Famous People Born in 1822

Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890)

Jan 6 German archaeologist who rediscovered Troy, born in Neubukow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Confederation

Jan 7 Theodor Aufrecht, German linguist, Indologist and translator (Rigveda's Hymns), born in Leschnitz, Prussian Silesia (d. 1907)
Jan 8 Alfredo Carlo Piatti, Italian composer, born in Bergamo, Italy (d. 1901)
Jan 9 John Porter Hatch, volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), (d. 1901)
Jan 12 Étienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900)
Jan 27 Thomas Leiper Kane, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1883)

Alexander Mackenzie (1822-1892)

Jan 28 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (Liberal: 1873-78), born in Logierait, Scotland

Jan 30 Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1899)
Jan 30 John Basil Turchin [Ivan Vasyliovych Turchin], Russian-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire (d. 1901)
Feb 7 Joaquin Gaztambide, Spanish composer (Una vieja), born in Tudela, Spain (d. 1870)
Feb 8 Maxime Du Camp, French writer, traveler and early photographer (Les Buveurs de Cendres), born in Paris, France (d. 1894)
Feb 9 Charles T. Stork, Dutch industrialist (cotton machine factory), (d. 1895)
Feb 13 Lev Mej, Russian dramatist and poet (The Tsar's Bride), born in Moscow (d. 1862)
Feb 15 Theodor Uhlig, German composer and violinist, born in Wurzen, Saxony (d. 1853)
Feb 16 Francis Galton, British anthropologist and geneticist (eugenics), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1911)
Feb 16 James Patton Anderson, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1872)
Feb 22 Adolf Kussmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease), born in Graben (d. 1902)
Feb 27 Eugene Gautier, French violinist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Vaugirard, France (d. 1878)
Feb 28 Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
Mar 1 Albin Francisco Schoepf, Polish-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Podgórze, Kraków, Poland (d. 1886)
Mar 1 Charles Champion Gilbert, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1903)
Mar 4 Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
Mar 7 Victor Masse, French composer, born in Lorient, France (d. 1884)

Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822-1882)

Mar 8 Polish engineer, businessman and inventor who built the 1st modern oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp, born in Zaduszniki, Mielec, Austrian Empire

Mar 10 Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter and lithographer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1897)
Mar 11 Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
Mar 13 Moritz von Strachwitz, German poet, born in Peterwitz, Silesia (d. 1847)
Mar 14 Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (1843-89), born in Naples, Two Sicilies (d. 1889)
Mar 16 John Pope, American Major General (Union Army), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1892)
Mar 16 Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French animalière painter (The Horse Fair; Buffalo Bill), and sculptor, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1899)
Mar 22 Ahmed Cevdet Paşa, Turkish statesman and historian (Minister of Justice), born in Lovča, Ottoman Empire (d. 1895)
Mar 22 Isaac Dignus Fransen van de Putte, Dutch politician (Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1866), born in Goes, Netherlands (d. 1902)
Mar 22 Seth Williams, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Augusta, Maine (d. 1866)
Mar 29 Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter (landscape paintings), born in Namen, Belgium (d. 1895)
Mar 31 Rafael Hernando, Spanish composer of zarzuelas, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1888)
Apr 3 Edward Everett Hale, American clergyman and author (Man without a Country), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1909)
Apr 5 James Nagle, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1866)
Apr 7 Gershom Mott, American Major General (Union Army), born in Lamberton, New Jersey (d. 1884)
Apr 13 Leroy Augustus Stafford, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Cheneyville Rapides Parish, Louisiana (d. 1864)
Apr 13 William Stephen Walker, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1899)
Apr 15 Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, American Major General (Union Army), born in Eastport, Maine (d. 1905)
Apr 21 Hannibal Goodwin, Episcopal priest who patented a method for making film used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, born in Taughannock, New York (d. 1900)
Apr 24 Erastus Barnard Tyler, American businessman, merchant, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in West Bloomfield, New York (d. 1891)

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903)

Apr 26 American writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park), born in Hartford, Connecticut

Apr 26 Jan Albert van Eijken, Dutch composer and organist, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands (d. 1868)

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)

Apr 27 18th US President (1869-77) and Union general, born in Point Pleasant, Ohio

