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

Jan 02 In the year 1837 birth of mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)  

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 In the year 1837 birth of adolf Jensen, composer  

Jan 12 Carlos Troyer, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 16 James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 19 In the year 1837 birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)  

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

Feb 05 On this day in history birth of dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)  

Feb 07 James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary was born on this day in history.  

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

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

Feb 17 Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 26 On this day in history birth of charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice  

Mar 01 Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie) was born on this day in history.  

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

Mar 07 On this day in history birth of henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)  

Mar 12 Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

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 in the year 1837.  

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

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 On this day in history birth of stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864  

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

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 Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861 was born on this day in history.  

Apr 15 In the year 1837 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 On this day in history birth of fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)  

Apr 24 In the year 1837 birth of friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)  

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Jan 11 John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 in the year 1837.  

Jan 20 John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Feb 10 On this day in history alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37  

Feb 12 Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 in the year 1837.  

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