May 09
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Birthdays In History 1848

1848 John W. Goff Irish-American lawyer and politician (d. 1924)

1848 Katsura Tarō Japanese general and politician 6th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913)

1848 Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)

1848 Reinhold Sadler American merchant and politician 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906)

1848 Ioan Slavici Romanian journalist and author (d. 1925)

1848 Arturo Graf Italian poet of German ancestry (d. 1913).

1848 John Fitzwilliam Stairs Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1904)

1848 Henri Duparc French soldier and composer (d. 1933)

1848 Vasily Surikov Russian painter (d. 1916)

1848 Jean Aicard French poet author and playwright (d. 1921)

1848 Joris-Karl Huysmans French author and critic (d. 1907)

1848 Ignacio Carrera Pinto Chilean lieutenant (d. 1882)

1848 Benjamin Baillaud French astronomer and academic (d. 1934)

1848 Hugo de Vries Dutch botanist geneticist and academic (d. 1935)

1848 Octave Mirbeau French journalist novelist and playwright (d. 1917)

1848 Louisa Lawson Australian poet and publisher (d. 1920)

1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany American stained glass artist (d. 1933)

1848 E. H. Harriman American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1909)

1848 Andrew Inglis Clark Australian engineer lawyer and politician (d. 1907)

1848 Hubert Parry English composer and historian (d. 1918)

1848 Arthur Giry French historian and academic (d. 1899)

1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Irish-American sculptor and academic (d. 1907)

1848 Axel Heiberg Norwegian financier and diplomat (d. 1932)

1848 Nathanael Greene Herreshoff American architect and engineer (d. 1938)

1848 Arturo Prat Chilean lawyer and captain (d. 1879)

1848 Thure de Thulstrup American illustrator (d. 1930)

1848 Ulrich Wille Swiss army general (d. 1925)

1848 Randall Davidson Scottish archbishop (d. 1930)

1848 Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz Spanish Augustinian Recollect priest and saint (d. 1906)

1848 Kandukuri Veeresalingam Indian author and activist (d. 1919)

1848 Otto King of Bavaria (d. 1916)

1848 Ludvig Schytte Danish pianist composer and educator (d. 1909)

1848 Raja Ravi Varma Indian painter and academic (d. 1906)

1848 Adelsteen Normann Norwegian painter (d. 1919)

1848 Henry Edward Armstrong English chemist and academic (d. 1937)

1848 Viktor Vasnetsov Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1926)

1848 Fritz von Uhde German painter and educator (d. 1911)

1848 Otto Lilienthal German pilot and engineer (d. 1896)

1848 Johann Baptist Singenberger Swiss composer educator and publisher (d. 1924)

1848 Bernard Bosanquet English philosopher and theorist (d. 1923)

1848 Max Erdmannsdörfer German conductor and composer (d. 1905)

1848 Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala Indian bishop and saint (d. 1902)

1848 Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves Brazilian politician 5th President of Brazil (d. 1919)

1848 Robert I Duke of Parma (d. 1907)

1848 Vilfredo Pareto Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)

1848 Adolphus Frederick V Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)

1848 Loránd Eötvös Hungarian physicist and politician Minister of Education of Hungary (d. 1919)

1848 Friedrich Ernst Dorn German physicist (d.1916)

1848 Susie Taylor American writer and first black Army nurse (d. 1912)

1848 Alfred David Benjamin Australian-born businessman and philanthropist. (d. 1900)

1848 William Harnett Irish-American painter and educator (d. 1892)

1848 Margaret Lindsay Huggins Anglo-Irish astronomer and author (d. 1915)

1848 Vladimir Sukhomlinov Russian general (d. 1926)

1848 Gustave Caillebotte French painter and engineer (d. 1894)

1848 Melville Elijah Stone American publisher founded the Chicago Daily News (d. 1929)

1848 Andrew Onderdonk American surveyor and contractor (d. 1905)

1848 Auguste Forel Swiss myrmecologist neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (d. 1931)

1848 Lewis Howard Latimer American inventor (d. 1928)

1848 Jennie Lee American actress (d. 1925)

1848 Francis Grierson English-American pianist and composer (d. 1927)

1848 Henry Walters American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1931)

1848 Henry Lerolle French painter and art collector (d. 1929)

1848 Guido von List Austrian-German journalist and poet (d. 1919)

1848 Pierre De Geyter Belgian composer (d. 1932)

1848 Byron Edmund Walker Canadian banker and philanthropist (d. 1924)

1848 Carlo Emery Italian entomologist (d. 1925)

1848 Karl Emil Franzos Austrian novelist (d. 1904)

1848 Boston Custer American soldier (d. 1876)

1848 Caroline Still Anderson American physician educator and abolitionist (d. 1919)

1848 Jules Bastien-Lepage French painter (d. 1884)

1848 Gottlob Frege German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925)

1848 Surendranath Banerjee Indian academic and politician (d. 1925)

1848 Eduard Müller Swiss lawyer and politician 51st President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1919)

1848 Albert I Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)

1848 William Shiels Irish-Australian politician 16th Premier of Victoria (d. 1904)

1848 Johann Palisa Austrian astronomer (d. 1925)

1848 Tōgō Heihachirō Japanese admiral (d. 1934)

1848 Honoré Beaugrand Canadian journalist and politician 18th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1906)

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Born - Jul 25,1848

Died - Mar 19,1930

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Matthew Webb

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Born - Jan 19,1848

Died - Jul 24,1883

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Paul Gauguin

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Born - Jun 07,1848

Died - May 08,1903

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W. G. Grace

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Born - Jul 18,1848

Died - Oct 23,1915

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Born - Mar 19,1848

Died - Jan 13,1929

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