Editing 1820 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:William-Tecumseh-Sherman.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Tecumseh Sherman|William Sherman]]]]
[[File:Susan B Anthony c1855.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Susan B. Anthony]]]]
[[File:Herbert Spencer.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Herbert Spencer]]]]
[[File:Florence Nightingale three quarter length.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Florence Nightingale]]]]
*[[January 10]] – [[Louisa Lane Drew]], actress, prominent theater manager, grandmother of the [[Barrymore family|Barrymores]] (d. 1897)
*[[January 17]] – [[Anne Brontë]], English author (d. 1849)<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Brontë {{!}} British author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Bronte |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=April 17, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[January 20]] – [[Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois]], French chemist and mineralogist (d. 1886)
*[[January 30]] – [[Concepción Arenal]], Spanish feminist writer, activist  (d. 1893)<ref>{{cite book|title=Calendar of Spanish Anniversaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vrYUAQAAIAAJ|year=1935|publisher=Tardy publishing Company, Incorporated}}</ref>
*[[February 8]] – [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], American Civil War general (d. 1891)<ref>{{cite book|author=William Tecumseh Sherman|title=Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman: By Himself. To which are Added Chapters Completing His Life and Including His Funeral Obsequies by W. Fletcher Johnson and Carefully Reviewed by Major-General O. O. Howard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9w4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA438|year=1891|publisher=D. Appleton|pages=438–}}</ref>
*[[February 13]] – [[James Geiss]], English businessman (d. 1878)
*[[February 15]]
** [[Susan B. Anthony]], American suffragist (d. 1906)<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zT-J4Y9mt3sC&pg=PA3217|year=1966|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=3217}}</ref>
** [[Arvid Posse]], 2nd Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1901)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Moore Colby|author2=Harry Thurston Peck|title=The International Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9k1MAAAAMAAJ|year=1902|publisher=Dodd, Mead|page=646}}</ref>
*[[February 17]] – [[Henri Vieuxtemps]], Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1881)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musical Monitor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DnpFAQAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=Mrs. David Allen Campbell|page=620}}</ref>
*[[February 28]] – [[John Tenniel]], English illustrator (d. 1914)<ref>{{cite book|title=Sir John Tenniel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AnoKcQVWj3cC|year=1914|publisher=Bradbury, Agnew & Company|page=1863}}</ref>
*[[March 2]] – [[Eduard Douwes Dekker]], Dutch writer (d. 1887)<ref>{{cite book|author=Multatuli|title=Max Havelaar, Or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vvY2AAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|page=339|isbn=9780870233609 }}</ref>
*[[March 3]] – [[Henry D. Cogswell]], [[American temperance movement]] pioneer who endowed a number of [[Cogswell fountains]]  (d. 1900)
*[[March 4]] – [[Francesco Bentivegna]], Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
*[[March 4]] – [[Alexander Worthy Clerk]], Jamaican Moravian teacher and missionary (d. 1906)
*[[March 9]] – [[Samuel Blatchford]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. 1893)
*[[March 14]] – [[Victor Emmanuel II of Italy]] (d. 1878)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Statesman's Year-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DawRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA323|year=1867|publisher=Palgrave|pages=323}}</ref>
*[[March 17]] – [[Martin Jenkins Crawford]], American politician (d. 1883)
*[[March 20]] – [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza]], Romania's first reigning [[Domnitor]] (d. 1873)<ref>{{cite book|title=Southeastern Europe: L'Europe Du Sud-Est|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUFpAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Arizona State University|page=3}}</ref>
*[[April 27]] – [[Herbert Spencer]], English philosopher (d. 1903)<ref>{{cite book|author=Daniel Greenleaf Thompson|title=Herbert Spencer: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hEMvdumLD3EC&pg=PA4|year=1889|publisher=G.H. Ellis|pages=4}}</ref>
