Year (''' MDCCCXXXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Friday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- November 7 - American abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy is killed by a pro- Slavery mob.
- November 8 - Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later Mount Holyoke College , was founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
- December 4 - William Lyon Mackenzie, a radical reformer in Upper Canada (Ontario), leads a futile and short-lived rebellion against the colonial legislature.
- 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 )
- September 14 - Nikolai Bugaev , prominent Russian mathematician (d. 1903 )
- September 16 - King Pedro V Of Portugal (d. 1861 )
- September 18 - Aires De Ornelas E Vasconcelos , (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880 )
- October 29 - African-American folk artist Harriet Powers , now nationally recognized for her quilts (d. 1910 )
- November 2 - Émile Bayard , French artist, illustrator (d. 1891 )
- 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 )
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