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1837 was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
- January 2 - Mily Balakirev , Russian composer (d. 1910 )
- February 5 - Dwight L. Moody , American evangelist (d. 1899 )
- March 1 - William Dean Howells , American writer, historian, editor, and politician (d. 1920 )
- March 7 - Henry Draper , American physician and astronomer (d. 1882 )
- March 18 - Grover Cleveland , President Of The United States (d. 1908 )
- March 23 - Charles Wyndham , English actor and theatrical manager (d. 1919 )
- April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne , English poet (d. 1909 )
- April 17 - John Pierpont Morgan , American financier and banker (d. 1913 )
- April 21 - Fredrik Bajer , Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1922 )
- May 9 - Adam Opel , German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895 )
- May 27 - Wild Bill Hickok , American gunfighter (d. 1876 )
- May 28 - George Ashlin , Irish Architect (d. 1921 )
- June 22 - Paul Morphy , American chess player (d. 1884 )
- June 22 - Paul Bachmann , German mathematician (d. 1920 )
- July 4 - Carolus-Duran , French painter (d. 1917 )
- July 18 - Vasil Levski , Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873 )
- August 24 - Théodore Dubois , French composer (d. 1924 )
- November 14 - Lucas Barrett , English naturalist (d. 1862 )
- November 23 - Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923 )
- December 26 - George Dewey , U.S. naval officer (d. 1917 )
- Sarah Lockwood Pardee , American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. 1922 )
Deaths
- January 20 - John Soane , British architect (b. 1753 )
- January 23 - John Field , Irish composer (b. 1782 )
- February 7 - Gustav IV Adolf , ex-King of Sweden (b. 1778 )
- February 10 - Alexander Pushkin , Russian author (b. 1799 )
- February 19 , Georg Büchner , German playwright (b. 1813 )
- March 31 - John Constable , English painter (b. 1776 )
- April 28 - Joseph Souham , French general (b. 1760 )
- June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi , Italian writer (b. 1798 )
- June 20 - King William IV Of The United Kingdom (b. 1765 )
- October 5 - Hortense De Beauharnais , Queen of Holland and mother of Napoleon III Of France (b. 1783 )
- November 7 - Elijah P. Lovejoy , American abolitionist (b. 1809 )
- December 13 - Saint Herman Of Alaska
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