In the year 1834, York in Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto (Mar 6), Cyrus McCormick is granted a patent for his mechanical reaper (Jun 21), the Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 15th century, is suppressed by royal degree (Jul 15), slavery is abolished in the British Empire (Aug 1), Athens becomes the capital of Greece, Thomas Davenport creates one of the first electric cars by installing his DC electrical motor in a small model car - and all these fine people were born:
1834-0107 Johann Philipp Reis* scientist/inventor - Geinhausen, Germany (1874/40)
1834-0117 August Weismann* evolutionary biologist - Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (1914/80)
1834-0208 Dmitri Mendeleev* chemist/inventor - Verkhnie Aremzyani, Russian Empire (1907/72)
1834-0216 Ernst Haeckel* zoologist/ eugenicist/marine biologist - Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (1919/85)
1834-0311 Edward Welby Pugin* architect/entrepreneur - Ramsgate, Kent, England (1875/41)
1834-0316 James Hector* Scottish-New Zealand geologist/surgeon/ to New Zealand at age 28 - Edinburgh, Scotland (1907/73)
1834-0317 Gottlieb Daimler* automobile industrialist - Schorndorf, Württemberg, German Confederation (1900/65)
1834-0324 William Morris* textile designer/poet/activist - Walthamstow, Essex, England (1896/62)
1834-0402 Paškal Buconjić* Catholic bishop - Drinovci, Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire (1910/76)
1834-0423 Chauncey Depew* lawyer/rairoad magnate/ senator - Peekskill, NY USA (1928/93)
1834-0427 Margaret Macpherson Grant* heiress/philanthropist - Garbity, Banffshire, Scotland (1877/42)
1834-0520 Albert Niemann* chemist/co-isolator of cocaine - Goslar, Kingdom of Hannover (8961/26)
1834-0523 Carl Bloch* painter - Copenhagen, Denmark (1890/55)
1834-0528 Elizabeth Richards Tilton* suffragist/poetry editor - Brooklyn, NY USA (1897/62)
1834-0530 William James Stephens* lawyer/legislator/to America at age 13 - Kingston, County Dublin, Ireland (1918/84) University of Montana (p. 34)
1834-0619 Charles Spurgeon* preacher/“Prince of Preachers” - Kelvedon, Essex, England (1892/57)
1834-0629 Robert Montgomery* lawyer/senator/civil servant - Kajaani, GD of Finland (1898/64)
1834-0709 Jan Neruda* journalist/writer/poet - Prague, Austrian Empire (1891/57)
1834-0710 James Abbott McNeill Whistler* artist - Lowell, MA USA (1903/69)
1834-0719 Edgar Degas* painter - Paris, France (1917/83)
1834-0726 Stephen Cummings Toof* farmer/ printer/owner of Graceland Farms (named after his daughter Grace) which became Graceland - Montreal, QC Canada (1910/75) Find a Grave
1834-0802 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi* sculptor (Statue of Liberty)/painter - Colmar, France (1904/70)
1834-0804 John Venn* logician/ philosopher - Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England (1923/88)
1834-0822 Samuel Langley* astronomer/ physicist/aviation pioneer - Roxbury, MA USA (1906/71)
1834-0917 Robert Simpson* Scottish-Canadian merchant/founder of Simpson’s department store chain in Canada/to Canada at age 21 - Strathspey, Moray, Scotland (1897/63)
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1834-0930 Andreas Heusler* jurist/ judicial historian/politician - Basel, Swiss Confederation (1921/87)
1834-0930 Louis Pierre Mouillard* artist/innovator - Lyon, France (1897/62)
1834-1006 Walter Kittredge* musician/songwriter - Merrimack, NH USA (1905/70)
1834-1010 Aleksis Kivi* (b Alexis Stenvall) author/poet/wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language - Nurmijärvi, GD of Finland (1872/38)
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1834-1108 Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner* astrophysicist/researcher of optical illusions/psychical investigator - Berlin, German Confederation (1882/47)
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1834-1121 Hetty Green* (b Robinson) “the Witch of Wall Street”/ businesswoman/ financier - New Bedford, MA USA (1916/81)
1834-1124 Emile Lamm* French-American dentist/inventor/to U.S. at age 14 - Aÿ, Kingdom of France (1873/38)
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1834-1216 Léon Walras* mathematical economist/Georgist - Évreux, Upper Normandy, France (1910/75)
1834-1224 Augustus George Vernon Harcourt* chemist - London, England (1919/84)
1834-1231 Queen Kapiolani* Queen Consort of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi - Hilo, Hawai’i, Kingdom of Hawai’i (1899/64)
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