The Philharmonic Society is founded in London (Jan 24), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is published (Jan 28), Prussia declares war on France (Mar 17), American forces capture Fort George in Canada (May 27), the Carabinieri are founded in the Kingdom of Sardinia (Jul 13), Napoleon’s troops are victorious in Dresden (Aug 27), Simón Bolívar is given the title El Libertador in Venezuela (Oct 5), British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York (Dec 29), the Napoleonic Wars go on - and all these fine people were born:
1813-0118 Joseph Glidden* inventor of barbed wire - Charlestown, NH USA (1906/93)
1813-0119 Henry Bessemer* inventor - Charlton, Hertfordshire, England (1898/85)
1813-0121 John C. Frémont* explorer/politician/soldier - Savannah, GA USA (1890/77)
1813-0123 Camilla Collett* writer/feminist - Kristiansand, Norway (1895/82)
1813-0125 J. Marion Sims* physician/surgeon - Lancaster County, SC USA (1883/70)
1813-0131 Samuel Sarphati* physician/Amsterdam city planner - Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1866/53)
1813-0211 Otto Ludwig* dramatist/novelist/critic - Eisfeld, Thuringia, Kingdom of Prussia (1865/52)
1813-0223 John Murray Forbes* railroad magnet - Bordeaux, France (85)
1813-0315 John Snow* physician/one of the fathers of modern epidemiology - York, England (1858/45)
1813-0319 David Livingstone* pioneer medical missionary - Blantyre, Scotland (1873/60)
1813-0322 Fredrik Woldstedt* astronomer/geodesist - Himanka, GD of Finland (1861/48)
1813-0323 Mary Elizabeth Lee* writer - Charleston, SC USA (1849/35)-a
1813-0401 Karl Friedrich Rammelsberg* mineralogist - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1899/86)
1813-0417 Luigi Settembrini* man of letters/politician - Naples, Italy (1877/64)
1813-0505 Sören Kierkegaard* philosopher - Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark (1855/42)
1813-0509 Gustav Bläser* sculptor - Düsseldorf, Germany (1874/60)-a
1813-0511 Jane Manning James* as Mormon one of the first recorded African-American women to enter Utah - Wilton, CT USA (1908/94)
1813-0522 Richard Wagner* composer/conductor - Leipzig, Germany (1883/69)
1813-0606 Margareta Rinta-Jussila** farmer’s wife - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1902/89)
1813-0624 Henry Ward Beecher* clergyman/social reformer/abolitionist - Litchfield, CT USA (1887/73)
1813-0715 George Peter Alexander Healy* portrait painter - Boston, MA USA (1894/80)
1813-0719 Samuel Kier* inventor/pioneering oil refiner - Conemaugh Township, PA USA (1874/61)
1813-0728 James Newlands* civil engineer/the first Borough Engineer appointed in the United Kingdom (Liverpool)/ credited with designing and implementing the first integrated sewerage system in the world in 1848 - Edinburgh, Scotland (1871/57)
1813-0821 Jean Stas* analytical chemist - Leuven, Belgium (1891/78)
1813-0824 Pietari Hannikainen* (b Hanén) surveyor/journalist/writer - Sääminki, GD of Finland (1899/86)
1813-0826 Harrison Reed* politician/Governor of Florida - Littleton, MA USA (1899/85)
1813-0829 Henry Bergh* prevention of animal cruelty pioneer - New York, NY USA (1888/74)
1813-0917 John Sedgwick* Union Army general - Cornwall, CT USA (1864/50)
1813-0924 Gerardo Barrios* President of El Salvador - San Juan Lempa, El Salvador (1865/51)
1813-1010 Giuseppe Verdi* opera composer - Busseto, Italy (1901/87)
1813-1017 Georg Büchner* dramatist/poet - Riedstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse (1837/23)
1813-1018 Ferdinand von Miller* artisan/bronze founding - Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany (1887/73)
1813-1023 Ludwig Leichhardt* explorer/naturalist - Sabrodt, Kingdom of Prussia (1848/34)
1813-1113 Kreeta Haapasalo* kantele player, folk singer - Kaustinen, GD of Finland (1893/79)
1813-1113 Allen G. Thurman* politician - Lynchburg, VA USA (1895/82)
1813-1202 Matthias Castrén* Finnish Swedish ethnologist/ philologist/ pioneer in the study of the Uralic languages - Tervola, GD of Finland (1852/38)
1813-1208 Oscar Andersson* actor/theater manager - Stockholm, Sweden (1866/52)
1813-1219 Thomas Andrews* chemist/physicist - Belfast, Ireland (1885/71)
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