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1821
1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
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January 8 - James Longstreet, Confederate General (d. 1904)
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February 3 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States (d. 1910)
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February 11 - Hermann Allmers , writer (d. 1902)
- February 11 - Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist who dug out the Sphinx (d. 1881)
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February 17 - Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, better known as Lola Montez (d. 1861)
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February 19 - August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868)
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March 1 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
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April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer (d. 1867)
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May 8 - Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1901 (d. 1910)
- May 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (d. 1885)
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May 17 - Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist (d. 1897)
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July 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
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August 10 - Jay Cooke, financier (d. 1905)
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October 13 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
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October 21 - Thomas Lyon-Bowes, the Monster of Glamis and member of the British Royal Family
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November 11 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
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Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Canadian politician
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Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
Deaths
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