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1821
1821 was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). EventsBirths - January 8 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
- January 8 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
- February 3 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first American female physician (d. 1910)
- February 11 - Hermann Allmers, writer (d. 1902)
- February 11 - Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881)
- February 17 - Lola Montez, Irish Spanish dancer and royal mistress (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, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1910)
- May 8 - William Henry Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1885)
- May 16 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
- May 17 - Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopath (d. 1897)
- July 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
- August 10 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
- October 13 - Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
- November 11 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
- December 12 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
- December 25 - Clara Barton, First president of American Red Cross (d. 1912)
- Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Canadian politician (d. 1893)
- Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. [[1902]
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