- 1586
| Jul 07 | Birth of Thomas Hooker, colonial American pastor and an originator of the earliest system of federal government in America. | Ref: 5 |
- 1587
| Aug 18 | Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina. | Ref: 68 |
- 1589
| Mar 19 | William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony for 30 years, sailed on the Mayflower, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1595
| Mar 05 | William Blackstone New World settler: first settler in what is now Boston, Massachusetts, and also, Rhode Island; Blackstone River in Rhode Island bears his name; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1617
| Mar 21 | Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe) dies of either small pox or pneumonia while in England with her husband, John Rolfe. | Ref: 2 |
- 1620
| Nov 20 | Peregrine White, son of William & Susanna White, is born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay the first child born of English parents in present-day New England. | Ref: 70 |
- 1647
| Jan 02 | Nathaniel Bacon leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 07 | Thomas Hooker clergyman, father of American democracy, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1649
| Apr 05 | John Winthrop, first Governor Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
- 1656
| Oct 03 | Myles Standish Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown). | Ref: 5 |
- 1657
| May 09 | William Bradford Governor (Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts), dies. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony for 30 years, sailed on the Mayflower, dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1675
| May 26 | William Blackstone New World settler: first settler in what is now Boston, Massachusetts, and also, Rhode Island; Blackstone River in Rhode Island bears his name; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1676
| Oct 18 | Nathaniel Bacon rallied against Virginian govt, killed at 29. | Ref: 5 |
- 1682
| Jan 08 | Jonothan Belcher, American merchant, colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York, is born. | Ref: 17 |
- 1687
| Jun 28 | First American knighted by King James II; William Phipps honored for discovery of treasure ship. | Ref: 10 |
- 1702
| Jan 06 | Thomas Franklin English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1706
| Jan 17 | (Declaration of Independence) Benjamin Franklin, statesman, diplomat, scientist and inventor who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and wrote Poor Richard's Almanac, is born in Boston, MA. | Ref: 2 |
- 1707
| Mar 07 | (Declaration of Independence) Stephen Hopkins, judge, educator, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Providence, RI. | Ref: 2 |
- 1711
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) John Hart, US farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Stonington, CT. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1713
| Mar 21 | (Declaration of Independence) Francis Lewis, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Llandaff, Wales. | Ref: 5 |
- 1714
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) Matthew Thornton, physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Ireland. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1716
| Jan 15 | (Declaration of Independence) Philip Livingston, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Albany, NY. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) George Taylor, ironmaster, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Ireland. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1717
| Jan 29 | Jeffery Amherst, English/American army commander, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1718
| Jan 07 | Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War hero who planned the fortifications at the Battle of Bunker Hill and told his men, "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes", is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 26 | Esek Hopkins, first commodore of the United States Navy, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1719
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) James Smith, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Dublin, Ireland. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1721
| Apr 19 | (Declaration of Independence) Roger Sherman, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Newton, MA. | Ref: 2 |
- 1722
| Sep 27 | (Declaration of Independence) Samuel Adams U.S. Revolutionary War leader; governor of Massachusetts [1793-1797]; cousin of U.S. President John Adams; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1723
| Feb 05 | (Declaration of Independence) John Witherspoon, clergyman, educator, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Gifford, Scotland. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 30 | William Livingston, first governor of New Jersey, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1724
| Mar 06 | Henry Laurens, American President of Continental Congress (1777-78), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 12 | (Declaration of Independence) Lymann Hall, physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Wallingford, CT. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) John Morton, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Ridley, PA. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1725
| May 08 | John Lovewell US Indian fighter, dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
- 1726
| Feb 15 | (Declaration of Independence) Abraham Clark, surveyor, Declaration of Independence signer, is born in Roselle, NJ. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 20 | William Prescott, American Revolutionary War credited with saying “Don’t fire until you see the white’s of their eyes.”, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 05 | (Declaration of Independence) Benjamin Harrison, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Berkeley, VA. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Apr 08 | (Declaration of Independence) Lewis Morris, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Morrisania (Bronx County) NY. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) George Wyeth, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Elizabeth City County (Hampton) VA. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Dec 01 | (Declaration of Independence) Oliver Wolcott, judge, (Ct-Gov), signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Windsor, CT. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 5 |
- 1727
| Dec 22 | (Declaration of Independence) William Ellery, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Newport, RI. | Ref: 5 |
- 1728
| Oct 07 | (Declaration of Independence) Caesar Rodney, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Dover, DE. | Ref: 5 |
- 1729
| May 13 | Henry William Stiegel, early American glassmaker, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 21 | (Declaration of Independence) Josiah Bartlett, physician, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Amesbury, MA. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1730
| Jan 14 | (Declaration of Independence) William Whipple, merchant, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Kittery ME. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 23 | (Declaration of Independence) Joseph Hewes, US merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Princeton, NJ. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | (Declaration of Independence) George Ross, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in New Castle, DE. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 17 | Baron Frederick von Steuben is born. He is credited with training the Continental Army so they could actually win one now and then. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 01 | (Declaration of Independence) Richard Stockton, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independece, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1731
| Mar 11 | (Declaration of Independence) Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Boston, MA. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Apr 23 | (Declaration of Independence) William Williams, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Lebanon CT. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jul 03 | (Declaration of Independence) Samuel Huntington, judge, president of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence signer, is born in Windham County, CT. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1732
| Jan 20 | (Declaration of Independence) Richard Henry Lee, farmer, American revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Westmoreland County, VA. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 01 | (US Supreme Court Justice) William Maxwell Cushing, American jurist, first Supreme Court appointee, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 04 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Thomas Johnson, American Revolutionary War leader; governor of Maryland (1777-9); associate justice (1792-93) of U.S. Supreme Court, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1733
| Sep 18 | (Declaration of Independence) George Read, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence signer, is born in Near Northeast, MD. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 11 | Philip John Schuyler, American soldier and politician, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1734
| Jan 20 | (Declaration of Independence) Robert Morris,US merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Liverpool, England. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Mar 19 | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independece, is born in New London, PA. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 14 | (Declaration of Independence) Francis Lightfoot Lee, farmer, American revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Westmoreland County, VA. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 17 | (Declaration of Independence) William Floyd, US soldier, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Brookhaven, NY. | Ref: 5 |
- 1735
| Jan 01 | Paul Revere silversmith/US patriot (British are coming), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) Button Gwinnett, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Down Hatherly, England. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1736
| Mar 21 | NY Governor William Cosby dies. ("Who Was Who In America 1607-1896") | |
| May 29 | Statesman, rabblerouser, Patrick Henry is born. Ref | |
| Sep 10 | (Declaration of Independence) farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Carter Braxton, is born in Newington Plantation, VA. | Ref: 68 |
- 1737
| Jan 12 | (Declaration of Independence) (or the 23rd) John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 23 | (Declaration of Independence) (or the 12th) John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 29 | American revolutionary leader, political philosopher, author of "Common Sense", Thomas Paine is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 19 | (Declaration of Independence) Charles Carroll, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Annapolis, MD. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 21 | (Declaration of Independence) Francis Hopkinson, judge, author, signer of the Declaration of Independence signer, is born in Philadelphia, PA. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1738
| Jan 21 | Ethan Allen Revolutionary War fighter (organized and led the Green Mountain Boys), is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 26 | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas Nelson, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Yorktown, VA. | Ref: 5 |
- 1739
| Mar 16 | (Declaration of Independence) George Clymer, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Philadelphia, PA. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1740
| May 02 | Elias Boudinot lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 31 | (Declaration of Independence) William Paca, judge, American signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Abingdon, MD. | Ref: 70 |
- 1741
| Jan 14 | Benedict Arnold, American colonial General turned traitor, is born. (Also: Alamanac of Famous People, ISBN 0-7876-0044-X) | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 17 | (Declaration of Independence) Samuel Chase, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Princess Anne, MD. | Ref: 2 |
| May 17 | (Declaration of Independence) John Penn, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Near Port Royal, VA. | Ref: 68 |
| Jun 10 | Joseph Warren, American Revolutionary general, physician, dispatched Paul Revere and William Dawes to Lexington to warn of the British approach, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) George Walton, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Prince Edward County, VA. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1742
| Jun 17 | (Declaration of Independence) William Hooper, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Boston, MA. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 26 | (Declaration of Independence) Arthur Middleton, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Charleston, SC. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 07 | Nathanael Greene American Revolutionary War General, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 14 | (Declaration of Independence) James Wilson, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Carskerdo, Scotland. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1743
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) Thomas Stone, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Charles County, MD. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1745
| Jan 01 | "Mad" Anthony Wayne, American Revolutionary general, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 29 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Oliver Ellsworth 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 23 | John Sevier, TN, Indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 12 | (US Supreme Court Justice) John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 24 | (Declaration of Independence) Benjamin Rush, Byberry PA, physician/general (Continental Army, signed Declaration of Independence), is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 24 | William Paterson, Irish-born American governor of New Jersey, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1746
| Jul 28 | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas Heyward Jr, lawyer, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in St Luke's Parish, SC. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Oct 01 | John Muhlenberg Lutheran pastor/general/congressman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 06 | Absalom Jones Delaware, born into slavery, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 27 | Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1747
| Feb 04 | Tadeusz Kosciusko, Poland, patriot, (New York Bridge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Casimir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman who served in the American Revolution, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 06 | John Paul Jones American naval officer of the ship Bonhomme Richard, in battle against British frigate Serapis: “I have not yet begun to fight!”; is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1748
| Feb 09 | Luther Martin, American lawyer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1749
| Aug 05 | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas Lynch, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Winyah, SC. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 23 | (Declaration of Independence) Edward Rutledge, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Charleston, SC. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1750
| May 20 | Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 25 | Henry Knox, American Revolutionary war general and first U.S. secretary of war, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 13 | Molly Pitcher (born Mary Ludwig), distinguished herself in the battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1752
| Jan 01 | Betsy Ross (Elizabeth Griscom), legendary folklore says she sewed the first American flag, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 16 | George Cabot, American Federalist leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1753
| May 24 | Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, black who served with Washington, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 10 | Edmund Jennings Randolph, governor of Virginia and first U.S. attorney general, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1755
| Mar 24 | Rufus King framer of US constitution/(Senator-F), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 06 | Nathan Hale American patriot & Revolutionary War military officer: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”; arrested [Sep 20, 1776] by British troups while spying for General George Washington; executed Sep 22, 1776 at age 21 [by order of British General William Howe], is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 24 | (US Supreme Court Justice) John Marshall Va, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1756
| Jan 29 | Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, (American Revolutionary War officer, Republican/Governor-VA)/General/cavalryman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1757
| Jan 11 | The first secretary of the US Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was born in the West Indies. | Ref: 68 |
| Jul 18 | Royall Tyler, American lawyer, teacher and dramatist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 31 | Jonothan Belcher, American merchant, colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York, dies. | Ref: 17 |
| Sep 06 | Marie Joseph du Motier, Marquis de LaFayette, French soldier and statesman who aided George Washington during the American Revolution, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1759
| Jan 17 | Paul Cuffe Massachusetts, merchant/shipbuilder/black nationalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1760
| Dec 02 | John Breckinridge, American politician, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1761
| Jan 29 | Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin Switzerland, US minister of Finance (1801-14), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1763
| Jul 17 | John Jacob Astor, millionaire in North American trapping industry, is born in Germany. | Ref: 5 |
- 1765
| Jul 13 | Simeon North, American firearms manufacturer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1766
| Apr 24 | Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of the Farmer's Almanac, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1768
| Jun 09 | Samuel Slater, English-born industrialist; helped start American cotton industry, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1769
| Mar 02 | DeWitt Clinton, Governor/Senator-NY, presided over construction of the Erie Canal, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 20 | Ottawa Chief Pontiac is murdered by an Indian in Cahokia. | Ref: 68 |
- 1770
| Feb 22 | Christopher Snider 11, Boston, becomes first martyr of US Revolution. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 05 | Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a US Senator (Mississippi). | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 15 | -Governor Botetourt of Virginia dies. William Nelson of Yorktown, president of the Council, acted as governor until Dunmore is appointed. | |
- 1771
| Dec 27 | (US Supreme Court Justice) William Johnson, American Supreme Court justice, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1772
| Apr 13 | Eli Terry, American clockmaker and an innovator in mass production, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1773
| Jun 02 | John Randolph, Virginia statesman and early advocate of the states’ rights: US representative and senator; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1774
| Sep 26 | John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1775
| Apr 07 | Francis C Lowell founded first raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 17 | Joseph Warren, American Revolutionary general, physician, dispatched Paul Revere and William Dawes to Lexington to warn of the British approach, is killed at Bunker Hill. | Ref: 17 |
| Jul 16 | John Adams graduates Harvard. | Ref: 5 |
- 1777
| Mar 17 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Roger Taney is born in Calvert MD. He was the 5th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from1836-1864. His decision that Congress had no power to abolish slavery in territories helped bring on the Civil War [Dred Scott case]. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (day speculative) John Morton, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Apr 22 | Henry Clay the great compromiser, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Button Gwinnet US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | (Declaration of Independence) Button Gwinnett, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1778
| Jun 12 | (Declaration of Independence) Philip Livingston, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1779
| Jan 05 | Stephen Decatur, American naval hero during actions against the Barbay pirates and the War of 1812, “Our country right or wrong.” is born. | Ref: 2 |
