Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In 1840

Apr 12 On this day in history birth of edmond Audran, composer  

Apr 19 Andrea Bezzola, writer was born in the year 1840.  

Apr 21 Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis) was born on this day in history.  

Apr 22 Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916) was born in the year 1840.  

Apr 25 In the year 1840 birth of james Dearing, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865  

Apr 25 On this day in history birth of peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture) (5/7 NS)  

Apr 27 In the year 1840 birth of edward Whymper, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865)  

May 07 In the year 1840 birth of peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk Rus, composer (1812 Overture) [NS]  

May 10 On this day in history birth of hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionist (d. 1868)  

May 11 In the year 1840 birth of filippo Capocci, composer  

May 13 Alphonse Daudet, writer was born in the year 1840.  

May 13 On this day in history birth of l-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon)  

May 24 Frederick Walker, painter was born on this day in history.  

May 29 Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Plague in Florenz) was born in the year 1840.  

Jun 02 Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) was born in the year 1840.  

Jun 03 In the year 1840 birth of eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight)  

Jun 06 On this day in history birth of john Stainer, composer  

Jun 06 In the year 1840 birth of william Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

Jun 07 Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belgium/Emperor of Mexico (1864-67) was born on this day in history.  

Jun 10 Theodor Philipsen Danish painter (d. 1920) was born in the year 1840.  

Jun 10 In the year 1840 birth of thomas Fentress Toon, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902  

Jun 11 In the year 1840 birth of henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser  

Jun 16 On this day in history birth of ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)  

Jun 22 Ernest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker) was born in the year 1840.  

Jun 24 On this day in history birth of louis Brassin, composer  

Jul 01 On this day in history birth of robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer  

Jul 04 James McGranahan, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jul 12 Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist was born in the year 1840.  

Jul 25 On this day in history birth of flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution  

Jul 27 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born in the year 1840.  

Aug 01 Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer was born on this day in history.  

Aug 13 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros) was born in the year 1840.  

Aug 14 In the year 1840 birth of baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist  

Aug 17 On this day in history birth of wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)  

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Jan 06 In the year 1840 death of fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)  

Jan 22 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) died on this day in history.  

Mar 02 Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81 in the year 1840.  

Mar 12 On this day in history friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61  

Mar 22 Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798) died on this day in history.  

Mar 28 On this day in history simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89  

Mar 30 On this day in history george (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies  

Apr 19 Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777) died on this day in history.