- Born
- December 29, 1823
- Died
- October 15, 1863 (aged 39)
- Known as
- civil engineer, businessperson
Horace Lawson Hunley was a Confederate marine engineer during the American Civil War. He developed early hand-powered submarines, the most famous of which was posthumously named for him, H. L. Hunley.
Biography from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Horace Lawson Hunley in our timeline
Also born on December 29
- Jon Voight1938 · American actor
- Jude Law1972 · English actor
- Andrew Johnson1808 · President of the United States from 1865 to 1869
- Mary Tyler Moore1936 · American actress and television producer
- Elizabeth of Russia1709 · Empress of Russia from 1741 to 1762
- Ted Danson1947 · American actor
- Victor Osimhen1998 · Nigerian footballer
- Alison Brie1982 · American actress and writer
Also born in 1823
- Alfred Russel Wallace1823 · English naturalist
- Schuyler Colfax1823 · Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873
- Alexandre Cabanel1823 · French painter
- Max Müller1823 · British philologist
- Sándor Petőfi1823 · Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
- William M. Tweed1823 · American politician
- Leopold Kronecker1823 · German mathematician
- Alexander Ostrovsky1823 · Russian playwright