Curated playlist
1832 births
- Édouard ManetÉdouard Manet's judge father planned law or the navy for him, but he became a painter.
- Lewis CarrollOn a rowing trip in July 1862, Lewis Carroll invented a story for three sisters.
- Nicolaus OttoNicolaus Otto lost a key engine patent to a French one that neither he nor Daimler knew existed.
- Maximilian I of MexicoFacing a firing squad in 1867, Emperor Maximilian of Mexico handed each executioner a gold coin.
- Henry Steel OlcottHenry Steel Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to formally convert to Buddhism.
- Edward Burnett TylorTuberculosis sent a brass factory owner's son abroad in 1855 and changed the course of anthropology.
- Boston CorbettThe soldier credited with shooting John Wilkes Booth later escaped an asylum and vanished.
- William W. AverellCivil War general William W. Averell patented a pavement method in 1878.
- Mary Edwards WalkerDr. Mary Edwards Walker had a ready answer for anyone who objected to her wardrobe: "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes." She said it to critics who saw her arrested again and again for the way she dressed. Walker was an…
- Gustave DoréBritish critics disliked Gustave Doré's book of London, saying he drew its poverty. Van Gogh painted one scene.