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Singer’s 1854 improved patent model[/caption]
In the year 1851, Edward Hargraves claims to have found gold in Australia (Feb 12), Verdi’s Rigoletto is first performed (Mar 11), the first Australian gold rush is proclaimed (May 15), Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine (Aug 12), the New York Times is founded (Sep 18), the news service Reuters is founded (Oct), The Whale (later known as Moby Dick) is published in London (Oct 18), Moby Dick is published in the U.S. (Nov 14), the first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts (Dec 29), Western Union is founded - and all these fine people were born:
1851-xxxx Felix Alexander McHugh* ranch owner - Ottawa, Canada West (1912/c.60)
1851-0105 Oscaria Sarén* photographer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1934/83)
1851-0108 Gérard Leman* general/commander of the forts surrounding Liège during WWI - Liège, Belgium (1920/69)
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1851-0117 A.B. Frost* illustrator/comics writer - Philadelphia, PA USA (1928/77)
1851-0119 David Starr Jordan* ichthyologist/ eugenicist/peace activist - Wyoming County, NY USA (1931/80)
1851-0119 Jacobus Kapteyn* astronomer - Barneveld, the Netherlands (1922/71)
1851-0120
1851-0121 Pietro Frugoni* Italian general - Brescia, Kingdom of Italy (1940/89)
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1851-0202 Ella Giles Ruddy* (b Giles) author/ editor - Dunkirk, WI USA (1917/66)
1851-0214 Mina Backlund-Cygnaeus* actress/ active in Finland - Jönköping, Sweden-Norway (1936/85)
1851-0218 Ida Husted Harper* author/journalist/suffragist - Franklin County, IN USA (1931/80)
1851-0220
1851-0223 Frederick Warde* (b Ward) actor/ to U.S. in his 20s - Wardington, Oxfordshire, England (1935/83)
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1851-0315 John Sebastian Little* politician/ governor of Arkansas - Jenny Lind, AR USA (1916/65)
1851-0318 Rose Coghlan* actress/ active in America - Peterborough, England (1932/81)
1851-0319 Pierre Ruffey* army general - Dijon, French Second Republic (1928/77)
1851-0319 Elin Sjöström* (b Sundeberg) schoolteacher/ suffragist - Mikkeli, GD of Finland (1936/85)
1851-0319 William Henry Stark* industrial leader - San Augustine, TX USA (1936/85)
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1851-0401 Bruno von Mudra* Prussian officer/General of Infantry - Bad Muskau, Kingdom of Prussia (1931/80)
1851-0405 Mary Force Stead (b Force) wife of the Washington architect Robert Stead - Washington D.C. USA (1895/44) Find a Grave
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1851-0412 Emil Liebling* German-American pianist/composer/to U.S. at age 16 - Duchy of Pless, Silesia (1914/62)
1851-0413 Helen M. Winslow* writer/ journalist/ publisher - Westfield, VT USA (1938/86)
1851-0416 Ponnambalam Ramanathan* lawyer/ politician - Colombo, Ceylon (1930/79)
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1851-0421 Charles Barrois* geologist/palaeontologist - Lille, French Second Republic (1939/88)
1851-0424 Morgan Earp* sheriff in Tombstone, Arizona/brother of Wyatt Earp - Pella, IA USA (1882/30)
1851-0426 Cornelius Hermanus Wessels* South African statesman - Winburg, Orange River Sovereignty (1924/72)
1851-0427
1851-0428 Jane Cobden* politician/ active in many radical causes - Paddington, London, England (1947/96)
1851-0428 Axel Olai Heikel* ethnographer/ archaeologist/founder of Seurasaari Open-Air Museum - Brändö, Åland, GD of Finland (1924/72)
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1851-0510
1851-0515 Herbert Lawford* Scottish tennis player - Bayswater, Middlesex, England (1925/73)
1851-0518 Simon Kahquados* (b Kakanisaiga) leader of the Potawatomi people - Black Earth, WI USA (1930/79)
1851-0520 Emile Berliner* inventor of gramophone - Hanover, German Confederation (1929/78)
1851-0521 Léon Bourgeois* politician/ statesman- Paris, French Second Republic (1925/74)
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1851-0601
1851-0607 Ture Malmgren* journalist/book publisher/politician - Uddevalla, Sweden-Norway (1922/71)
1851-0610
1851-0612 Oliver Lodge* physicist/ researcher into life after death - Penkhull, Staffordshire, England (1940/89)
1851-0616 Georg Jellinek* German public lawyer - Leipzig, Saxony (1911/59)
1851-0620
1851-0624 Konstantin Siitonen* Finnish bishop/translator - St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (1925/74)
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1851-0701
1851-0705 William Brewster* ornithologist/ co-founder of the American Ornithologists' Union - Wakefield, MA USA (1919/68)
1851-0708 Arthur Evans* archaeologist - Nash Mills, England (1941/90)
1851-0710
1851-0715 Eduardo Gutiérrez* writer (Juan Moreira) - Buenos Aires, Argentina (1889/38)
1851-0720 Arnold Pick* Czech psychiatrist - Groß Meseritsch, Austrian Empire (1924/72)
1851-0721
1851-0723 Peder Severin Krøyer* Danish painter/active in Skagen - Stavanger, Sweden-Norway (1909/58)
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1851-0803 Nikolai Ivanov* artillery general - Mosalsk, Russian Empire (1919/67)
1851-0810
1851-0814 Doc Holliday* dentist/gambler/gun fighter - Griffin, GA USA (1887/36)
1851-0820 Abraham Berge* Norwegian teacher/politician/PM - Lyngdal, Sweden-Norway (1936/84)
1851-0820 August Nybergh* lawyer/ senator - Heinola, GD of Finland (1920/69)
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1851-0831 Robert Emmet Odlum* lifeguard/ swimming instructor/first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge - Ogdensburg, NY USA (1885/33)
1851-0901 Carl Kellner* chemist/ industrialist/mystic - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1905/53)
1851-0903 Olga Constantinovna of Russia* the queen consort of King George I of Greece - Pavlovsk, Russian Empire (1926/74)
1851-0910
1851-0912 Arthur Schuster* physicist - Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (1934/83)
1851-0913 Walter Reed* physician/ bacteriologist - Gloucester County, VA USA (1902/51)
1851-0914 Ernst Alexander Homén* pioneering neurologist - Pieksämäki, GD of Finland (1926/75)
1851-0920
1851-0923 Ellen Hayes* mathematician/astronomer - Granville, OH USA (1930/79)
1851-0923 Karl August Hermann* linguist/journalist/ composer - Võhma, Põltsamaa, Estonia (1909/57)
1851-0924 Frederick H. Costello* writer of adventure novels - Bangor, ME USA (1921/c. 70)
1851-0930
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1851-1002 Ferdinand Foch* general/military theorist/the Supreme Allied Commander during WW1 - Tarbes, French Second Republic (1929/77)
1851-1005 Thomas Pollock Anshutz* painter/ teacher - Newport, KY USA (1912/60)
1851-1010
1851-1016 Frederick H. Gillett* lawyer/ politician - Westfield, MA USA (1935/83)
1851-1020 George Gandy* businessman/developer (Gandy Bridge in Tampa) - Upper Township, NJ USA (1946/95)
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1851-1105 Charles Dupuy* statesman/PM - Le Puy-en-Velay, French Second Republic (1923/71)
1851-1106 Charles Dow* journalist/co-founder of Dow Jones & Company and Wall Streets Journal - Sterling, CT USA (1902/51)
1851-1110
1851-1113 Klemens Bachleda* pioneering Polish mountain guide and mountain rescuer in Austria-Hungary - Kościelisko, Austrian Poland (1910/58)
1851-1115
1851-1120 Margherita of Savoy* Queen of Italy by marriage to Umberto I - Palazzo Chiablese, Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia (1926/74)
1851-1126 Magnus Gottfrid Schybergson* historian/ writer/editor -Turku, GD of Finland (1925/74)
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1851-1201
1851-1210 Melvil Dewey* influential librarian/inventor of the Dewey Decimal system - Adams Center, NY USA (1931/80)
1851-1220 Dora Montefiore* English-Australian women’s suffragist/poet - Kenley, Surrey, England (1933/82)
1851-1224 Elizabeth Sumner* Hawaiian high chiefess/composer - Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii (1911/59)
1851-1227 Kaarlo Koskimies* (b Forsman) schoolteacher/ translator - Pihlajavesi, GD of Finland (1918/66)
1851-1228 Hugh C. Macfarlane* Scottish-American lawyer/founder of West Tampa/to U.S. at age 13 - Pollock Shaws,
Renefewshire, Scotland (1935/83) Digital Commons
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