Famous People Born in 1823

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)

Jan 8 British naturalist, explorer and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution through natural selection, born in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales

Jan 21 Alexandre Goria, French pianist and composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1860)
Jan 27 Édouard Lalo, French composer (Symphonie Espagnole; Le roi d'Ys), born in Lille, France (d. 1892)
Jan 29 Franklin Gardner, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in New York City (d. 1873)
Feb 3 Spencer Fullerton Baird, American naturalist and ornithologist (Wood's Hole Station), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1888)
Feb 7 Richard Genee, Austrian playwright, librettist, and composer, born in Danzig (d. 1895)
Feb 15 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese modernizing politician and general (governor-general of Zhili province), born in Hefei, Anhui province, China (d. 1901)
Feb 16 John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1895)
Feb 27 Ferdinand Van Derveer, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Middletown, Ohio (d. 1892)
Feb 27 William Buel Franklin, American Major General (Union Army), born in York, Pennsylvania (d. 1903)
Feb 28 Ernest Renan, French philosopher, historian and scholar of religion, born in Tréguier, France (d. 1892)
Mar 3 Gyula Andrássy Sr, Prime Minister of Hungary (1867-71), born in Kassa, Austrian Empire (d. 1890)
Mar 12 William Flank Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1901)
Mar 14 Roswell S. Ripley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Worthington, Ohio (d. 1887)
Mar 14 Théodore de Banville, French writer, born in Moulins, France (d. 1891)
Mar 16 William Henry Monk, English composer and organist (Eventide), born in London, England (d. 1889)
Mar 19 Adelgunde of Bavaria, German princess and wife of Duke of Modena, born in Würzburg, Bavaria (d. 1914)
Mar 19 Cornelis Ascanius van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Surinam (1873-82) (d. 1892)
Mar 20 John Echols, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1896)
Mar 20 Ned Buntline, American publisher (d. 1886)
Mar 23 Schuyler Colfax, American politician (17th US Vice President 1869-73), born in New York City (d. 1885)
Mar 25 William T. Thompson American Martin, Major General (Confederate Army), born in Glasgow, Kentucky (d. 1910)
Mar 27 Samuel Kosciusko Zook, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania (d. 1863)
Mar 30 Joseph Farmer Knipe, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania (d. 1901)
Mar 31 Ernest Doudart de Lagrée, French naval officer and entomologist (led the Mekong River expedition 1866-68), born in Saint-Vincent-de-Mercuze, France (d. 1868)
Apr 1 Simón Bolívar Buckner, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1914)

Boss Tweed (1823-1878)

