Famous people born in 1837
The best-known people born in 1837, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.
Best known
Grover Cleveland22nd & 24th President of the United States (1885–1889; 1893–1897)
March 18 · d. 1908
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Johannes Diderik van der WaalsDutch physicist (1837–1923)
November 23 · d. 1923
Photo: Nobel foundation ?, Public domain
Empress Elisabeth of AustriaEmpress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from 1854 to 1898 (1837–1898)
December 24 · d. 1898
Photo: Emil Rabending, Public domain
J. P. MorganAmerican financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)
April 17 · d. 1913
Photo: Pach Brothers, Public domain
Wilhelm SteinitzAustrian-American chess player (1836–1900)
May 18 · d. 1900
Photo: Schumann, Fritz, Public domain
Mily Alexeyevich BalakirevRussian composer, pianist, and conductor (1837–1910)
January 2 · d. 1910
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Ilia ChavchavadzeGeorgian public figure and writer; a saint of Georgian Orthodox Church (1837-1907)
November 8 · d. 1907
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Fredrik BajerDanish politician (1837-1922)
April 21 · d. 1922
Photo: Eduard Benjamin Møller (1841-1911), Public domain
Algernon Charles SwinburneEnglish poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)
April 5 · d. 1909
Photo: Elliott & Fry, Public domain
Sadi Carnot5th president of France (1837–1894)
August 11 · d. 1894
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Rosalía de CastroGalician poet and writer (1837-1885)
February 23 · d. 1885
Photo: Luis Sellier, Public domain
Alois HitlerAustrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler (1837-1903)
June 7 · d. 1903
Photo: Reinegger, Josef [photographer] (born 1833), Public domain
Vasil LevskiBulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)
July 18 · d. 1873
Photo: File:BASA-600K-1-1865-15-Vasil Levski.jpeg : Unknown author Unknown author derivative work: Iliev, Public domain- John Alexander Reina Newlands
British chemist who did work concerning the periodicity of elements
November 26 · d. 1898
- Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1892
September 12 · d. 1892
- Cosima Wagner
daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner (1837-1930)
December 24 · d. 1930
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January
- January 1 · Altaf Hussain Hali, Urdu poet and writer
- January 6 · Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, President of Uruguay (1837-1905)
- January 12 · Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer and music teacher (1837–1879)
- January 17 · François Lenormant, French archaeologist and Assyriologist (1837-1883)
- January 25 · Tomioka Tessai, Japanese artist (1837-1924)
- January 27 · Carlotta Ferrari, Italian composer and poet (1830–1907)
February
- February 5 · Dwight Lyman Moody, American evangelist (1837–1899)
- February 7 · James Murray, British lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837–1915)
- February 12 · Thomas Moran, American artist (1837-1926)
- February 15 · Wilhelm Jensen, German writer (1837–1911)
- February 17 · Pierre Auguste Cot, French painter (1837–1883)
- February 22 · Pedro Varela, president of Uruguay (1837–1906)
March
- March 1 · William Dean Howells, American author, critic, and playwright (1837–1920)
- March 1 · Georg Ebers, German egyptologist and novelist (1837–1898)
- March 13 · Sanjō Sanetomi, Japanese politician (1837-1891)
- March 17 · Horace Parnell Tuttle, American astronomer (1837–1923)
- March 21 · Theodore Nicholas Gill, American biologist (1837–1914)
- March 24 · Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Belgian prince (1837–1905)
April
- April 1 · Jorge Isaacs, Colombian writer and politician (1837-1895) Turín turan
- April 3 · John Burroughs, American naturalist and essayist (1837-1921)
- April 6 · Ignatz Kolisch, Austro-Hungarian chess player (1837-1889)
- April 18 · Armand Silvestre, French poet and conteur (1837-1901)
- April 20 · Georg Ossian Sars, Norwegian marine and freshwater biologist (1837–1927)
- April 27 · Paul Gordan, German mathematician (1837-1912)
May
- May 1 · Walter Hauser, Swiss politician (1837-1902)
- May 5 · Anna Maria Mozzoni, Italian journalist (1837–1920)
- May 8 · Prince Albert of Prussia, German general (1837–1906)
- May 9 · Maria Mazzarello, Italian saint (1837-1881)
- May 10 · P. B. S. Pinchback, American politician (1837–1921)
- May 21 · Itagaki Taisuke, Japanese politician (1837–1919)
June
- June 1 · Hilary R. W. Johnson, President of Liberia (1837-1901)
- June 9 · Michael Rua, Italian Salesian priest (1837–1910)
- June 22 · Ernst Ziller, German architect, active in Greece
- June 22 · Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, German mathematician (1837–1920)
- June 25 · Charles Yerkes, American banker and art collector (1837-1905)
- June 29 · Petre P. Carp, Romanian politician (1837-1919)
July
- July 4 · Carolus-Duran, French portrait painter (1837-1917)
- July 5 · Patriarch Joachim IV of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (1837–1887)
- July 6 · John Lockwood Kipling, British artist (1837-1911)
- July 15 · Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, queen consort of Portugal from 1858 to 1859 (1837–1859)
- July 17 · Wilhelm Lexis, German statistician and economist (1837–1914)
- July 19 · Georg Bühler, German Indologist (1837–1898)
August
- August 12 · Empress Dowager Ci'an, Dowager empress of China (1837-1881)
- August 17 · Anna Filosofova, Russian activist (1837–1912)
- August 24 · Théodore Dubois, French composer and Organist (1837-1924)
- August 25 · Jacob Maris, Dutch painter (1837-1899)
- August 26 · Edmund Weiss, Austrian astronomer (1837-1917)
- August 30 · Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, wife of U.S. president Chester A. Arthur (1837–1880)
September
- September 1 · Tony Robert-Fleury, French painter (1837-1912)
- September 2 · Zhang Zhidong, Viceroy of Liangguang (1837-1909)
- September 3 · Ralph Copeland, British astronomer (1837-1905)
- September 8 · Joaquin Miller, American poet and frontiersman (1837–1913)
- September 14 · Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian princess (1837–1906)
- September 24 · Mark Hanna, American businessman and politician (1837–1904)
October
- October 4 · Elizabeth Jane Gardner, US painter (1837-1922)
- October 10 · Robert Gould Shaw, Union United States Army officer (1837-1863)
- October 10 · Liu Yongfu, Chinese general (1837-1917)
- October 15 · Leo Königsberger, German mathematician (1837-1921)
- October 23 · Mór Kaposi, Hungarian physician and dermatologist (1837–1902)
- October 26 · Carl Koldewey, German explorer (1837-1908)
November
- November 5 · Arnold Janssen, German-Dutch Roman Catholic priest and saint
- November 7 · Stanisław Tarnowski, Polish politician (1837–1917)
- November 11 · Franz Steindachner, Austrian zoologist (1834–1919)
- November 11 · Artur Grottger, Polish painter (1837–1867)
- November 16 · Franz Overbeck, German Protestant theologian (1837-1905)
- November 28 · John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of plastic (1837-1920)
December
- December 2 · Joseph Bell, Scottish physician (1837–1911)
- December 9 · Émile Waldteufel, French composer (1837-1915)
- December 9 · Kabayama Sukenori, Japanese general (1837-1922)
- December 24 · Hans von Marées, German artist (1837–1887)
- December 26 · George Dewey, United States Navy admiral (1837–1917)
- December 29 · Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe
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