Famous people born in 1839

George Armstrong Custer was a ‘US Army’ officer who fought during the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.

Nikolay Przhevalsky was a Russian explorer who contributed significantly to European knowledge of Central Asia

George Cadbury was the son of John Cadbury, the founder of Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company

Jamsetji Tata was an Indian entrepreneur who founded the Tata Group

Read on to know all about the childhood, life and timeline of the brilliant Russian composer, Modest Mussorgsky.

Paul Cezanne was an influential post-impressionist painter known for his radically intense style, bold colours and brushstrokes

An impressionist painter, Alfred Sisley was widely acclaimed for his landscape paintings depicting the rural French life

Devil Anse Hatfield was the Patriarch of the Hatfield Clan

Henry George was a noted 19th century American political economist

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