Famous Personalities Born In 1837

Jan 02 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04 On this day in history birth of casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)  

Jan 05 In the year 1837 birth of a Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]  

Jan 12 Adolf Jensen, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 16 In the year 1837 birth of james Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887  

Jan 19 William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 20 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 05 In the year 1837 birth of dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)  

Feb 07 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902  

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

Feb 26 In the year 1837 birth of charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice  

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

Mar 01 In the year 1837 birth of william Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)  

Mar 07 In the year 1837 birth of henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)  

Mar 12 Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer was born in the year 1837.  

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

Mar 18 Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97) was born on this day in history.  

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

Mar 23 On this day in history birth of joseph Wieniawski, composer  

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

Mar 31 On this day in history birth of robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Apr 10 Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867) was born on this day in history.  

Apr 11 In the year 1837 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 on this day in history.  

Apr 17 In the year 1837 birth of john Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)  

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

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 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 In the year 1837 death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel  

Feb 07 On this day in history death of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)  

Feb 10 In the year 1837 alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37  

Feb 12 On this day in history 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