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A painting by George Catlin (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)[/caption]
In the year 1832, a cholera epidemic claims lives in London, and spreads later to France and North America (Feb 12), the Mormon leader Joseph Smith experiences firsthand the persecution of Mormons in Ohio (Mar 24), the Black Hawk War begins (Apr 6), Modern Greece is born as the Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece (May 7), Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 95 (Nov 14), Andrew Jackson is re-elected president (Dec 3), painter George Catlin starts to live among the Plains Indians, depicting them in his portraits and paintings in their native territory - and all these fine people were born:
1832-0101 Tom Jeffords* United States Army scout/Indian agent/prospector - Chautauqua County, NY USA(1914/82) 1832-0106 Gustave Doré* printmaker/ illustrator/painter - Strasbourg, Kingdom of France (1883/51) 1832-0113 Horatio Alger* rags-to-riches writer - Chelsea, MA USA (1899/67) 1832-0116 George Hunter Cary* barrister/ colonial official - Woodford, Essex, England (1866/34) 1832-0120 1832-0123 Édouard Manet* painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1883/51) 1832-0127 Lewis Carroll* writer/ logician - Daresbury, Cheshire, England (1898/65) 1832-0209 Adele Spitzeder* actress/con artist/possibly the first recorded Ponzi scheme swindler - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1895/63) 1832-0218 Octave Chanute* American civil engineer/aviation pioneer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1910/78) 1832-0221 Louis Maurer* German-American lithographer/to America at age 19 - Biebrich, Germany (1932/100) 1832-0228 1832-0304 Samuel Colman* painter (the Hudson River)/interior designer/writer - Portland, ME USA (1920/88) 1832-0310 1832-0312 Charles Boycott* land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the term boycott - Burgh St Peter, Norfolk, England (1897/65) 1832-0317 Moncure D. Conway* abolitionist minister/radical writer - Falmouth, VA USA (1907/75) 1832-0327 William Quiller Orchardson* painter/portraitist - Edinburgh, Scotland (1910/78) 1832-0404 Fedor Flinzer* author/ educator/illustrator - Reichenbach im Vogtland (1911/79) 1832-0410 1832-0415 Wilhelm Busch* humorist/illustrator/ painter - Wiedensahl, Kingdom of Hanover (1908/75) 1832-0419 José Echegaray* engineer/ dramatist/ statesman/N - Madrid, Spain (1916/84) 1832-0419 Lucretia Garfield* (b Rudolph) First Lady - Garretsville, OH USA (1918/85) 1832-0430 1832-0501 1832-0507 Heinrich Julius Holtzmann* theologian - Karlsruhe (1910/78) 1832-0514 Rudolf Lipschitz* German mathematician - Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (1903/71) 1832-0520 1832-0527 Alexander Aksakov* writer/psychic researcher (credited with having coined the term telekinesis) - Repyovka, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire (1903/70) 1832-0527 Laura Gundersen* (b Svendsen) actress - Bergen, Norway (1898/66) 1832-0531 1832-0603 Charles Lecocq* composer - Paris, France (1918/86) 1832-0617 William Crookes* chemist/ physicist - London, England (1919/86) 1832-0621 Louise Rayner* watercolor painter - Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England (1924/92) 1832-0623 Gustav Jäger* naturalist/ hygienist - Bürg, Württemberg (1917/84) 1832-0706 Maximilian I of Mexico* Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire - Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austrian Empire (1867/34) 1832-0710 Abigail Maheha* Hawaiian chiefess of the Kingdom of Hawaii - Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii (1861/28) 1832-0711 Charilaos Trikoupis* politician/ 7-time Prime Minister of Greece - Nafplion, Peloponnese (1896/63) 1832-0722 Colin Archer* naval architect/shipbuilder - Larvik, Norway (1921/88) 1832-0729 Luigi Palma di Cesnola* Italian-American soldier/diplomat/amateur archaeologist - Rivarolo Canavese, Kingdom of Sardinia (1904/72) 1832-0803 Edward Wilmot Blyden* activist - St Thomas, Danish West Indies (1912/79) 1832-0810 Lauri Hämäläinen* organist/ tuner/composer - Rautalampi, GD of Finland (1888/56) 1832-0820 Thaddeus S. C. Lowe* aeronaut/scientist/inventor - Jefferson Mills, NH USA (1913/80) 1832-0901 Hermann Steudner* botanist/ explorer of Africa - Greiffenberg, Silesia (1863/30) 1832-0910 1832-0919 Adam Wallius* smith/ aeronautics pioneer - Polvijärvi, GD of Finland (1909/c. 77) 1832-0922 William C. Roberts* pastor/ academic administrator - Aberystwyth, Wales (1903/71) 1832-0930 Ann Jarvis* social activist/recognized as the mother who inspired Mother’s Day - Culpeper, VA USA (1905/72) 1832-1001 Caroline Harrison* (b Scott) music teacher/artist/First Lady - Oxford, OH USA (1892/60) 1832-1004 Thorborg Rappe* pedagogue/ baroness - Nättraby, Sweden (1902/69) 1832-1014 Amanda Rylander* stage actress - Jäder, Sweden (1920/88) 1832-1023 Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg* priest/father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first President of the Republic of Finland - Kuhmoniemi, GD of Finland (1873/40) 1832-1029 Narcisa de Jesús* (b Martillo) Ecuadorian Catholic saint - Nobol, Guayas, Ecuador (1869/37) 1832-1107 Andrew Dickson White* historian/ educator/co-founder of Cornell University - Homer, NY USA (1918/85) 1832-1111 Hermann Kinkelin* Swiss mathematician/statistician - Bern, Switzerland (1913/80) 1832-1112 Nancy Edberg* swimmer/swimming instructor/bath house manager - Ytterjärna, Sweden (1892/60) 1832-1116 Hermann Ottomar Herzog* painter/to U.S. at age 38 - Bremen, Kingdom of Prussia (1932/99) 1832-1118 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld***** geologist/ mineralogist/Arctic explorer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1901/68) 1832-1126 Mary Edwards Walker* abolitionist/ prohibitionist/surgeon - Oswego, NY USA (1919/86) 1832-1129 Louisa May Alcott* novelist/ poet - Germantown, PA USA (1888/55) 1832-1201 1832-1206 Thaddeus C. Pound* businessman/ grandfather of Ezra Pound - Elk Township, PA USA (1914/81) 1832-1208 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson* writer/N - Kvikne, Norway (1910/77) 1832-1215 Gustave Eiffel* civil engineer - Dijon, Burgundy, Kingdom of France (1923/91) 1832-1224 Walter Joseph Sendall* British colonial governor - England (1904/71) 1832-1227 Pavel Tretyakov* businessman/patron of art/philanthropist - Moscow, Russian Empire (1898/65) 1832-0 1832-0 1832-0 Updated 2025-0116 Helsinki Search for another year here