Jan 01 On this day in history birth of robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
Jan 02 On this day in history birth of frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
Jan 21 On this day in history birth of norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress)
Jan 23 In the year 1833 birth of john Randolph Chambliss Jr, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Jan 28 On this day in history birth of charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum)
Feb 01 On this day in history birth of henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop
Feb 03 On this day in history birth of thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian
Feb 05 John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag) was born in the year 1833.