Year1820

Famous People Born in 1820

Birthdays by Year

Jan 9 Pavel Křížkovský, Czech choral composer and conductor (Sts. Cyril and Methodius), born in Kreuzendorf, Austrian Silesia (d. 1885)
Jan 17 Anne Brontë, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall), born in Thornton, West Yorkshire (d. 1849)
Jan 18 Abraham Buford, American Confederate general and horse breeder, born in Woodford County, Kentucky (d. 1884)

Jan 19 John Haskell King, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Sackets Harbor, New York (d. 1888)
Jan 20 Anne Clough, English suffragette, promoted higher education for women, first principal of New College, born in Liverpool, England (d. 1892)
Jan 22 Hermann Lingg, German poet and playwright, born in Lindau (d. 1905)
Jan 22 Johan Hendrik Koelman, Dutch portrait painter (Jahresringe), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1887)
Jan 22 Joseph Wolf, German-English painter and illustrator of animals (d. 1899)
Jan 23 Alexander Serov, Russian composer and music critic, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1871)
Jan 24 John Milton Thayer, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bellingham, Massachusetts (d. 1906)
Jan 31 William B. Washburn, American politician (28th Governor of Massachusetts and Senator), born in Winchendon, Massachusetts (d. 1887)
Feb 1 George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
Feb 2 Hans E Schack, Danish politician and writer (Phantasterne - Fantasy), born in Sengeløse, Denmark (d. 1820)
Feb 3 Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic naval surgeon and Artic explorer (led expedition to Greenland discover fate of John Franklin), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1857)

Doc Durant(1820-1885)

Feb 6 Americanfinancier and railroad promoter (Transcontinental Railroad-Union Pacific), born in Lee, Massachusetts

William Tecumseh Sherman(1820-1891)

Feb 8 American MajorGeneral in the Union Army, born in Lancaster, Ohio

Feb 13 Béla Kéler, Hungarian conductor, composer (Erinnerung an Bartfeld; The Carpathians), and violinist, born in Bártfa, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1882)

Susan B. Anthony(1820-1906)

Feb 15 American social reformer and women's suffrage movement leader, born in Adams, Massachusetts

Feb 17 Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Quebec, born in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce, Lower Canada (d. 1898)
Feb 17 Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violin prodigy, composer, and teacher (Brussels Conservatory), born in Verviers, United Kingdom of the Netherlands (d. 1881)
Feb 20 Mahlon Dickerson Manson, American druggist politician and General (Union Army), born in Piqua, Ohio (d. 1895)
Feb 28 John Tenniel, English cartoonist and illustrator (Punch, Alice in Wonderland), born in London, England (d. 1914)
Feb 29 Adolf Schimon, Austrian German composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1887)
Mar 1 George Davis, American Confederate politician, Attorney General of the Confederate States (1864-65), born near Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 1896)
Mar 1 Richard Redhead, English organist, and composer of sacred music, born in Harrow, England (d. 1901)
Mar 2 Multatuli [Eduard Douwes Dekker], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1887)
Mar 4 Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary who led revolts in Sicily against the Bourbon rulers, born in Corleone, Sicily (d. 1856)
Mar 6 Horatio Gouverneur Wright, American Major General (Union Army), born in Clinton, Connecticut (d. 1899)
Mar 7 Emilio Faà di Bruno, Italian naval captain, born in Alessandria, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1866)
Mar 7 Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, German composer and teacher, born in Bnin, Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1900)
Mar 9 Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, born in Auburn, New York (d. 1893)
Mar 13 Louis Hébert, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and civil engineer, born in Iberville Parish, Louisiana (d. 1901)

Victor Emmanuel II(1820-1878)

Mar 14 King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), born in Torino, Italy

