Died in 1877

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Died in 1877

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Walter Bagehot Economist 3-Feb-1826 24-Mar-1877 Editor of The Economist, 1860-77

Levi Coffin Activist 28-Oct-1798 16-Sep-1877 Helped thousands of slaves to freedom

Gustave Courbet Painter 10-Jun-1819 31-Dec-1877 French Realist painter

Crazy Horse Military c. 1842 5-Sep-1877 Bayonetted in the back

Nathan Bedford Forrest Military 13-Jul-1821 29-Oct-1877 Confederate Cavalry General

Wilhelm Hofmeister Botanist 18-May-1824 12-Jan-1877 Alternation of generations in plants

Rowland H. Macy Business 30-Aug-1822 29-Mar-1877 Founder of Macy's department stores

Oliver Perry Morton Politician 4-Aug-1823 1-Nov-1877 US Senator from Indiana, 1867-77

John Lothrop Motley Diplomat 15-Apr-1814 29-May-1877 The Rise of the Dutch Republic

Robert Dale Owen Activist 9-Nov-1801 24-Jun-1877 The Wrong of Slavery

Johann Christian Poggendorff Physicist 29-Dec-1796 24-Jan-1877 Annalen der Physik und Chemie

William Henry Fox Talbot Inventor 11-Feb-1800 17-Sep-1877 Calotype method of photography

Adolphe Thiers Head of State 18-Apr-1797 3-Sep-1877 First President of the Third Republic

David Urquhart Diplomat 1805 16-May-1877 Diplomatic Review

Cornelius Vanderbilt Business 27-May-1794 4-Jan-1877 Robber baron, richest man in the United States

Brigham Young Religion 1-Jun-1801 29-Aug-1877 Second LDS prophet

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