| May 11 | (Declaration of Independence) John Hart, US farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at about 68. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 15 | (Declaration of Independence) (month, day unspecified) Thomas Lynch, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at sea. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Sep 18 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Joseph Story associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1811-1845]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 10 | (Declaration of Independence) Joseph Hewes, US merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1780
| Jan 14 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Henry Baldwin, American Supreme Court justice, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1781
| Jan 09 | Lemuel Shaw, American jurist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 23 | (Declaration of Independence) George Taylor, ironmaster, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Feb 28 | (Declaration of Independence) Richard Stockton, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 50. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jul 11 | Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of the US. | Ref: 5 |
- 1782
| Jan 18 | Daniel Webster statesman, (Rep-NH, Sen-MA): “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”; subject of Benet’s The Devil and Daniel Webster; is born in Salisbury NH. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 14 | Thomas Hart Benton (Representative), "Old Bullion", is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 09 | Lewis Cass (Gov-Mich), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1783
| Feb 18 | James Biddle, American career naval officer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| May 23 | James Otis American lawyer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1784
| Jun 29 | (Declaration of Independence) Caesar Rodney, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Oct 19 | John McLoughlin Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1785
| Jan 06 | Haym Salomon dies in Philadelphia PA at 44, helped finance the revolution. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 10 | Henry William Stiegel, German-born American ironmaster and glassmaker, dies at age 55. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 11 | (US Supreme Court Justice) John McLean, United States Supreme Court justice; dissented in the Dred Scott decision (1857), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 30 | Frederick Philipse 3 land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 09 | Slyvanus Thayer, US Army engineer, controversial superintendent of the US military academy at West Point, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Jun 30 | James Oglethorpe (colonist: founded city of Savannah, Georgia; colonized Georgia; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 13 | (Declaration of Independence) Stephen Hopkins, judge, educator, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Aug 23 | Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer: Battle of Lake Erie: “We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 28 | (Declaration of Independence) William Whipple, merchant, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1786
| Jan 08 | Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd bank of US first effective central bank, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 13 | Winfield Scott American army general/presidential candidate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 19 | Nathaniel Greene General: American Revolutionary War; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 17 | Frontiersman and Congressman Davy Crockett is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 26 | Henry Deringer, American gunsmith, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 05 | Henry Drummond English banker/apostole, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1787
| Jan 01 | (Declaration of Independence) Arthur Middleton, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 44. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 05 | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas Stone, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1788
| Apr 17 | Joseph Gilbert Totten Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 14 | (Declaration of Independence) John Penn, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1789
| Jan 04 | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas Nelson, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Feb 11 | Organizer of the Green Mountain Boys, Ethan Allen dies at age 51. | Ref: 68 |
- 1790
| Mar 30 | Joseph Smith Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | (Declaration of Independence) Benjamin Franklin US, (Poor Richards Almanac), signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies in Philadelphia at age 84. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | Largest gathering of people at one time in America 20,000 attend funeral of Benjamin Franklin. | Ref: 10 |
| May 29 | Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War hero who planned the fortifications at the Battle of Bunker Hill and told his men, "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes", dies. | Ref: 17 |
| Jul 25 | William Livingston, first governor of New Jersey, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 03 | John Ross, American Cherokee leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 14 | (Declaration of Independence) William Hooper, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Oct 19 | (Declaration of Independence) Lymann Hall, physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1791
| Jan 08 | Jacob Collamer (Senator-VT), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | (Declaration of Independence) Benjamin Harrison, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| May 09 | (Declaration of Independence) Francis Hopkinson, judge, author, signer of the Declaration of Independence signer, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Oct 26 | Charles Sprague Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1792
| Jan 12 | Robert Patterson Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | Thaddeus Stevens US Radical Republican congressional leader (Representative-R), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 18 | American naval hero John Paul Jones died in Paris at age 45. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 08 | Henry Laurens, American President of Continental Congress (1777-78), dies at age 68; becomes first person in U.S. to be cremated. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 09 | Henry Laurens, American President of Continental Congress (1777-78), dies at age 68. | Ref: 70 |
- 1793
| Mar 02 | President of the Republic of Texas, U.S. Senator and Texas governor, Sam Houston is born near Lexington, VA. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 23 | (Declaration of Independence) Roger Sherman, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 72. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Oct 08 | (Declaration of Independence) John Hancock, merchant, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 56. | Ref: 4 |
- 1794
| Apr 10 | Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer, opened Japan to trade with the west, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 11 | Edward Everett, Dorchester MA, (Governor-MA), statesman/orator, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | Cornelius Vanderbilt capitalist: established ferry service between Manhattan & Staten Islands; turned a NY railroad into $$$; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 19 | (Declaration of Independence) Richard Henry Lee, farmer, American revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 15 | (Declaration of Independence) Abraham Clark, surveyor, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 15 | (Declaration of Independence) John Witherspoon, clergyman, educator, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 28 | Frederick von Steuben, German officer; helped the cause of U. S. independence, dies at age 64 | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 10 | James Wolfe Ripley Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1870, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1795
| Feb 18 | George Peabody South Danvers MA, merchant/philanthropist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 13 | Joshua Ratoon Sands Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | (Declaration of Independence) Josiah Bartlett, physician, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 65. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Oct 13 | William Prescott soldier: American Revolutionary War: “Don’t fire until you see the white’s of their eyes.”; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1796
| Jan 05 | (Declaration of Independence) Samuel Huntington, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence signer, dies at age 64. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| May 04 | Joseph Pannell Taylor Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | Reverdy Johnson representative (Union), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 24 | John Middleton Clayton Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 15 | Mad Anthony Wayne, American Revolutionary general, dies at age 51. | Ref: 70 |
- 1797
| Jan 11 | (Declaration of Independence) Francis Lightfoot Lee, farmer, American revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 30 | Edwin Vose Sumner Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 03 | Jeffery Amherst, English/American army commander, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 10 | (Declaration of Independence) Carter Braxton, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 01 | (Declaration of Independence) Oliver Wolcott, judge, (Ct-Gov), signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 11 | Hiram Paulding rear-admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1798
| Jan 22 | (Declaration of Independence) Lewis Morris, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | Charles Mynn Thruston Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1873, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | John Joseph Abercrombie Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | Francis Lieber, German-born American political philosopher and jurist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 03 | Charles D Wilkes Commander (Union Navy), died in 1877, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | Ethan Allen Hitchcock Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 28 | (Declaration of Independence) James Wilson, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Sep 21 | (Declaration of Independence) George Read, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence signer, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1799
| Jan 07 | Daniel Tyler Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | Simon Cameron, political boss, Secretary of War (Union), died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 06 | Statesman, rabblerouser, Patrick Henry dies at age 63 in Charlotte County VA. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 01 | Rufus Choate US, lawyer (Hall of Fame), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 23 | (Declaration of Independence) William Paca, judge, American signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
- 1800
| Jan 23 | (Declaration of Independence) Edward Rutledge, US attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | John Henry Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin Commander (Union Navy), died in 1874, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | John Brown abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 21 | Barnwell Rhett Robert (Confederacy), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1801
| Apr 07 | Henry Eagle Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | George Sears Greene Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | William Seward, US Secretary of State (1861-1869) who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 [Seward's Folly], is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 14 | Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War general/traitor, dies in London at age 60. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 05 | David Farragut Civil War Union Navy Admiral: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.”; is born in Knoxville TN. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 28 | James Barnes Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1869, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1802
| Feb 21 | George Douglas Ramsey Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1882, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | George Archibald McCall Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | Isaac Ridgeway Trimble Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 02 | Melancthon Smith Wade Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1868, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | (Declaration of Independence) Francis Lewis, Welsh/US merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
- 1803
| Feb 02 | Albert Sidney Johnston General (Confederate Army), mortally wounded at Shiloh in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 15 | John Augustus Sutter, early Swiss/US California settler: owned Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento (New Helvetia), site of first gold strike in U.S, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 21 | Levin Minn Powell Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 24 | (Declaration of Independence) Matthew Thornton, physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Sep 13 | Commodore John Barry, considered by many the father of the American Navy, died in Philadelphia. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 02 | (Declaration of Independence) Samuel Adams U.S. Revolutionary War leader; governor of Massachusetts [1793-1797], signer of the Declaration of Independence, cousin of U.S. President John Adams; dies | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 18 | William Allen (Representative/Governor-OH), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | Joseph King Fenno Mansfield Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1804
| Feb 02 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) George Walton, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Feb 17 | Samuel Read Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Frontiersman Jim Bridger is born. He is the 1st Caucasian to see the Great Salt Lake in 1824, established Fort Bridger WY. Bridger National Forest bears his name. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 20 | Neal Dow Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | Thomas Oliver Selfridge Commander (Union Navy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 22 | John William (Turk) Livingston Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 03 | Townsend Harris first Western consul to reside in Japan, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 18 | Philip John Schuyler, American soldier and politician, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 28 | James O Eastland (Sen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1805
| Feb 18 | Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough Rear Admiral (Union Navy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | David Tod US diplomat/(Governor-R-OH, 1861-63), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Governor-SC, Confederacy), died in 1869, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 30 | William Kerley Strong Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 23 | Matthew Adams Stickney Rowley Mass, numismatist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 12 | Henry Wells founder (American Express Company & Wells Fargo & Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1806
| Jan 14 | Matthew Fontaine Maury Naval Commander (Confederacy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | Leonidas Polk Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | (Declaration of Independence) Robert Morris,US merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 72. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| May 12 | Amos Beebe Eaton Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1877, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | George C Cadwalader Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | Henry Knox Thatcher Commander (Union Navy), died in 1880, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | (Declaration of Independence) (date speculative) George Wyeth, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jul 11 | (Declaration of Independence) James Smith, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Sep 09 | William Paterson, Irish-born American governor of New Jersey, dies at age 60. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 25 | Henry Knox, American Revolutionary war general and first U.S. secretary of war, dies at age 56. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 03 | Henry Alexander Wise Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 12 | Stand Watie Indian Chief: Cherokee; signer of the Treaty of Echota; brigadier general: first Cherokee regiment for the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 14 | John Breckinridge, American politician, dies at age 46. | Ref: 70 |
- 1807
| Jan 06 | Joseph Holt Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 11 | Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 13 | Napoleon Bonaparte Buford Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 16 | Charles Henry Davis Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | Robert E. Lee, the commander-in-chief of the Confederate armies, is born in Stratford, Virginia. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 01 | William Bowen Campbell Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 03 | Confederate General Joseph E Johnston, Commander of the Army of Tennessee, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 10 | Abner Clark Harding Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 16 | Lysander Cutler Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | George Alfred Trenholm, Secretary Treasurer (Confederacy), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | Mary Carpenter, American philanthropist and social reformer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 24 | Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 26 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Oliver Ellsworth 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800), American senator, jurist and chief author of the Judiciary Act of 1789, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 04 | Prince Hall activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 20 | Richard Lucian Page Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1808
| Jan 07 | Jacob Ammen Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 13 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Salmon P. Chase, U.S. Treasury Secretary during the American Civil War and sixth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is born. | Ref: 3 |
| Feb 25 | James Bowen Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 14 | Catharinus Putnam Buckingham Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | Caleb Blood Smith Secretary of Interior (Union), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Samuel Jameson Gholson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 03 | Hamilton Fish, US Secretary of State (1869-77), is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Dec 07 | Hugh McCulloch US Secretary of Treasury, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 20 | Thomas Tinsley Craven Commander (Union Navy), died in 1887, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | Thomas Turner Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | Stephen Cleeg Rowan Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1809
| Jan 18 | Richard Caswell Gatlin Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 20 | Henry Walton Wessells Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | George Washington Cullom, Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas Heyward Jr, lawyer, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Mar 10 | William David Porter Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | Philip St George Cocke Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 20 | John Smith Preston Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Secretary of State (Confederacy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | Thomas Paine, English/American political pamphleteer, dies at age 72. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 20 | Sterling Price, American governor of Missouri and Confederate general, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 03 | Thomas Alfred Davies Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 06 | Stephen Thomas Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1903, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 09 | William Barret Travis, commander of the TX troops at the battle of the Alamo, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 24 | Kit (Christopher) Carson frontiersman: subject of adventure novels; fur trapper, guide, American Indian agent and brevet Union general; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 26 | William Nelson Pendleton Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 29 | Albert Pike Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1891, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1810
