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Replica of The Amistad (courtesy of Amistad America)[/caption]
In the year 1841, Britain occupies Hong Kong (Jan 24), the two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada (Feb 11), the court case United States v. The Amistad is ruled in favor of the slaves from Sierra Leone (Mar 9), John Tyler is sworn in as the 10th U.S. President (Apr 6), New Zealand becomes a British colony (May 3), the first edition of Punch is published in London (Jul 17), Emperor Pedro II is crowned in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Jul 18), first demonstration of what was then called animal magnetism - later hypnotism - is observed (Nov 13) - and all these fine people were born:
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1841-0114 Berthe Morisot* painter - Bourges, Cher, Kingdom of France (1895/54)
1841-0115 Frederick Stanley* politician/Governor General of Canada/ presented Canada with the Stanley Cup - London, England (1908/67)
1841-0128 Henry Morton Stanley* Welsh-American journalist/explorer (Dr. Livingstone, I presume?)/colonial administrator - Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales (1904/63)
1841-0211 Lyman Bloomingdale* businessman/co-founder of Bloomingdale’s/philanthropist - New York, NY USA (1905/64)
1841-0224 John Philip Holland* Irish-American engineer/ inventor of submarine - Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland (1914/73)
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1841-0308 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.* Supreme Court Justice - Boston, MA USA (1935/93)
1841-0310 Victor-Charles Mahillon* musician/ instrument builder/writer on musical topics - Brussels, Belgium (1924/83)
1841-0311 Leandro N. Alem* (b Alén) lawyer/politician/a founder and leader of the Radical Civic Union - Buenos Aires, Argentina (1896/55)
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1841-0405 Hugo Lignell* merchant/ founder of Lignell & Piispanen - Saltvik, Åland, GD of Finland (1890/49)
1841-0413 Louis-Ernest Barrias* sculptor - Paris, Kingdom of France (1905/63)
1841-0417 Charles Arkoll Boulton* military leader - Cobourg, Canada West (1599/58)
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1841-0423 Hjalmar Stolpe* Swedish archaeologist/ ethnographer/best known for his excavations at the Viking-age site Birka - Gävle, Sweden-Norway (1905/63)
1841-0429 Ivar Kaskas* painter - Vanaja, GD of Finland (1898/57)
1841-0430 Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald* admiral in the Royal Navy - Corkbeg, Ireland (1921/80)
1841-0503 Hilda Granstedt* painter/ art teacher (Helene Schjerfbeck) - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1932/91)
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1841-0515 Clarence Dutton* geologist/army officer - Wallingford, CT USA (1912/70)
1841-0521 Joseph Parry* musician/ composer - Merthyr Tydfil, Wales (1903/61)
1841-0531 William Rockefeller Jr.* businessman/ financier/co-founder of Standard Oil - Richford, NY USA (1922/81)
1841-0601 Edward Lyon Buchwalter* Union Captain in the American Civil War/banker /and farmer - Hallsville, OH USA (1933/92)
1841-0606 Eliza Orzeszkowa* Polish writer - Miĺkaŭščyna, Russian Empire (1910/68)
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1841-0625 Amanda Nerman* actress/ wife of Carl Taube - Stockholm, Sweden-Norway (1919/77)
1841-0628 James Earp* saloon keeper/the lesser known older brother of the lawmen Morgan, Virgil and Wyatt Earp - Hartford, KY USA (1926/84) Oh Brother
1841-0630 Carl Silfverhjelm* major general/civil servant - Ulvila, GD of Finland (1918/76)
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1841-0702 Alexander Zaytsev* chemist - Kazan, Russian Empire (1910/69)
1841-0705 Mary Arthur McElroy* (b Arthur) White House hostess/defacto first lady for her brother President Chester A. Arthur after his wife died - Greenwich, NY USA (1917/75)
1841-0708 Charles Henry Tilson Marshall* British Army Officer/ornithologist - England (1927/85)
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1841-0713 Otto Wagner* architect/furniture designer/urban planner - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1918/76)
1841-0716 Nikolai von Glehn* Baltic German landowner/ founder of the town of Nõmme (now part of Tallinn) - Jälgimäe Manor, Estonia, Russian Empire (1923/82)
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1841-0725 Eva Stenbäck* schoolteacher/ writer - Loviisa, GD of Finland (1928/87)
1841-0726 Carl Robert Jakobson* Estonian writer/teacher/politician - Dorpat, Russian Empire (1882/40)
1841-0729 Gerhard Armauer Hansen* Norwegian physician/identifier of the bacterium that is the causative agent of leprosy - Bergen, Sweden-Norway (1912/70)
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1841-0803 Juliana Horatia Ewing* (b Gatty) writer of children’s stories - Ecclesfield, Sheffield, England (1885/43)
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1841-0810 Pietari Kuisma* farmer/ politician - Antrea, GD of Finland (1925/84)
1841-0820 Berndt Lindholm* landscape painter - Loviisa, GD of Finland (1914/72)
1841-0824 Anna Hierta-Retzius* Swedish women’s rights activist/ philanthropist - Stockholm, Sweden-Norway (1924/83)
1841-0825 Emil Theodor Kocher* physician/medical researcher/N - Bern, Switzerland (1917/75)
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1841-0908 Antonín Dvorák* Czech composer - Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Austria (1904/62)
1841-0908 Charles J. Guiteau* assassin of U.S.President James A. Garfield - Freeport, IL USA (1882/40)
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1841-0928 Francis P. Fleming* politician/ Governor of Florida - Panama Park, FL USA (1908/67)
1841-0928 Gerard Adriaan Heineken* founder of the Heineken Breweries - Amsterdam, Netherlands (1893/51)
1841-1004 Prudente de Morais* lawyer/ politician/P - Itu, Empire of Brazil (1902/61)
1841-1016 Itō Hirobumi* 伊藤 博文 (b Hayashi Risuke) politician/PM - Tsukari, Tokugawa Shogunate (1909/68)
1841-1027 Alfred Jacobsson* businessman/ civil servant/philanthropist - Turku, GD of Finland (1931/89)
1841-1104 Carl Tausig* virtuoso pianist/ arranger/composer - Warzaw, Poland (1871/29)
1841-1109 Edward VII* King of the United Kingdom etc/the eldest son of Queen Victoria - Buckingham Palace, London, England (1910/68)
1841-1120 Wilfrid Laurier* politician/PM/well-known for his policies of compromise between French and English Canada - Saint Lin, Canada East (1919/77)
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1841-1206 Frédéric Bazille* painter - Montpellier, Kingdom of France (1870/28)
1841-1220 Ferdinand Buisson* politician/ pacifist/N - Paris, Kingdom of France (1932/90)
1841-1229 Adolph Nehrkorn* German ornithologist/ collector of bird eggs - Riddagshausen, Lower Saxony (1916/74)
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