Curated category
1831 births
- James Clerk MaxwellOn the 13th of June 1831, a boy named James Clerk Maxwell was born at 14 India Street in Edinburgh. His mother Frances Cay died when he was eight years old…
- James A. GarfieldJames Abram Garfield was born on the 19th of November 1831 inside a log cabin in Orange Township, Ohio. His father Abraham had traveled from Worcester, New…
- Wilhelm MannhardtWilhelm Mannhardt entered the world on the 26th of March 1831 in Friedrichstadt. He grew up in Danzig under the care of a Mennonite preacher father.
- Helena BlavatskyHelena Petrovna Blavatsky was born on the 12th of August 1831 in Yekaterinoslav, a town within the Russian Empire that is now known as Dnipro.
- John Bell HoodJohn Bell Hood graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853, ranking 44th out of a class that originally numbered 96 students.
- John SchofieldJohn McAllister Schofield arrived in the world on the 29th of September 1831. He was born in Gerry, New York to Reverend James Schofield and Caroline…
- Philip SheridanPhilip Henry Sheridan was born on the 6th of March 1831 in Albany, New York. He grew up in Somerset, Ohio as the third of six children to Irish Catholic…
- Nikolai LeskovNikolai Semyonovich Leskov was born on the 4th of February 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo, Oryol Gubernia. His father Semyon Dmitrievich worked as a…
- Constantin MeunierConstantin Meunier was born in the working-class district of Etterbeek on the 12th of April 1831. His family lived in poverty following the Belgian…