Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In 1840

Apr 12 Edmond audran: Composer  

Apr 19 Andrea bezzola: Writer  

Apr 21 Franz xaver haberl: German priest/musicologist (magister choralis)  

Apr 22 Odilon redon: French painter  

Apr 25 James dearing: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1865  

Apr 25 Peter il'yich tchaikovsky: Russian composer (1812 overture) (5/7 ns)  

Apr 27 Edward whymper: 1st to climb matterhorn (1865)  

May 07 Peter il'yich tchaikovsky: Votkinsk rus, composer (1812 overture) [ns]  

May 10 Hadzhi dimitar: Bulgarian revolutionist  

May 11 Filippo capocci: Composer  

May 13 L-m alphonse daudet: French writer (tartarin of tarascon)  

May 13 Alphonse daudet: Writer  

May 24 Frederick walker: Painter  

May 29 Hans makart: Austrian painter (plague in florenz)  

Jun 02 Thomas hardy: England, poet/novelist (far from the madding crowd)  

Jun 03 Eugeen van oye: Flemish writer/poet (morning twilight)  

Jun 06 William francis bartlett: Bvt major general (union volunteers)  

Jun 06 John stainer: Composer  

Jun 07 Charlotte maavcl: Princess of belgium/emperor of mexico (1864-67)  

Jun 10 Thomas fentress toon: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1902  

Jun 10 Theodor philipsen danish painter: Theodor philipsen danish painter (d. 1920)  

Jun 11 Henri braekeleer: Flemish painter/etser  

Jun 16 Ernst otto schlick: German engineer  

Jun 22 Ernest debes: German cartographer (baedeker)  

Jun 24 Louis brassin: Composer  

Jul 01 Robert s ball: Irish mathematician/astronomer  

Jul 04 James mcgranahan: Composer  

Jul 12 Abraham goldfaden: Eastern european yiddish dramatist  

Jul 25 Flora adams darling: Founded daughters of american revolution  

Jul 27 Ranald slidell mackenzie: Bvt major general (union volunteers)  

Aug 01 Aldine sillman kieffer: Composer  

Aug 13 Giovanni verga: Italian writer (eros)  

Aug 14 Baron richard freiherr von krafft-ebing: Psychiatrist  

Aug 17 Wilfrid scawen blunt: England, writer (irish land league)  

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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)