| Jan 31 | Daniel Ruggles Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 28 | Daniel Ullmann Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | James Cooper, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | James Shields, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | Jacob Thompson (Confederacy), died in 1885, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Erasmus Darwin Keyes Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Solomon Meredith Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | Horatio Seymour Governor (Union), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 01 | Walter White secretary (NAACP), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 05 | P. T. (Phineus Taylor) Barnum, Bethel Conn, circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 24 | Theodore Parker, anti-slavery movement leader is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 13 | (US Supreme Court Justice) William Maxwell Cushing, American jurist first Supreme Court appointee, dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 28 | Brig Gen Adley H Gladden, LA, killed at Shiloh, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1811
| Jan 06 | Charles Sumner, anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 24 | Edward Dickinson Baker Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | [Catherine] Mildred Lee sister of US General Robert E Lee, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | Robert Christie Buchanan Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | Marsena Rudolph Patrick Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | Robert Allen Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | Charles Clark Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 19 | (Declaration of Independence) Samuel Chase, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 31 | Jane Currie Hoge, American welfare worker & fundraiser for the Union, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 02 | (Declaration of Independence) William Williams, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Aug 29 | Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruely to Animals, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 03 | John Humphrey, Noyes Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 18 | Alexander Sandor Asboth Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1868, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1812
| Jan 13 | Humphrey Marshall Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1872, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | Ralph Pomeroy Buckland Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 31 | John Randolph Tucker Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 11 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President (Confederacy), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 11 | Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | Aaron Lufkin Dennison father of American watchmaking, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | James Speed Attorney General (Union), died in 1887, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Henry Dwight Terry Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 20 | George Bibb Crittenden Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 09 | Randolph Barnes Marcy Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1887, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 28 | Daniel Henry Rucker Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1910, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 12 | Louis Ludwig Blenker Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 17 | Joseph Warren Revere Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1880, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Felix Kirk Zollicoffer Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 30 | John Alexander McClernand Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 04 | Elias Smith Dennis, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | William Grose Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 24 | Joel Barlow, aged 58, American poet and lawyer, dies from exposure near Vilna, Poland, during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Barlow was on a diplomatic mission to the emperor for President Madison. | Ref: 2 |
- 1813
| Jan 05 | Thomas Neville Waul Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | Jacon Gartner Lauman Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 23 | (Declaration of Independence) George Clymer, US merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 73. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | John McNeil Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 16 | Joseph Reid Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 26 | Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 22 | Gabriel Rene Paul Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 26 | Thomas West Sherman Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | John Letcher Governor (Confederacy), died in 1884, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Junius S Morgan US, merchant/philanthropist (Metropolitan Museum of Art), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | Henry Washington Benham Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1884, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 19 | (Declaration of Independence) Benjamin Rush, American physician, political leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 27 | Zebulon Montgomery Pike, American army officer and explorer, dies in battle at age 34. | Ref: 70 |
| May 06 | Joseph Tarr Copeland Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1893, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Montgomery Blair Franklin County KY, lawyer (Dred Scot v Sandford), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 23 | Mason Brayman Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | David D. Porter, Union admiral during the American Civil War, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 05 | Shawnee Chief Tecumseh is killed at the Battle of the Thames, Ontario. (Heidler, Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 1997, ISBN 0-97436-968-1, p 505) | |
| Dec 10 | Zachariah Chandler US, merchant/politician (founder of Republican Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 20 | Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (Governor-IA)/US Secretary of Interior (1881-82), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | Milledge Luke Bonham (Confederacy) died in 1890, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1814
| Jan 08 | Thomas Green Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 11 | Richard Griffith Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 12 | Jones Mitchell Withers Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1890, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 25 | Francis Harrison Pierpont Governor (Union), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | Rufus King Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 09 | Samuel Tilden, American lawyer, governor of New York, philanthropist for New York Public Library, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 02 | Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | John Blair Smith Todd Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 12 | (Declaration of Independence) Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 83. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jun 01 | Philip Kearney Civil War general (Union), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 03 | Mark Hopkins, American capitalist; helped build Central Pacific Railroad, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 19 | Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton Ohio, US Secretary of War (1861-65), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 27 | James Henry Carleton Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1815
| Jan 08 | George Webb Morell Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 08 | Lawrence Pike Graham Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 10 | Alexander Brydie Dyer Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 10 | Thomas Williams Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 13 | William Henry French Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 15 | Henry Morris Naglee Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 16 | Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck Major-General (Union Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 18 | James Chesnut Jr Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 18 | Richard Yates Warsaw KY, Governor-Illinois (1861-65), died in 1873, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 28 | Andrew Jackson Hamilton Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1875, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 02 | Nathaniel Collins McLean Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | Robert Hall Chilton Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | James Edward Harrison Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 28 | Andrew Jackson Smith Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 29 | Abram Duryee Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | Thomas Stanhope Bocock representative (Confederacy), died in 1891, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | John Gross Barnard Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1882, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 26 | Israel Bush Richardson Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | George Gordon Meade, Union general who defeated Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1816
| Jan 07 | Stephen Miller Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 09 | John Palmer Usher Secretary Interior (Union) died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 11 | Fitz-Henry Warren Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | Henry Gray Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | Lloyd Tilghman Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 30 | Nathaniel Prentiss Banks Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 09 | John Palmer Usher Secretary Interior (Union) died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | David Stuart Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 14 | Montgomery Dent Corse Alexandria VA, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | James Gallant Spears Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | Louis Trezevant Wigfall Confederate Army, died in 1874, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | Montgomery Cunningham Meigs Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Henry Hopkins Sibley Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | Robert Seaman Granger (Union Army Brevet Major General, died in 1894), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | George Henry Thomas, Union general during the American Civil War, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 31 | George Henry Thomas, Union general during the American Civil War, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 04 | Russell Sage, American financier, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 29 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Morrison R. Waite attorney: seventh Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1874-1888]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 06 | Henry Eustace McCulloch Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | Clement Claiborne Clay MC (Confederacy), died in 1882, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 18 | Alfred Elzey Jones Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1871, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 27 | Eliakim Parker Scammon Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1817
| Jan 08 | John Selden Roane Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 15 | Lewis Golding Arnold Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1871, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 03 | Samuel Ryan Curtis Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 07 | Leroy Pope Walker US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Richard Stoddert Ewell Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), dies in 1872, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | Lewis Addison Armistead Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | Walter Page Lane Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | James Craig Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | Lewis Henry Little Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | Braxton Bragg General (Confederate Army), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | John Wilson Sprague Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1893, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | George Washington Julian MC (Union), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | James William Denver Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 24 | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independece, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 21 | Richard B Garnett Brig Gen, killed during Pickett's charge, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 25 | John Bigelow, American diplomat, author and editor of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 19 | James Jay Archer Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1818
| Jan 11 | John Reese Kenly Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 28 | George Sewall Boutwell MC (Union), died in 1905, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 31 | William Raine Peck Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | William Maxwell Evarts (Union), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Austin Blair Governor/MC (Union), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 10 | Isham Green Harris Governor (Confederacy), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | George Rogers Clark frontier military leader in Revolutionary War, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 23 | Major General Jeremy F Gilmer General/Chief Engineer Confederate War Department, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 10 | George Wythe Randolph Secretary of War (Confederacy), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | John Wilkins Whitfield Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | John Lorimar Worden Captain (Union Navy), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 13 | Albion Parris Howe Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | Don Carlos Buell Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 24 | American statesman Henry Clay wrote: 'All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All separated from government are compatible with liberty.'. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | Isaac Ingalls Stevens Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | Henry Lee, American Revolutionary War officer, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 28 | Wade Hampton, Charleston SC, Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1902, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | Lewis Baldwin Parsons Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 22 | Cadwallader Colden Washburn Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 23 | John Gill Shorter Governor (Confederacy), died in 1872, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Paul Revere silversmith, patriot: “The British are coming!”, member of Sons of Liberty and participant in Boston Tea Party; dies at age 83 in Boston. Also | Ref: 4 |
| May 20 | William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, St-Bernard LA, US Confederate General (Hero of Sumter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | John Albion Andrew Governor (Union), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 12 | Sir David Macpherson, Scottish-born American politician and railway builder, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 05 | Benjamin F Butler Union general/presidential candidate (anti-monopoly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 04 | William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 12 | Paul Octave Hebert Brigadier-General (Confederate Army, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | David Addison Weisiger Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 30 | James Cantey Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1874, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1819
| Jan 01 | George Foster Shepley Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1878, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 03 | Thomas Hill Watts Attorney General (Confederacy), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 12 | Zealous Bates Tower Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1900, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 14 | Frederick Steele Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1868, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 04 | Joshua Norton San Francisco CA, Norton I, emperor of USA, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 09 | Lydia E. Pinkham, patent-medicine maker and entrepeneur, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 14 | James Green Martin Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | David Henry Williams Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | William Wirt Adams Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | Edwin Drake, driller of the first productive oil well, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| May 01 | William Steele Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | Thomas Leonidas Crittenden Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Daniel Ammen Captain (Union Navy), died in 1898, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | William Birney Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 23 | Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, (“We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”), dies on 34th birthday. | Ref: 15 |
| Aug 25 | Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, is born in Glasgow Scotland. Ref | |
| Oct 26 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Thomas Johnson, American Revolutionary War leader; governor of Maryland (1777-9); associate justice (1792-93) of U.S. Supreme Court, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 10 | Cyrus West Field financier/success of first transatlantic cable, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | Robert Selden Garnett Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1861, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 17 | Samuel Jones Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 19 | James Clifford Veatch Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 30 | John White Geary Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1820
| Jan 18 | Abraham Buford Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | John Haskell King Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 24 | John Milton Thayer Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | William Tecumseh Sherman, famous for his march through Georgia, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Feb 15 | (Declaration of Independence) William Ellery, lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 92. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Feb 20 | Mahlon Dickerson Manson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | George Davis Attorney General (Confederacy), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | Horatio Gouverneur Wright Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 13 | Louis Herbert Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Patrick Edward Connor Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | US naval hero Stephen Decatur (“Our country right or wrong.”) is killed in a duel, at age 41, with Commodore James Barron near Washington DC. (Heidler, Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 1997, ISBN 0-97436-968-1, p 150) | |
| Apr 04 | Charles Devens Jr Major General, Brevet (Union volunteers), died in 1891, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Harry Thompson Hays Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | Evander McNair Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 26 | James Harlan (Rep-Iowa)/US Seretary of Interior (1865-66), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 10 | David Allen Russell Army Brevet Major General (Union), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 17 | Frederick Tracy Dent Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 26 | Gustavus Adolphus Smith Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1885, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1821
