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

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

Jan 04 On this day in history birth of casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)  

Jan 05 On this day in history birth of a Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]  

Jan 12 Adolf Jensen, composer was born in the year 1837.  

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

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 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 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 13 On this day in history birth of valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer  

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

Feb 17 In the year 1837 birth of sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)  

Feb 26 Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice was born on this day in history.  

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

Mar 01 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer  

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

Mar 18 On this day in history birth of grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 31 In the year 1837 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 In the year 1837 birth of john Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)  

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 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 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 in the year 1837.  

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Jan 11 In the year 1837 john Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54  

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 In the year 1837 death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel  

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 Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 on this day in history.  

Feb 13 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 died on this day in history.