Famous People Born In 1837
Discover the most famous people born in 1837. The list includes people like Grover Cleveland, J. P. Morgan, Wild Bill Hickok, Mary Harris Jones, Johannes van der Waals and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, physicists, soldiers and poets born in 1837. This list includes people from United States, France and many more countries.
Grover Cleveland18th March, American
President of the U.S.A
J. P. Morgan17th April, American
Financier and Banker
Wild Bill Hickok27th May, American
Gunfighter
Empress Elisabeth of Austria24th December, Austrian, German
Empress of Austria
Alois Hitler7th June, Austrian
Adolf Hitler's Father
Robert Gould Shaw10th October, American
Military Personnel
Olive Oatman7th September, American
White Girl Abducted By Native Americans
Amelia Dyer30th November, British
Serial Killer
Mary Harris Jones1st August, American
Labor and Community Organizer
George Dewey26th December, American
Military Leader
Johannes van der Waals23rd November, Dutch
Theoretical Physicist
Paul Morphy22nd June, American
Chess player, Chess theoretician
Tokugawa Yoshinobu28th October, Japanese
Photographer, Shogun
Vasil Levski18th July, Bulgarian
Revolutionary
Dwight L. Moody5th February, American
Editor, Philosopher, Writer, Evangelist,
Yohannes IV11th July, Ethiopian
Emperor
Algernon Charles Swinburne5th April, British
Poet, Writer
Cosima Wagner24th December, German
Composer, Writer, Director
Mark Hanna24th September, American
Businessman
J.P. Morgan30th November
Art Collector, Business Leader, Philanthropist
Yap Ah Loy14th March, Chinese, Malaysian
Malaysian leader
Marie François Sadi Carnot11th August, French
Politician, Civil engineer, Engineer
William Dean Howells1st March, American
Novelist
John Burroughs3rd April, American
Naturalist
Mother Jones1st May, Irish, American
Schoolteacher
Thomas Moran12th February, American
Explorer, Painter
Washington Roebling26th May, American
Civil engineer, Engineer
Abraham Kuyper29th October
Journalist, Theologian, Politician, University
Georges Ernest Boulanger29th April, French
Politician, Officer, Military personnel
Ivan Kramskoi27th May, Russian
painter, art critic, artist
José Burgos9th February, Filipino
Priest
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John Ernst Worrell Keely3rd September, American
Inventor
Rosalía de Castro24th February, Spanish
Poet, Writer
Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar30th November, Tanzanian
Sultan
David Josiah Brewer20th June, Turkish, American
Jurist
Henry Martyn Robert2nd May, American
Soldier
Whitelaw Reid27th October, American
Diplomat
Pierre Auguste Cot17th February, French
Painter
Charlotte Forten Grimké17th August, American
Poet
Khama III30th November, South African
Tribal Chief
William Williams Keen19th January, American
Doctor
Joaquin Miller8th September, American
Poet
Zhang Zhidong4th September, Chinese
Chinese official
Charles Yerkes25th June, American
Financier
John Wesley Hyatt28th November, American
Inventor
Muteesa I of Buganda30th November, Ugandan
King
Jorge Isaacs1st April, Colombian
Writer
Sanjō Sanetomi13th March, Japanese
Statesman
Théodore Dubois24th August, French
Composer
Edward Miner Gallaudet5th February, American
Educator
Fredrik Bajer21st April, Kosovar
Danish writer
Tony Pastor28th May, American
Snger
James T. Rapier13th November, American
American Politician
John M. Bozeman31st December, American
Explorer
William C. Quantrill31st July, American
Confederate guerrilla leader
William Emery Merrill11th October, American
Soldier
Emil Waldteufel9th December, French
Pianist
Pinckney Pinchback30th November
U.S. Governor, Civil Rights Activist, U.S.