Birthdays In History 1837

1837 Mily Balakirev Russian pianist and composer (d. 1910)

1837 Thomas Henry Ismay English businessman founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899)

1837 Adolf Jensen German pianist and composer (d. 1879)

1837 Dwight L. Moody American evangelist and publisher founded Moody Church Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers (d. 1899)

1837 James Murray Scottish lexicographer and philologist (d. 1915)

1837 José Burgos Filipino priest and revolutionary (d. 1872)

1837 Rosalía de Castro Spanish poet (d. 1885)

1837 William Dean Howells American novelist playwright and critic (d. 1920)

1837 Henry Draper American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)

1837 Alexandre Guilmant French organist and composer (d. 1911)

1837 Charles Ammi Cutter American librarian (d. 1903)

1837 John Burroughs American botanist and author (d. 1921)

1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne English poet playwright novelist and critic (d. 1909)

1837 Fredrik Bajer Danish lieutenant and politician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922)

1837 Georges Ernest Boulanger French general and politician French Minister of War (d. 1891)

1837 Karl Mauch German geographer and explorer (d. 1875)

1837 Itagaki Taisuke Japanese soldier and politician (d. 1919)

1837 Anatole Mallet Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1919)

1837 Józef Wieniawski Polish pianist and composer (d. 1912)

1837 George Ashlin Irish architect co-designed St Colman's Cathedral (d. 1921)

1837 Tony Pastor American impresario variety performer and theatre owner (d. 1908)

1837 Alois Hitler Austrian civil servant (d. 1903)

1837 Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie English author (d. 1919)

1837 Ernst Laas German philosopher and academic (d. 1885)

1837 Ernst Ziller German-Greek architect designed the Presidential Mansion (d. 1923)

1837 R. G. Bhandarkar Indian orientalist and scholar (d. 1925)

1837 Joseph-Alfred Mousseau Canadian lawyer judge and politician 7th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1886)

1837 Vasil Levski Bulgarian priest and activist (d. 1873)

1837 William Quantrill American captain (d. 1865)

1837 Marie François Sadi Carnot French engineer and politician 4th President of the French Republic (d. 1894)

1837 Théodore Dubois French organist composer and educator (d. 1924)

1837 Francis von Hohenstein duke of Teck (d. 1900)

1837 Louis IV Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1892)

1837 Nikolai Bugaev Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903)

1837 Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)

1837 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos Portuguese archbishop (d. 1880)

1837 Nicolás Avellaneda Argentinian journalist and politician 8th President of Argentina (d. 1885)

1837 Auguste-Réal Angers Canadian judge and politician 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1919)

1837 Francis Wayland Parker American theorist and academic (d. 1902)

1837 Robert Gould Shaw American colonel (d. 1863)

1837 Moritz Kaposi Hungarian dermatologist (d. 1902)

1837 Tokugawa Yoshinobu Japanese shōgun (d. 1913)

1837 Harriet Powers American folk artist and quilter (d. 1910)

1837 Émile Bayard French illustrator and painter (d. 1891)

1837 Ilia Chavchavadze Georgian journalist lawyer and politician (d. 1907)

1837 James T. Rapier American lawyer and politician (d. 1883)

1837 Johannes Diderik van der Waals Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

1837 Thomas Playford II English-Australian politician 17th Premier of South Australia (d. 1915)

1837 Émile Waldteufel French pianist composer and conductor (d. 1915)

1837 Webster Paulson English civil engineer (d. 1887)

1837 E. W. Bullinger English minister scholar and theologian (d. 1913)

1837 Empress Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1898)

1837 Morgan Bulkeley American soldier and politician 54th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1922)

1837 Thomas Moran British-American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School (d. 1926)

1837 Adam Opel German engineer founded the Opel Company (d. 1895)

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