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