Famous Personalities Born In 1839

Jan 04 Carl humann: German engineer  

Jan 09 John knowles paine: Portland maine, composer  

Jan 11 Eugenio maria de hostos: Puerto rico, patriot/scholar  

Jan 14 Emil bohn: Composer  

Jan 19 Bohumil pazdirek: Composer  

Jan 19 Paul cézanne: French painter  

Jan 25 Seldon connor: Brig general (union volunteers), died in 1917  

Feb 01 James a herne: [j aherne], us playwright (hearts of oak)  

Feb 07 Nicolaas g pierson: Dutch banker/suriname premier (1897-1901)  

Feb 09 Silas adams: American lawyer and politician  

Feb 11 Josiah willard gibbs: Theoretical physicist/chemist  

Feb 20 Benjamin waugh: American minister; founder of the nspcc  

Feb 22 Francis pharcellus church: American editor and publisher  

Mar 03 Jamsetji tata: Indian industrialist  

Mar 08 James mason crafts: Us chemist (friedel-crafts-synthesis)  

Mar 09 Phoebe knapp: American hymn writer  

Mar 09 Felix huston robertson: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1928  

Mar 09 Modest p mussorgsky: Russian composer (boris godunov) [os]  

Mar 10 Dudley buck: Hartford, ct, organist/church composer  

Mar 16 René f armand sully-prudhomme: France, poet, 1st nobel winner (1901)  

Mar 17 Josef rheinberger: Vaduz liechtenstein, opera composer (munich conser)  

Mar 18 Francis fessenden: Major general (union volunteers), died in 1906  

Mar 21 Modest mussorgsky: Composer (boris gudunov, night on bald mt) [ns]  

Mar 25 William bell wait: Us, educated the blind  

Mar 31 Nikolay przhevalsky: Naturalist, explorer of east central asia (os)  

Apr 05 Robert smalls: Beaufort sc, black congressman 1875-87 (rep-sc)  

Apr 05 Stanislaw pilinski: Composer  

Apr 12 Victorin de joncieres: Composer  

Apr 18 Frantz jehin-prume: Composer  

Apr 18 Henry clarence kendall: New south wales australia, poet (bell birds)  

Apr 20 Carol i: King of romania (1881-1914)  

Apr 22 August w eichler: German botanist  

Apr 26 Cyrus hamblin: Bvt major general (union volunteers), died in 1867  

May 01 Chardonnet: Inventor (rayon)  

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Jan 12 Joseph a koch: Aust painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator,  

Jan 19 Georg abraham schneider: Composer,  

Feb 01 Giuseppe valadier: Italian architect/archaeologist,  

Feb 07 Karl august nicander: Swedish poet (b. 1799)  

Feb 15 Chevalier de lorimier: Quebec notary (b. 1803)  

Mar 04 Ignace antoine ladurner: Pianist/composer,  

Mar 13 Robert gallenberg: Composer,  

Mar 29 Bernardus jc dibbets: Dutch baron/gen-major (maastricht),