Charles Balmer, composer

Birth

Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army)

Birth

Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)

Birth

Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)

Death

Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith

Event

Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brig General (Union volunteers)

Birth

Michael Corcoran, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863

Birth

Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer

Birth

Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893

Birth

Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies

Death

Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer

Birth

John Stafford Smith, composer, dies at 86

Death

Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry and china stores

Event

Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60

Death

Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876)

Birth

David Emlyn Evans, composer

Birth

Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic (Father and Son)

Birth

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (liquid helium, Nobel 1913)

Birth

Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (Sursum Corda, Ace Knave)

Birth

Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga

Event

H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Bromley England, author (Time Machine)

Birth

Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France, bacteriologist (Nobel-1928)

Birth

Henry Lewis Stimson, US minister of War (1911-13)

Birth

Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer

Birth

Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier

Birth