May 19
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Birthdays In History 1819

1819 Arthur Hugh Clough English-Italian poet and academic (d. 1861)

1819 George Foster Shepley American general (d. 1878)

1819 Charles Piazzi Smyth Italian-Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 1900)

1819 James Francis English-Australian businessman and politician 9th Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)

1819 Dimitrie Bolintineanu Romanian poet and politician (d. 1872)

1819 Göran Fredrik Göransson Swedish merchant ironmaster and industrialist (d. 1900)

1819 John Ruskin English author critic and academic (d. 1900)

1819 Alfred Escher Swiss businessman and politician (d. 1882)

1819 James Russell Lowell American poet and critic (d. 1891)

1819 Gustave de Molinari Dutch-Belgian economist and theorist (d. 1912)

1819 Henry Tate English businessman and philanthropist founded Tate & Lyle (d. 1899)

1819 José Paranhos Brazilian politician (d. 1880)

1819 James McCulloch Scottish-Australian politician 5th Premier of Victoria (d. 1893)

1819 Joseph Bazalgette English architect and engineer (d. 1891)

1819 Chlodwig Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (d. 1901)

1819 Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)

1819 Charles Hallé German-English pianist and conductor (d. 1895)

1819 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874)

1819 Franz von Suppé Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895)

1819 Edward Stafford Scottish-New Zealand educator and politician 3rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1901)

1819 Ezra Abbot American scholar and academic (d. 1884)

1819 Johann Voldemar Jannsen Estonian journalist and poet (d. 1890)

1819 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)

1819 Julia Ward Howe American poet and songwriter (d. 1910)

1819 William McMurdo English general (d. 1894)

1819 Anton Anderledy Swiss religious leader 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)

1819 Johan Jongkind Dutch painter (d. 1891)

1819 John Couch Adams English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)

1819 Gustave Courbet French-Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1877)

1819 Charles Kingsley English priest historian and author (d. 1875)

1819 Henry Gardner American merchant and politician 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)

1819 Jacques Offenbach German-French cellist and composer (d. 1880)

1819 Abner Doubleday American general (d. 1893)

1819 Thomas Dunn English American poet playwright and politician (d. 1902)

1819 Charles-Louis Hanon French pianist and composer (d. 1900)

1819 Francis Leopold McClintock Irish admiral and explorer (d. 1907)

1819 Gottfried Keller Swiss author poet and playwright (d. 1890)

1819 Justin Holland American guitarist and educator (d. 1887)

1819 Sir George Stokes 1st Baronet Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist (d. 1903)

1819 Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1876)

1819 Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt Luxembourger-Dutch politician Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1894)

1819 Allan Pinkerton Scottish-American detective and spy (d. 1884)

1819 Albert Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)

1819 William Rosecrans American general politician and diplomat United States Ambassador to Mexico (d. 1898)

1819 Thomas A. Hendricks American lawyer and politician 21st Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)

1819 Cyprien Tanguay Canadian priest and historian (d. 1902)

1819 Marthinus Wessel Pretorius South African general and politician 1st President of the South African Republic (d. 1901)

1819 Léon Foucault French physicist and academic (d. 1868)

1819 Frederick Ellsworth Sickels American inventor (d. 1895)

1819 Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (d. 1864)

1819 Wilhelm Wattenbach German historian and academic (d. 1897)

1819 Hippolyte Fizeau French physicist and academic (d. 1896)

1819 Narcís Monturiol Spanish engineer and publisher (d. 1885)

1819 Ann Eliza Smith American author and patriot (d. 1905)

1819 Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger German theologian and author (d. 1883)

1819 Austin F. Pike American lawyer and politician (d. 1886)

1819 Báb Iranian religious leader founded Bábism (d. 1850)

1819 Christian August Friedrich Garcke German botanist (d. 1904)

1819 Franz Abt German composer and conductor (d. 1870)

1819 Pierre Ossian Bonnet French mathematician and academic (d. 1892)

1819 Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate Dutch pastor and poet (d. 1889)

1819 E. D. E. N. Southworth American author and educator (d. 1899)

1819 Theodor Fontane German author and poet (d. 1898)

1819 John W. Geary American lawyer and politician 16th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1873)

1819 William Wetmore Story American sculptor architect poet and editor

1819 Francis V Duke of Modena (d. 1875)

1819 Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey American educator author editor and publisher (d. 1901)

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Born - Feb 14,1819

Died - Feb 17,1890

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Clara Schumann

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Born - Sep 13,1819

Died - May 20,1896

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Elias Howe

Profession - Inventor

Born - Jul 09,1819

Died - Oct 03,1867

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Emperor Norton

Profession - Emperor

Born - Feb 04,1819

Died - Jan 08,1880

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George Eliot

Profession - Writer

Born - Nov 22,1819

Died - Dec 22,1880

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George Stokes

Profession - Mathematician

Born - Aug 13,1819

Died - Feb 01,1903

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Herman Melville

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Born - Aug 01,1819

Died - Sep 28,1891

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Queen Victoria

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Born - May 24,1819

Died - Jan 22,1901

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Walt Whitman

Profession - Poet

Born - May 31,1819

Died - Mar 26,1892

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