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Born :12/18/1811Alexander Sandor Asboth, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Born :11/11/1811Ben McCulloch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Born :08/05/1811C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer (El Cid, Fran‡oise the Rimini)
Born :05/24/1811Charles Clark, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
Born :01/06/1811Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874
Born :01/05/1811Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey)
Born :02/24/1811Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
Born :08/26/1811Danville Leadbetter, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
Born :02/24/1811Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
Born :02/08/1811Edwin Denison Morgan Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1883
Born :08/03/1811Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
Born :10/22/1811Franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist
Born :03/20/1811George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)
Born :08/20/1811Gilman Marston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Born :08/31/1811Goode Bryan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
Born :06/14/1811Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
Born :08/29/1811Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA
Born :06/19/1811Henry Prince, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Born :02/03/1811Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")
Born :10/18/1811Hugh Thompson Reid, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Born :10/27/1811Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
Born :07/20/1811James Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, governor (Jamaica)
Born :09/12/1811James Hall, US geologist (Natural history of NY)
Born :09/06/1811James Melville Gilliss, founder (Naval Observatory in Washington)
Born :06/07/1811James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform)
Born :11/19/1811John Ancrum Winslow, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1873
Born :06/24/1811John Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889
Born :09/03/1811John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
Born :06/17/1811Jon Sigurdsson, Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends
Born :08/25/1811Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :07/11/1811Joseph Lanman, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
Born :08/11/1811Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy
Born :08/06/1811Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1884
Born :04/05/1811Jules Dupr‚, landscape painter
Born :11/07/1811Karel J Erben, Czech poet (De ruiker)
Born :09/04/1811Marie-F‚licit‚-Denise Pleyel, [Mlle Moke], pianist
Born :03/11/1811Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :11/28/1811Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern (1848-64)
Born :03/20/1811Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II, King of Rome
Born :03/15/1811Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
Born :03/01/1811Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
Born :03/31/1811Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
Born :08/30/1811Th‚ophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic
Born :08/31/1811Th‚ophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus)
Born :03/11/1811Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discovered Neptune
Born :06/30/1811Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg, Finland, Russian critic, journalist
Born :10/10/1811Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic
Born :11/29/1811Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
Born :09/15/1811Willem J Van Zeggelen, author
Born :09/07/1811William Hamsley Emory, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
Born :07/18/1811William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair)
Died :07/28/1811Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies
Died :01/10/1811Marie-Joseph de Ch‚nier, French poet (Chant du D‚part), dies
Died :07/27/1811Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed
Died :07/31/1811Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish
Died :02/09/1811Nevill Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies
Died :04/03/1811Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, dies
Died :04/05/1811Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies
Died :09/30/1811Thomas Percy, English bishop of Dromore, dies at 82
Interest:11/28/1811[RC] Commemoration of St Joseph Pignatelli, Spanish Jesuit
Special :10/29/18111st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
Special :04/12/18111st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA
Special :11/07/1811Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan
Special :11/02/1811Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen Jackson vs indians
Special :11/11/1811Cartagena Columbia declares independence from Spain
Special :12/15/1811Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri
Special :03/01/1811Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha body in Citadel of Cairo found
Special :11/05/1811El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
Special :01/08/1811Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes
Special :01/10/1811Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
Special :12/16/1811Most violent & prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region
Special :05/14/1811Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
Special :05/16/1811Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
Special :02/02/1811Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF
Special :10/11/1811The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
Special :07/05/1811Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain

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