - Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
Jun 17th - Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
Jun 22nd - Paul Morphy, New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time (1857-61)
Jun 23rd - Ernest Guiraud, composer
Jun 26th - Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1923
Jun 26th - Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Jun 30th - Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
Jul 6th - Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer
Jul 11th - Paul Lacombe, composer
Jul 15th - Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, queen of Portugal (d. 1859)
Jul 18th - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
Jul 20th - Hans Sommer, composer
Jul 28th - Christian Barnekow, composer
Jul 30th - Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Jul 31st - William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865
Aug 1st - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
Aug 11th - Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated
Aug 16th - Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer
Aug 24th - Theodore Dubois, composer
Aug 27th - Heinrich Urban, composer
Aug 30th - Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)
Sep 2nd - James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925
Sep 14th - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
Sep 15th - Leo van Gheluwe, composer
Sep 16th - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61)
Sep 18th - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
Sep 19th - Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer
Oct 8th - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer
Oct 14th - Ellison Capers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1908
Oct 16th - John Francis Barnett, composer
Oct 18th - Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter
Oct 26th - James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
Oct 28th - Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun (d. 1913)
Oct 29th - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-12)
Oct 29th - Harriet Powers, US, slave/writer (Creation of Animals)
Nov 2nd - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
Nov 9th - Alfred Holmes, composer
Nov 9th - Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician
Nov 13th - James T. Rapier, American politician (d. 1883)
Nov 17th - David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao
Nov 17th - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor
Nov 17th - Willem Coenen, composer
Physicist/Nobel Laureate Johannes van der Waals (Nov 23rd) Nov 23rd - Johannes van der Waals, Leiden, Netherlands, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States), (d. 1923)
Nov 28th - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid)
Dec 2nd - Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Dec 9th - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
Dec 14th - William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Dec 18th - A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder (CVP)
Dec 19th - John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Dec 24th - Sissi, Emperor of Austria
Dec 25th - Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner
Dec 26th - Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila
Dec 26th - Morgan Bulkeley, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1922)
Dec 28th - Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer