In the year 1862, the first railway opens in New Zealand (Feb 2), Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is published (Mar 31), Westminster Bridge is opened in London, England (May 24), the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the forerunner of IRS, is established in the United States (Jul 1), Otto von Bismarck becomes prime minister of Prussia (Sep 22), Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery in his State of the Union address (Dec 1), the American Civil War (1861-1865) rages on - and all these fine people were born:
1862-xxxx John Gregory Taggart* Liverpool alderman/ Irish nationalist - Tyrone, County Armagh, Ireland (1925/c. 63)
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1862-0109 Carrie Clark Ward* silent film actress - Virginia City, NV USA (1926/64)
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1862-0124 Edith Wharton* (b Jones) novelist/short story writer/interior designer - New York City, NY USA (1937/75)
1862-0125 Ann Elizabeth Isham* American expatriate in France/sank with the Titanic - Chicago, IL USA (1912/50)
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1862-0129 Frederick Delius* composer - Bradford, Yorkshire, England (1934/72)
1862-0131 Robert Ford* outlaw/ assassin of Jesse James/operator of multiple saloons and dance halls across the West - Ray County, MO USA (1892/39)
1862-0202 George Arthur Boeckling* businessman/ made Cedar Point a nationally recognized amusement park - Indiana (1931/69)
1862-0208 Ferdinand Ferber* army officer/aviation pioneer - Boulogne, Second French Empire (1909/47)
1862-0314 Vilhelm Bjerknes* physicist/ meteorologist - Christiania, Norway (1951/89)
1862-0318 Dorr Felt* inventor of Comptometer/ industrialist - Beloit, WI USA (1930/68)
1862-0323 Nathaniel Reed* outlaw/ evangelist - Madison County, AR USA (1950/87)
1862-0403 Leonid Pasternak* painter/ father of Boris Pasternak - Odessa, Russian Empire (1945/83)
1862-0406 Georges Darien* anarchist writer - Paris, Second French Empire (1921/59)
1862-0426 Edmund C. Tarbell* painter - Groton, MA USA (1938/76)
1862-0427 Rudolph Schildkraut* Austrian actor/active in the U.S. - Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1930/68)
1862-0501 Marcel Prévost* author/ dramatist - Paris, Second French Empire (1941/78)
1862-0508 Arthur Spåre* officer in the Russian Imperial Army/governor of Kuopio - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1937/75)
1862-0509 J. Doyle Penrose* portrait painter/father of Lionel and Roland Penrose - County Wicklow, Ireland (1932/69)
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1862-0515 Arthur Schnitzler* author/ playwright - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1931/69)
1862-0527 John Kendrick Bangs* author/ humorist/editor - Yonkers, NY USA (1922/59)
1862-0529 Juho Tulikoura* (b Brandstaka) farmer/ politician - Vehkalahti, GD of Finland (1918/57)
1862-0605 Allvar Gullstrand* optician/ohthalmologist/N - Landskrona, Sweden (1930/68)
1862-0607 Philipp Lenard* physicist/N - Pressburg, Hungary, Austrian Empire (1947/84)
1862-0617 Santeri Alkio* journalist/ founder of Ilkka/politician - Laihia, GD of Finland (1930/68)
1862-0619 Paul Saintenoy* architect/ historian/writer - Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium (1952/90)
1862-0702 William Henry Bragg* physicist/ chemist/N - Wigton, Cumberland, England (1942/79)
1862-0708 Malcolm Joel McMullen* first mayor of Largo, FL - Burke, GA USA (1921/59)
1862-0710 Helene Schjerfbeck* painter - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1946/83)
1862-0716 Ida B. Wells* investigative journalist (lynching)/suffragist - Holly Springs, MS USA (1931/68)
1862-0722 Cosmo Duff-Gordon* landowner/ sportsman/Titanic survivor - London, England (1931/68)
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1862-0805 Joseph Merrick* the Elephant Man - Leicester, England (1890/27)
1862-0822 Claude Debussy* composer - Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Second French Empire (1918/55)
1862-0829 Maurice Maeterlinck* playwright/ poet/essayist/N - Ghent, Belgium (1949/86)
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1852-0909 Charles Dobson* football player - Basford, England (1939/76)
1862-0911 O. Henry* author - Greensboro, NC USA (1910/47)
1862-0912 William Holmes* army officer/general - Sydney, NSW Australia (1917/54)
1862-0927 Louis Botha* South African politician - Greytown, Colony of Natal (1919/56)
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1862-1014 Adolf von Bonsdorff* headmaster/ politician - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1928/65)
1862-1019 Louis Jean Lumière* together with his brother Louis a manufacturer of photography equipment/ Cinématographe motion picture system – Besançon, Second French Empire (1954/91)
1862-1026 Hilma af Klint* artist/ mystic/a pioneer of abstract painting - Karlberg Palace, Solna, Sweden (1944/81)
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1862-1111 George Anthony Munday Jr. engineer/ bought land (now Mundy Park) in Vancouver, Canada - London, England (1918/56)
1862-1114 George W Vanderbilt II* art collector - Staten Island, NY USA (1914/51)
1862-1115 Gerhart Hauptmann* dramatist/novelist/N - Obersalzbrunn, Prussia (1946/83)
1862-1119 Billy Sunday* baseball player/evangelist - Story County, IA USA (1935/72)
1862-1120 Edvard Westermarck* philosopher/ sociologist - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1939/76)
1862-1130 Karl Emil Ståhlberg* engineer/ photographer/film producer/cousin of Finland’s first president Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg - Kuhmo, GD of Finland (1919/56)
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1862-1212 J. Bruce Ismay* businessman/ shipping magnate/Titanic survivor - Crosby, Lancashire, England (1937/74)
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