Mar 17 Jean Ingelow, English poet and children's novelist (Mopsa the Fairy), born in Boston, Lincolnshire (d. 1897)
Mar 17 Patrick Edward Connor, Irish-American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland (d. 1891)
Mar 20 Alexandru Ioan Cuza, 1st Prince of united Romania (land reform, emancipated peasants), born in Huşi, Moldavia (d. 1873)
Mar 21 Frank Mori, English conductor and composer (Frindolin; River Sprite), born in London (d. 1873)
Mar 24 Edmond Becquerel, French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity and optics (photovoltaic effect), born in Paris, France (d. 1891)
Mar 24 Fanny Crosby, American hymnist known as the "Queen of Gospel Song Writers", born in Brewster, New York (d. 1915)
Mar 25 Xavier de Merode, Belgian nobleman, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope in Rome, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1874)
Mar 30 Anna Sewell, English author (Black Beauty), born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (d. 1878)
Apr 4 Charles Devens Jr, American lawyer, jurist, statesman and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1891)
Apr 5 Nadar [Félix Tournachon], French photographer and balloonist, took the first aerial photograph, born in Paris (d. 1910)
Apr 14 Harry T. Hays, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Wilson County, Tennessee (d. 1876)
Apr 15 Evander McNair, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Laurel Hill, North Carolina (d. 1902)
Apr 16 Georg Curtius, German classical linguist, born in the Free Imperial City of Lübeck (d. 1885)

Alexander Cartwright(1820-1892)

Apr 17 Americaninventor of modern baseball recognized as the "father of baseball" and HOF inductee, born in New York City

Apr 17 Gottfried Conradi, Norwegian composer, born in Tønsberg, Norway (d. 1896)
Apr 26 Alice Cary, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1871)

Herbert Spencer(1820-1903)

Apr 27 Britishphilosopher (Social Statics) andsociologist, born in Derby, England

May 4 John Whiteaker, American farmer, soldier (Mexican-American War), goldminer, politician (1st Governor of Oregon, 1859-62; US Representative, 1879-81), and judge, born in Dearborn County, Indiana (d. 1902)
May 4 Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack), born in London (d. 1895)
May 4 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler (1841-45), born in Gardiners Island, New York (d. 1889)

Florence Nightingale(1820-1910)

May 12 Britishnurse who revolutionized nursing during the Crimean War, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy)

