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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bahá'u'lláh
Religion
12-Nov-1817 29-May-1892 Founder of Baha'i
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Activist
19-Jul-1817 8-Nov-1901 "Mother to the boys in Blue"
John Bigelow
Author
25-Nov-1817 19-Dec-1911 Ambassador to France, memoirist
Braxton Bragg
Military
22-Mar-1817 27-Sep-1876 Confederate Army General
Branwell Brontë
Poet
26-Jun-1817 24-Sep-1848 The Brontë sisters' brother
Joseph Campbell
Business
15-May-1817 19-Jan-1900 Founder of Campbell Soups
John Cassell
Publisher
23-Jan-1817 2-Apr-1865 Cassell's Magazine
George Henry Corliss
Inventor
2-Jun-1817 21-Feb-1888 Corliss valve and steam engines
Charles-François Daubigny
Painter
15-Feb-1817 19-Feb-1878 French painter of landscapes, ducks
Thomas Davidson
Paleontologist
17-May-1817 14-Oct-1885 British Fossil Brachiopoda
Henry Winter Davis
Politician
16-Aug-1817 30-Dec-1865 Congressman from Maryland, 1855-65
Frederick Douglass
Activist
Feb-1817 20-Feb-1895 Anti-slavery activist and autobiographer
James Thomas Fields
Editor
31-Dec-1817 24-Apr-1881 Editor of the Atlantic Monthly
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
Government
4-Aug-1817 20-May-1885 US Secretary of State, 1881-85
Domenico Ghirardelli
Business
21-Feb-1817 17-Jan-1894 Founder of Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Horatio Hale
Anthropologist
3-May-1817 28-Dec-1896 Ethnologist studied polynesia
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Botanist
30-Jun-1817 10-Dec-1911 Genera Plantarum
John Callcott Horsley
Painter
29-Jan-1817 18-Oct-1903 Designed first Christmas card
Benjamin Jowett
Scholar
15-Apr-1817 1-Oct-1893 Translator of Plato, etc.
George Henry Lewes
Philosopher
18-Apr-1817 28-Nov-1878 The Problems of Life and Mind
Theodor Mommsen
Historian
30-Nov-1817 1-Nov-1903 Roman History
John Selden Roane
Politician
8-Jan-1817 8-Apr-1867 Governor of Arkansas, 1849-52
Theodor Storm
Poet
14-Sep-1817 4-Jul-1888 Schimmelreiter
Henry David Thoreau
Author
12-Jul-1817 6-May-1862 Walden


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