{--page_num--}Famous Personalities Born In 1837

Jan 02 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 04 Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05 A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] was born in the year 1837.  

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 On this day in history birth of james Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887  

Jan 19 William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 20 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born on this day in history.  

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

Feb 07 On this day in history birth of james Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary  

Feb 13 In the year 1837 birth of valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer  

Feb 17 Francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902 was born on this day in history.  

Feb 17 On this day in history birth of sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)  

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

Mar 01 In the year 1837 birth of ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)  

Mar 01 William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 07 Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 12 Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Mar 14 On this day in history birth of charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)  

Mar 18 In the year 1837 birth of grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)  

Mar 19 In the year 1837 birth of robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919  

Mar 23 On this day in history birth of joseph Wieniawski, composer  

Mar 24 In the year 1837 birth of philips, Count of Flanders Belgium  

Mar 31 Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA was born in the year 1837.  

Mar 31 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 was born on this day in history.  

Apr 03 On this day in history birth of john Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)  

Apr 05 On this day in history birth of algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)  

Apr 10 Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867) was born on this day in history.  

Apr 11 In the year 1837 birth of ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861  

Apr 15 On this day in history birth of horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921  

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

Apr 17 On this day in history birth of john Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)  

Apr 21 Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908) was born on this day in history.  

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 In the year 1837 john Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84  

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 In the year 1837 death of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)  

Feb 10 Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

Feb 12 On this day in history ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50  

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