Famous Personalities Born In 1837

Jan 02 On this day in history birth of mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)  

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 Adolf Jensen, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 12 Carlos Troyer, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born in the year 1837.  

Feb 05 Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement) was born on this day in history.  

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

Feb 13 Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice was born in the year 1837.  

Mar 01 On this day in history birth of ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)  

Mar 01 On this day in history birth of william Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)  

Mar 07 On this day in history birth of henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)  

Mar 12 In the year 1837 birth of felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer  

Mar 14 In the year 1837 birth of charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)  

Mar 18 Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97) was born in the year 1837.  

Mar 19 In the year 1837 birth of robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919  

Mar 23 Joseph Wieniawski, composer was born on this day in history.  

Mar 24 On this day in history birth of philips, Count of Flanders Belgium  

Mar 31 Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA was born in the year 1837.  

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

Apr 03 John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake) was born in the year 1837.  

Apr 05 Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon) was born on this day in history.  

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

Apr 11 Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861 was born on this day in history.  

Apr 15 Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921 was born in the year 1837.  

Apr 17 J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913) was born in the year 1837.  

Apr 17 John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel) was born on this day in history.  

Apr 21 On this day in history birth of fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)  

Apr 24 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) was born on this day in history.  

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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 John Field, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

Jan 29 On this day in history death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel  

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

Feb 10 On this day in history alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37  

Feb 12 On this day in history ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50  

Feb 13 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 died on this day in history.