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January 3, 1840 Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii January 5, 1840 John Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 January 18, 1840 Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer January 18, 1840 Ernst Rudorff, composer January 21, 1840 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician January 23, 1840 Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company) January 28, 1840 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard February 2, 1840 Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer February 5, 1840 Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle) February 5, 1840 John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire) February 11, 1840 Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884 February 13, 1840 Georg Jacobi, composer February 22, 1840 F August Bebel, German social-democrat February 23, 1840 Carl Menger, Austrian economist February 25, 1840 Alexis Hollander, composer February 25, 1840 Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Climax of Theories) February 29, 1840 John Philip Holland, Liscannor Ireland, pioneer in submarine building March 5, 1840 Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights) March 8, 1840 Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor March 11, 1840 Edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 |
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