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1819 births
- Herman MelvilleHerman Melville was born on the 1st of August 1819, in New York City. He entered the world as the third child of Allan Melvill and Maria Gansevoort.
- Queen VictoriaAt 4:15 am on Monday, the 24th of May 1819, a baby named Alexandrina Victoria was born inside Kensington Palace. Her father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent…
- George EliotMary Ann Evans was born on the 22nd of November 1819 at South Farm, part of the Arbury Hall estate in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
- Jacques OffenbachOn the 20th of June 1819, a boy named Jacob Offenbach was born in the German city of Cologne. He entered the world as the second son and seventh child of…
- Joseph BazalgetteLouis Bazalgette arrived in London from Ispagnac, France, as an economic migrant. He became a tailor and financier who served the Prince of Wales.
- John RuskinJohn Ruskin was born on the 8th of February 1819 at 54 Hunter Street in Brunswick Square, London. His father John James Ruskin worked as a sherry and wine…
- William Powell FrithWilliam Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, near Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire on the 9th of January 1819. He had originally intended to be an…
- Eunice Newton FooteEunice Newton was born on the 17th of July 1819 in Goshen, Connecticut. Her family moved to Ontario County in western New York by 1820.
- William RosecransWilliam Starke Rosecrans was born on a farm near Little Taylor Run in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio. He grew up as the second of five sons to…