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1842
1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
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February 3 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881)
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February 4 - Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (d. 1918)
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February 25 - Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
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March 10 - Mykola Lysenko, composer
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March 18 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
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April 14 - Catherine Eddowes, fourth confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
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May 8 - Emil Christian Hansen, fermentation physiologist
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May 13 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
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May 17 - August Thyssen , Swiss industrialist (d. 1926)
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August 23 - Osborne Reynolds, engineer and physicist
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September 13 - John H. Bankhead, United States Senator (d. 1920)
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September 21 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman sultan
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October 14 - Joe Start, baseball player
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December 9 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
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Anna Elizabeth Dickenson, orator
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Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer
Deaths
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January 19 - Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme , French jurist and politician.
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March 6 - Constanze Mozart , wife of Wolfgang Mozart
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March 13 - Henry Shrapnel, soldier, inventor
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March 23 - Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
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March 30 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter
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April 4 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician
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May 8 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, explorer
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July 28 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
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September 15 - Francisco Morazán, President of Central America
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