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| Born : | 06/26/1819 | Abner Doubleday, Major General (Union volunteers)/invented baseball |
| Born : | 01/26/1819 | Abner Doubleday, US, inventor (baseball) |
| Born : | 07/08/1819 | Alexander Hays, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
| Born : | 08/25/1819 | Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency |
| Born : | 01/01/1819 | Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold |
| Born : | 11/23/1819 | Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1901 |
| Born : | 08/08/1819 | Charles Anderson Dana, Asst Secy War, (Union) died in 1897 |
| Born : | 06/12/1819 | Charles Kingsley, England, clergyman/novelist (Westward Ho!) |
| Born : | 09/13/1819 | Clara Schumann, [n‚e Wieck], Leipzig, Germany, pianist/composer |
| Born : | 11/10/1819 | Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable |
| Born : | 05/16/1819 | Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898 |
| Born : | 08/12/1819 | Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 |
| Born : | 10/20/1819 | Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1914 |
| Born : | 03/19/1819 | David Henry Williams, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1891 |
| Born : | 03/29/1819 | Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive US oil well |
| Born : | 07/09/1819 | Elias Howe, Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine |
| Born : | 10/04/1819 | Francesco Crispi, Italian politician |
| Born : | 12/22/1819 | Franz W Abbot, German composer/choir conductor |
| Born : | 04/18/1819 | Franz von Supp‚, Spalato Dalmatia, composer (Light Cavalry Over) |
| Born : | 01/14/1819 | Frederick Steele, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 |
| Born : | 11/22/1819 | George Eliot, [Mary A Evans], England, author (Silas Marner) |
| Born : | 01/01/1819 | George Foster Shepley, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1878 |
| Born : | 08/13/1819 | George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (Spectroscope) |
| Born : | 10/02/1819 | George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901 |
| Born : | 06/10/1819 | Gustave Courbet, France, realist painter (Funeral at Ornans) |
| Born : | 09/14/1819 | Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889 |
| Born : | 02/01/1819 | Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1885 |
| Born : | 08/01/1819 | Herman Melville, US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd) |
| Born : | 03/29/1819 | Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founded American Hebrew Congregations |
| Born : | 06/21/1819 | Jacques L Offenbach, [Jakob Eberst], German composer (Orph‚e enfers) |
| Born : | 06/20/1819 | Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann) |
| Born : | 12/18/1819 | Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvoren˜a) |
| Born : | 12/19/1819 | James Clifford Veatch, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1895 |
| Born : | 02/14/1819 | James Green Martin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878 |
| Born : | 08/17/1819 | James Henry Van Alen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 |
| Born : | 02/22/1819 | James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist |
| Born : | 09/18/1819 | Jean-Bernard-L‚on Foucault, his pendulum proved Earth rotates |
| Born : | 09/17/1819 | Jean-Bernard-L‚on Foucault, physicist |
| Born : | 06/05/1819 | John Couch Adams, co-discover (Neptune) |
| Born : | 12/20/1819 | John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850) |
| Born : | 02/08/1819 | John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafa‰liet) |
| Born : | 12/30/1819 | John White Geary, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873 |
| Born : | 10/19/1819 | Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist (Crises Commercial) |
| Born : | 02/04/1819 | Joshua Norton, SF, Norton I, emperor of USA |
| Born : | 05/27/1819 | Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic) |
| Born : | 03/26/1819 | Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist |
| Born : | 02/19/1819 | Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer |
| Born : | 09/17/1819 | Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa) |
| Born : | 09/09/1819 | Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 |
| Born : | 10/26/1819 | Me‹r A Goldschmidt, Danish writer/publisher (Corsaren & Jíde) |
| Born : | 10/20/1819 | Mirza Ali Mohammad, [The B b], forerunner of Bah 'u'll h |
| Born : | 09/06/1819 | Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi) |
| Born : | 07/04/1819 | Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885 |
| Born : | 12/16/1819 | Robert Selden Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
| Born : | 12/17/1819 | Samuel Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 |
| Born : | 10/09/1819 | Samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
| Born : | 08/06/1819 | Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 05/05/1819 | Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer |
| Born : | 12/30/1819 | Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest) |
| Born : | 09/17/1819 | Thomas Andrews Hendricks, (D) 21st US VP; died in office |
| Born : | 06/03/1819 | Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer |
| Born : | 01/03/1819 | Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1892 |
| Born : | 05/15/1819 | Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 05/24/1819 | Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great-Britain/Ireland/Emperor India |
| Born : | 05/24/1819 | Victoria, Queen of England (1837-1901) |
| Born : | 05/31/1819 | Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass) |
| Born : | 06/30/1819 | William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81) |
| Born : | 05/28/1819 | William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907 |
| Born : | 09/06/1819 | William Starke Rosecrans, Mjr General (Union volunteers) |
| Born : | 05/01/1819 | William Steele, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
| Born : | 08/09/1819 | William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920) |
| Born : | 03/22/1819 | William Wirt Adams, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
| Born : | 10/25/1819 | Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1882 |
| Born : | 01/12/1819 | Zealous Bates Tower, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1900 |
| Born : | 10/10/1819 | Zebulon York, (Confederate Army Brig general, died in 1900 |
| Died : | 12/09/1819 | Ann C Coleman, fiancee of pres Buchanan, commits suicide |
| Died : | 01/20/1819 | Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808), dies |
| Died : | 10/06/1819 | Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies |
| Died : | 09/14/1819 | Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist, dies |
| Died : | 07/20/1819 | John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies |
| Died : | 08/23/1819 | Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday |
| Died : | 06/26/1819 | Slome Duikelar, [Abraham J Swalff], Yiddish writer, dies |
| Special : | 08/02/1819 | 1st parachute jump in US |
| Special : | 02/28/1819 | 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Sch„fers Klageleid" |
| Special : | 07/03/1819 | 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors |
| Special : | 10/22/1819 | 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica) |
| Special : | 05/22/1819 | 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) |
| Special : | 04/02/1819 | 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins |
| Special : | 09/17/1819 | 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii |
| Special : | 12/14/1819 | Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state |
| Special : | 08/07/1819 | Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia |
| Special : | 12/17/1819 | Congress of Angostura establishes Columbia's independence from Spain |
| Special : | 08/16/1819 | Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators |
| Special : | 04/26/1819 | Odd Fellows Lodge established |
| Special : | 06/20/1819 | Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic) |
| Special : | 01/28/1819 | Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore |
| Special : | 02/22/1819 | Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-On¡s Treaty) |
| Special : | 03/02/1819 | Territory of Arkansas organized |
| Special : | 07/04/1819 | William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet |
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