Apr 3 American politician and corrupt New York fraudster, born in NYC, New York

Apr 4 Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German engineer and inventor (laid undersea cables), born in Gehrden, Hanover, Germany (d. 1883)
Apr 4 Robert Byington Mitchell, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Mansfield, Ohio (d. 1882)
Apr 6 Joseph Medill, Canadian newspaper editor, owner and politician (co-owned Chicago Tribune, Mayor of Chicago 1871-73), born in Saint John, New Brunswick (d. 1899)
Apr 10 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Jefferson County, Georgia (d. 1862)
Apr 12 Aleksandr Ostrovsky [Alexander Ostrovsky], Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers), born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1886)
Apr 16 Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (number theory), born in Berlin, Prussia (d. 1852)
Apr 16 Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart [Esther Pariseau], Canadian religious leader (US capitol), born in Saint-Elzéar, Quebec, Canada (d. 1902)
Apr 16 Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1907)
Apr 22 Alfred Gibbs, American Major General (Union Army), born in Long Island, New York (d. 1868)
Apr 23 Abdulmejid I, 31st Sultan of Ottoman Empire, born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1861)
Apr 30 George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll and Secretary of State for India (1868-74, 1880-85), born in Ardencaple Castle, Dunbartonshire (d. 1900)
May 5 James Allen Hardie, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in NYC, New York (d. 1876)
May 10 John Sherman, MC (Union), (d. 1900)
May 11 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1906)
May 17 Charlotte Sainton-Dolby, English contralto and composer, born in London (d. 1885)
May 22 Isabella Glyn Dallas, British Shakespearean actress, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1889)
May 22 Solomon Bundy, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st district), born in Oxford, New York (d. 1889)
May 27 John Gray Foster, American Major General (Union Army), born in Whitefield, New Hampshire (d. 1874)
May 29 John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (a practical folding wooden stepladder), born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (d. 1895)
Jun 2 Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
Jun 5 George Thorndike Angell, American lawyer and advocate for the humane treatment of animals (ASPCA), born in Southbridge, Massachusetts (d. 1909)
Jun 8 Robert Morris, 1st successful African American lawyer in the US and Abolitionist, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1882)
Jun 11 James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), born in Madison County, Virginia (d. 1895)
Jun 13 Gustave Paul Cluseret, French Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Suresnes, France (d. 1900)
Jun 17 John Henry Hobart Ward, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in NYC, New York (d. 1903)
Jun 20 Jesse Lee Reno, American Major General (Union Army), born in Wheeling, West Virginia (d. 1862)
Jun 21 Edward Elmer Potter, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in NYC, New York (d. 1889)
Jun 21 Jean Chacornac, French astronomer, born in Lyon, France (d. 1873)
Jun 25 James Dunwoody Bulloch, Confederacy's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War, born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1901)
Jun 26 Frederick Bowen Jewson, Scottish composer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1891)
Jun 30 Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Parsi entrepreneur and founder of the first textile mills in India, born in Bombay, British India (d. 1901)
Jun 30 Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer and dramatist (2 Tudors), born in 's-Graveland, North Holland (d. 1906)
Jul 16 James Isham Gilbert, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1884)
Jul 18 Leonard Fulton Ross, American lawyer, probate judge, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lewistown, Illinois (d. 1901)
Jul 19 George Henry Gordon, American lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1886)
Jul 23 Coventry Patmore, English poet and critic (The Angel in the House), born in Essex, England (d. 1896)
Aug 3 Francisco Barbieri, Spanish zarzuela opera composer (El Diablo en El Poder), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1894)
Aug 3 Thomas Francis Meagre, Irish nationalist and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Waterford, Ireland (d. 1867)
Aug 4 Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, American politician (Governor of Indiana), born in Salisbury, Indiana (d. 1877)
Aug 7 Faustina Hasse Hodges, English-American composer, born in Malmesbury, England (d. 1895)
Aug 8 Theodule Augustin Ribot, painter
Aug 9 Daniel M. Frost, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Duanesburg, New York (d. 1900)
Aug 10 Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist
Aug 10 Charles Thomas Campbell, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in St. Thomas Township, Pennsylvania (d. 1895)
Aug 10 Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d. 1886)
Aug 11 Charlotte Mary Yonge, England, writer (Heir of Redclyffe)
Aug 13 Goldwin Smith, English historian and journalist, born in Reading, Berkshire (d. 1910)
Aug 14 Karel Miry, Belgian composer (De Vlaamse Leeuw), born in Ghent (d. 1889)
Aug 15 Orris Sanford Ferry, American lawyer, politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bethel, Connecticut (d. 1875)
Aug 18 Willem J F Nuyens, Dutch physician, historian
Aug 25 John Newton, American engineer and Major General (Union Army), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1895)
Aug 26 Wilhelm Troszel, Polish operatic bass, composer and voice teacher, born in Warsaw (d. 1887)
Aug 31 Galusha Aaron Grow, American politician, born in Ashford, Connecticut (d. 1907)
Sep 10 Adolf von Doss, German composer, born in Pfarrkirchen, Germany (d. 1886)
Sep 16 Francis Parkman, American historian and author (Oregon Trail), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1893)
Sep 16 Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Serbia (1839-42,1860-68), born in Kragujevac, Serbia (d. 1868)
Sep 25 Thomas John Wood, American Major General (Union Army), born in Munfordville, Kentucky (d. 1906)
Sep 26 Ivan Aksakov, Russian journalist (Denj, Moskvitsh), born in Nadezhdino, Belebey Uyezd, Orenburg Governorate (d. 1889)
Sep 28 Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (Birth of Venus), born in Montpellier, France (d. 1889)

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)

Oct 9 American-Canadian publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher ('Provincial Freeman'), born in Wilmington, Delaware

Oct 13 Immanuel Faisst, German composer, born in Esslingen am Neckar, Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1894)
Oct 20 Thomas Hughes, English politician and author (Tom Brown's School Days), born in Uffington (d. 1896)
Oct 21 Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
Oct 26 Karl Weinhold, German sociologist (founder of Journal of the Association of Folklore), born in Dzierżoniów, Poland (d. 1901)
Nov 4 Karel Komzák I, Bohemian organist, conductor, military bandleader, and composer, born in Netěchovice, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1893) [1]
Nov 9 William Henry Forney, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Lincolnton, North Carolina (d. 1894)
Nov 14 Robert Fruin, Dutch historian (80 year war), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1899)
Nov 22 Nathan Kimball, American physician, politician, postmaster, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Fredericksburg, Indiana (d. 1898)
Nov 25 (Heinrich) "Henry" Wirz, Swiss-American Confederate army officer (Commander of Camp Sumter prisoner-of-war facility), born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1865)
Nov 25 Joseph Alexander Cooper, American civil servant and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Whitley County, Kentucky (d. 1910)
Nov 26 Thomas Tellefsen, Norwegian pianist and composer, born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 1874)
Dec 1 Ernest Reyer, French opera composer, born in Marseilles, France (d. 1909)
Dec 6 Max Müller, German-born British orientalist, born in Dessau, German Federation (d. 1900)
Dec 7 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker), born in Liegnitz, Province of Silesia, Prussia (d. 1891)
Dec 10 Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, German composer, born in Neukirchen, Germany (d. 1903)
Dec 10 Wilhelm Kuhe, German composer, born in Prague, Czech Republic (d. 1912)
Dec 15 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, German organist and composer, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1896)
Dec 21 Jean Henri Fabre, French naturalist and entomologist (insects & spiders), born in Saint-Léons, Aveyron, France (d. 1915)
Dec 23 Alexandru Flechtenmacher, Romanian composer, born in Iaşi, Romania (d. 1898)
Dec 25 Preston Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1863)