Home / Birthday profiles / William Morton Wheeler
Portrait of William Morton Wheeler

Birthday profile

William Morton Wheeler

William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, and academic (died 1937)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
March 19, 1865
Died
April 19, 1937
Zodiac sign
Pisces
Birth year
1865

About William Morton Wheeler

William Morton Wheeler was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and professor at Harvard University. Wheeler attended public school, but, due to "persistently bad behavior", he was transferred to a local German academy which was known for its extreme discipline. A close contact of the British myrmecologist and coleopterist Horace Donisthorpe, it was to Wheeler whom Donisthorpe dedicated his first major book on ants in 1915.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

The world when William Morton Wheeler was born

William Morton Wheeler was born in 1865. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1865

  • Best-selling bookAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineCivil War ends — Lincoln assassinated
  • Technology milestone13th Amendment abolishes slavery
  • World population~1.45B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderAbraham Lincoln / Andrew Johnson
  • U.S. population33.5M

1865 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in William Morton Wheeler's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18652026
Population33.5M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Library of Congress, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.