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1824
1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
Ongoing events
Births
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January 8 - Wilkie Collins, novelist (d. 1889)
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January 21 - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate Army general (d. 1863)
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February 7 - William Huggins, astronomer (d. 1910)
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February 16 - Peter Kozler, cartographer, geographer (d. 1879)
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March 2 - Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1885)
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March 9 - Amasa Leland Stanford, 8th Governor of California (d. 1893).
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March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist (d. 1887)
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May 19 - William Allingham, author (d. 1889)
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May 23 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
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June 22 - Frederic Louis Ritter , composer
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June 26 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, English physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
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June 28 - Paul Pierre Broca, anthropologist (d. 1880)
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September 4 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896)
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October 5 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian
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October 18 - Frantisek Pivoda , composer
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December 10 - George MacDonald, English writer (d. 1905)
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December 14 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter
Deaths
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January 21 - Jean Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary
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February 21 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon I of France
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March 2 - Haswell Rowson , author
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April 19 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet
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May 26 - Capel Lofft, writer
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June 18 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)
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June 21 - Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (b. 1773)
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August 14 - Hugh Wilson , composer
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September 16 - Louis XVIII of France
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