*[[April 26]] – [[Alice Cary]], American poet, sister to Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) (d. 1871)<ref>{{cite book|author=Edwin Francis Hatfield|title=The Poets of the Church: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Hymn-writers with Notes on Their Hymns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1X9Na4_B8TsC&pg=PA133|year=1884|publisher=A. D. F. Randolph|pages=133}}</ref>
*[[May 5]] – [[Elkanah Billings]], Canadian paleontologist (d. 1876)
*[[May 12]] – [[Florence Nightingale]], English nurse (d. 1910)<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910), reformer of Army Medical Services and of nursing organization|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35241 |year=2004 |access-date=April 17, 2019 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35241|last1=Baly |first1=Monica E. |last2=Matthew |first2=H. C. G. |isbn=9780198614128 }}</ref>
*[[May 23]] – [[Lorenzo Sawyer]], 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891)
*[[May 25]] – [[François Claude du Barail]], French general and [[Ministry of War (France)|Minister of War]] (d. 1902)
*[[May 27]] – [[Mathilde Bonaparte]], Italian princess (d. 1904)<ref>{{cite book|author=Victor Plarr|title=Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GwLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA576|year=1895|publisher=G. Routledge and Sons, limited|pages=576}}</ref>

=== July–December ===
[[File:Engels.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Friedrich Engels]]]]
*[[July 5]] – [[William John Macquorn Rankine]], Scottish physicist, engineer (d. 1872)
*[[July 22]] – [[Oliver Mowat]], Canadian lawyer, politician (d. 1903)
*[[July 23]] – [[Julia Gardiner Tyler]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. 1889)
*[[July 25]] – [[Henry Doulton]], English potter (d. 1897)<ref>{{cite ODNB|first = Alexander James|last =  Clement|title = Doulton, Sir Henry (1820–1897)|id= 7944}}</ref>
*[[September 17]]
** [[Émile Augier]], French dramatist (d. 1889)<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Dudley Warner|title=A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0g7UAtyUJYMC&pg=PA29|date=1 July 2008|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60520-248-8|pages=29}}</ref>
** [[Earl van Dorn]], American Confederate general (d. 1863)
*[[September 20]] – [[John F. Reynolds]], American general (d. 1863)
*[[September 27]] – [[Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel]], German classical scholar (d. 1878)
*[[September 29]] – [[Henri, Count of Chambord]], claimant to the French throne (d. 1883)<ref>{{cite book|author=Lucian Edward HENRY|title=Europe in 1882: out of the shadow. The Royal Family of France. Twelve lectures on current French History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0cf5yik6u4C&pg=PA66|year=1862|publisher=G. Bishop|pages=66}}</ref>
*[[October 5]] – [[David Wilber]], American politician (d. 1890)
*[[October 6]] – [[Jenny Lind]], Swedish soprano (d. 1887)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musicians's Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U2ZOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA145|year=1895|publisher=E.P. Dutton|pages=145}}</ref>
*[[October 16]] – [[Gillis Bildt]], 5th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1894)<ref>{{cite book |last=Wieselgren |first=Harald |url=https://runeberg.org/wiesminn/0073.html |title=Bilder och minnen |publisher=Beijer |year=1889 |location=Stockholm |pages=73–78 |language=sv |author-link=Harald Wieselgren |access-date=2007-01-19}}</ref>
*[[October 20]] – [[Benjamin F. Cheatham]], American Confederate general (d. 1886)
*[[November 23]]
** [[Isaac Todhunter]], English mathematician (d. 1884)
** [[Ludwig von Hagn]], German painter (d. 1898)<ref>{{cite book|author=Munich. Schackgalerie|title=Schack Gallery in Munich: In the Possession of His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCcrAAAAIAAJ|year=1911|publisher=G. Hirth|page=69}}</ref>
*[[November 28]] – [[Friedrich Engels]], German social philosopher (d. 1895)<ref>{{cite book|author=V. Ė Kunina|title=Frederick Engels: His Life and Work : Documents and Photographs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdILAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Progress|page=18|isbn=9780714725826}}</ref>
*[[December 21]] – [[William H. Osborn]], American railroad executive (d. 1894)

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* [[Song Qing (Qing dynasty)|Song Qing]], Chinese general (d. 1902)