| Jan 04 | John James Peck Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 07 | Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 08 | James Longstreet, Confederate General (1st Corps, ANV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 15 | Lafayette McLaws Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | Isaac Ferdinand Quinby Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 10 | William Read Scurry (Confederate Army Brigadier General, died in 1864), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 19 | Francis Preston Blair Jr Lexington KY, (Representative-Missouri), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | Francis Barretto Spinola Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 24 | [George] Hector Tyndale Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | Joshua Thomas Owen Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | Emerson Brown Joseph (Confederacy), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 19 | Mortimer Dormer Leggett Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 02 | Abram Sanders Piatt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1908, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 11 | [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 22 | Alfred Sully Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 13 | Nathan Bedford Forrest, Tennessee, brilliant cavalry leader, Lt Gen, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 04 | (Declaration of Independence) William Floyd, US soldier, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Aug 10 | Jay Cooke, American financier, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 22 | Collis Porter Huntington, American railroad magnate, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 02 | Rufus Barringer Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 17 | Frederick West Lander Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1822
| Jan 04 | Joseph Jones Reynolds Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 05 | Joseph Brevard Kershaw Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 09 | John Porter Hatch volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | Thomas Leiper Kane Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 30 | John Basil Turchin [Ivan Turchinoff], Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 09 | John Porter Hatch volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 16 | James Patton Anderson Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1872, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Matthew Duncan Ector Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | Charles Champion Gilbert Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | Allison Nelson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | John Pope Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | Seth Williams Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1866, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | Joseph Quinaux Belgian painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | James Nagle Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Gershom Mott Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | Leroy Augustus Stafford Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | William Stephen Walker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | Erastus Barnard Tyler Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | Dabney Herndon Maury Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | Mosby Monroe Parsons Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1865, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 31 | Abram Stevens Hewitt, American industrialist & philanthropist who became mayor of N. Y. C., is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 27 | Thomas Leiper Kane Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 03 | Charles Adam Heckman Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Luther Prentice Bradley Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1910, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 10 | Thomas Casimer Devin Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | William Booth Taliaferro Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1898, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1823
| Jan 04 | Peter Joseph Osterhaus Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1917, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | Franklin Gardner Major-General (Civil War-fought at Shiloh & Port Hudson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 16 | Brigadier General John D Imboden organized first Virginia Partisan Rangers, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | Ferdinand Van Derveer Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | William Buel Franklin Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | William Flank Perry Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 14 | Roswell Sabine Ripley Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 20 | John Echols Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | William Thompson Martin Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 27 | Samuel Kosciusko Zook Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | Joseph Farmer Knipe Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 01 | Simon Bolivar Buckner Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1914, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | Robert Byington Mitchell Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | Orlando Bolivar Wilcox Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1907, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 18 | George Cabot, American Federalist leader, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 22 | Alfred Gibbs Major General (Union Army), died in 1868, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | James Allen Hardie Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | John Sherman MC (Union), died in 1900, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | John Gray Foster Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 05 | George Thorndike, Angell Mass, lawyer (ASPCA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 11 | James L. Kemper, Confederate general during the American Civil War, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 04 | Oliver Perry Morton (Gov-Ind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | Thomas Higginson, American abolitionist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 25 | Preston Smith Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Thomas Alexander Scott Assistant Secretary War (Union), died in 1881, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1824
| Jan 07 | James Morrison Hawes Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 21 | Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson Lieutenant-General 2nd Corps (ANV, Confederacy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 28 | William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 03 | George Thomas "Tige" Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 03 | Nathan George "Shanks" Evans Brigadier General (Confederacy), died in 1868, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Barnard Elliot Bee Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | Winfield Scott Hancock Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 17 | William Farrar "Baldy" Smith Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 23 | Lewis Cass Hunt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 24 | John Crawford Vaughn Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 02 | Henry Beebee Carrington Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 10 | Major General Thomas J Churchill Confederate Army/Fought at Wilson's Creek, Red River, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | William Henry Chase Whiting Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | Innis Newton Palmer Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 20 | Alfred Holt Colquitt Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Charles Henry Van Wyck Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Edmund Kirby-Smith, Florida, West Point graduate/educator/General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 23 | Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 25 | Richard Oglesby, American governor of IL (1865-69, 1873, 1885-89) and U.S. senator (1873-79), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 05 | Titian James Coffey Attorney General (Union), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 17 | Manning Ferguson Force Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 26 | Augustus Louis Chetlain Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1914, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1825
| Jan 10 | Alexander Travis Hawthorn Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 12 | Joseph Robert Davis Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 12 | Francis Henry Underwood, American lawyer/author, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 25 | George Edward Pickett (of Pickett's Charge), American Confederate Army officer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Jan 28 | George Edward Pickett Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 05 | John Dunovant Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 20 | William Nelson Rector Beall Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | Edward Lloyd Thomas Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1898, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | Samuel Bell Maxey Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 28 | James Winning McMillan Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Joseph Bailey Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | George Lafayette Beal Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | David Bell Birney Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | John Hunt Morgan Brig General (Confederate cavalry commander), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | George Pendleton,American legislator and sponsor of the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 09 | Elisha Ferry (Gov-R-Wash, 1872-80, 1889-93), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 13 | Anthony Drexel, American banker and philanthropist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 09 | Ambrose P Hill Lt General (Commander 3rd Corps, ANV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 22 | Ann Bailey pioneer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | Henry Heth Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 18 | Charles Griffin Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 20 | Romeyn Beck Ayres Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1888, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | Francis Trowbridge Sherman Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1905, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1826
| Jan 12 | Charles Cruft Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 22 | [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | Richard Taylor Lieutenant-General (Confederate Army), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 04 | Halbert Eleazer Paine Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 09 | John Alexander Logan Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | John Buford Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Philip Dale Roddey Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 09 | Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate commander during the American Civil War, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 09 | Thomas Hewson Neill Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1885, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 10 | Luther Martin, American lawyer, dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 26 | Royall Tyler, American lawyer, teacher and dramatist, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 27 | Richard Taylor Lieutenant-General (Confederate Army), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 01 | William Mahone Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 05 | John Benjamin Sanborn Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 18 | Mercer Brooke John (Confederate Navy), died in 1906, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | James Scott Negley (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1827
| Jan 01 | William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 06 | John Calvin Brown Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 06 | John Wesley Frazer Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in 1906, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 02 | Abner Monroe Perrin Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 19 | Charles Robert Woods Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 20 | Edward Stuyvesant Bragg Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | James Barnet Fry Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 24 | Charles Davis Jameson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | Richard W Johnson Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 07 | Henry DeLamar Clayton Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | John Crerar, American railway industrialist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 12 | John Robert Jones Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | William Richard Terry Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | Alexander Shaler Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1911, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 20 | John Gibbon Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 22 | William Hopkins Morris Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 26 | Charles Edward Hovey Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 29 | Rufus King, American founding father; helped frame the Constitution, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
| May 07 | Francis Engle Patterson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Reuben Lindsay Walker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Robert Latimer McCook volunteers Brigadier-General (Union), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1828
| Jan 05 | August Valentine, Kautz Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 17 | Lewis Addison Grant Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1918, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 23 | Calvin Edward Pratt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 24 | Adam Jacoby Slemmer Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | Samuel Allen Rice Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 28 | Thomas Carmichael Hindman Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1868, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 11 | DeWitt Clinton, Governor/Senator-NY, presided over construction of the Erie Canal, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 12 | Robert Ransom Jr Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | Robert Alexander Cameron Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | James Fleming Fagan Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 02 | Jefferson Columbus Davis Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Patrick Ronayne Cleburne the "Stonewall" of the West (Major General-Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | Charles William Field Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 08 | George Baird Hodge Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | Robert Brank Vance Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Adin Ballou Underwood Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 20 | James William Reilly Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | Alpheus Baker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 08 | Margaret Olivia Sage, American philanthropist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 29 | Thomas Francis Bayard, American statesman, diplomat and lawyer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 14 | James McPherson, American general, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 27 | Samuel Allen Rice Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Clinton Bowen Fisk Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Robert Bullock Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1905, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | John Beatty Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1914, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 30 | Mark Perrin Lowrey Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1885, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1829
| Jan 30 | Alfred Cummings Georgia, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 01 | John Potts Slough Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 11 | William Anderson Pile Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | Alfred Iverson Jr Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | Johnson Hagood Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 02 | Carl Schurz Major General (Union volunteers) journalist/political reformer/Civil War general, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | William Robertson Boggs Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | Robert Emmet Rodes Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | George Peabody Estey Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 17 | (US Supreme Court Justice) John Jay statesman: first Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court [1789-1795]; co-author of the Federalist papers; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 16 | Geronimo, the Apache leader and warrior, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 27 | James Smithson dies, his will established Smithsonian Institute. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 03 | Green Berry Raum Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1909, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 27 | James Clay Rice Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Hinton Helper, southern abolitionist who wrote The Impending Crisis, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1830
| Jan 07 | (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 08 | Governer Kemble Warren Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1882, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | George Blake Cosby Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1909, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | William Henry Fitzhugh Payne Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 31 | James Gillespie Blaine West Brownsville PA, (Representative-R-ME 1863-76/Senator-R-ME 1876-81/Secretary of State 1889-92), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | Marcellus Monroe Crocker Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1865, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | William Felix Brantley Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 20 | Eugene Asa Carr Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1910, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 30 | Davis Tillson Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones, ‘The Miner’s Angel'), American labor leader, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| May 05 | John B. Stetson, American hat maker, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| May 11 | John Converse Starkweather Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 13 | Zebulon Baird Vance Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 14 | George Pierce Doles Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | Laurence Simmons Baker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | George Lucas Hartsuff Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 30 | Edward Winslow Hinks Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 04 | Mary Hannah Hunt, American temperance leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 30 | John S Bowen Major-General (Confederate), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 27 | William Henry Fitzhugh Payne Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 12 | Joseph Orville Shelby Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 14 | Allen Thomas Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1907, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | John Frederick Hartranft Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1831
| Jan 14 | John Bullock Clark Jr Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 18 | Edward Ferrero Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 28 | Henry Brevard Davidson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 03 | Cyrus Ballou Comstock Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | John Aaron Rawlins Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | Hiram Bronson Granbury Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | Philip Henry Sheridan Albany NY, Major General (Union Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 07 | John Bratton [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brigadier General, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | Edward Aylesworth Perry Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | Edward Cary Walthall Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | George Burgwyn Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General (Union volunteers), American engineer; chief engineer of Union Pacific Railroad (1866-70), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 22 | Alexander McDowell McCook Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | John B Hood confederate general (lost Atlanta), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 06 | Joshua Woodrow Sill Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | Robert Ogden Tyler Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 27 | Lucius Fairchild Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 29 | Adam Badeau Bvt Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1832
