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1834
1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
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January 7 - Johann Philipp Reis, physicist, inventor (d. 1874)
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February 7 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements (d. 1907)
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February 9 - Felix Dahn, author (d. 1912)
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February 16 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
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March 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
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March 17 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
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March 20 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (d. 1926)
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March 23 - Julius Reubke, composer (d. 1858).
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March 24 - William Morris, English poet and artist (d. 1896)
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March 24 - John Wesley Powell, American explorer, environmentalist (d. 1902)
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April 1 - James Fisk, entrepreneur (d. 1872)
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April 2 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (d. 1904)
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May 23 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish sculptor (d. 1890)
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June 19 - Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher (d. 1892)
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July 10 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (d. 1903)
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July 19 - Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
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August 22 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (d. 1906)
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August 31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
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October 8 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer during the Civil War. (d. 1905)
Deaths
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January 17 - Giovanni Aldini, physicist (b. 1762)
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February 2 - Lorenzo Dow, American minister (b. 1777)
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February 12 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (b. 1768)
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March 2 - José Cecilo del Valle, 1st President of Central America (b. 1780)
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April 10 - John 'Merino' MacArthur, Australian farmer (b. 1767)
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April 11 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences (b. 1757)
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May 20 - Marquis de la Fayette, French nobleman and soldier (b. 1757)
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July 12 - David Douglas, botanist (b. 1799)
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July 14 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
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July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English writer (b. 1772)
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August 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (b. 1752)
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September 2 - Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer (b. 1757)
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September 9 - James Weddell, Antarctic explorer (b. 1787)
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September 16 - William Blackwood, English writer (b. 1776)
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September 24 - Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)
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October 8 - François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
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October 11 - William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat (b. 1786)
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December 23 - Thomas Malthus, economist and political philosopher (b. 1766)
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December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)
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