Famous Personalities Born In 1837

Jan 02 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04 In the year 1837 birth of casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)  

Jan 05 A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] was born on this day in history.  

Jan 12 On this day in history birth of adolf Jensen, composer  

Jan 12 On this day in history birth of carlos Troyer, composer  

Jan 16 James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 was born on this day in history.  

Jan 19 William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 20 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born in the year 1837.  

Feb 05 Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement) was born in the year 1837.  

Feb 07 In the year 1837 birth of james Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary  

Feb 13 Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer was born on this day in history.  

Feb 17 On this day in history birth of francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902  

Feb 17 Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws) was born in the year 1837.  

Feb 26 In the year 1837 birth of charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice  

Mar 01 On this day in history birth of ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)  

Mar 01 In the year 1837 birth of william Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)  

Mar 07 In the year 1837 birth of henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)  

Mar 12 In the year 1837 birth of felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer  

Mar 14 Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 18 Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 19 Robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 was born on this day in history.  

Mar 23 Joseph Wieniawski, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Mar 24 Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium was born in the year 1837.  

Mar 31 On this day in history birth of robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA  

Mar 31 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 was born in the year 1837.  

Apr 03 John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake) was born on this day in history.  

Apr 05 In the year 1837 birth of algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)  

Apr 10 On this day in history birth of forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)  

Apr 11 On this day in history birth of ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861  

Apr 15 Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921 was born in the year 1837.  

Apr 17 In the year 1837 birth of j. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)  

Apr 17 In the year 1837 birth of john Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)  

Apr 21 Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908) was born in the year 1837.  

Apr 24 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) was born on this day in history.  

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Jan 11 On this day in history john Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54  

Jan 20 John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 in the year 1837.  

Jan 23 John Field, composer, dies at 54 in the year 1837.  

Jan 29 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel died in the year 1837.  

Feb 07 King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) died in the year 1837.  

Feb 10 In the year 1837 alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37  

Feb 12 In the year 1837 ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50  

Feb 13 In the year 1837 death of mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809