| Jan 12 | Richard Waterhouse Jr Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 22 | Molly Pitcher, distinguished herself in the battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, dies. | Ref: 68 |
| Jan 24 | John Pegram Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | John Brown Gordon Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1904, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 16 | Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 07 | Orlando Metcalfe Poe Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 10 | William Henry Penrose Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | William Ruffin Cox Brigadier General (Confederate Army-2nd North Carolina Infantry), died in 1919, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Charles Camp Doolittle Brevet Major General (Union volunteer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Walter Quintin Gresham Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 01 | Robert the Hermit US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | James Hewett Ledlie Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 22 | Julius Sterling Morton, Adams NY, (Governor-NE), started Arbor Day, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | William Grace,Irish-born American shipowner; founder of W. R. Grace & Company | Ref: 70 |
| May 30 | George Doherty Johnston Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 22 | Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) American heroine; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 02 | Henry Steel Olcott first president of Theosophical Society, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 14 | (Declaration of Independence) Charles Carroll, lawyer, American patriot leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 95. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 01 | Archibald Gracie Jr Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 14 | Daniel Harris Reynolds Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1902, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 21 | John Henry Ketcham Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | Edward Hatch Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | Thomas Alfred Smyth Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1865, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 30 | Colonel Abijah Hammond owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1833
| Jan 23 | John Randolph Chambliss Jr Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart Major General (Commander of Cavalry, Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 11 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Melville Weston Fuller, eighth U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 13 | William Whedbee Kirkland Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1915, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | James Deshler Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | Clement Anselm Evans Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | Julie Verstraete-Lacquet Flemish actress, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 14 | John Sappington Marmaduke Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Thomas Howard Ruger Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | David McMurtrie Gregg Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | James Edward Rains Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | Frank Wheaton Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1903, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | John Randolph Virginia statesman and early advocate of the states’ rights: US representative and senator; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 01 | (US Supreme Court Justice) John Marshall Harlan, American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1877-1911) | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 11 | Robert Green Ingersoll, NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 06 | John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate guerrilla leader (Mosby's Raiders), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 17 | James Thadeus Holtzclaw Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1893, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Charles Miller Shelley Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1907, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 29 | John James Ingalls (Representative-KS), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1834
| Jan 16 | Albert Lindley Lee Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1907, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | Robert Sanford Foster Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | William Dorsey Pender Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | Francis Asbury Shoup Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 01 | Jim Fisk, American financier, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Apr 21 | William Rufus Terrill Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 20 | Marquis de Lafayette, French and American General: ‘The Hero of Two Worlds’; dies at age 76. | Ref: 68 |
| Aug 04 | (US Supreme Court Justice) William Johnson, American Supreme Court justice, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 18 | Marshall Field, of Chicago's Marshall Field's, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 27 | Robert Sanford Foster Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1835
| Jan 02 | Charles Russell Lowell Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 30 | Oliver Edwards Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 15 | Alexander Stuart Webb Major General (Union Army), died in 1911, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | Charles Ewing Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | Samuel Slater, English-born industrialist; helped start American cotton industry, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 27 | John Murray Corse Pittsburgh PA, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie Brigadier General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | Newton Martin Curtis Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | Edward Porter Alexander Brigadier General of artillery (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 06 | (US Supreme Court Justice) John Marshall, the third chief justice of the Supreme Court, dies at the age of 79. Two days later, while tolling in his honor in Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell cracks. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 11 | Brig Gen William Wirt Allen first Alabama Cavalry, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 01 | William H "Red" Jackson Brig Gen (7th Tennessee Cavalry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 21 | Hetty Green, American financier, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 22 | Frank C Armstrong Brig Gen (Cavalry Commander under Forrest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 25 | Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist who led the expansion of the American steel industry, is born in Dunfermline, Scotland. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 01 | Micah Jenkins Brigadier-General (Led Hoods Division at Chickamauga), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 17 | Alexander E Agassiz US, businessman/biologist/geology, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 18 | George Dashiell Bayard Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1862, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1836
| Jan 14 | [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | Benjamin Franklin Potts Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | James Meech Warner Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 30 | Betsy Ross (Elizabeth Griscom) flagmaker from Philadelphia, legendary folklore says she sewed the first American flag; dies at age 84. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 08 | Matthew Calbraith Butler Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | George Bascom West Point officer who arrested Chief Cochise, who escaped and began the Apache Wars reign of terror, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| May 08 | Bryan Morel Thomas Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 14 | James Patrick Major Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | Jay Gould, American railroad executive and financier, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| May 27 | Edwin Gray Lee Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 10 | Joseph Wheeler Maj Gen/Cavalry Commander, Army of TN, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1837
| Jan 16 | James Phillip Simms Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 17 | Francis Jay Herron Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 14 | Charles Ammi Cutter US librarian (Expansive classification/originated Cutter system), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | Robert Daniel Johnston Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | Robert Ross McBurney first paid secretary of the YMCA, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | Stephen Dodson Ramseur Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth Colonel (Union Army), died in 1861, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | Horace Porter Brevet Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan, industrialist-financed US, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| May 10 | Pinckney B S Pinchback Lieutenant Governor (Louisiana), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 23 | James Sanks Brisbin Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | Washington Roebling, American civil engineer; designed the Brooklyn Bridge | Ref: 70 |
| May 27 | James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok is born in Troy Grove, IL. | Ref: 70 |
| May 27 | Robert Frederick Hoke Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | Stephen Dodson Ramseur Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 30 | Stephen D Ramseur youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 31 | William Clarke Quantrill, leader of Quantrill's Raiders (Confederate irregulars) is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 24 | Mark Hanna, American industrialist and political kingmaker, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 02 | Charles Garrison Harker Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 14 | William Wells Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 19 | John Carpenter Carter Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 26 | George Dewey Admiral of the Navy: Spanish-American War: hero of Manila: “You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.”; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1838
| Jan 01 | William Hugh Young Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 12 | Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 20 | James Barbour Terrill Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 23 | Gilbert Moxley Sorrel Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 24 | Thomas Benton Smith Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1923, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | Basil Wilson Duke Kentucky, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1916, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 11 | John Wanamaker, U.S. merchant, founder of one of the first American department stores, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Oct 08 | John Milton Hay, American politician; U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905) | Ref: 70 |
- 1839
| Jan 25 | Seldon Connor Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1917, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 30 | Samuel Armstrong, American founder of Hampton Institute, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 09 | Felix Huston Robertson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1928, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | Francis Fessenden Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | Robert Smalls Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Representative-SC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 26 | Cyrus Hamblin Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 08 | John D. Rockefeller, who founded the Standard Oil Co. and gave more than $500 million to charitable causes, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 28 | Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 05 | George Armstrong Custer is born in New Rumley, OH. Ref | |
- 1840
| Jan 05 | John Doby Kennedy Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 11 | Sanuel Dana Greene Lieutenant Commander (Union Navy), died in 1884, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | Edmund Kirby Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | John Herbert Kelly Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 25 | James Dearing Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 14 | Benjamin Altman, American merchant; founded B. Altman department store chain, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 25 | Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 27 | William Kneass 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 27 | Alfred T. Mahan, navy admiral who wrote "The Influence of Seapower on History" and other books that encouraged world leaders to build larger navies, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1841
| Jan 21 | Sam Loyd, American puzzlemaker, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 31 | Sam Loyd, American puzzlemaker, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 27 | [Eleanor] Agnes Lee daughter of US General Robert E Lee, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | Blanche Kelso Bruce Farmville VA, (Senator-MS, 1875-1881), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior, the 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), the "Great Dissenter," is born in Boston. | Ref: 70 |
| May 31 | William Rockefeller, American industrialist and financier; helped to establish Standard Oil with his brother, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 05 | Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1842
| Mar 13 | Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, marries Joan Carfrae. Ref | |
| Mar 14 | Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, emigrates to the United States. Ref | |
| Apr 03 | Ulric Dahlgren Colonel (Union volunteers), died in 1864, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 08 | Elizabeth Clift Bacon (the wife of George A. Custer) is born in Monroe, Mi. Ref | |
| Apr 14 | Adna R. Chaffee, American army officer; chief of staff (1904-06), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 14 | Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1843
| Jan 11 | Francis Scott Key, author of the words that became 'The Star-Spangled Banner' after a battle in the War of 1812, dies at age 63 in Baltimore. | Ref: 2 |
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| Aug 10 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Joseph McKenna, American Supreme Court justice (1898-1925) is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 16 | Josephine Shaw Lowell, American social reformer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1844
| Feb 17 | A Montgomery Ward, founded mail-order business (Montgomery Ward), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Abel P Upshur Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Thommas W Gilmer Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 07 | Anthony Comstock New Canaan CT, anti-vice crusader/philatelist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Henry Baldwin, American Supreme Court justice, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 23 | Christian Gobrecht 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office. | Ref: 5 |
- 1845
| Sep 10 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Joseph Story associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1811-1845]; dies at age 65. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 03 | Edward White, American jurist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 08 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Edward Douglass White Justice of U.S. Supreme Court [1894-1910], 9th Chief Justice [1910-1921]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1846
| Feb 10 | Mildred Childe "Life" Lee daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | William Pinkerton, son of Allan Pinkerton of the famous detective agency, is born. ("Who Was Who in America, 1897-1942") | |
| May 19 | Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of the Farmer's Almanac, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
- 1847
| Jan 20 | W R Pettiford Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County Indiana. | Ref: 68 |
| Jul 04 | James Anthony Bailey Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 30 | John Peter Altgeld German/US (Governor-IL)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1848
| Feb 05 | Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley] US female outlaw in Texas and Oklahoma territory, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 18 | Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect and yacht designer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 19 | Wyatt Earp, frontiersman, lawman, gunfighter: gunfight at O.K. Corral; is born in Monmouth, IL | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 29 | John Jacob Astor, German-born American founder of the Astor dynasty, dies at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 01 | James Biddle, American career naval officer, dies at age 65. | Ref: 5 |
- 1849
| Dec 19 | Henry Clay Frick Pennsylvania, built world's largest coke & steel operation, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1850
| Jan 22 | Robert Brookings, American businessman/philanthropist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 27 | Henry Edwards Huntington US, railroad exec, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | John Munroe Longyear US, capitalist/bank president, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 12 | Henry Cabot Lodge, American statesman; Massachusetts senator from 1893 to 1924, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 09 | James Stillman, American financier and banker, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 20 | John Graves Shedd, president of Marshall Field and Company, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 28 | Brigham Young is named the Utah Governor. | |
| Oct 04 | John W McGraw (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | Oscar Solomon Straus, American member of President Wilson's cabinet, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1851
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| Jun 09 | Charles Bonaparte, American politician; U.S. attorney general (1906-09), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 21 | Daniel Carter Beard US, organized first boy scout troop, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 03 | Lady Isabella Caroline Somerset temperance leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 19 | William Hesketh Lever, English entrepreneur; built the Lever Brothers firm, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 06 | Charles Henry Dow, American financial journalist who (with Edward D. Jones) inaugurated the Dow-Jones averages, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 10 | Melvil Dewey, American librarian who created the Dewey Decimal System, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1852
| Feb 26 | Eli Terry, American clockmaker and an innovator in mass production, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 13 | F. W. (Frank Winfield) Woolworth merchant: created the five and ten cent store [1879 in Lancaster, PA]: headed F.W. Woolworth & Co. with over 1,000 stores, funded NY’s Woolworth Building; is born in Rodman NY. | Ref: 68 |
| May 01 | Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke] frontier adventurer/Indian fighter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 25 | Simeon North, American firearms manufacturer, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 24 | Daniel Webster statesman: “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”; subject of Benet’s The Devil and Daniel Webster; , dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
- 1853
| Jul 02 | Frederick Gates, American philanthropist and businessman, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1854
| Jan 18 | Juda Turo American philanthropist, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1855
| Mar 24 | Industrialist, founder of the Mellon Bank, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury [1921-1932], U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, [1932-1933] Andrew William Mellon is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 14 | Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, reform movement leader, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator and Progressive Party presidential candidate, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1856
