1838
1838 was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events Births January 4 - General Tom Thumb , American circus performer and entertainer (d. 1883 ) January 6 - Max Bruch , German composer (d. 1920 ) January 16 - Franz Brentano , German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917 ) February 6 - Henry Irving , English actor (d. 1905 ) February 10 - Gustav Oelwein , The founder of Oelwein, Iowa (d. 1913 ) February 16 - Henry Adams , American historian (d. 1918 ) February 18 - Ernst Mach , Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916 ) March 3 - George William Hill , American astronomer (d. 1914 ) April 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin , German inventor (d. 1917 ) April 28 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser , Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1913 ) April 21 - John Muir , American ecologist (d. 1914 ) May 10 - John Wilkes Booth , American actor and assassin (d. 1865 ) May 20 - Jules Méline , French statesman (d. 1925 ) September 2 - Liliuokalani of Hawai'i , last Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917 ) October 6 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba , Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910) October 25 - Georges Bizet , French composer (d. 1875 ) November 7 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , French writer (d. 1889 ) November 13 - Joseph Fielding Smith , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918 ) December 20 - Edwin Abbott Abbott , theologian and author (d. 1926 ) December 30 - Émile Loubet , 7th president President of France (d.1929 ) Deaths