Events
Births
January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (d. 1852). January 15 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1864) January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849) February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847) February 12 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865) February 12 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882) February 15 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884) March 31 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852) April 15 – Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877) June 4 – Columbus Delano, American statesman (d. 1896) June 4 – John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871) June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900) August 6 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892) August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872) August 27 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician (d. 1891) August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894) October 22 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889) December 24 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868) December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, British politician (d. 1898)