| Mar 08 | William B. Booth, American general of the Salvation Army (1912-29), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| May 21 | Grace Hoadley Dodge, philanthropist, helped organize the YWCA, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 12 | James Brady, American financier and philanthropist; known as "Diamond Jim", is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 20 | Lawyer; U.S. Congressman: author of the Mann Act aka the "White Slave Traffic Act" in 1910, James Mann, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 13 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Louis Brandeis, jurist: Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-1939], the first Jew to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 14 | Louis Marshall, American lawyer and activist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 23 | James Buchanan Duke, American tobacco magnate, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1857
| Apr 18 | Clarence S Darrow defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 18 | Henry Clay Folger, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 27 | Jose Celso Barbosa Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1858
| Jan 04 | Carter Glass, US Secretary of the Treasury (1918-1920), US Senator (1920-1946), is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Mar 07 | Nikolai Artzibushev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | Matthew Ricketts first Black man elected to Nebraska State Legislature, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | Washington Atlee Burpee, founded the world's largest mail-order seed company, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 17 | Eben Sumner Draper former MA Gov, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 12 | Isaac Newton Lewis, American army officer and inventor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1859
| Jun 12 | Thomas Walsh, American politician; U.S. senator from Montana (1913-33), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 28 | Balington Booth founded Volunteers of America, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 01 | Charles Brantley Aycock (Gov-NC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1860
| May 10 | Theodore Parker, anti-slavery movement leader, dies. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 03 | Edward Albert Filene merchant, established US credit union movement, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 13 | John J. Pershing, "Black Jack" who led the campaign against Pancho Villa in Mexico and Commanded the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 09 | Leonard Wood, American medical officer and governor general of the Philippines (1921-7), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 31 | Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of Girl Scouts of America, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 31 | (Prohibition) Andrew Volstead, American Congressman from Minnesota (1903-23); introduced National Prohibition Act, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1861
| Feb 10 | Francis Danby Exmouth, painter, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | Lemuel Shaw, American jurist, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 04 | (US Supreme Court Justice) John McLean, United States Supreme Court justice; dissented in the Dred Scott decision (1857), dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
| May 24 | Elmer Ellsworth US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | James T Jackson US landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead). | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | Emily Perkins Bissell welfare worker (1st christmas seal drive, 1907), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 11 | George William Norris (Rep-Neb), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 22 | Mary Elizabeth Wood, American librarian and missionary, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 26 | Philip St George Cocke Confederate Brigadier-General, commits suicide at 52. | Ref: 5 |
- 1862
| Jan 21 | George Perkins, American insurance executive, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 31 | George Perkins, American insurance executive, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 18 | Charles M. Schwab, "Boy Wonder" of the steel industry. President of both U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 02 | Frederick West Lander US Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | Joseph Lee helped develop playgrounds, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | Nat Gordon last pirate, hanged in New York NY for stealing 1,000 slaves. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 09 | George W Johnson US planter/Confederate (Governor-KY), dies at about 50. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | William Harvey Lamb Wallace US lawyer/Brigadier-General, dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Charles Evans Hughs 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 19 | Louis Powell Harvey US Governor of Wisconsin, drowns. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 25 | Charles Ferguson Smith US Union General-Major, dies of infection at 55. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | William H Keim US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 07 | William Mumford first US citizen hanged for treason. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 14 | Florence Bascom geologist: first woman geologist appointed to the US Geological Survey and 1st to be elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America; associate editor: American Geologist; educator: Bryn Mawr, Ohio State; first woman to receive a doctorate degree: Johns Hopkins University [1893]; died June 18, 1945 | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 06 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge US, politician/author (Progressive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | Conrad Feger Jackson US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 49. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | Maxcy Gregg US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 14 | George Dashiell Bayard Union Brigadier-General, dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
- 1863
| Jan 02 | Roger Weightman Hanson Confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at 35. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | William Sulzer, New York governor (1913); impeached and removed from office, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 21 | Edwin Vose Sumner US Union-General-Major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 28 | James Cooper US attorney/senator/Union-Brigadier-General, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | Daniel Smith Donelson Confederate General/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 26 | Charles Haslewood Shannon lithographer/painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 29 | William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| May 16 | Lloyd Tilghman Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 23 | S. H. Kress, American retail businessman and art collector, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 26 | Sam Houston, fought for Texas’ independence from Mexico; President of Republic of Texas; U.S. Senator; Texas governor; dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 07 | R.W. Sears, American merchant and founder of Sears, Roebuck retail company, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 22 | Michael Corcoran Union Brigadier-General, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
- 1864
| Jan 11 | H. George Selfridge, founder of the British store Selfridge and Co., Ltd. and first who said "the customer is always right", is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 24 | Stephen Gardner Champlin Brigadier General (Union), dies at about 36. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 31 | Hamilton Rowan Gamble US judge/Governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | Robert E Park US, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 19 | William Edwin Baldwin US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | Lillie P. Bliss founder [with 2 other women] of New York City’s Museum of Modern Art; died in 1931 | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 22 | Joseph Gilbert Totten US Union General-Major, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | James Byron Gordon Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
| May 30 | James Barbour Terrill US attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 26. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 22 | James McPherson, American general, dies at age 35. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 12 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Roger Taney, 5th chief justice of the United States; noted for the Dred Scott decision (1857), dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
- 1865
| Jan 15 | Edward Everett, governor of Massachusetts, statesman and orator, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 07 | John Henry Winder US Confederate Brigadier-General/provost marshal, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Birth of Lewis E. Jones, American YMCA director. Jones was also a writer of hymns, and his most enduring contribution (which he both wrote and composed) was "Power in the Blood." | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | Frederic Goudy, American printer and typographer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 09 | Margaret Murray Washington wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 10 | William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting Confederate General-Major, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Richard Cobden founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | Lincoln Filene, American business executive and philanthropist; chairman of Federated Department Stores (1929-57), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 22 | Francis Washburn US Union Colonel/General Major, dies of injuries. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 23 | James Dearing US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 24. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 06 | Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill, 27, leader of the infamous raid on Lawrence KS, dies from a wound received a month earlier while escaping a Union patrol near Taylorsville, Kentucky. | Ref: 68 |
| Jun 29 | William E. Borah, lawyer/(Sen-R-Id), proponent of the League of Nations, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 02 | Irving Babbitt, scholar and founder of the modern humanistic movement, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 13 | Maud Ballington Booth, English-born American cofounder of Volunteers of America, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 23 | George B. McClellan Jr, son of the Civil War General of the same name, and two-term mayor of New York (1904-1910), is born in Dresden, Saxony (Germany) where his parents were vacationing. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 25 | Evangeline Cory Booth Salvation Army general (1904-34), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1866
| Feb 26 | Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | Butch Cassidy [Robert Parker] US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | Jose de Diego patriot and political leader of Puerto Rico; April 16 is a legal holiday in Puerto Rico in honor of de Diego; died July 17, 1918 | Ref: 4 |
| May 16 | Ernest Watson Burgess US sociologist (ecological school), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Winfield Scott, American army general, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 01 | John Ross, American Cherokee leader, dies at age 75. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 02 | Charles Francis Adams, American lawyer, businessman and government official, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 14 | William Pinkerton, son of Allan Pinkerton of the famous detective agency, marries Margaret S Ashling. ("Who Was Who in America, 1897-1942") | |
| Dec 26 | Samuel Ryan Curtis Union General-Major, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
- 1867
| Apr 16 | José de Diego Puerto Rico, patriot/Puerto Rican Secretary of Justice, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 30 | Arthur Vining Davis Sharon MA, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 04 | Stephen Mather organized US National Park Service, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | S.S. Kresge, American businessman, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 30 | S.S. (Sebastian Spering) Kresge merchant: S.S. Kresge’s five & dime stores [now Kmart]; died in 1966. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 31 | S.S. (Sebastian Spering) Kresge merchant: S.S. Kresge’s five & dime stores [now Kmart]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 07 | Financier J.P. (John Pierpont) Morgan, Jr. is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 21 | Henry Stimson, United States Secretary of War during World War II, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 29 | Sterling Price, American governor of Missouri and Confederate general, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 12 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Roger Brooke Taney, 5th chief justice of the United States; noted for the Dred Scott decision (1857), dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 23 | Madam CJ Walker [Sarah Breedlove] is born in Delta LA. She is the first black American female to become a millionaire. She sold hair straightener. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 30 | Simon Guggenheim philanthropist is born; established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation providing grants to scientists, scholars, artistsm, is born. (Died aboard the Titanic.) | Ref: 70 |
- 1868
| May 23 | Kit Carson, one of the most famous mountain men and scouts in the West, dies at age 58. | Ref: 68 |
| Aug 11 | Thaddeus Stevens architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 19 | Bertha Landes first woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1869
| Nov 04 | George Peabody, philanthropist and namesake of the Peabody awards for excellence in broadcasting, dies. ("Who Was Who in America, 1607-1896") | |
| Nov 18 | James E Sullivan founder (Amateur Athletic Union), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 24 | Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton US Secretary of War (1861-65) under President Lincoln, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
- 1870
| Jan 15 | Pierre Samuel du Pont, American businessman, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 31 | James M. Cox, American newspaper publisher and governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-21) | Ref: 70 |
| May 06 | Amedos Peter Giannini San Jose CA, founded Bank of America, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Benjamin Cardozo, American Supreme Court justice (1932-8), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 14 | David Farragut Civil War Union Navy Admiral: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.”; dies at age 69. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 19 | Bernard (Mannes) Baruch financier; chairman of War Industries Board [WWI]; representative: UN Atomic Energy Commission; presidential adviser; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 27 | Henry TP Comstock Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 30 | Thomas Lamont, American banker and financier, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 12 | General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington, Virginia, at age 63. | Ref:77 |
| Dec 06 | Joseph H Rainey, first black in the House of Representatives (South Carolina). | Ref: 5 |
- 1871
| Sep 09 | Stand Watie Indian Chief: Cherokee; signer of the Treaty of Echota; brigadier general: first Cherokee regiment for the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War; dies at age 64. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 22 | Oscar J Dunn (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned. | Ref: 5 |
- 1872
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| Jan 27 | Learned Hand Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina. | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | A. Mitchell Palmer, American attorney general (1919-21); helped touch off the "Red Scare" of 1919-20, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| May 20 | Madeline Breckinridge, American social reformer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 22 | Thomas Pendergast, American politician, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 07 | Slyvanus Thayer, US Army engineer, controversial superintendent of the US military academy at West Point, dies. | Ref: 17 |
| Oct 02 | Francis Lieber, German-born American political philosopher and jurist, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 10 | US Secretary of State who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 [Seward's Folly], dies at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 11 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Harlan (Fiske) Stone, Justice of U.S. Supreme Court [1925-1941], Chief Justice [1941-1946], is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 27 | Learned Hand Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 01 | Gerard Swope, the president of the General Electric Company for 20 years, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1873
| Mar 03 | William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | Salmon Chase, American politician/lawyer, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 03 | Emily Post, the American authority on proper etiquette, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 09 | Charles Rudolph Walgreen, "the father of the modern drugstore", is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1874
| Jan 18 | Myron Taylor, American financier/diplomat, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 29 | John David Rockefeller Jr Cleveland OH, philanthropist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | Charles Sumner, anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts, dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 15 | Harold L Ickes social activist, New Deal politician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Stephen Samuel Wise US, president of Zionist Organization of America, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | Billy Bitzer, American motion-picture cameraman, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 26 | Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller philanthropist: cofounder of NY Museum of Modern Art; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 20 | James M. Curley, American politician; mayor of Boston (1914-8, 1922-6, 1930-4, 1947-50) and governor of Massachusetts (1935-7), is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1875
| May 06 | William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star Admiral/chief of staff (1949), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 09 | Francis Preston Blair Jr famed St Louis lawyer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 30 | George Edward Pickett (of Pickett's Charge), American Confederate Army officer, dies at age 50. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 16 | J.C. (James Cash) Penney merchant: founder: J.C. Penney Co.; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1876
| Jun 25 | George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer, dies at age 36. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 07 | Culbert Olson Fillmore UT, (Gov-D-Cal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 08 | Frank L Gillespie Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1877
| Jan 04 | Cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron, capitalist: established ferry service between Manhattan & Staten Islands; turned a NY railroad into $$$; dies at age 82. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 10 | Robert Wagner, American politician; U.S. senator from New York (1927-49), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 14 | Mary Carpenter, American philanthropist and social reformer, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 05 | The great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted at age 27 by a soldier at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 13 | Theodore Bilbo, American politician; senator from MS (1935-47), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 18 | Florence Dahl Walrath humanitarian, founded Cradle society, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 29 | Nathan Bedford Forrest, the brilliant and notorious Confederate Civil War general , dies. | Ref: 70 |
- 1878
| Feb 01 | Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | Mark Hopkins, American capitalist; helped build Central Pacific Railroad, dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
| May 23 | Attorney John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 17 | Grace Abbott, Grand Island NB, social worker (US Children Bureau), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 23 | Ernest King, commander-in-chief of the U.S. fleet who designed the United States' winning strategy in World War II, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1879
| Mar 25 | William Knudsen, Danish-born American industrialist; president of General Motors (1937-1940), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| May 02 | James F. Byrnes, American politician; secretary of state (1945-7), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 13 | Robert Wood, American business executive, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 30 | John B Hood, the confederate general who lost Atlanta, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 31 | William Barber 6th US chief engraver (1844-79), dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 05 | -Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 yrs), dies. | Ref: 51 |
