Famous People Born in 1812

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Feb 7 English writer ("Oliver Twist"; "A Tale of Two Cities"; "A Christmas Carol"), born in Portsmouth, Hampshire

Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883)

Feb 11 American Vice President of the Confederate States (1861-65), born in Crawfordville, Georgia

Feb 11 Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), (d. 1883)
Feb 14 Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist, born in Sparta, New York (d. 1846)

Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902)

Feb 15 American jeweler and founder of Tiffany & Co, born in Killingly, Connecticut

Henry Wilson (1812-1875)

Feb 16 American politician, 18th Vice President (Republican: 1873-75) and Senator (Massachusetts 1855-73), born in Farmington, New Hampshire

Feb 19 Lauro Rossi, Italian composer (I falsi monetari), born in Macerata (d. 1885)
Feb 29 Hermann Hirschboch, German composer and music critic, born in Berlin, Prussia (d. 1888)
Feb 29 Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1880, also on 29 February)
Mar 1 Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
Mar 6 Aaron Lufkin Dennison 'Father of American watchmaking', American watch manufacturer and businessman (Tremont Watch Company), born in Freeport, Maine (d. 1895)
Mar 9 Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1886)
Mar 10 Victor Tesch, Belgian industrialist and politician, born in Messancy, Belgium (d. 1892)
Mar 11 James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), (d. 1887)
Mar 11 William Vincent Wallace, Irish-American violinist (known as the 'Australian Paganini'), and composer (Maritana), born in Waterford, Ireland (d. 1865)
Mar 16 Henry Dwight Terry, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1869)
Mar 20 George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
Mar 22 Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
Apr 3 Louisa Maria, Queen of Belgium (1832-50), Wife of Leopold I), born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (d. 1850)
Apr 6 Aaron Bernstein, German Jewish writer (Young Germany), born in Danzig (d. 1884)
Apr 6 Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
Apr 6 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, Russian composer and teacher, born in Borisk-ovka, Russia (d. 1885)
Apr 9 Randolph Barnes Marcy, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Greenwich, Massachusetts (d. 1887)
Apr 15 Théodore Rousseau, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1867)
Apr 22 Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1894)
Apr 23 Louis-Antoine Jullien, French conductor, born in Sisteron, France (d. 1860)
Apr 26 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant, born in Essen, Germany (d. 1887)
Apr 27 Friedrich von Flotow, German composer, born in Teutendorf, Germany (d. 1883)
Apr 27 William W. Snow, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1851-53), born in Heath, Massachusetts (d. 1886)
Apr 28 Daniel Henry Rucker, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Belleville, New Jersey (d. 1910)
Apr 30 Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe (who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell) (d. 1833)
May 6 Martin Delany, African-American abolitionist and physician (1st African American major in US Army), born in Charles Town, Virginia (d. 1885)

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

May 7 English poet (Pied Piper), born in London, England

May 12 Edward Lear, English landscape painter and poet (Complete Nonsense Book), born in London, England (d. 1888)
May 12 Louis Ludwig Blenker, German-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Worms, Germany (d. 1863)
May 14 Emilie Mayer, German composer of Romantic music, born in Friedland, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Swedish Pomerania (now Germany) (d. 1883)
May 17 Joseph Warren Revere, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1880)
May 19 Felix Zollicoffer, American journalist and Confederate Brigadier General who was killed in the Battle of Mill Springs, born in Maury County, Tennessee (d. 1862)
May 20 Gustav Mankell, Moravian-Swedish organist and composer, born in Christiansfeld, Denmark (d. 1880)
May 23 Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros, French poet and writer (Les Vierges Folles), born in Paris (d. 1876)
May 30 John Alexander McClernand, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky (d. 1900)
Jun 3 Pieter Mijer, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1866-72), born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (d. 1881)
Jun 7 Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Clay County, Kentucky (d. 1902)
Jun 8 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer, born in Brno (d. 1865)
Jun 8 Spyridon Xyndas, Greek composer, born in Corfu, Greece (d. 1896)
Jun 9 Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's solution), born in Lübeck (d. 1885)
Jun 9 Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune), born in Radis, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1910)
Jun 12 Edmond Hébert, French geologist, born in Villefargau, Yonne, France (d. 1890)
Jun 14 Fernando Wood, American politician, New York City mayor (1855-58 and 1860-62), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1881)
Jun 18 Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist (Oblomov), born in Simbirsk, Russia (d. 1891)
Jun 21 Félix Danjou, French church organist, arranger, music teacher, organ builder, and political journalist, born in Paris, France (d. 1866)
Jun 27 John Pike Hullah, English composer, born in Worcester (d. 1884)
Jun 28 Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1905)
Jul 1 Willem Jan d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dutch genealogist and heraldicus, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1892)
Jul 15 Benno Adam, German animal painter, born in Munich (d. 1892)
Jul 15 James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
Jul 27 Thomas Lanier Clingman, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Huntsville, North Carolina (d. 1897)
Aug 8 John Rodgers II, Commander (Union Navy), (d. 1882)
Aug 25 Percival Drayton, American captain (Union Navy), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1865)
Sep 12 Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist, born in NYC, New York (d. 1886)
Sep 16 Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist and plant hunter (established East India tea company in India), born in Kelloe, Scotland (d. 1880)
Sep 18 Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (41st Governor of Georgia), born in Burke County, Georgia (d. 1880)
Sep 29 Adolph Göpel, German mathematician (hyperelliptic functions), born in Rostock (d. 1847)
Oct 20 Austin Flint, American physician and heart research pioneer (Austin heart murmur), born in Petersham, Massachusetts (d. 1886)
Nov 4 Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian poet (Lettere a Maria), born in Verona, Austrian Empire (d. 1878)
Nov 9 Paul Abadie, French master builder (renovated Notre Dame), born in Paris (d. 1884)
Nov 14 Maria Christina of Savoy, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1836)
Nov 18 Jesse J. Finley, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Lebanon, Tennessee (d. 1904)
Nov 19 Karl Schwarz, German theologian, born in Wiek, Rügen, Germany (d. 1885)
Nov 28 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, Norwegian organist, composer, musical folklorist, born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 1887)
Dec 4 Elias Smith Dennis, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1894)
Dec 6 Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman, born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire (d. 1884)
Dec 14 Charles Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, born in Brompton, London (d. 1862)
Dec 15 Isidor Dannström, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1897)
Dec 16 William Grose, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1900)
Dec 18 Wiktor Kazynski, Polish composer, born in Vilnius (d. 1867)
Dec 20 Achille Peri, Italian composer and conductor, born in Reggio Emilia, Italy (d. 1880)
Dec 22 Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress (Romeo & Juliet), born in Copenhagen Denmark (d. 1890)
Dec 23 Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (Self-Help, Character, Duty), born in Berwickshire, Scotland (d. 1904)
Dec 23 William Hauser, American composer and minister, born in Bethania, North Carolina (d. 1880)
Dec 24 Henry Russell, English pianist and composer, born in Sheerness, United Kingdom (d. 1900)
Dec 24 Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist, born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1894)
Dec 26 Wilhelm Volkmar, German composer, born in Bad Hersfeld, Germany (d. 1887)
Dec 28 Julius Reitz, German cellist, composer, teacher, and music editor, born in Berlin (d. 1877)

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