Curated category
1813 births
- Giuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Verdi was an intensely private man who liked to claim he had risen from illiterate peasants. The truth was tidier and less romantic.
- Richard WagnerRichard Wagner was born on the 22nd of May 1813 in Leipzig, in the Jewish quarter of the city, at a house known as the House of the Red and White Lions.
- John SnowJohn Snow removed a pump handle on Broad Street and changed how the world thinks about disease. The year was 1854, and cholera was killing people across…
- William Smith (lexicographer)William Smith spent his spare hours as a young legal clerk teaching himself ancient Greek and Latin from scratch. By the time he walked into University…
- David Dixon PorterDavid Dixon Porter went to sea for the first time at age ten, standing watch on his father's frigate as a midshipman. By the time he died on the 13th of…
- John SedgwickJohn Sedgwick was born on the 13th of September 1813 in Cornwall, Connecticut. He attended Sharon Academy for two years before studying at Cheshire Academy…
- George Peter Alexander HealyGeorge Peter Alexander Healy spent his days in his painting room. That is how he put it himself, in his autobiography published the year he died: "All my…
- Søren KierkegaardSøren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on the 5th of May 1813 in Copenhagen, the youngest of seven children in a family that was both prosperous and haunted.
- Henry BessemerHenry Bessemer was born on the 19th of January 1813 in the village of Charlton, near Hitchin in Hertfordshire, into a family already fluent in the language…
- Otto JahnOtto Jahn was born in Kiel on the 16th of June 1813, into a world where the boundary between classical scholarship and musical biography had barely been…
- John C. FrémontJohn Charles Frémont was born on the 21st of January 1813, the illegitimate son of a French-Canadian schoolteacher and a Virginia planter's daughter who had…