Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies

Event

Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar

Death

Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54

Death

Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer

Birth

Hanri Reber, composer

Birth

Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52

Death

Levinus Keuchenius, Dutch minister of Colonies (1888-90)

Birth

Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer

Birth

Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)

Event

Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer

Birth

Nat Turner, and 19 associates, hanged at 31

Death

Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite and Peace Prizes

Birth

Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank)

Birth

Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor (Peter the Great)

Birth

Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (Cuore)

Birth

Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)

Birth

George Ulyett, cricketer (great Yorkshire all-rounder 1873-93)

Birth

Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Neˆrlands blood), dies at 76

Death

Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer

Birth

Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orph‚e aux Enfers," premieres in Paris

Event

In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed

Event

Edward Dickinson Baker, US attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50

Death

John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate brig-general, dies

Death

Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison's Island)

Event

Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55

Death