Louis Schubert, composer

Birth

Samuel Allen Rice, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864

Birth

William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brig General (Confederate Army)

Birth

Georg Hellmesberger, composer

Birth

Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], auth (Alice in Wonderland)

Birth

Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements)

Birth

Robert Sanford Foster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

Birth

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (masochism)

Birth

Samuel Gompers, Dutch/US 1st president (American Federation of Labor)

Birth

J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85

Death

Philipp Roth, composer, dies at 70

Death

John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65

Death

Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega)

Birth

Karl Moser, composer, dies at 77

Death

Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72

Death

Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model/writer

Birth

Gerrit van der Linde Jz, Dutch "Principal", poet, dies at 49

Death

Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)

Birth

Carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at 74

Death

Jan¢ Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (parallel), dies at 57

Death

Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59

Death

Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va

Event

Battle of Fair Gardens, TN

Event

John Gibson, sculptor, dies

Death

Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer

Birth