Year
1837 (
MDCCCXXXVII) was a
common year starting on
Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian Calendar (or a
common year starting on
Friday of the 12-day slower
Julian
calendar).
Events of 1837
January–June
July–December
Undated
Births
January–June
- January 2 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
- January 7 – Thomas Henry Ismay, known for acquiring
the WSL flag
- February 5 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)
- February 13 – Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer (d.
1914)
- March 1 – William Dean Howells, American writer,
historian, editor, and politician (d. 1920)
- March 1 – Ion Creanga, Romanian
writer
- March 7 – Henry
Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
- March 18 – Grover Cleveland, President of the United
States (d. 1908)
- March 23 – Charles Wyndham, English actor and
theatrical manager (d. 1919)
- April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne,
English poet (d. 1909)
- April 17 – John
Pierpont Morgan, American financier and banker (d. 1913)
- April 21 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
(d. 1922)
- May 9 – Adam
Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
- May 27 – Wild
Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
- May 28 – George
Ashlin, Irish Architect (d. 1921)
- June 22 – Paul
Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
- June 22 – Touch the Clouds, Native American Minneconjou chief 7 feet tall (d. 1905)
- June 22 – Paul
Bachmann, German mathematician (d. 1920)
July–December
- July 4 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (d. 1917)
- July 18 – Vasil
Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
- August 24 – Théodore Dubois, French composer (d.
1924)
- September 14 – Nikolai Bugaev, prominent Russian
mathematician (d.1903)
- September 12 – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
(d. 1892)
- September 16 – King Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
- September 18 – Aires de Ornelas e
Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
- October 10 – Robert Gould Shaw, American Civil War
General, reformer (d. 1863)
- October 28 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and the last
shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate (d. 1913)
- October 29 – Harriet Powers, African-American folk artist
(d. 1910)
- November 2 – Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator
(d. 1891)
- November 5 – Saint Arnold Janssen (d. 1909)
- November 14 – Lucas Barrett, English naturalist (d. 1862)
- November 20 – Lewis Waterman, American inventor and
businessman (d.1901)
- November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der
Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1923)
- December 15 – George B. Post
American architect (d. 1913)
- December 26 – George Dewey, U.S. naval officer (d. 1917)
Deaths
- January 20 – John Soane, British architect (b. 1753)
- January 23 – John Field, Irish composer (b.
1782)
- February 7 – Gustav IV Adolf, ex-King of Sweden
(b. 1778)
- February 10 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian author (b.
1799)
- February 19 – Georg Büchner, German playwright (b.
1813)
- March 31 – John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
- April 28 – Joseph Souham, French general (b. 1760)
- May 20 – Landgrave Frederick of
Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1747)
- June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b.
1798)
- June 20 – King William IV of the United
Kingdom (b. 1765)
- September 7 – Fabian Gottlieb von
Osten-Sacken, Russian military leader (b. 1752)
- September 21 – Pieter Vreede, Dutch politician (b. 1750)
- September 28 – Akbar Shah II, last Mughal emperor of India
(b. 1760)
- October 1 – Robert Clark, American
politician (b. 1777)
- October 10 – Charles Fourier, philosopher (b. 1772)
- November 7 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b.
1809)