1840 births
Category: 1840 births

Benjamin Bozeman

George Dobson
New Zealand surveyor

Mir Abdul Ali
Police detective from India

Tannaker Buhicrosan
Dutch-Japanese translator, international businessman

John J. Cassin
American politician

Susan Fessenden
WCTU temperance worker, supporter of Lizzie Borden

Mary Parke Foster

James P. Postles
American soldier

John Dodsley Webster
English architect

Herbert Edlmann
English cricketer and businessman

Henry Aitken
New Zealand mayor

Michael Ralph Thomas Gunn
Irish businessman and theatre manager

Henry Rogers
English cricketer and civil servant

Henry Pepys
English cricketer and barrister

Henry E. Tremain
American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient

William H. Reddick
American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient

Jacob G. Neff
American politician

Marion Macfarlane
First Anglican woman ordained in Australia in 1884

George W. Dunn
American politician

Benjamin A. Boseman
African-American physician, politician, and postmaster

John Bryce Thomson
Mayor of Dunedin

Richard Henry Leary
Mayor of Dunedin 1886–1887

Asher Simcha Weissmann
Austrian Hebraist, rabbi, writer and editor

Laura Soames
British phonetician

George M. Curtis
American politician

Adolph Moses
German-American rabbi

Mary Devlin Booth
American actress

F. G. Maeder
American playwright and actor

William Edgar Hughes
American politician

William Benjamin Scandrett
7 Feb 1840 - 23 Sep 1917

Vertelli
British-Australian tightrope walker and stage magician

Henry Majendie
English cricketer

Henry Reade
English cricketer, clergyman and educator

Septimus Ridsdale
English cricketer

Luke Park
British trade union leader

Mitrofan Tchaikovsky
Russian infantry general

Vishnupant Moreshwar Chatre

Mohammed Hussain al-Shahrestani

Mary A. Cornelius
American author and temperance reformer

Isadore G. Jeffery
American poet