Dobri Voynikov, composer

Birth

Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902

Birth

Jos‚ Hernandez, Argentina poet (Mart¡n Fierro)

Birth

HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso

Event

Louis Napoleon banished to America

Event

John S D Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)

Birth

Paul Kuczynski, composer

Birth

Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer

Birth

Waldemar Brígger, Norway, geologist/mineralogist (Metamict State)

Birth

Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God)

Birth

Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)

Birth

Kingston, GA burned during Sherman's March to Sea

Event

Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico

Event

Alexandre Levy, composer

Birth

Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty

Death

Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada

Event

Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa

Event

Winston Churchill, US, author (Crisis, Crossing)

Birth

Henri Rabnaud, Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire)

Birth

Maude Eburne, Canada, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)

Birth

Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow

Event

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)

Birth

Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob and the Angel)

Birth

Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange)

Birth

Max Mell, Austria officer/literary (Donauweibchen)

Birth