| Nov 05 | Will Hays, American politician and president of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (1922-45), is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1880
| Jan 26 | Douglas MacArthur, U.S. general in World War I, World War II and Korea, is born in Little Rock AR. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 12 | John Llewellyn Lewis union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Albert Davis Lasker, US advertising executive, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Jun 11 | Jeannette Rankin US Congresswoman: first woman to be elected to this position; only dissenting vote as Congress passed a Declaration of War against Japan [1941]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 18 | John Augustus Sutter Swiss/US colonist of California gold rush fame (New Helvetia CA, Sutter Mill), dies penniless in Pennsylvania. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 27 | Helen Keller, deaf and blind author, is born in Tuscumba, Alabama. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 28 | Ralph Edward Flanders Barnet VT, (Sen-VT), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1881
| Mar 12 | Daniel Webster Hoan Wisconsin (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | Emory Upton US Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at 42. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | Edith Nourse Rogers created Women's Army Auxiliary Corps [1942]; member of U.S. House of Representatives [reelected 17 times: served from June 25, 1925 until her death on Sep 10, 1960], is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 04 | Charles Funk, Ohio, of Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia fame, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 17 | Frontiersman Jim Bridger dies. He is the 1st Caucasian to see the Great Salt Lake in 1824, established Fort Bridger WY. Bridger National Forest bears his name. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 03 | William George Fargo, one of the founders of Wells, Fargo & Co, dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 13 | Ambrose Everett Burnside, American Union general, dies at age 57. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 12 | Arthur Garfield Hays, American lawyer and defender of civil liberties, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1882
| Jan 06 | Samuel Rayburn Tennessee, (Rep-D-TX), speaker of the House (1940-57), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 15 | Florian Znaniecki Polish/US sociologist (Polish Peasant in Europe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | Morgan Earp brother of Wyatt Earp, shot and killed while playing billiards in Tombstone AZ. | Ref: 68 |
| Apr 10 | Frances Perkins (Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945 and the 1st woman in the U.S. cabinet) is born. | Ref: 68 |
| May 09 | Henry J Kaiser builder (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 14 | Johnny Ringo, member of the Clanton Gang and enemy of the Earps, dies in Tombstone, AZ. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 30 | Admiral William ‘Bull’ (Frederick) Halsey, Jr., U.S. Naval Commander during WWII, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 13 | John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 15 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter, Vienna Austria, US supreme court justice (1939-62), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 11 | Fiorello LaGuardia ‘Little Flower’: politician: NYC mayor [1933-45]; LaGuardia Airport in NY bears his name; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1883
| Mar 04 | Alexander H Stephens Vice President Confederate States, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | Joseph W Stilwell, US General in China during World War II, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 23 | Jonathan Wainwright, U.S. general who fought against the Japanese on Corregidor in the Philippines and was forced to surrender, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 18 | Elmer Maytag, American industrialist who built and sold Maytag washing machines, is born in Newton IA. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 26 | Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies at about 3:00 AM. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 27 | Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-born American industrialist and philanthropist, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1884
| Jan 21 | Roger Nash Baldwin founder (American Civil Liberties Union), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | Arthur Vandenberg, American Republican senator, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| May 07 | Judah P Benjamin confederate minister of War, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 01 | Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, dies at age 64.. Ref | |
| Jul 06 | Harold (Stirling) ‘Mike’ Vanderbilt capitalist: director of NY Central Railroad; sportsman: first owner to sail his sailboat in America’s Cup competition [winners: Enterprise: 1930, 1934; Ranger: 1937]; invented game of contract bridge [1925]; son of Cornelius Vanderbilt; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 29 | Fred Lazarus Jr., American merchandiser, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 03 | Joseph Martin, American politician, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 06 | Rose Schneiderman NY State Department of Labor Secretary (1937-44), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1885
| Jan 13 | Alfred Fuller, founder of Fuller Brush, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 30 | John Henry Towers, American naval aviation pioneer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 24 | Chester Nimitz (U.S. Navy Admiral: WWII Commander of all Allied Forces in the SW Pacific, signer of the Japanese surrender papers) is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 21 | Raoul Lufbery, French-born American fighter pilot of World War I. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 10 | Bernard Gimbel (merchant: Gimbel’s Department Stores) is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 11 | Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 02 | Ruth Bryan Rohde US, (Rep), minister to Denmark, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 19 | Charles E. Merrill, the American investment banker who helped create the largest brokerage firm in the United States, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 11 | General George S. (Smith) Patton Jr., ‘Old Blood and Guts’: U.S. Army General: commander of Third Army during drive across France in WWII, tank strategist, is born in San Gabriel, California. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 03 | Marchien Zwitsers farmer in Lutten (died at 109 years old), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1886
| Jan 03 | Raymond Ames Spruance, US admiral, Ambassador to the Philippines, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Feb 27 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Hugo L Black, Alabama, (Senator-D-AL)/78th US Supreme Court justice (1937-71), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 09 | Robert Eichelberger, American general during World War II, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 13 | John Humphrey Noyes, American founder of the Oneida Community, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
| May 25 | Philip Murray, American labor leader, founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 25 | Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold military: US General and commander of the Army Air Force: WWII; first five-star general of the US Army Air Force; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 13 | Birth of Father Edward Flanagan, American Catholic parish priest. Believing there was 'no such thing as a bad boy,' in 1922 he organized Boys Town near Omaha, Nebraska. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 04 | Samuel Tilden, American lawyer, governor of New York, philanthropist for New York Public Library, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
- 1887
| Jan 05 | Courtney Hicks Hodges, US army general, commander of the First and Third Armies in World War II, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Jan 26 | Marc A "Pete" Mitscher US Lieutenant-Admiral (WWII-Task Force 58), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | Alvin York famed US soldier with 25 kills in WWI, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 14 | Sylvia Beach, American owner of Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 23 | Sidney Hillman, American labor leader and one of the founders of the C.I.O. (Sidney Hillman Foundation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | In Tuscumbia, Ala., teacher Anne Sullivan taught her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller, the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the manual alphabet. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 10 | Harry Flood Byrd, Jr, US Governor of VA, 1926-30, US Senator, 1933-65, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Jun 21 | Joseph Hayne Rainey, American politician; first African-American in the U.S. House of Representatives (1870-9), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 02 | Joseph Hayne Rainey, American politician; first African-American in the U.S. House of Representatives (1870-9), dies at age 55. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 08 | Doc Holliday, who fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 6 years earlier, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 13 | Alvin York, American military hero of World War I, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 25 | Conrad Hilton hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 26 | Birth of Charles Brandon Booth, American social reformer and head of the Volunteers of America, 1949-58. Booth was the grandson of Salvation Army founder William Booth. | Ref: 5 |
- 1888
| Feb 25 | John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State to President Eisenhower (1953-59), is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 12 | Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruely to Animals, dies at age 76. | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 23 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Morrison R. Waite attorney: seventh Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1874-1888]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 25 | Gerald Murphy, American expatriate; befriended, with wife, writers and artists in Paris in the 1920's, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| May 06 | Emmanuel Celler (Representative-D-NY, 1923-73), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 16 | Clinton Golden, PA founder (United Steelworkers of America), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 07 | Hamilton Fish US congress leader/isolationist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 18 | Robert Moses, the American public servant who supervised the construction of many New York landmarks, including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Shea Stadium, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1889
| Feb 03 | Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley] US female outlawin Texas and Oklahoma territory, is murdered at age 41. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 17 | H[aroldson] L Hunt Texas oil multi-millionaire, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | Eliphalet Remington, riflemaker, dies. | Ref: 68 |
| Apr 15 | Asa Phillip Randolph, American labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union) and Civil Rights advocate, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| May 15 | Bessie Hillman founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 06 | Major General George Kenney, commander of the US Fifth Air Force in New Guinea and the Solomons during World War II, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 08 | Robert A Taft (Sen-R-Ohio, co-author of the Taft-Hartley Act) is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 12 | Perle Mesta, American diplomat, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 24 | George Pendleton, American legislator and sponsor of the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
- 1890
| Jan 22 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Fred M Vinson, Kentucky, 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53), is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Feb 22 | John Jacob Astor, the millionaire, died | Ref: 62 |
| Apr 07 | Marjory Stoneman Douglas environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 17 | Harry Hopkins, who organized the Works Projects Administration under President Roosevelt, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 26 | Jane Currie Hoge, American welfare worker & fundraiser for the Union, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 06 | Claire Chennault, American brigadier general; led the Flying Tigers, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 24 | Chicago Mainbocher uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves) | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 21 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Fred M Vinson US Supreme Court Justice (1946-53), is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1891
| Jan 25 | William C Bullitt first US ambassador to USSR, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | David Dixon Porter US Rear Admiral (Union Army-Civil War), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | William Tecumseh Sherman, famous for his march through Georgia, dies at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 27 | David Sarnoff US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Earl Warren, governor of California, 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1953-1969, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 07 | Phineas T. (P.T.) Barnum, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
| May 11 | Henry Morgenthau Jr., US Secretary of the Treasury (1934-45), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 20 | Earl Browder, American Communist Party leader (1930-44), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 28 | Carl Spaatz, American first chief of staff of the Air Force, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 22 | Ely Culbertson, American Contract Bridge expert and peace activist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 28 | Alfred Love is elected president of the Universal Peace Union in the U.S. | |
| Oct 12 | Perle Mesta (Skirvin) socialite: ‘The hostess with the mostes’; diplomat: appointment as U.S. envoy to Luxembourg [1949] inspired Broadway play Call Me Madam; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 15 | W Averell Harriman US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 21 | John W McCormack (D) Speaker of the House (1962-70), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1892
| Feb 13 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Robert Houghwout Jackson 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 15 | James Forrestal US, banker/minister of Navy, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | David Dubinsky, Russian-born American labor leader (1969 Medal of Freedom), dies at age 90. | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 16 | James Petrillo, American labor leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 19 | James (Alward) Van Fleet 4-star U.S. Army General [WWI, WWII, Korean War]; consulted Defense Dept.; received Distinguished Service Cross; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 20 | Howard Vickery, American naval officer; vice admiral of the Navy (1944-46), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 02 | Jay Gould, the ambitious and sometimes unscrupulous financier, dies at age 56. | Ref: 3 |
| Dec 15 | J. (Jean) Paul Getty oil magnate: Getty Oil; once the richest man in the world; art collector: his art formed the nucleus of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu CA; is born in Minneapolis MN. | Ref: 4 |
- 1893
| Jan 23 | Frank Carlson (Governor/Republican/Senator-R-KS), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | James G Blaine US minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 12 | (Chairman, Joint Chiefs) Omar Bradley General of Army WWII "The GI General", is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 20 | P. G. T. Beauregard, American Confederate general, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 01 | Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | Edward Hart (Representative-Democrat-NJ)/1st chairman of Committee on Un-American Activities, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | Dean Atcheson, the US government official and primary creator of NATO, is born. | Ref: 15 |
| Apr 27 | Norman Bel Geddes Adrian MI, theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 27 | John Murray Corse US General (Union), dies on his 58th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
| May 11 | Samuel Armstrong, American founder of Hampton Institute, dies at age 54. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 30 | Anthony Drexel, American banker and philanthropist, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 30 | Huey P. Long, Louisiana politician who served as governor and U.S. senator, known as "The Kingfish" is born in Winn Parish, La. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 06 | Hamilton Fish, US Secretary of State (1869-77), dies at age 85. | Ref: 17 |
| Nov 27 | James G Blaine US minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
- 1894
| Jun 20 | George Delacorte NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 03 | Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones, ‘The Miner’s Angel'), American labor leader, dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 07 | Francis Henry Underwood, American lawyer/author, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 10 | Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca, Latvian-born American labor leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 16 | George Meany, American labor leader; president of the AFL-CIO (1955-79), is born in New York City. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 05 | Phillip K. Wrigley corporate executive: Wrigley Gum/Wrigley Field; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 13 | Sarah Parker Remond US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
- 1895
| Jan 01 | J. Edgar Hoover, founding director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) from 1924-1972, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 11 | Laurens Hammond, American inventor/businessman, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 20 | Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies in Washington DC at age 78. | Ref: 68 |
| Feb 23 | William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 03 | General Matthew Ridgeway US, military leader (WWII/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | Bone Mizell, the famed cowboy of Florida, appears before a judge for altering cattle brands. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 31 | John Jay McCloy lawyer/banker (Assistant Secretary of War 1941-45, president-Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-60)), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | Samuel I Newhouse US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 05 | Walter Bedell Smith, American Army chief of staff for U.S. forces in Europe during World War II, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 25 | Cal Farley ‘America’s greatest foster father’: founded Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch [1939]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1896
| Jan 04 | Everett (McKinley) Dirksen politician: elected to U.S. Senate in 1950, Republican minority leader [1959], most noted for his sudden, dramatic shifts from opposition to support of various measures; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 06 | Abram N Pritzker US businessman (Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 07 | Harold Hoffman South Amboy NJ, (Governor-New Jersey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | John J McClellan (Senator-D-AR), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 29 | Stanley Swash CEO (Woolworths), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 02 | Bone Mizell, the famed cowboy of Florida, is sentenced to two years of hard labor in the state pen for cattle rustling. He would only serve a small portion of the sentence. | Ref: 2 |
| May 01 | Mark Clark, American general during World War II, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 22 | Francis C Denebrink US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 24 | Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 16 | Sir David Macpherson, Scottish-born American politician and railway builder, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 27 | George Bender Cleveland, (Rep/Sen-R-Oh), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 29 | Philip L Carret Lynn MA, CEO (Pioneer Fund), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1897
