1864
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Art and culture
- Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The 1864 edition of Webster's Dictionary published the first definition of pornography as ""licentious painting employed to decorate the walls of rooms sacred to bacchanalian orgies, examples of which exist in Pompeii."
- Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx; painting
- Charles Baudelaire meets Félicien Rops
Births
- January 1 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
- January 24 - Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936)
- April 21 - Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920)
- June 11 - Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949)
- November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
Deaths
- January 13 - Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)
- April 4 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
- May 2 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791)
- May 9 - John Sedgwick, Union General, American Civil War (b. 1813)
May 12- J.E.B. Stuart, Confederate Cavalry General, American Civil War
- May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
- June 1 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
- June 14 - Patrick Kelly, US Army officer (in battle)
- June 15 - William E. Jones, Confederate general (in battle) (b. 1824)
- September 3 - Emil Nobel, younger brother of Alfred Nobel (killed in an explosion)
- October 12 - Roger Taney, United States Supreme Court Justice (b. 1777)
- November 6 - Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader (b. 1772)
- November 30 - John Adams, (Confederate Army officer (in battle) (born 1825)
- December 1 - William L. Dayton - United States Minister to France (b.1807)
- December 8 - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. Nov. 2 1815)
- December 21 - Archduke Louis of Austria (born 1784)
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