Famous People Born in 1804

Famous Birthdays

George Childress

Jan 8 George Childress, Lawyer, statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1841)

John Deere

Feb 7 John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (founded Deere & Company), born in Rutland, Vermont (d. 1886)

Feb 8 Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer, born in Truro, Cornwall (d. 1834)
Feb 12 Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (d. 1865)
Feb 16 Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (d. 1885)

Feb 17 Samuel Read Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1883)
Feb 19 Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician (d. 1878)
Feb 19 David Wark, Canadian politician (d. 1905)
Mar 8 Alvan Clark, American astronomer and maker of the Dearborn Observatory telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time, born in Ashfield, Massachusetts (d. 1887)
Mar 14 Johann Strauss the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March), born in Leopoldstadt, Austria (d. 1849)
Mar 17 James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
Mar 20 Neal Dow, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Portland, Maine (d. 1897)
Mar 30 Salomon Sulzer, composer
Apr 4 Joseph Fischhof, Czech-Austrian pianist and composer, born in Bučovice, Moravia (d. 1857)
Apr 23 Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium), born in Amsterdam (d. 1869)
Apr 24 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, American Navy Officer (d. 1902)
Apr 26 Charles Goodyear, American politician (D-NY), born in Cobleskill, New York (d. 1876)
May 1 Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov, Russian poet, born in Moscow (d. 1860) [NS 13/05]
May 5 Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1886)
May 12 Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish government in Canada (or 1904)
May 16 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)
May 17 Ottho G Heldring, Dutch vicar/reformer (Heldring Institutions)
May 22 John William (Turk) Livingston, Commander (Union Navy), (d. 1885)
May 31 Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer
Jun 1 Mikhail Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer ("Jota Aragonesa", "Ruslan and Ludmilla") [OS=May 20]
Jun 3 Richard Cobden, Sussex, founder (Anti-Corn-Law League)
Jun 6 Petter Conrad Boman, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1861)
Jun 8 Jan Baptist van Son, Dutch politician (RC), born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (d. 1875)
Jun 10 Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
Jun 24 Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botanist

Jun 24 Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
Jul 1 George Sand [Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant], French (female) novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro), born in Paris, France (d. 1876)
Jul 4 Désiré de Haerne, Belgian Catholic priest and Congressional leader, born in Ypres, Belgium (d. 1890)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jul 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (House of 7 Gables, The Scarlet Letter), born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1864)

Jul 10 Emma Smith, Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Harmony Township, Pennsylvania (d. 1879)
Jul 14 Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general
Jul 20 Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosauria), born in Lancaster, England (d. 1892)
Jul 22 Victor Schoelcher, French writer (abolitionism), born in Paris (d. 1893)
Jul 25 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education, born in Turin, Italy (d. 1880)
Jul 28 Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man is what he eats)
Aug 6 Justinus van der Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice (1856-58)
Aug 30 Aleksandr Polezhayev, Russian poet (Sasjka), born in Penza Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1638) [OS]
Sep 8 Eduard Friedrich Mörike, German poet, born in Ludwigsburg, Germany (d. 1875)
Sep 11 Aleksandr Polezhayev, Russian poet (Sasjka), born in Penza Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1638) [NS]
Sep 14 John Gould, British ornithologist and bird artist, born in Lyme Regis, Dorset (d. 1881)
Sep 14 Louis Désiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate, born in Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, France (d. 1882)
Sep 23 David Van de Kellen, coin engraver
Oct 3 Townsend Harris, American diplomat (1st Western consul to reside in Japan), born in Washington County, New York (d. 1878)
Oct 3 Allan Kardec, French author and founder of Spiritism, born in Lyon, France (d. 1869)
Oct 4 Nicholas "Felix" Wanostrocht, English cricketer, born in Camberwell, London, England (d. 1876)
Oct 5 Robert Parker Parrott, American inventor (developed the rifled cannon known as the Parrott gun), born in Lee, New Hampshire (d. 1877)
Oct 10 Albin Masek, Czech composer, born in Prague (d. 1878)
Oct 18 Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thailand (1851-68)
Oct 24 Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist, born in Wittenberg, Germany (d. 1891)
Oct 26 Lorenzo Thomas, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New Castle, Delaware (d. 1875)
Oct 28 Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve)
Nov 13 Theophilus Hunter Holmes, Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), born in Sampson County, North Carolina (d. 1880)
Nov 18 Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)

Franklin Pierce

Nov 23 Franklin Pierce, 14th US President (Democrat: 1853-57), born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire (d. 1869)

Nov 27 Julius Benedict, opera composer (Protoghesi), born in Stuttgart, Germany
Dec 10 Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician, born in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1851)
Dec 13 Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (3rd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1873)
Dec 16 Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889)

Benjamin Disraeli

Dec 21 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1868, 1874-80) and writer, born in London (d. 1881)

Dec 23 Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer (Informal Talk)

On This Day