| Apr 23 | Lucius du Bignon Clay US, General (WWII)/Governor (West Germany), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 09 | Albert Wedemeyer, American military leader during World War II, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 10 | Lloyd Goodrich American Arts Museum director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 11 | Gen Nathan F Twining USAF (Neither Liberty nor Safety), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1898
| Jan 22 | Ross R Barnett lawyer/(Gov-D-MS), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 11 | Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | Frances Willard founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Blanche Kelso Bruce (Senator-MS, 1875-1881), dies in Washington DC at 57. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 24 | Dorothy Stratton organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Eugene R Black, US, President of World Bank (1953-62), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | Armand Hammer industrialist: Occidental Petroleum Co.; physician: donated millions to aid cancer research is born in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 28 | Thomas Francis Bayard, American statesman, diplomat and lawyer, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 16 | Arthur H Dean lawyer/advisor to FDR, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 16 | (US Supreme Court Justice) William Orville Douglas, American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1939-75), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 28 | Jean Fairchild, future wife of General Douglas MacArthur, is born. (Dayton Daily News, p 4A, 01/23/2000) | |
- 1899
| Jan 08 | Sherman Llewellyn Adams, Govenor of NH 1949-53, White House Chief of Staff 1953-8, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Feb 20 | (Long Island) Cornelius Vanderbilt, Whitney Long Island NY, railroad tycoon, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 03 | Alfred M Gruenther US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | Capt. Dorothy Stratton organized SPARS [Semper Paratus Always Ready women’s branch of U.S. Coast Guard]; national executive director of Girl Scouts of America, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 24 | Richard Oglesby, American governor of IL (1865-69, 1873, 1885-89) and U.S. senator (1873-79), dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
| May 20 | (US Supreme Court Justice) John M Harlan, Chicago IL, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71), is born in Chicago IL.. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 08 | David Lilienthal, American businessman and government official, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 29 | Lyman L Lemnitzer US Army General (WW II), Chief of Staff, US Army and Nato Commander, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 23 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Tom C. Clark, American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 01 | Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1900
| Jan 27 | Hyman Rickover, American admiral who is considered the "Father of the Atomic Submarine", is born in Makowa, Poland. (TWA, 1986) | Ref: 95 |
| May 12 | Captain Mildred McAfee (Horton) first Director of U.S. Navy WAVES [Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service); Wellesley College President; Distinguished Service Medalist [1945]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 27 | Otto E Passman (Rep-D-La, 1947-77), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 31 | Elmo Roper, American who developed political forecasting by polls, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 13 | Collis Porter Huntington, American railroad magnate, dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 08 | Claude (Denson) Pepper US Senator from Florida [1936-1950]; member of Congress for fourteen terms; champion of social welfare for the elderly; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 17 | J.W. (John Willard) Marriott, of Marriott Hotels, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 20 | Wayne Morse (Sen-R/D-Ore) is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 11 | Hugh Scott (Sen-R-PA), minority whip, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 12 | Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
- 1901
| Jan 01 | Ignatius Donnelly US attorney/Lieutenant-Governor (Minnesota), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 02 | Robert Marshall founder (Wilderness Society), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Charles E Whittaker Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | William Maxwell Evarts, American lawyer/statesman, dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 02 | Pretty Boy Floyd, 1930's gangster, is born in Atkins OK. | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 04 | Charles H Goren, American contract bridge authority, bridge master (26 US Titles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 21 | Carmelita Geraghty Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Dorothy Buffum Chandler Los Angeles cultural patron; widow of LA Times publisher Norman Chandler; mother of publisher Otis Chandler; Dorothy Chandler Pavillion named for her; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 26 | Stuart Symington (Sen-D-Mo 1953-76), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 28 | Harry Bridges, American labor leader, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 03 | John Cornelius Stennis (Sen-D-Miss), is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Aug 23 | John Sherman Cooper (Sen-Ky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 26 | Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 19 | Arleigh A Burke US, admiral (WW II), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 05 | Martin Dies, American politician; first chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 18 | George (Horace) Gallup pollster whose opinion polls became famous by predicting FDR's win in 1936; is born in Jefferson IA. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 24 | William H. (Henry) Vanderbilt politician: Governor of Rhode Island [1939-1941]; grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1902
| Feb 06 | Louis Nizer lawyer/author (defended blacklisted stars in the '50s, Catspaw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | Blair Moody New Haven CT, (Senator-MI), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | Ray "Crash" Corrigan Milwaukee WI, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | Jennings Randolph (Senator), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | John Peter Altgeld German/US Governor of Illinois, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | Wade Hampton, American Confederate war hero of the Civil War, dies at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 27 | Julius Sterling Morton who started Arbor Day, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago through the 1960s and early 1970's, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 01 | Carlo Gambino, Italian-born American organized crime leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 11 | Jimmie (James Houston) Davis politician: Governor of Louisiana [1944-1948, 1960-1964]; Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter: You are My Sunshine, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 02 | Horace A Hildreth (Governor-ME, 1945-49), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 05 | [Steve James] Strom Thurmond (Sen-D/R-SC) since 1954 [first person in U.S. history to be elected to a major office by write-in ballot]; governor of South Carolina [1947-1951] | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 08 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr becomes an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | Talcott Parsons US sociologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1903
| Jan 18 | Abram Stevens Hewitt, American industrialist & philanthropist who became mayor of N. Y. C., dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 04 | Frank Howley Hampton NY, Brigadier General (Answers for Americans), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Mike Mansfield (Senator-Democrat-MT) majority whip, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | James S Russell US pilot/Admiral (WWII Pacific Ocean), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | Clare Boothe Luce, reporter, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| May 26 | Estes Kefauver (Senator-D-TN), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 01 | Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke] frontier adventurer/Indian fighter, dies. | Ref: 17 |
- 1904
| Jan 02 | James Longstreet, Confederate General, dies at age 82. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 15 | Mark Hanna, American industrialist and political kingmaker, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 16 | George F Kennan Milwaukee WI, US ambassador (to Moscow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 17 | Hans J. Morgenthau, German-bn. American political scientist and historian, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 21 | William Grace, Irish-born American shipowner; founder of W. R. Grace & Company, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 16 | Clifford Case (Senator-Republican-NJ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 27 | Arthur F Burns economist/chairman (Federal Reserve Board), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | Jacob K Javits (Senator-R-NY), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 18 | Sterling W Cole (Rep-R-NY), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 01 | Deaf, dumb and blind Helen Keller graduates with honors from Radcliffe College. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 15 | Marty Mann social activist: first woman to stay sober in Alcoholics Anonymous [AA], founded National Committee for Education on Alcoholism; author: A New Primer on Alcoholism; died in 1980 | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 01 | W A "Tony" Boyle United Mine Workers president, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 24 | Herbert D Riley US vice-admiral (WWII, Guadalcanal, Okinawa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1905
| Jan 01 | Melvin Price (Representative-D-IL, 1945- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 15 | Lewis Wallace Major General (Union volunteers)/lawyer/diplomat/author (Ben Hur), dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 18 | Jay Cooke, American financier, dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 05 | Gilroy Roberts US chief engraver (1948-64), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 01 | "Mother" Clara Hale US social worker (founded Hale House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 09 | J. William Fulbright, U.S. senator from Arkansas, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Apr 19 | John S "Jimmy" Thach US pilot/Admiral (WWII), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | Edmund G "Pat" Brown (Governor-Democrat-CA), is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Jul 01 | John Milton Hay, American politician; U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905), dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 03 | Margaret Kuhn National Women’s Hall of Famer: forced into retirement at age 65, she formed the Gray Panthers to fight age discrimination; her advice: “Speak your mind. Even if your voice shakes, well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.”; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 10 | Eugene Dennis, American Communist Party leader and labor organizer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 12 | Josephine Shaw Lowell, American social reformer, dies at age 61. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 16 | Rex Bell Chicago, cowboy (Cowboys & Injuns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 24 | Howard Hughes industrialist: Hughes Aircraft; pilot [the ‘Spruce Goose’]; Hollywood producer: Jean Harlow’s career; The Front Page, Scarface, The Outlaw; eccentric recluse: long fingernails; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1906
| Jan 16 | Marshall Field, of Chicago's Marshall Field's, dies at age 70. | Ref: 68 |
| Jan 25 | Joseph Wheeler II Confederate General, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | Howard Zahniser Father of the Wilderness Act, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | Roy L Johnson US Admiral (WWII-Pacific Ocean), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | Howard Pyle (Governor-Republican-AZ, 1951-55), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | Mary Hannah Hunt, American temperance leader, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 25 | (US Supreme Court Justice) William J Brennan Jr, Newark NJ, 92nd Supreme Court justice (1956-90), authored more than 1,200 opinions, including many landmarks: free press [New York Times v. Sullivan], women’s rights [Frontiero v. Richardson], reapportionment [Baker v. Carr], civil rights [Cooper v. Aaron, Green v. County School Board], is born. (TWA, 1986) | Ref: 95 |
| Jul 18 | S.I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa, US Senator; president of San Francisco State College; writer: language textbooks; led initiative declaring English as official language of CA; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 22 | Russell Sage, American financier, dies at age 90. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 07 | James E Webb head of NASA (1961-68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 15 | Curtis LeMay, American airforce officer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 12 | William C Pahlmann interior decorator (4 Season restaurant, New York NY), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | Clark M Clifford US Secretary of Defense (1968-69), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | William McChesney Martin Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank (1951-70), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1907
| Feb 10 | Grace Hamilton first black member of Georgia state legislature, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 17 | Henry Steel Olcott US co-founder (Theosophist Society-Madras), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | John Pastore politician: first of Italian descent to become a state governor [Rhode Island: 1945-1950], then U.S. Senator [1950-1974]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 22 | James Gavin, U.S. Army General who commanded the 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day, Operation Market-Garden and the Battle of the Bulge, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 24 | Lauris Norstad US General (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 28 | Irving (Paul) ‘Swifty’ Lazar Hollywood talent agent to the stars: Humphrey Bogart, Cole Porter, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 11 | Paul Mellon philanthropist/horse breeder (1964 Gold Baton), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 08 | George W Romney (Gov-R-Mich)/US Secretary of HUD (1969-73), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | Melvin Belli, ‘King of Torts’: attorney, (represented Mae West, Errol Flynn, Muhammad Ali, Jack Ruby, Tammy Fae Bakker) is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 19 | Thurston Morton (Sen-Ky, 1957-1969), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 17 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren Burger is born. Ref | |
| Sep 19 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Lewis F. Powell Jr. associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court [1972-1987]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 01 | Hiram Fong (Sen-Cal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | Ray C Bliss (R) Ohio State Republican Chairman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1908
| Jan 13 | (Chairman, Joint Chiefs) Earle Wheeler WWII U.S. Army General, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff [1964-1970]; namesake for Hawaii’s Wheeler Army Air Force Base; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 18 | Albert P Morano (Representative-R-CT, 1951-59), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | Adam Clayton Powell (Representative-D-NY, 1945-70), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | General Edward Lansdale model for "Quiet American" & "Ugly American", is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson national Park Warden, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 10 | Carl Albert US speaker of house (1971-77), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | Maurice H Stans Shakope MN, US Secretary of Commerce (1969-72), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | Jane Bolin attorney: first black woman graduate of Yale School of Law; first black, female judge, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| May 10 | Carl Albert (D), speaker of the House, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 09 | Louis Kutner ‘The Spring Man’: attorney: responsible for release of unjustly-held prisoners; wrote the living will concept, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 19 | Quentin N Burdick (Sen-D-NC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 02 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Thurgood Marshall US Supreme Court Associate Justice: first black to hold this office [1967-1991]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 08 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Arthur J Goldberg, UN ambassador/Supreme Court justice (1962-65), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 20 | Kingsley Davis, American sociologist and demographer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 09 | James E Folsom (AL-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 12 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who wrote the majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 08 | John Volpe (Governor-MA)/US Secretary of Treasury (1969-73), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1909
| Feb 01 | Douglas Hall Governor (Somaliland Protectorate), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 09 | (David) Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 03 | Harry Hemsley billionaire New York landlord, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Harry B Helmsley New York NY, billionaire builder (Empire State Building), is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 16 | George Thorndike Angell lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | Wilbur Mills (Representative-D-AR)/involved with Fanne Foxe, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | Helen Eugenie Anderson, American ambassador to Denmark; first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 03 | Earl L Butz US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 21 | C Dillon Douglas Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 26 | Frank Gasparro Phila Pa, US chief engraver (1965-81), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 29 | Roy Reuther Wheeling WV, labor leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 11 | William Natcher (Rep-D-Ky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 01 | Sam Yorty (Mayor-LA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 25 | Philleo Nash US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 20 | Alan Bible (Sen-D-NV, 1954-74), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 29 | Business guru and author Peter Drucker is born. (USA Today, 7/05/2002) | Ref: 13 |
| Dec 10 | Red Cloud, Sioux Indian chief, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 21 | George Ball IA, lawyer/UnderSecretary of state, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1910
| Jan 07 | Orval Faubus (Gov-AR), led resistance to Supreme Court-mandated desegregation of educational institutions, is born. | Ref: 17 |
| Jan 17 | Edith S Green (Representative-D-OR), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 20 | Millicent Fenwick (Representative-R-NJ 1975-82), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | Millicent Fenwick New York NY, (Representative-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 26 | William H Lewis appointed Assistant Attorney General of US. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 27 | Alexander E Agassiz US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 09 | Abraham A Ribicoff (Sen-D-Ct), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | William G Sumner US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 18 | Jamie L Whitten (Representative-Democrat-MS, 1941- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | William I Martin US pilot/Vice-Admiral (WWII), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | Laurance S. Rockefeller, New York NY, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank), conservationist: donated 92 acres on the top of Sage Mountain for British Virgin Islands’s first national park [1964], is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 19 | (US Supreme Court Justice) Abe Fortas, US Supreme Court Justice [1965-69]: resigned in 1969 after published reports that he had accepted lecture fees and a legal retainer while serving on the Court; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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American Notables Chronology