The Great Wave off Kanagawa, published 1829-1833 by Katsushika Hokusai
In the year 1829, Andrew Jackson is sworn in as the 7th President of the United States (Mar 4), Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire (Mar 22), accordion is patented (May 23), the Metropolitan Police Service in London is established (Jun 19), the first bus service in London is begun (Jul 4), African-American abolitionist David Walker publishes his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (Sep 25), the first bobbies start patrolling London streets (Sep 23), the first modern hotel in the U.S. opens (Oct 16), Katsushika Hokusai paints his masterpiece The Great Wave off Kanagawa - and all these fine people were born:
1829-0101 Tommaso Salvini* Italian actor - Milan (1915/86)
1829-0110 Epameinondas Deligeorgis* Greek lawyer/newspaper reporter/politician/PM - Tripoli, Peloponnese (1879/50)
1829-0117 Catherine Booth* (b Mumford) co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth - Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England (1890/61)
1829-0121 Oscar II* King of Sweden/Norway - Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden-Norway (1907/78)
1829-0127 Isaac Roberts* engineer/ businessman/amateur astronomer - Henllan, Denbighshire, Wales (1904/75)
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1829-0202 Alfred Brehm* German zoologist/ writer/director of zoological garden - Unterrenthendorf, Thuringia (1884/55)
1829-0202 William Stanley* inventor/architect - Islington, London, England (1909/80)
1829-0208 Knut Ferdinand Ridderström* teacher/ translator - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1897/68)
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1829-0226 Levi Strauss* German-American businessman/founder of Levi Strauss & Co./to U.S at age 18 - Buttenheim, Kingdom of Bavaria (1902/73)
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1829-0302 Carl Schurz* German revolutionary/American statesman/to U.S. at age 20 - Liblar, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation (1906/77)
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1829-0319 Carl Frederik Tietgen* industrialist/ financier - Odense, Kingdom of Denmark (1901/72)
1829-0322 Axel Hampus Dalström* architect (Old Student House) - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1882/52)
1829-0323 N. R. Pogson* astronomer - Nottingham, England (1891/62)
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1829-0410 William Booth* preacher/ founder of The Salvation Army - Sneinton, Nottingham, England (1912/83)
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1829-0429 Robert E. Rodes* railway engineer/Confederate general in the American Civil War - Lynchburg, VA USA (1864/35)
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1829-0508 Louis Moreau Gottschalk* pianist/composer - New Orleans, LA USA (1869/40)
1829-0509 Charles Walter De Vis* ornithologist/ botanist//to Australia at age 41 - Birmingham, England (1915/85)
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1829-0601 Albina Palmqvist* Finnish aristocrat /lover and muse of the writer Aleksis Kivi - Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark (1903/73)
1829-0605 George Stephen* Scottish-Canadian businessman/to Canada at age 21 - Dufftown, Scotland (1921/92)
1829-0606 Honinbo Shusaku* 本因坊秀策 (b Kuwabara Torajiro) professional Go player - Innoshima, Bingo Province, Japan (1862/33)
1829-0608 John Everett Millais* painter/illustrator - Southampton, Hampshire, England (1896/67)
1829-0609 Gaetano Braga* Italian cellist/ composer - Giulianova, Abruzzi (1907/78)
1829-0616 Geronimo* Bedonkohe Apache medicine man - Arizpe, Mexican Republic (1909/79)
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1829-0702 Martis Karin Ersdotter* Swedish businesswoman (hair jewellery) - Våmhus, Dalarna, Sweden-Norway (1902/72)
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1829-0712 Edwin Long* painter - Bath, Somersetshire, England (1891/61)
1829-0714 Edward White Benson* Archbishop of Canterbury - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England (1896/67)
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1829-0725 Elizabeth Siddal* artist/ poet/artists' model - London, England (1862/32)
1829-0726 Auguste Beernaert* prime minister of Belgium/N - Ostend, United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1912/83)
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1829-0804 Robert Nobel* Swedish industrialist/investor/brother of Alfred Nobel - Stockholm, Sweden-Norway (1896/77)
1829-0819 G. W. Edlund* bookstore owner/publisher - Turku, GD of Finland (1907/77)
1829-0819 Edward Moran* maritime painter - Bolton, Lancashire, England (1901/71)
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1829-0824 Emanuella Carlbeck* Swedish pedagogue/social reformer - Nårunga, Sweden-Norway (1901/72)
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1829-0903 Adolf Eugen Fick* German physician/physiologist - Kassel, Electrorate of Hesse (1901/71)
1829-0907 August Kekulé* organic chemist - Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse (1896/66)
1829-0911 Thomas Hill* British-American painter/to U.S. at age 15 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England (1908/78)
1829-0912 Anselm Feuerbach* painter - Speyer, Kingdom of Bavaria (1880/50)
1829-0924 Theodor Tigerstedt* physician/ lawyer/statesman - Nilsiä, GD of Finland (1910/80)
1829-0930 Engelbert Röntgen* German violinist - Deventer, Netherlands (1897/68)
1829-1001 Sidney Hill* merchant/ gentleman farmer/philanthropist - Bristol, England (1908/78)
1829-1005 Chester A. Arthur* politician/21usp - Fairfield, Vermont USA (1886/57)
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1829-1013 Jules Pellechet* architect - Paris, Kingdom of France (1903/73)
1829-1015 Asaph Hall* astronomer/discovered the two moons of Mars (Deimos & Phobos) - Goshen, CT USA (1907/78)
1829-1030 Roscoe Conkling* lawyer/ politician - Albany, NY USA (1888/58)
1829-1031 Andrew Bannatyne* Canadian fur trader/politician/leading citizen of Winnipeg, Manitoba - South Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland (1889/59)
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1829-1104 Hanna Hammarström* industrialist/inventor - Stockholm, Sweden (1909/79)
1829-1110 Newton Knight* farmer/ soldier/Southern Unionist - Jones County, MS USA (1922/92)
1829-1121 Edvard Bergh* lawyer/ writer - Vaasa, GD of Finland (1903/73)
1829-1127 Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure* Swiss mineralogist/entomologist - Geneva (1905/75)
1829-1128 Anton Rubinstein* pianist/composer/conductor - Vikhvatinets, Russian Empire (1894/64)
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1829-1215 Knut Forsberg* Swedish-American landscape architect/writer/to U.S. at age 40 - Stockholm, Sweden-Norway (1895/65)
1829-1221 Laura Bridgman* the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language - Hanover, NH USA (1889/59)
1829-1225 Patrick Gilmore* Irish-American composer/bandmaster/to U.S. at age 18 - Ballygar, County Galway, Ireland (1892/62)
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