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1813 births
- Giuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Verdi was born on the 9th of October 1813 in a small village called Le Roncole. His parents Carlo and Luigia ran an inn there while he learned to…
- Richard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was born on the 22nd of May 1813 in a building at number three, the Brühl, in Leipzig. His father Carl Friedrich Wagner died of…
- John SnowJohn Snow was born on the 15th of March 1813 in York, England. He grew up in a neighborhood that sat directly beside the River Ouse.
- William Smith (lexicographer)William Smith was born in Enfield on the 20th of May 1813 to Nonconformist parents. He attended the Madras House school of John Allen in Hackney during his…
- David Dixon PorterOn the 2nd of February 1829, a sixteen-year-old boy named David Dixon Porter received his official appointment as midshipman in the United States Navy.
- 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 was born on the 15th of July 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father served as an Irish captain in the merchant marine before…
- Søren KierkegaardSøren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on the 5th of May 1813 in Copenhagen. He entered the world as the youngest of seven children to Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard…
- Henry BessemerHenry Bessemer entered the world on the 19th of January 1813 in London. His father Anthony was a member of a Huguenot family that had fled Paris during the…
- Otto JahnOtto Jahn stood in the lecture halls of Kiel on the 16th of June 1813 when his life began. He completed university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität…
- John C. FrémontJohn Charles Frémont was born on the 21st of January 1813, in Savannah, Georgia. His parents were Anne Beverley Whiting and Charles Frémon, a French-Canadian…