Alexander Cartwright
Profession - Inventor
Born - Apr 17,1820
Died - Jul 12,1892
1820 Anne Brontë English author and poet (d. 1849)
1820 Joseph Wolf German ornithologist and illustrator (d. 1899)
1820 Egide Walschaerts Belgian mechanical engineer (d. 1901)
1820 William B. Washburn American politician 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
1820 Henri Vieuxtemps Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1881)
1820 Multatuli Dutch writer (d. 1887)
1820 Francesco Bentivegna Italian rebel leader (d. 1856)
1820 Samuel Blatchford American lawyer and jurist (d. 1893)
1820 Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878)
1820 Enrico Tamberlik Italian tenor (d. 1889)
1820 Jean Ingelow English poet and author (d. 1897)
1820 John Plankinton American businessman industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1891)
1820 Edward Augustus Inglefield English admiral and explorer (d. 1894)
1820 Anna Sewell English author (d. 1878)
1820 James Whyte Scottish-Australian politician 6th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1882)
1820 Nadar French photographer journalist and author (d. 1910)
1820 Julia Gardiner Tyler American wife of John Tyler 11th First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1820 John Whiteaker American soldier judge and politician 1st Governor of Oregon (d. 1902)
1820 James Martin Irish-Australian politician 6th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1886)
1820 Worthington Whittredge American painter (d. 1910)
1820 James Buchanan Eads American engineer designed the Eads Bridge (d. 1887)
1820 Lorenzo Sawyer American lawyer and judge (d. 1891)
1820 Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau Canadian lawyer and politician 1st Premier of Quebec (d. 1890)
1820 John Bartlett American author and publisher (d. 1905)
1820 Athanase Josué Coquerel Dutch-French preacher and theologian (d. 1875)
1820 James Hutchison Stirling Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909).
1820 George Law Curry American publisher and politician 5th Governor of the Oregon Territory (d. 1878)
1820 Juan N. Méndez Mexican general and interim president 1876-1877 (d. 1894)
1820 William John Macquorn Rankine Scottish physicist mathematician and engineer (d. 1872)
1820 Oliver Mowat Canadian politician 3rd Premier of Ontario 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d. 1903)
1820 John Tyndall Irish-English physicist and mountaineer (d. 1893)
1820 George Grove English musicologist and historian (d. 1900)
1820 Andrew Rainsford Wetmore Canadian lawyer and politician 1st Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1892)
1820 Lucretia Peabody Hale American journalist and author (d. 1900)
1820 George Hearst American businessman and politician (d. 1891)
1820 Émile Augier French playwright (d. 1889)
1820 Earl Van Dorn Confederate general (d. 1863)
1820 John F. Reynolds American general (d. 1863)
1820 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Indian philosopher painter and academic (d. 1891)
1820 David Wilber American lawyer and politician (d. 1890)
1820 James Caulfeild 3rd Earl of Charlemont Irish politician Lord Lieutenant of Armagh (d. 1892)
1820 Jenny Lind Swedish soprano and actress (d. 1887)
1820 John William Dawson Canadian geologist and academic (d. 1899)
1820 Katherine Plunket Irish supercentenarian (d. 1932)
1820 Isaac Todhunter English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
1820 Rachel Brooks Gleason fourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (d. 1905)
1820 Afanasy Fet Russian poet and author (d. 1892)
1820 Mary Livermore American journalist and activist (d. 1905)
1820 William H. Osborn American businessman (d. 1894)
1820 George Hendric Houghton American clergyman and theologian (d. 1897)
1820 Thomas C. Durant American railroad tycoon (d. 1885)
1820 Edmond Becquerel French physicist and academic (d. 1891)
1820 Fanny Crosby American poet and composer (d. 1915)
