{--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 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 in the year 1837.  

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

Jan 12 In the year 1837 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 On this day in history birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)  

Jan 20 On this day in history birth of david Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)  

Feb 05 Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 07 James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary was born in the year 1837.  

Feb 13 Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Feb 17 In the year 1837 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 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 in the year 1837.  

Mar 12 On this day in history birth of felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer  

Mar 14 Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification) was born in the year 1837.  

Mar 18 On this day in history 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 Joseph Wieniawski, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Mar 24 On this day in history birth of philips, Count of Flanders Belgium  

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 on this day in history.  

Apr 03 John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake) was born in the year 1837.  

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

Apr 10 Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867) was born in the year 1837.  

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 On this day in history birth of j. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)  

Apr 17 John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel) was born on this day in history.  

Apr 21 In the year 1837 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 on this day in history.  

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 On this day in history death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel  

Feb 07 King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) died on this day in history.  

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 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 died on this day in history.