Famous Birthdays In 1837

Jan 02 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born in the year 1837.

Jan 04 Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau) was born on this day in history.

Jan 05 A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] was born in the year 1837.

Jan 12 On this day in history birth of adolf Jensen, composer

Jan 12 In the year 1837 birth of carlos Troyer, composer

Jan 16 James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 was born in the year 1837.

Jan 19 On this day in history birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)

Jan 20 In the year 1837 birth of david Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)

Feb 05 On this day in history birth of dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)

Feb 07 In the year 1837 birth of james Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary

Feb 13 On this day in history birth of valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer

Feb 17 Francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902 was born on this day in history.

Feb 17 In the year 1837 birth of sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)

Feb 26 On this day in history birth of charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice

Mar 01 In the year 1837 birth of ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)

Mar 01 William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic) was born on this day in history.

Mar 07 Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter) was born in the year 1837.

Mar 12 Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer was born on this day in history.

Mar 14 On this day in history birth of charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)

Mar 18 In the year 1837 birth of grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)

Mar 19 Robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 was born in the year 1837.

Mar 23 In the year 1837 birth of joseph Wieniawski, composer

Mar 24 Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium was born in the year 1837.

Mar 31 In the year 1837 birth of robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA

Mar 31 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 was born on this day in history.

Apr 03 In the year 1837 birth of john Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)

Apr 05 On this day in history birth of algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)

Apr 10 On this day in history birth of forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)

Apr 11 On this day in history birth of ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861

Apr 15 On this day in history birth of horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921

Apr 17 In the year 1837 birth of j. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)

Apr 17 John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel) was born in the year 1837.

Apr 21 Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908) was born in the year 1837.

Apr 24 In the year 1837 birth of friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)

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Jan 11 John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 on this day in history.

Jan 20 John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 on this day in history.

Jan 23 On this day in history john Field, composer, dies at 54

Jan 29 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel died in the year 1837.

Feb 07 King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) died in the year 1837.

Feb 10 Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 on this day in history.

Feb 12 In the year 1837 ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50

Feb 13 On this day in history death of mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809