Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies

Death

Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer

Birth

Baltasar Saldoni, composer

Birth

Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind)

Birth

Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67

Death

Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)

Birth

Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand)

Birth

Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator

Birth

Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland

Death

John James Peck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878

Birth

Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899

Birth

Otto van Rees, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1884-88)

Birth

Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1917

Birth

Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73

Death

Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37

Death

Insurrection of Trinidad negroes

Event

Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)

Birth

Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person)

Birth

Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens

Event

Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris

Event

Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess, dies at 80

Death

Thomas H Rollinson, composer

Birth

Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician

Birth

US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama

Event

Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession

Event