Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Elizabeth Bacon Custer was an American author and public speaker who was the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, United States Army. She spent most of their twelve-year marriage in relative proximity to him despite his numerous military campaigns in the American Civil War and subsequent postings on the Great Plains as a commanding officer in the United States Cavalry.

8 April 1842

Born on the same birth day (8 April): Barbara Kingsolver • Carlos Santana (baseball) • Dimitrios Levidis • Erwin Keller • Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney • Hubertus Ernst • Jeremy Hellickson • Jürgen Moltmann • Mary W. Gray • Oscar Zeta Acosta • Paddy Lowe • Richard Neutra • Taylor Kitsch • Tim Thomerson • Tom DeLay

Born in the same month (April 1842): Carl Millöcker • Dominic Savio • Hans Hildebrand • Maurice Rouvier • Ulric Dahlgren • Édouard Lucas