May 16
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Birthdays In History 1814

1814 Hong Xiuquan Chinese rebellion leader and king (d. 1864)

1814 Robert Nicoll Scottish poet (d.1837)

1814 James Paget English surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)

1814 Socrates Nelson American businessman and politician (d. 1867)

1814 Ellen Wood English author (d. 1887)

1814 David Wilmot American politician sponsor of Wilmot Proviso (d. 1868)

1814 Johann Georg Theodor Grässe German bibliographer and historian (d. 1885)

1814 Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin French Crown Princess (d. 1858)

1814 John Colenso British mathematician (d. 1883)

1814 Samuel J. Tilden American lawyer and politician 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)

1814 Samuel Fenton Cary American lawyer and politician (d. 1900)

1814 Napoleon Collins Rear Admiral of the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War (d. 1875)

1814 Wilhelm von Giesebrecht German historian and academic (d. 1889)

1814 Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian poet and playwright (d. 1861)

1814 Jacob Bunn American businessman (d. 1897)

1814 Thomas Crawford American sculptor designed the Statue of Freedom (d. 1857)

1814 Charles Mackay Scottish journalist anthologist and author (d. 1889)

1814 Henry L. Benning American general and judge (d. 1875)

1814 Erastus Brigham Bigelow American inventor (d. 1879)

1814 Lorenzo Snow American religious leader 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1901)

1814 Felix Lichnowsky Czech soldier and politician (d. 1848)

1814 Josif Pančić Serbian botanist and academic (d. 1888)

1814 Louis Amédée Achard French journalist and author (d. 1875)

1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts English art collector and philanthropist (d. 1906)

1814 Sadok Barącz Galician religious leader historian folklorist archivist (d. 1892)

1814 Adams George Archibald Canadian lawyer and politician 4th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1892)

1814 Adolf von Henselt German pianist and composer (d. 1889)

1814 Charles Beyer German-English engineer co-founded Beyer Peacock & Company (d. 1876)

1814 Amalia Lindegren Swedish painter (d. 1891)

1814 John Rudolph Niernsee Viennese-born American architect (d.1885)

1814 Mikhail Bakunin Russian philosopher and theorist (d. 1876)

1814 Eugène Charles Catalan Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)

1814 Paweł Bryliński Polish sculptor (d. 1890)

1814 Anton Nuhn German anatomist and academic (d. 1889)

1814 Gabriel Auguste Daubrée French geologist and engineer (d. 1896)

1814 Robert Richard Torrens Irish-Australian politician 3rd Premier of South Australia (d. 1884)

1814 Ferdinand Didrichsen Danish botanist and physicist (d. 1887)

1814 Esther Hobart Morris American suffragette and judge (d. 1902)

1814 John C. Pemberton United States soldier and Confederate general (d. 1881)

1814 Anders Jonas Ångström Swedish physicist and astronomer (d. 1874)

1814 Charlotte Fowler Wells American phrenologist and publisher (d. 1901)

1814 James Roosevelt Bayley American archbishop (d. 1877)

1814 Sheridan Le Fanu Irish author (d. 1873)

1814 Ernst Curtius German archaeologist and historian (d. 1896)

1814 James Joseph Sylvester English mathematician and academic (d. 1897)

1814 George-Étienne Cartier Canadian lawyer and politician 9th Premier of East Canada (d. 1873)

1814 Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg French archaeologist ethnographer and historian (d. 1874)

1814 Lucinda Hinsdale Stone American feminist educator and philanthropist (d. 1900)

1814 Jean-François Millet French painter and educator (d. 1875)

1814 Jean-Baptiste Lamy French-American archbishop (d. 1888)

1814 Mikhail Lermontov Russian author poet and painter (d. 1841)

1814 Yakiv Holovatsky Ukrainian historian scholar and poet (d. 1888)

1814 Theodoros Vryzakis Greek painter (d. 1878)

1814 Prince Louis Duke of Nemours (d. 1896)

1814 Daniel H. Wells American religious leader and politician 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City (d. 1891)

1814 Adolphe Sax Belgian-French instrument designer invented the saxophone (d. 1894)

1814 Joseph Hooker American general (d. 1879)

1814 Serranus Clinton Hastings American lawyer and politician 1st Chief Justice of California (d. 1893)

1814 Julius Robert von Mayer German physician and physicist (d. 1878)

1814 Charles-François-Frédéric marquis de Montholon-Sémonville French politician and diplomat French ambassador to the United States (d. 1886)

1814 Ana Néri Brazilian nurse and philanthropist (d. 1880)

1814 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc French architect designed the Lausanne Cathedral (d. 1879)

1814 Auguste Chapdelaine French missionary and saint (d. 1856)

1814 John Brougham Irish-American actor and playwright (d. 1880)

1814 Dimitri Kipiani Georgian publicist and author (d. 1887)

Edwin Stanton

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Born - Dec 19,1814

Died - Dec 24,1869

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Henri Nestlé

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Born - Aug 10,1814

Died - Jul 07,1890

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Samuel Colt

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Born - Jul 19,1814

Died - Jan 10,1862

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