| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Lord Acton |
Historian |
10-Jan-1834 |
19-Jun-1902 |
British historian |
| John Peter Altgeld |
Politician |
30-Dec-1847 |
12-Mar-1902 |
Governor of Illinois, 1893-97 |
| Samuel Butler |
Author |
4-Dec-1835 |
18-Jun-1902 |
Erewheon |
| Alfred Cornu |
Physicist |
6-Mar-1841 |
11-Apr-1902 |
Optics and spectroscopy |
| George Douglas |
Novelist |
26-Jan-1869 |
28-Aug-1902 |
The House With the Green Shutters |
| Charles Dow |
Journalist |
5-Nov-1851 |
4-Dec-1902 |
Dow of Dow Jones |
| Edward Eggleston |
Novelist |
10-Dec-1837 |
4-Sep-1902 |
The Hoosier School-Master |
| Jessie Fremont |
Relative |
31-May-1824 |
27-Dec-1902 |
Wife of John C. Fremont |
| E. L. Godkin |
Journalist |
2-Oct-1831 |
21-May-1902 |
Co-founder of The Nation |
| Julia Grant |
First Lady |
26-Jan-1826 |
14-Dec-1902 |
Wife of US President Ulysses Grant |
| Wade Hampton |
Politician |
28-Mar-1818 |
11-Apr-1902 |
Governor of South Carolina, 1877-79 |
| Bret Harte |
Author |
25-Aug-1836 |
5-May-1902 |
Master of the western short story |
| John L. Mason |
Inventor |
1832 |
26-Feb-1902 |
Invented the screw-neck jar |
| William McGonagall |
Poet |
1825 |
29-Sep-1902 |
The Tay Bridge Disaster |
| J. Sterling Morton |
Government |
22-Apr-1832 |
27-Apr-1902 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1893-97 |
| Thomas Nast |
Cartoonist |
27-Sep-1840 |
7-Dec-1902 |
American political caricaturist |
| Frank Norris |
Novelist |
5-Mar-1870 |
25-Oct-1902 |
The Octopus |
| John Wesley Powell |
Geologist |
24-Mar-1834 |
23-Sep-1902 |
Exploration of the Colorado River |
| Walter Reed |
Scientist |
13-Sep-1851 |
22-Nov-1902 |
Proved mosquitos spread Yellow Fever |
| Cecil Rhodes |
Business |
5-Jul-1853 |
26-Mar-1902 |
De Beers |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Activist |
12-Nov-1815 |
26-Oct-1902 |
National Woman Suffrage Association |
| Levi Strauss |
Business |
26-Feb-1829 |
26-Sep-1902 |
Blue jeans |
| Frederick Temple |
Religion |
30-Nov-1821 |
23-Dec-1902 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1896-1902 |
| Rudolf Virchow |
Doctor |
13-Oct-1821 |
5-Sep-1902 |
Pathology and progressive politics |
| Émile Zola |
Novelist |
2-Apr-1840 |
29-Sep-1902 |
J'Accuse |
