Famous People Born In 1837

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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.
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Grover Cleveland
(The 22nd and 24th President of the United States)
Grover Cleveland
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 18th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Caldwell, New Jersey, United States
Died: June 24, 1908
 2 
J. P. Morgan
(Financier)
J. P. Morgan
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Listed In: Bankers
Birthdate: 17th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Died: March 31, 1913
 3 
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
(Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from 1854 to 1898)
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
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Birthdate: 24th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: September 10, 1898
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Robert Gould Shaw
(Military Personnel)
Robert Gould Shaw
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Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 10th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died: July 18, 1863
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James Murray
(Lexicographer)
James Murray
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Birthdate: 7th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Denholm, Scotland
Died: July 26, 1915
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Tokugawa Yoshinobu
(15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan)
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
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Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 28th October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Died: November 22, 1913
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George Dewey
(Military Leader)
George Dewey
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Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 26th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Montpelier, Vermont, United States
Died: January 16, 1917
 8 
Vasil Levski
(Bulgarian Revolutionary & Freedom Fighter Who was Executed by the Ottoman Authorities)
Vasil Levski
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 18th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Karlovo, Bulgaria
Died: February 18, 1873
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Wild Bill Hickok
(Gunfighter, Law enforcement officer)
Wild Bill Hickok
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Birthdate: 27th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Illinois, United States
Died: August 2, 1876
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Thomas Moran
(Explorer, Painter)
Thomas Moran
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Birthdate: 12th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Bolton
Died: August 25, 1926
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Ion Creanga
(Romanian Author Who Was a Prominent Member of the Junimea Literary Society)
Ion Creanga
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 1st March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Târgu Neamț, Moldavia
Died: December 31, 1889
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Washington Roebling
(American Civil Engineer Who Supervised the Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge)
Washington Roebling
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Listed In: Civil Engineers
Birthdate: 26th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: July 21, 1926
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John Newlands
(Chemist)
John Newlands
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Listed In: Chemists
Birthdate: 26th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Lambeth, London, England
Died: July 29, 1898
 14 
P. B. S. Pinchback
(Politician)
P. B. S. Pinchback
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 10th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Macon, Georgia, United States
Died: December 21, 1921
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William Dean Howells
(Novelist)
William Dean Howells
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 1st March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Martins Ferry, Ohio, U.S.
Died: May 11, 1920
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Cosima Wagner
(Composer)
Cosima Wagner
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Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: 24th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Bellagio, Italy
Died: April 1, 1930
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Ilia Chavchavadze
(Journalist)
Ilia Chavchavadze
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 8th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Kvareli, Georgia
Died: September 12, 1907
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Abraham Kuyper
(Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1901 - 1905))
Abraham Kuyper
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 29th October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Maassluis, Netherlands
Died: November 8, 1920
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Olive Oatman
(White Girl Abducted By Native Americans)
Olive Oatman
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Birthdate: 7th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Illinois
Died: March 20, 1903
 20 
Khama III
(Ngwato Chief)
Khama III
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Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Mosu, Botswana
Died: February 21, 1923
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Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders
(Belgian Noble and Son of King Leopold I of Belgium)
Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders
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Listed In: Emperors & Kings
Birthdate: 24th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Castle of Laeken, Brussels, Belgium
Died: November 17, 1905
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William Williams Keen
(American Physician and the First Brain Surgeon in the United States)
William Williams Keen
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Listed In: Surgeons
Birthdate: 19th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: June 7, 1932
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Amanda Smith
(American Methodist Preacher and Former Slave Who Opened an Orphanage for African-American Girls)
Amanda Smith
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 23rd January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Long Green, Maryland, United States
Died: February 24, 1915
 24 
Charles Yerkes
(Financier)
Charles Yerkes
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Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: 25th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: December 29, 1905
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Gabriel Dumont
(Political figure)
Gabriel Dumont
