Famous Personalities Born In 1837

Jan 02 In the year 1837 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 On this day in history birth of adolf Jensen, composer  

Jan 12 On this day in history birth of carlos Troyer, composer  

Jan 16 On this day in history birth of james Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887  

Jan 19 In the year 1837 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 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 in the year 1837.  

Feb 17 Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 26 Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice was born in the year 1837.  

Mar 01 Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie) was born on this day in history.  

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 Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification) was born in the year 1837.  

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 in the year 1837.  

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 On this day in history birth of stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864  

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 in the year 1837.  

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 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 in the year 1837.  

Apr 21 In the year 1837 birth of fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)  

Apr 24 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) was born in the year 1837.  

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Jan 11 John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 in the year 1837.  

Jan 20 In the year 1837 john Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84  

Jan 23 In the year 1837 john Field, composer, dies at 54  

Jan 29 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel died on this day in history.  

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 Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 in the year 1837.  

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