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Le Quai Saint Michel et Notre Dame by Maximilien Luce (painted 1901)[/caption]
In the year 1831, the French Foreign Legion is founded (Mar 10), Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is published (Mar 16), the North Magnetic Pole is located by James Clark Ross (Jun 1), Leopold I is inaugurated as the King of the Belgians (Jul 21), Russian troops enter the Polish capital Warsaw and crush all resistance (Sep 6), slave trading is forbidden in Brazil (Nov 7), Charles Darwin embarks on his historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle from Plymouth, England (Dec 27) - and all these fine people were born:
1831-xxxx Jacob W. Davis* (b Jakobs Jufess) Latvian-American tailor/ inventor of the modern jeans/to U.S at age 23 - Riga, Russian Empire (1908/c.77) 1831-0103 Savitribai Phule* social reformer/ educationalist/poet - Naigaon, British India (1897/66) 1831-0111 Selim Osvald Wasastjerna* physician/philanthropist - Maalahti, GD of Finland (1917/86) 1831-0120 Piet Joubert* Commandant-General of the South African Republic/Vice-President - Farm Cango, British Cape Colony (1900/69) 1831-0126 Mary Mapes Dodge* children’s author/editor - New York City, NY USA (1905/74) 1831-0212 John Morrissey* Irish-American bare-knuckle boxing champion/ gambler/politician - Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland (1878/47) 1831-0215 Adolf Deucher* physician/politician - Zürich, Switzerland (1912/81) 1831-0220 1831-0224 Leo von Caprivi* general/statesman/ Chancellor of Germany - Berlin, Prussia (1899/67) 1831-0303 George Pullman* engineer/ inventor/industrialist - Brocton, NY USA (1897/66) 1831-0306 Philip Sheridan* Union general - Albany, NY USA (1888/57) 1831-0312 Clement Studebaker* wagon and carriage manufacturer - Pinetown, PA USA (1901/70) 1831-0315 Edward A. Perry* general under Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War/Governor of Florida - Richmond, MA USA (1889/58) 1831-0331 1831-0401 Albert Anker* painter/illustrator - Ins, Switzerland (1910/79) 1831-0419 Mary Louise Booth* translator/writer/the first editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar - Millville, NY USA (1889/57) 1831-0507 Richard Norman Shaw* architect - Edinburgh, Scotland (1912/81) 1831-0613 James Clerk Maxwell* scientist/mathematical physicist - Edinburgh, Scotland (1879/48) 1831-0614 Georg Wilenius* architect - Finström, GD of Finland (1892/61) 1831-0630 Antti Manninen* farmer/agricultural writer - Mikkeli, GD of Finland (1866/35) 1831-0701 1831-0708 John Pemberton* pharmacist/developer and founder of Coca-Cola - Knoxville, GA USA (1888/57) 1831-0710 1831-0719 Jaakko Pukkila* “Pukkilan Jaska” farmer’s son/puukkojunkkari - Kauhava, GD of Finland (DD unknown) 1831-0720 1831-0727 Ludvig Immanuel Nobel* Swedish engineer/businessman/brother of Alfred Nobel – Stockholm, Sweden-Norway (1888/56) 1831-0731 1831-0812 Helena Blavatsky* author/ philosopher/ theosophist - Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (1891/59) 1831-0814 Adolf von Becker* painter/art professor - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1909/78) 1831-0816 Hiram Bingham II* Christian missionary - Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii (1908/77) 1831-0822 Michael Louis Westheimer* emigrated to U.S. as a young man/ merchant/philanthropist - Baden, Germany (1905/73) 1831-0831 1831-0901 1831-0903 Henry L. Mitchell* lawyer/ judge/Governor of Florida - near Birmingham, AL USA (1903/72) 1831-0916 Lena Antintytär Hakoniemi** (Haka/b Långholm) married to Mikko Juhonpoika Hakoniemi (b Latva-Luhtasela) - Kovjoki, Långholm, Uusikaarlepyy, GD of Finland (1894/63) 1831-0918 Siegfried Marcus* engineer/ inventor/automobile pioneer - Malchin, GD of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1898/66) 1831-0920 Kate Harrington* teacher/writer/poet - Allegheny City, PA USA (1917/85) 1831-1016 Lucy Stanton* (born free) abolitionist/feminist - OH USA (1910/78) 1831-1031 Paolo Mantegazza* neurologist/physiologist/ anthropologist - Monza, Italy (1910/78) 1831-1118 Albert Palmberg* physician/hygienist - Geta, Åland, GD of Finland (1916/85) 1831-1119 James A. Garfield* politician/20usp - Moreland Hills, OH USA (1881/49) 1831-1121 Laura Curtis Bullard* (b Curtis) writer/women’s rights activist - Bangor, ME USA (1912/80) 1831-1130 1831-1219 Bernice Pauahi Bishop* member of the Royal Family of the Kingdom of Hawaii/philanthropist - Haleakala, Honolulu, Hawaii (1884/52) 1831-1222 Wilhelm Rosenlew* industrialist/founder of the Rosenlew company - Pori, GD of Finland (1892/60) 1831-0 1831-0 1831-0 Updated 2025-0103 Helsinki Search for another year here PS. Check here to read more about the bells of Notre-Dame!