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 1st December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Red River Settlement, Canada
Died: May 19, 1906
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Anderson Ruffin Abbott
(Physician)
Anderson Ruffin Abbott
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Birthdate: 7th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Died: December 29, 1913
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Whitelaw Reid
(Diplomat)
Whitelaw Reid
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Listed In: Diplomats
Birthdate: 27th October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Cedarville
Died: December 15, 1912
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Hilary R. W. Johnson
(Politician)
Hilary R. W. Johnson
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 1st June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Monrovia, Liberia
Died: 1901 AD
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Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
(Queen)
Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
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Birthdate: 15th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Krauchenwies, Sigmaringen, Germany
Died: July 17, 1859
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Fredrik Bajer
(Writer and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 together with Klas Pontus Arnoldson)
Fredrik Bajer
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Birthdate: 21st April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Næstved, Denmark
Died: January 22, 1922
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Nell Arthur
(Chester A. Arthur's wife)
Nell Arthur
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Listed In: First Ladies
Birthdate: 30th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Culpeper, Virginia, United States
Died: January 12, 1880
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Charlotte Forten Grimké
(Poet)
Charlotte Forten Grimké
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 17th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died: July 23, 1914
 33 
Henry Draper
(American Physician and Amateur Astronomer Who Made the First Photograph of the Spectrum of a Star)
Henry Draper
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Listed In: Astronomers
Birthdate: 7th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States
Died: November 20, 1882
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Itagaki Taisuke
(Soldier)
Itagaki Taisuke
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 21st May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Tosa Domain, Japan
Died: July 16, 1919
 35 
Jorge Isaacs
(Colombian Novelist, Poet, and Writer of the Romantic Genre)
Jorge Isaacs
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 1st April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Cali, Colombia
Died: April 17, 1895
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Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar
(Sultan)
Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar
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Listed In: Emperors & Kings
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Unguja ( also known as Zanzibar Island), Tanzania
Died: March 26, 1888
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Donald Dinnie
(Scottish Strongman)
Donald Dinnie
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Listed In: Strongmen
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Birse, Scotland
Died: 1916 AD
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Kintpuash
(Tribal chief)
Kintpuash
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Listed In: Revolutionaries
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Tule Lake, California, United States
Died: October 3, 1873
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Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov
(Russian Chemist Who Contributed to Structural Theory)
Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov
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Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 25th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Knyaginino, Russia
Died: February 11, 1904
 40 
Prince Albert of Prussia
(General field marshal)
Prince Albert of Prussia
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 8th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: September 13, 1906
 41 
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn
(British statesman)
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn
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Birthdate: 23rd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: London, England
Died: April 30, 1916
 42 
James T. Rapier
(American Politician)
James T. Rapier
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Birthdate: 13th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Florence, Alabama, United States
Died: May 31, 1883
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Johannes van der Waals
(Theoretical Physicist)
Johannes van der Waals
1
Listed In: Physicists
Birthdate: 23rd November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Leiden, Netherlands
Died: March 8, 1923
 44 
Alois Hitler
(Austrian Civil Servant and the Father of Adolf Hitler)
Alois Hitler
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 7th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Döllersheim, Austria
Died: January 3, 1903
 45 
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
(Politician)
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
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Birthdate: 31st May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Arlington, Virginia, United States
Died: October 15, 1891
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Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau
(Princess)
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau
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Birthdate: 14th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Dessau, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Died: May 12, 1906
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Alphonse Legros
(French-British Painter, Etcher and Sculptor)
Alphonse Legros
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Birthdate: 8th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Dijon, France
Died: December 8, 1911
 48 
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione
(Countess)
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 22nd March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Florence, Italy
Died: November 28, 1899
 49 
François Lenormant
(Archaeologist)
François Lenormant
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Birthdate: 17th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: December 9, 1883
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José Burgos
(Priest)
José Burgos
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 9th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Vigan City, Philippines
Died: February 17, 1872