Famous Personalities Born In 1840

Jan 03 Father joseph damien de veuster: Belgium, helped lepers in hawaii  

Jan 05 John doby kennedy: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1896  

Jan 10 Louis nazaire bégin: French canadian archbishop and cardinal  

Jan 18 Ernst rudorff: Composer  

Jan 18 Austin dobson: England, poet/critic/biographer  

Jan 21 Sophia louisa jex-blake: Pioneer english woman physician  

Jan 22 Ernest roland wilberforce: English bishop  

Jan 23 Ernst abbe: Germany, physicist (carl zeiss optics company)  

Feb 02 Louis bourgault-ducoudray: Composer  

Feb 05 Hiram stevens maxim: Inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)  

Feb 05 John boyd dunlop: Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)  

Feb 11 Sanuel dana greene: Lt cmdr (union navy), died in 1884  

Feb 13 Georg jacobi: Composer  

Feb 22 F august bebel: German social-democrat  

Feb 23 Carl menger: Austrian economist  

Feb 25 Alexis hollander: Composer  

Feb 25 Otto liebmann: German philosopher (climax of theories)  

Feb 28 Henri duveyrier: French explorer  

Feb 29 John philip holland: Father of modern submarine  

Feb 29 John philip holland: Liscannor ireland, pioneer in submarine building  

Mar 05 Constance fenimore woolson: Nh, writer (jupiter lights)  

Mar 08 Franco faccio: Italian composer/conductor  

Mar 11 Edmund kirby jr: Brig general (union volunteers), died in 1863  

Mar 16 Shibusawa eiichi: Japanese industrialist  

Mar 18 William cosmo monkhouse: English poet and critic  

Mar 20 Illarion pryanishnikov: Russian painter  

Mar 25 Myles keogh: U.s. soldier in u.s. 7th cavalry regiment & irish soldier of fortune  

Mar 25 Myles keogh: U.s. soldier in u.s. 7th cavalry regiment & irish soldier of fortune  

Mar 26 Carli zoeller: Composer  

Mar 26 George smith: London england, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))  

Mar 28 Mehemed emin pasja: German explorer/governor (equatoria)  

Mar 31 John herbert kelly: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1864  

Apr 02 Émile zola: French novelist and critic  

Apr 11 John conrad nordqvist: Composer  

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Jan 06 Fanny burney: English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)  

Jan 22 Johann friedrich blumenbach: German anthropologist (b. 1752)  

Mar 02 Heinrich olbers: German astronomer (comets & asteroids),  

Mar 12 Friedrich westenholz: Composer,  

Mar 22 Étienne bobillier: French mathematician (b. 1798)  

Mar 28 Simon-antoine-jean lhuillier: Swiss mathematician,  

Mar 30 George (beau) brummell: Dandy,  

Apr 19 Jean-jacques lartigue: Roman catholic bishop of montreal (b. 1777)