May 4 Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1915)
May 10 August von Pettenkofen, Austrian outdoor painter, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1889)
May 13 Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
May 16 Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor
May 20 Emile Erckmann [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo)
May 20 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901)
May 21 Dabney Herndon Maury, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia (d. 1900)
May 21 Mosby Monroe Parsons, United States officer in the Mexican–American War and brigadier general of the Confederate States Army, born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1865)
May 26 Edmond de Goncourt, French writer, wrote with his brother Jules de Goncourt, born in Nancy (d. 1896)
May 27 Henry Wylde, English composer and conductor, born in Bushey, Hertfordshire (d. 1890)
May 27 Joachim Raff, German-Swiss composer, born in Lachen, Switzerland (d. 1882)
Jun 10 John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (Astor Estate holdings), born in New York (d. 1890)
Jun 11 Samuel Davis Sturgis, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1889)
Jun 13 Carl Schmidt, Baltic German chemist, born in Mitau, Russian Empire (d. 1884)
Jun 18 Henry David Leslie, British choral and orchestral conductor, and composer, born in London, England (d. 1896)
Jun 23 Young Marshall Moody, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1866)
Jun 24 Birkett D. Fry, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Kanawha County, Virginia (d. 1891)
Jul 2 Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails/trains), born in Hadzor House, Worcestershire, England (d. 1899)
Jul 16 Luigi Arditi, Italian violinist and composer, born in Crescentino, Italy (d. 1903)
Jul 19 Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and granddaughter of George III, born in Palace of Montbrillant, Hanover (d. 1916)

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)

Jul 20 Austrian monk and geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), born in Heinzendorf, Austria

Jul 22 Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1897)
Jul 22 John George Walker, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Jefferson City, Missouri (d. 1893)
Jul 23 Darius Nash Couch, American businessman, naturalist, and Major General (Union Army), born in (d. 1897)
Jul 25 Schuyler Hamilton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Putnam County, New York (d. 1903)
Aug 5 Johann Georg Herzog, German composer and organist, born in Hummendorf (d. 1909)
Aug 15 Virginia Clemm Poe, American wife of writer Edgar Allan Poe, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1847) [1]
Aug 15 Wilhelm Rust, German musicologist and composer, born in Dessau, Germany (d. 1892)
Aug 22 George Stoneman, US Union general-major and Governor of California (1883-87), born in Busti, NY (d. 1894)
Aug 31 Fitz John Porter, American Major General (Union Army), born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (d. 1901)
Sep 9 Napoléon JKP Bonaparte, French prince and member of National Convention, born in Trieste, Austrian Empire (d. 1891)

Charles Crocker (1822-1888)

Sep 16 American business tycoon and railroad executive (Central Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad), born in Troy, New York

Sep 19 Joseph Rodman West, American senator and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1898)
Sep 22 Eppa Hunton, American representative and Brigadier-General who fought in most ANV campaigns, born in Warrenton, Virginia (d. 1908)
Sep 25 Adolph von Steinwehr, German-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Blankenburg, Brunswick, Germany (d. 1877)
Oct 2 Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1877-79), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1895)

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893)

Oct 4 19th US President (Republican: 1877-81), born in Delaware, Ohio

Oct 5 Hans Hampel, Czech composer, born in Prague (d. 1884)
Oct 9 George Sykes, American Major General (Union Army), born in Dover, Delaware (d. 1880)
Oct 12 Joseph Haydn Potter, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Concord, New Hampshire (d. 1892)
Oct 13 Carl Martin Reinthaler, German composer, born in Erfurt, Germany (d. 1896)
Oct 15 Alfred Meissner, Austrian poet (Ziska), born in Teplice, Czech Republic (d. 1885)
Oct 20 Mansfield Lovell, American Major General in Confederate Army (Commander when New Orleans fell), born in the Dictrict of Columbia (d. 1884)
Oct 21 Levinus Keuchenius, Dutch minister of Colonies (1888-90)
Oct 29 Joost Gerard Kist, Dutch lawyer and president of High Council (1885-97), born in Zoelen, Netherlands (d. 1897)
Oct 29 Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
Nov 2 James Byron Gordon, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina (d. 1864)

Gordon Granger (1822-1876)

Nov 6 American Major General during the Civil War (Union Army), born in Wayne County, New York

Nov 7 Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer, born in Turnhout, Belgium (d. 1890)
Nov 14 William Harrow, American lawyer and a controversial Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Winchester, Kentucky (d. 1872)
Nov 16 Charles Smith Hamilton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Westernville, New York (d. 1891)
Dec 3 Charles Adam Heckman, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Easton, Pennsylvania (d. 1896)
Dec 5 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1907)
Dec 6 John Eberhard Faber, German-American pencil manufacturer and built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US, born in Stein Bavaria, Germany (d. 1879)
Dec 8 Luther Prentice Bradley, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1910)
Dec 10 César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (Symphonic Variations), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1890)
Dec 10 Thomas Casimer Devin, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in NYC, New York (d. 1878)
Dec 15 Edward Stephen, Welsh musician and composer, born in Maentwrog, Merionethshire (d. 1885)
Dec 16 Charles Edward Horsley, British organist, conductor and composer, born in London (d. 1876)
Dec 23 Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (built the Brandtaucher an incendiary submarine), born in Dillingen, Bavaria (d. 1875)
Dec 24 Charles Hermite, French mathematician (proof that e is transcendental), born in Dieuze, France (d. 1901)