Famous People Born in 1826

Mar 9 Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist and composer, born in Kassel, Germany (d. 1895)
Mar 12 Robert Lowry, American hymn composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1899)
Mar 14 William Fiske Sherwin, American composer, born in Buckland, Massachusetts (d. 1888)
Mar 17 Oskar Peschel, German geographer (classified men into seven races in his book "The Races of Man: and their geographical distribution"), born in Dresden (d. 1875)
Mar 20 Carel Vosmaer, Dutch poet and critic (d. 1888)
Mar 23 [Aloysius] Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist, and ballet composer (La Bayadère), born in Vienna, Austrian Empire (d. 1917)
Mar 29 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German socialist (Social Democratic Party), born in Giessen, Germany (d. 1900)
Apr 2 Philip Dale Roddey, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Moulton, Alabama (d. 1897)
Apr 4 Zénobe Gramme, Belgian electrical engineer (Gramme dynamo), born in Jehay-Bodegnée, Belgium (d. 1901)
Apr 6 Gustave Moreau, French painter
Apr 7 Johann Hermann Berens, composer
Apr 8 Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (Costa Rica's first woman in the military), born in Cartago, Costa Rica (d. 1890)
Apr 9 Thomas Hewson Neill, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1885)
Apr 20 Dinah Craik, English writer (John Halifax, Gentleman), born in Stoke-on-Trent (d. 1887)
Apr 26 Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General, born in Louisville, Georgia (d. 1872)
Apr 26 George Hull Ward, American general and Union officer in the American Civil War, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1863)
Apr 28 Alexander Stadtfeld, German composer, born in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Germany (d. 1853)
May 3 Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-72), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1872)
May 4 Frederick Edwin Church, American romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1900)
May 5 Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of France (1853-71), born in Granada, Kingdom of Spain (d. 1920)

May 7 Varina Howell Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States (1862-65), born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 1906)
May 21 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro (1851-60), born in Njeguši, Montenegro (d. 1860)
May 22 George Parr, English cricket batsman (captain first England touring team [North America 1859], second tour [Australia & NZ 1864]), born in Radcliffe on Trent, England (d. 1891)
May 29 Ebenezer Butterick, American inventor (tissue paper dress pattern), born in Sterling, Massachusetts (d. 1903)
Jun 1 Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
Jun 1 Hermann Zopff, composer
Jun 5 Ivar Hallström, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1901)
Jun 6 Sarah Parker Remond, African-American abolitionist, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1894)
Jun 16 Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
Jun 24 George Goyder, English surveyor-general of South Australia, born in Liverpool, England (d. 1898)
Jul 4 Green Clay Smith, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Richmond, Kentucky (d. 1895)

Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

Jul 4 American composer (Oh! Susanna; Swanee River; Beautiful Dreamer), born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania

Jul 8 Benjamin Henry Grierson, American Major General (Union Army), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1911)
Jul 8 Robert Kingston Scott, American governor of South Carolina (1868-1872) and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (d. 1900)
Jul 10 Theodore Lajarte, French writer on music and composer, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1890)
Jul 11 Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and folklorist, born in Boguchar, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1871)
Jul 13 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro)
Jul 21 James Gillpatrick Blunt, American physician, abolitionist, and Major General (Union Army), born in Trenton, Maine (d. 1881)

Francisco Solano López (1826-1870)

Jul 24 President and Dictator of Paraguay (1862-70), born in Asunción, Paraguay

Aug 2 William Denison Whipple, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Madison County, New York (d. 1902)
Aug 6 Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (Robbery Under Arms), born in London (d. 1915)
Aug 7 August Ahlqvist, Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi), born in Kuopio, Finland (d. 1889)
Aug 13 William Thomas Best, English organist and composer, born in Carlisle, Cumberland, England (d. 1897)
Aug 21 Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist, born in Würzburg, Germany (d. 1903)
Aug 26 Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, German princess and writer, born at Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg (d. 1875)
Aug 27 Frank Stillman Nickerson, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Swanville, Maine (d. 1917)
Aug 27 Hermann Kipper, German music teacher and composer, born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 1910)
Aug 28 Walter Cecil Macfarren, British pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer, born in London, England (d. 1905)
Sep 4 Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer, born in Viby, Scania, Sweden (d. 1905)
Sep 5 John Wisden, English cricket all-rounder (launched Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1864; Sussex CCC, Kent CCC, Middlesex CCC), born in Brighton, England (d. 1884)
Sep 6 Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, Russian composer, born in Chufarovo, Russia (d. 1894)
Sep 8 Disma Fumagalli, Italian composer, born in Inzago, Milan, Italy (d. 1893)
Sep 9 Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg (d. 1907)
Sep 9 Thomas John Lucas, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Dearborn County, Indiana (d. 1908)
Sep 17 Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), born in Breselenz, Hanover (d. 1866)
Oct 3 Hormuzd Rassam, Assyrian archaeologist (discovered Epic of Gilgamesh, world's oldest piece of literature), born in Mosul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1910)
Oct 7 William Brimage Bate, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) and 23rd Governor of Tennessee (1882-86)
Oct 8 Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Warren County, North Carolina (d. 1904)
Oct 13 Charles Frederick Worth, British fashion designer (House of Worth - Paris), born in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England (d. 1895)
Oct 13 Lafayette Curry Baker, American investigator spy and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Stafford, New York (d. 1868)
Oct 16 Piotr Studzinski, Polish conductor and composer, born in the Free City of Cracow (d. 1869)
Oct 22 Guglielmo Quarenghi, Italian composer and cellist, born in Casalmaggiore, Italy (d. 1882)
Oct 31 Hugh Boyle Ewing, American diplomat, author, attorney, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1905)
Nov 2 Robert Hopkins Hatton, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Steubenville, Ohio (d. 1862)
Nov 2 William Haines Lytle, US politician, poet and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1863)
Nov 3 Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Kingsville, Ohio (d. 1867)
Nov 17 John McArthur, Scottish-American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Erskine, Scotland (d. 1906)
Nov 24 Carlo Collodi [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (The Adventures of Pinocchio), born in Florence, Italy (d. 1890)
Nov 30 George Washington Deitzler, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania (d. 1884)
Dec 1 William Mahone, American railway engineer and Major General (Confederate Army), born near Courtland, Virginia (d. 1895)
Dec 3 Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer and musicologist, born in Oudenaarde, Belgium (d. 1895)

George McClellan (1826-1885)

Dec 3 American Major General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dec 5 John Benjamin Sanborn, American lawyer, politician, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Epsom, New Hampshire (d. 1904)
Dec 8 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist, born in Menzendorf, Germany (d. 1904)
Dec 18 Alexandre Chatrian [wrote as Erckmann-Chatrian jointly with Émile Erckmann], French writer (L'ami Fritz), born in Abreschviller, France (d. 1890)
Dec 18 Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), (d. 1906)
Dec 21 Ernst Pauer, Austrian composer and pianist, born in Vienna (d. 1905)
Dec 22 James Scott Negley, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1901)
Dec 24 Ignacy Krzyzanowski, Polish composer, born in Opatów, Poland (d. 1905)
Dec 26 Franz Coenen, Dutch violinist and composer, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1904)
Dec 26 Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch publisher (Van Dale) and founder (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1894)
Dec 28 Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar and writer (Country of Rubens) (d. 1886)
Dec 31 Henry Hiles, English composer, born in Shrewsbury (d. 1904)

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