1840s births

The list 1840s births includes Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien De La Couperie, Joanna Hiffernan, Clara Morris, Whitcomb L. Judson and Crazy Horse. The list consists of 1,179 members and 11 sublists.

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1840s

Decade of the Gregorian calendar

1.

Thomas Hayes (Medal of Honor)

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient

Overview: Thomas Hayes (1840 – May 24, 1914) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Battle of Mobile Bay in the ...

Date of birth: 1840

Date of death: 24 May 1914

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients 702T

American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor 1,211T

People of Rhode Island in the American Civil War 52T
2.

Clara Morris

American actress

Overview: Clara Morris (1846-9 – November 20, 1925) was an American actress.

Date of birth: 17 March 1849

Date of death: 20 November 1925

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Pre-Confederation Canadian emigrants to the United States 197T

American women memoirists 620T

A Woman of the Century 883T
3.

Whitcomb L. Judson

inventor

Overview: Whitcomb L. Judson (March 7, 1843 – December 7, 1909) was an American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor. He received thirty patents over a sixteen-year career, fourteen of which ...

Date of birth: 7 March 1846

Date of death: 7 December 1909

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Designer

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19th-century American inventors 564T

Engineers from Illinois 132T

American people in rail transportation 155T
4.

Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien De La Couperie

Sinologist

Overview: Albert Étienne Jean-Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (23 November 1844 – 11 October 1894) was a French orientalist, specialising in comparative philology. He published a number of books on early Asian ...

Date of birth: 23 November 1844

Date of death: 11 October 1894

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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19th-century British male writers 668T

French male non-fiction writers 2,066T

Chinese numismatics 13T
5.

Joanna Hiffernan

British model

Overview: Joanna Hiffernan (1843 – 1903) or Joanna Heffernan was an Irish artists' model and muse who was romantically linked with American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter Gustave ...

Date of birth: 1843

Date of death: 1904

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

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Irish artists' models 1T

Muse 119T

British artists' models 22T
6.

Emma Elizabeth Smith

Whitechapel murder victim

Overview: Emma Elizabeth Smith (c. 1843 – 4 April 1888) was a prostitute and murder victim of mysterious origins in late-19th century London. Her killing was the first of the Whitechapel murders, and it is possible ...

Date of birth: 1843

Date of death: 4 April 1888

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Victim

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Rape in London 4T

1880s murders in the United Kingdom 22T

Murder in 1888 10T
7.

Howling Wolf (Cheyenne)

Southern Cheyenne warrior and ledger artist from Indian Territory

Overview: Howling Wolf (Cheyenne: Ho-na-nist-to, 1849–July 5, 1927) was a Southern Cheyenne warrior who was a member of Black Kettle's band and was present at the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado. After being im ...

Date of birth: 1849

Date of death: 5 July 1927

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Native American male artists 67T

American male painters 3,659T

19th-century American painters 1,392T
8.

Chipeta

Native American leader

Overview: Chipeta or White Singing Bird (1843 or 1844–August 1924), was a Native American woman, and the second wife of Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe. Born a Kiowa Apache, she was raised by the Utes in ...

Date of death: 1924

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

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Women beadworkers 10T

Native American women artists 170T

Native American bead artists 15T
9.

Jack Daniel

American distiller (1849–1911)

Overview: Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel (c. January 1849 – October 9, 1911) was an American distiller and businessman, best known as the founder of the Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.

Date of birth: 5 September 1850

Date of death: 10 October 1911

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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People from Lynchburg, Tennessee 15T

Baptists from Tennessee 86T

American beverage distillers 17T
10.

Adam Worth

Union United States Army soldier

Overview: Adam Worth (1844 – 8 January 1902) was a German-born American criminal. Scotland Yard Detective Robert Anderson nicknamed him "the Napoleon of the criminal world" (because of his short stature) ...

Date of birth: 1844

Date of death: 8 January 1902

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Criminal

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Criminals from New York City 184T

Jewish-American gangsters 112T

British crime bosses 7T
11.

