1812 - Births

Births

• January 6 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (d. 1919)
• January 13 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
• February 3 – William Fraser Tolmie, Scottish-Canadian scientist and politician (d. 1886)
• February 7 – Charles Dickens, English writer (d. 1870)
• February 11 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1883)
• February 15 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (d. 1902)
• February 29 – Sir James Milne Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1880)
• March 1 – Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
• March 6 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
• March 22 – Stephen Pearl Andrews, American anarchist and abolitionist (d. 1886)
• April 22 – Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-born orientalist (d. 1894)
• April 27
  • Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
  • William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
• April 29 – Emilie Högquist, Swedish dramatic star (d. 1846)
• May 7 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
• May 12 – Edward Lear, English artist and poet (d. 1888)
• June 9 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
• June 14 – Fernando Wood, New York City Mayor (d. 1881)
• July 2 – Nathaniel de Rothschild, French wine grower (d. 1870)
• August 8 – John Rodgers, American admiral (d. 1882)
• August 25 – Percival Drayton, United States Navy officer (d. 1865)
• November 14 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)
• December 24 – Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist (d. 1894)