* 1930 – Cosima Wagner, Hungarian daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner ( b. 1837 )

* 1765 – William IV of the United Kingdom ( d. 1837 )

Andrew Jackson ( March 15, 1767 June 8, 1845 ) was the seventh President of the United States ( 1829 – 1837 ).

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

* 1837 – J. P. Morgan, American financier ( d. 1913 )

* 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman, 4th President of the French Republic ( d. 1894 )

* 1787 – Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary ( d. 1837 )

* 1837 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel laureate ( d. 1922 )

* 1772 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher ( d. 1837 )

* Christian Bunsen ( librarian ) ( 1770 – 1837 ), chief librarian of Göttingen and professor of modern philology, father of Robert Bunsen

* John Cuthbert Hedley ( 1837 – 1915 )

* Chemistry ( 1837 ) – the science concerned with the laws and effects of molecular forces ( Dumas ).

In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé, ( 1837 – 1891 ), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts.

The winter of 1837 – 38 saw rebellion in both of the Canadas, with the result they were rejoined as the Province of Canada in 1841.

Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

* 1837 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi, Empress of Austria ( d. 1898 )

* 1837 – George Dewey, U. S. admiral ( d. 1917 )

* 1837 – Morgan Bulkeley, American politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut ( d. 1922 )

* 1837 – Émile Waldteufel, French composer ( d. 1915 )

* 1837 – Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit ( b. 1756 )

In 1877, German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne ( 1837 – 1900 ) first used the term enzyme, which comes from Greek ενζυμον, " in leaven ", to describe this process.

Category: UK MPs 1835 – 1837

Category: UK MPs 1837 – 1841

* 1837 – Georg Büchner, German playwright ( b. 1813 )

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

* 1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.

* November 30 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor leader ( b. 1837 )

In 1837 Augustus attempted to obtain an appointment for James to the United States Military Academy, but the vacancy for his congressional district had already been filled so James was appointed in 1838 by a relative, Reuben Chapman, who represented the First District of Alabama ( where Mary Longstreet lived ).

The school was originally founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.

Oct. 28, 1837 — The settlers gathered on a knoll, just south of the Embarras and with proper pomp and circumstance took formal possession of the land, dedicating the village to the Virgin Mary, who has a privileged understanding of the human and the Divine, unlike any other person.

The property was purchased by William B. Carpenter in 1837, and his daughter and son-in-law Mary E. and George Mayfield inherited the house in 1869.

In 1837 he married Mary Benjamin ( died 1874 ), a sister of Park Benjamin, and in 1839 he published anonymously a novel entitled Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial about life in a German university, based on his own experiences.

Mary Harris " Mother " Jones ( 1837 – November 30, 1930 ) was an Irish schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer, who helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.

After the death of William IV, Mary Adelaide's cousin, Princess Victoria of Kent ascended the throne in 1837.

Mary Dixon Kies ( March 21, 1752 – 1837 ) was an early 19th-century American who was the first recipient of a patent granted to a woman by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, on May 5, 1809, which was for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.

Sarah Josepha Hale ( author of " Mary Had a Little Lamb ") was its editor from 1837 until 1877 and only published original, American manuscripts.

In 1837 Lord Wharncliffe brought out an edition of the writings of his ancestress, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Born in Liverpool to William Alfred Whitty ( c. 1837 – 1876 ) and Mary Louisa ( née Ashton, ca.

At the time of Father Coudrin's death in 1837, the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary had 276 priests and brothers and 1125 sisters.

Mary Robinson ( 1778 – 1837 ), known as the " Maid of Buttermere " and the subject of Melvyn Bragg's novel of that name, was the daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in Buttermere village.

William Giles Harding had a son he named ' John ' by his first wife, Mary Selena McNairy ( she died in 1837 ).

* Mary Harris Jones ( 1837 – 1930 ) ( Mother Jones ), community organizer

* Stuart married Frances Cornelia Baldwin ( 1815 – 1888 ), and with her had 8 children: Briscoe Baldwin Stuart ( 1837 – 1859 ), Alexander H. H. Stuart Jr. ( 1846 – 1867 ), Archibald Gerard Stuart ( 1858 – 1888 ), Eleanor Augusta Stuart ( 1838 – 1878 ), Frances Peyton Stuart ( born 1842 ), Mary Stuart ( born 1844 ), Susan Baldwin Stuart ( 1848 – 1867 ), and Margaret Briscoe Stuart ( 1855 – 1932 ).

In 1837 he married Mary Goree, the daughter of a local planter.

The Arundell Library, presented in 1837 by Everard, 11th Baron Arundell of Wardour, is the most significant ; it is not only a country-house library from Wardour Castle but also has a notable collection of 250 incunabula, medieval manuscripts and volumes of Jacobite interest, signal among which is Mary Tudor's Book of Hours, which it is believed was given by Mary, Queen of Scots to her chaplain on the scaffold.

Samuel Maverick, Jr. was a Texas soldier and businessman, born 14 May 1837 at Montpelier Plantation, near Pendleton, South Carolina, the first-born of Samuel Augustus Maverick and Mary Ann Adams.

The Works of Mary Brunton appeared in 1820 and further editions of her first two novels in 1832, 1837 and 1852.