Gerard Adriaan Heineken

Dutch businessman

Overview: Gerard Adriaan Heineken (29 September 1841 — 18 March 1893) was the founder of Heineken. In 1864 he decided to purchase the brewery 'Den Hoyberg.' Here he started to brew a new beer. He was independentist ...

Date of birth: 28 September 1841

Date of death: 18 March 1893

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Chairmen of Heineken International 3T

Dutch company founders 24T

Businesspeople from Amsterdam 92T
12.

Sara Forbes Bonetta

West African princess

Overview: Lady Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843 – 15 August 1880) was a West African Egbado Omoba who was orphaned in intertribal warfare, sold into slavery, and in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from ens ...

Date of birth: 1843

Date of death: 15 August 1880

Age: 37 (age at death)

Nationality: Nigerian

Occupation: Philanthropist

Gender: Female

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Yoruba princesses 6T

Tuberculosis deaths in Portugal 23T

19th-century slaves 30T
13.

Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi

Indian jurist and mathematician (1844–97)

Overview: Raosaheb Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi (1844-10 February 1897) was an Indian judge and amateur mathematician. His father Atmaram Bapu Dalvi was a social reformer and was Vice President of the Bombay Arya Samaj ...

Date of birth: 1844

Date of death: 10 February 1897

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Mathematician

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14.

Willem Essuman Pietersen

Gold Coast politician and businessman

Overview: Willem Essuman Pietersen (ca. 1844 – 6 January 1914), also known as Willem Edmund Pietersen, was a Gold Coast merchant, politician, and educationist. He is also remembered as a goldsmith and watch repairer ...

Date of death: 6 January 1914

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Watch technicians 2T

Dutch Gold Coast people 20T

People from Elmina 14T
15.

Alban W. Purcell

American actor

Overview: Alban Walter Purcell (c. 1843 – December 16, 1913) was an American actor, dramatist and manager who briefly served in the American Civil War. Described as a very large man, Purcell played primarily su ...

Date of birth: 1843

Date of death: 16 December 1913

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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19th-century American male actors 196T

American male stage actors 3,262T

19th-century American actors 92T
16.

Lola Sánchez (Confederate spy)

Confederate spy

Overview: Lola Sánchez (1844–1895) was one of three sisters who became spies for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Sánchez became upset when their father was falsely accused of being a Confederate ...

Date of birth: 1844

Date of death: 1895

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Spy

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Cuban emigrants to the United States 505T

People from Palatka, Florida 38T

People of Florida in the American Civil War 52T
17.

Alexa Wilding

English artists' model (1845–1884)

Overview: Alexa Wilding (born Alice Wilding, c. 1847 – 25 April 1884) was one of the favourite models of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, featuring in some of his finest paintings of the later 1860s ...

Date of birth: 1845

Date of death: 25 April 1884

Age: 38 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

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Muse 91T

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artists' models 19T

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 65T
18.

Bithia Mary Croker

Writer

Overview: Bithia Mary (or May) Croker (née Sheppard, c. 1848 or 1849 – 20 October 1920) was an Irish novelist, most of whose work concerns life and society in British India. Her 1917 novel The Road to Mandalay ...

Date of death: 20 October 1920

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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19th-century Indian short story writers 12T

19th-century Irish women writers 116T

20th-century Irish women writers 188T
19.

Lizzie Graham

Puerto Rican soprano singer

Overview: Lizzie Graham (1844–1927) was a late 19th-century Puerto Rican soprano singer from Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Date of birth: 1844

Date of death: 1927

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Puerto Rican

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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19th-century women singers 504T

Puerto Rican people of English descent 1T

19th-century American singers 160T
20.

Sylvester Magee

American slave

Overview: Sylvester Magee (May 29, 18?? – October 15, 1971) was an African American who allegedly was the last living former American slave. His claim is undocumented and controversial. He received much publicity ...

Date of death: 15 October 1971

Nationality: American

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Baptists from Mississippi 101T

People from Florence, Mississippi 6T

People from Columbia, Mississippi 30T