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Months in Year 1838: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Results 1 - 97 of 97

Jan 1st - William Hugh Young, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Jan 4th - Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person)
Jan 5th - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
Jan 6th - Max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer
Jan 16th - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
Feb 6th - Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)
Feb 6th - Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
Feb 12th - Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898
Feb 14th - Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"
Feb 16th - Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist
Feb 16th - Henry Adams, Boston Mass, historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams)
Feb 18th - Ernst Mach, Chirlitz-Turas Austria, physicist/philosopher/psychologist
Feb 20th - James Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Feb 22nd - Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
Feb 23rd - Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Feb 24th - Thomas Benton Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
Feb 26th - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer
Feb 28th - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
Mar 1st - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest
Mar 2nd - David Duffle Wood, composer
Mar 3rd - George W Hill, US astronomer (Moon orbit)
Mar 4th - Paul Lacome, composer
Mar 12th - William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
Mar 15th - Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
Mar 15th - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
Mar 18th - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
Mar 18th - Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
Mar 31st - Leon Dierx, French poet
Apr 3rd - Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82)
Apr 5th - Alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist
Apr 11th - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer
Apr 12th - John Shaw Billings, US, librarian/army physician
Apr 16th - Karel Bendl, composer
Apr 18th - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
Apr 21st - John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras)
Apr 21st - Nat Thompson, cricketer (1st batsman dismissed in a Test match)
Apr 23rd - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter
Apr 28th - Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law (Nobel 1911)
May 6th - Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer
May 10th - James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman
May 11th - Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (d. 1912)
May 20th - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
May 24th - Paul Laband, German lawyer
May 28th - Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1916
May 31st - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University)
Jun 2nd - Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
Jun 4th - Servaas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flemish writer (Lute & Flute)
Jun 10th - Meyer E van Beem, actor (Black Venus)
Jun 16th - Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
Jun 17th - Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Kapala-Kundala)
Jun 17th - Chattopadhyaya/Bankim Chandra, Bengalese writer (Monastery of Delight)
Jun 23rd - Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Jun 24th - Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism)
Jun 27th - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath)
Jun 27th - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
Jul 6th - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
Jul 8th - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor (rigid dirigibles)
Jul 11th - John Wanamaker, merchant (Wanamakers Dept Store)
Jul 19th - Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)
Jul 20th - Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
Jul 20th - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
Jul 23rd - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist
Jul 30th - Eugen Richter, German parliament member (Liberal)
Aug 12th - Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal
Aug 26th - John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin (Pres Lincoln)
Sep 2nd - Liliuokalani, [Lydia Paki], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
Sep 6th - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
Sep 11th - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul
Sep 14th - John Pelham, Major (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Sep 16th - James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)
Sep 18th - Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh
Sep 23rd - Martin Woodhull Victoria Chaflin, US, feminist/reformer (Woodhull)
Sep 23rd - Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, Ohio, feminist/reformer/free love
Sep 27th - Antony E J Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83)
Sep 29th - Henry Hobson Richardson, St James LA, Romanesque revival architect
Oct 6th - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
Oct 8th - John Milton Hay, politician (Union), died in 1905
Oct 22nd - Carl Fuchs, composer
Oct 25th - Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen)
Oct 27th - John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
Oct 31st - King Louis of Portugal (d. 1889)
Nov 6th - John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Nov 7th - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
Nov 13th - Joseph F Smith, 6th pres of Mormon church
Nov 14th - August Senoa, Croatian author (Zlatarevo zlato)
Nov 22nd - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer
Nov 29th - Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies
Dec 3rd - Cleveland Abbe, US, meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau)
Dec 3rd - Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement
Dec 4th - Melesio Morales, composer
Dec 11th - Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)
Dec 11th - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer
Dec 12th - Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (binary stars)
Dec 13th - Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer
Dec 17th - Berthold Tours, composer
Dec 20th - Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)
Dec 31st - Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906)