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Born :01/18/1820Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
Born :10/11/1820Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Born :04/26/1820Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
Born :07/10/1820Andrew Porter, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
Born :01/17/1820Anne Bronte, English novelist (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
Born :01/20/1820Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women
Born :10/20/1820Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)
Born :04/04/1820Charles Devens Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Born :07/29/1820Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871
Born :12/10/1820David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1864
Born :09/17/1820Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Born :02/03/1820Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
Born :04/15/1820Evander McNair, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
Born :05/12/1820Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
Born :12/17/1820Frederick Tracy Dent, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Born :11/28/1820Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator
Born :03/01/1820George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
Born :08/13/1820George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer
Born :10/20/1820George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :09/20/1820George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers)
Born :12/26/1820Gustavus Adolphus SMith, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Born :02/02/1820Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne)
Born :04/14/1820Harry Thompson Hays, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Born :02/17/1820Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons)
Born :06/24/1820Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
Born :04/27/1820Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics)
Born :03/06/1820Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :09/26/1820Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)
Born :05/23/1820James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)
Born :08/26/1820James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Seretary of Interior (1865-66)
Born :10/23/1820James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
Born :10/06/1820Jenny Lind, Sweden, soprano/nightingale (Agathe-Der Freischultz)
Born :06/14/1820John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
Born :07/27/1820John Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers)
Born :09/20/1820John Fulton Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Born :01/19/1820John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
Born :07/26/1820John Marshall Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Born :01/24/1820John Milton Thayer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
Born :02/28/1820John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
Born :11/23/1820John Willis Ellis, Governor (Confederacy) died in 1861
Born :05/04/1820Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
Born :05/04/1820Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)
Born :11/28/1820Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Born :03/13/1820Louis Herbert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Born :07/22/1820Louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), died in 1862
Born :02/20/1820Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Born :11/09/1820Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling)
Born :08/12/1820Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation
Born :03/17/1820Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :11/04/1820Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870
Born :11/15/1820Susan Brownell Anthony, US feminist
Born :02/15/1820Susan Brownell Anthony, woman's suffragette
Born :09/23/1820Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :03/14/1820Victor Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78)
Born :06/13/1820WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral
Born :08/03/1820William Miller, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909
Born :02/08/1820William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
Born :09/21/1820Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Born :08/08/1820Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)
Born :03/25/1820Xavier FMG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of Defense
Died :04/20/1820Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture)
Died :09/26/1820Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85
Died :01/25/1820Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies
Died :09/21/1820Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)
Died :02/14/1820Karel F, Duke of Berry, murdered
Died :08/06/1820M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies
Died :03/22/1820Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron, at 41
Interest:03/15/1820[RC] Commemoration of St Clement Hofbauer, priest/missionary
Special :03/09/1820-11) Phillipines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
Special :12/15/18201st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
Special :02/06/18201st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
Special :08/07/18201st potatoes planted in Hawaii
Special :02/06/182086 free black colonists sail from NYC to Sierra Leone, Africa
Special :11/03/1820Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence
Special :01/30/1820Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
Special :03/25/1820Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
Special :10/09/1820Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
Special :03/09/1820James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
Special :03/15/1820Maine admitted as 23rd state
Special :03/03/1820Missouri Compromise enacted by Congress
Special :12/20/1820Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
Special :05/13/1820Opera "Die J„garsbraut" is completed
Special :01/12/1820Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
Special :06/28/1820Tomato is proven non-poisonous
Special :11/18/1820US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer discovers Antarctica
Special :02/06/1820US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
Special :12/06/1820US president James Monroe re-elected

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