May 22 Alexander Fesca, German pianist and composer (Piano Septets), born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 1849)
May 23 James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis), born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana (d. 1887)
May 23 Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, born in Le Roy, New York (d. 1891)
May 27 Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess (daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg, daughter of King Frederick I of Württemberg) and socialite, born in Trieste, Austrian Empire (d. 1904)
May 28 Willem Doorenbos, Dutch literary and critic, born in Deersum, Netherlands (d. 1906)
May 30 Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (1st Premier of Quebec), born in Charlesbourg, Quebec (d. 1890)
Jun 13 Henry, Prince of the Netherlands (Governor of Luxembourg, 1850-79), third son of King William II of the Netherlands, born in Soestdijk Palace, Netherlands (d. 1879)
Jun 14 John Bartlett, American writer and publisher (compiled Familiar Quotations), born in Plymouth, Massachusetts (d. 1905)
Jun 16 Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant theologian and founder of the Protestant Liberal Union (Jean Calas et sa Famille / Jean Calas and his Family), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1875)[1]
Jun 18 Martin Andreas Udbye, Norwegian composer and organist, born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 1889)
Jun 24 Henry R. Jackson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Athens, Georgia (d. 1898)
Jul 2 George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1878)
Jul 5 William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish mechanical engineer and physicist, born in Edinburgh (d. 1872)
Jul 10 Andrew Porter, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (d. 1872)
Jul 22 Louis Powell Harvey, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin, born in East Haddam, Connecticut (d. 1862)
Jul 26 John Marshall Jones, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1864)
Jul 27 John Franklin Farnsworth, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Eaton, Canada (d. 1897)
Jul 29 Clement Vallandigham, American politician (Rep-D-Ohio, convicted of opposing civil war, exiled to Confederate States), born in New Lisbon, Ohio (d. 1871)
Aug 2 John Tyndall, Irish physicist who demonstrated why the sky is blue and proved that the Earth's atmosphere has a greenhouse effect, born in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland (d. 1893)
Aug 3 Luther Orlando Emerson, American composer, born in Parsonsfield, Maine (d. 1915)
Aug 3 William Miller, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Ithaca, New York (d. 1909)
Aug 8 Winfield Scott Featherston "Old Swet", American politician and Army Brigadier General (Confederate), born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee (d. 1891)
Aug 12 Oliver Mowat, Canadian lawyer and politician (Premier of Ontario 1872-96, a founder of the Canadian Confederation), born in Kingston, Upper Canada (d. 1903)[1]
Aug 13 George Grove, English biblical scholar and misicographer, born in Clapham, London (d. 1900)
Aug 13 Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch poet (Dietsche Warande), born in Amsterdam (d. 1889)
Aug 16 Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician, born in Fredericton, Canada (d. 1892)
Aug 20 Adolphe Fétis, Belgian-French pianist and composer, born in Paris (d. 1873)
Aug 24 Jacopo Tomadini, Italian composer, born in Cividale del Friuli, Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom (d. 1883)
Aug 26 James Harlan, American politician (Rep-Iowa), US Secretary of Interior (1865-66), born in Clark County, Illinois (d. 1899)
Aug 30 George Frederick Root, American songwriter (The Battle Cry of Freedom), born in Sheffield, Massachusetts (d. 1895)
Sep 3 George Hearst, American businessman and politician (U.S. Senator from California), born in Sullivan, Missouri (d. 1891)
Sep 17 Earl Van Dorn, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Claiborne County, Mississippi (d. 1863)
Sep 17 Émile Augier, French dramatist, born in Valence, Drôme, Kingdom of France (d. 1889)
Sep 20 George Washington Morgan, American lawyer, politician, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Washington County, Pennsylvania (d. 1893)
Sep 20 John Fulton Reynolds, American Major General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (d. 1863)
Sep 21 Williams Carter Wickham, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1888)
Sep 23 Thomas Kilby Smith, American lawyer, diplomat and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1887)
Sep 26 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita), born in Birsingha, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1891)
Oct 1 Gustav Adolf Heinze, German-Dutch clarinetist, conductor, and composer, born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1904)
Oct 5 David Wilber, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in Quaker Street, Duanesburg, New York (d. 1890)
Oct 6 Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano known as the 'Swedish Nightingale', born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1887)
Oct 11 Alfred Washington Ellet, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (d. 1895)
Oct 13 John William Dawson, Canadian geologist, born in Pictou, Nova Scotia (d. 1899)
Oct 20 Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, American Major General in the Confederate Army (let General John M. Schofield escape), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1886)
Oct 20 George Jerrison Stannard, American farmer, teacher, governmental official and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Georgia, Vermont (d. 1886)
Oct 23 James Monroe Goggin, American Confederate Army major, born in Bedford County, Virginia (d. 1889)
Nov 4 Robert Vinkler Richardson, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Granville County, North Carolina (d. 1870)
Nov 9 Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1892)
Nov 23 Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
Nov 23 John Willis Ellis, American politician, Governor of North Carolina during US Civil War, born in Rowan County, North Carolina (d. 1861)

Friedrich Engels(1820-1895)

Nov 28 German socialphilosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx, born in Barmen, Kingdom of Prussia

Nov 28 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Enfield, North Carolina (d. 1862)
Dec 2 George Scharf, British art critic and administrator (National Portrait Gallery, 1857-95), born in London, England (d. 1895)
Dec 5 Afanasy Fet, Russian poet, born in Mtsensk, Russia (d. 1892)
Dec 10 David Allen Russell, United States Army officer (Union), born in Salem, New York (d. 1864)
Dec 10 Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, second daughter of Duke and Duchess of Clarence, later King William IV and Queen Adelaide, born in St James's Palace, London. England (d. 1821)
Dec 17 Frederick Tracy Dent, American General (Union Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1892)