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Months in Year 1842: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 95 of 95

Jan 2nd - Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist
Jan 4th - Frederic T. Greenhalge, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
Jan 6th - Clarence King, mining engineer (geologist)
Jan 7th - Johan Lindegren, composer
Jan 11th - William James, US, psychologist/philosopher
Jan 12th - Francois Coppee, French poet
Jan 15th - Blessed Mary McKillop, Australian candidate for sainthood (d. 1909)
Jan 15th - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (d. 1925)
Jan 17th - Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman Philology in Netherlands)
Jan 18th - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
Jan 22nd - Charles Henri Marechal, composer
Feb 2nd - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927)
Feb 3rd - Sidney Clopton Lanier, US, composer/poet (Hall of Fame)
Feb 4th - Georg Brandes, [Morris Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic
Feb 4th - Vasili O Klyutshevski, Russian historian
Feb 7th - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)
Feb 22nd - Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
Feb 22nd - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
Feb 23rd - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
Feb 24th - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer
Feb 25th - Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
Feb 26th - Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy
Mar 1st - Nicholaos Gysis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
Mar 2nd - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914)
Mar 7th - Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist
Mar 10th - Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif
Mar 18th - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
Mar 22nd - Carl A N Rosa, German violinist/composer
Mar 22nd - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
Mar 28th - William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officier (d. 1908)
Mar 30th - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher
Apr 3rd - Ulric Dahlgren, Col (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Apr 4th - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
Apr 8th - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933)
Apr 14th - Sven August Korling, composer
Apr 17th - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911)
Apr 18th - Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice)
Apr 25th - Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
Apr 28th - Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil (1870-89)
Apr 29th - Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
May 5th - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer
May 8th - Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist
May 12th - Jules Emile Fred Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
May 13th - Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Jun 2nd - Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher
Jun 6th - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art)
Jun 8th - John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
Jun 11th - Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician
Jun 11th - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
Jun 12th - Rikard Nordraak, composer
Jun 19th - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer
Writer & Satirist Ambrose Bierce (Jun 24th) Jun 24th - Ambrose Bierce, Meigs County, Ohio, American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets & Dust)
Jun 29th - Josef Labor, composer
Jul 4th - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal
Jul 4th - Gyula Erkel, composer
Jul 26th - Alfred Marshall, London, economist
Aug 14th - Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author
Aug 16th - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922)
Aug 20th - Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
Aug 24th - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market)
Aug 26th - Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (Lumbaalpunctie)
Aug 28th - Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist
Aug 29th - Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)
Aug 30th - Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer
Aug 30th - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
Sep 5th - Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare)
Sep 7th - John H Zuckertort, German chess player
Sep 13th - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer
Sep 13th - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)
Sep 20th - James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)
Sep 21st - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
Sep 23rd - Karl Munzinger, composer
Sep 27th - Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
Sep 29th - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
Oct 1st - Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur)
Oct 14th - Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
Oct 24th - Josef Nesvera, composer
Oct 27th - Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921)
Oct 28th - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
Oct 28th - Charles Boissevain, editor Dutch Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908)
Nov 2nd - Otto Reubke, composer
Nov 4th - William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1874
Nov 14th - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959)
Nov 22nd - Anna S Barbiers, actress (Uncle Tom)
Nov 23rd - James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (1st England Test captain)
Dec 3rd - Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist (Amer Home Economics Association-1st Pres)
Dec 3rd - Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919)
Dec 3rd - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (d. 1899)
Dec 7th - Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen)
Dec 9th - Pjotr A Kopotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist
Dec 15th - Henry Gadsby, composer
Dec 17th - Marius Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (continous groups)
Dec 22nd - Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet
Dec 22nd - Nicola d' Arienzo, composer
Dec 28th - Calixa Lavallee, composer

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