LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Thomas Hart Benton	Politician	14-Mar-1782	10-Apr-1858	US Senator from Missouri, 1821-51
Robert Brown	Botanist	21-Dec-1773	10-Jun-1858	Brownian motion
George Combe	Paranormal	21-Oct-1788	14-Aug-1858	Scottish phrenologist
Johann Baptist Cramer	Pianist	24-Feb-1771	16-Apr-1858	Études
James Gadsden	Military	15-May-1788	26-Dec-1858	Gadsden Purchase
Robert Hare	Chemist	17-Jan-1781	15-May-1858	Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope
Hiroshige	Artist	1797	12-Oct-1858	Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
William Horsley	Composer	15-Nov-1774	12-Jun-1858	English composer of glees
Anson Jones	Politician	20-Jan-1798	9-Jan-1858	President of Texas, committed suicide
Felice Orsini	Assassin	1819	13-Mar-1858	Attempted assassin of Napoleon III
Robert Owen	Activist	14-May-1771	17-Nov-1858	Founder of the Cooperative Movement
George Peacock	Mathematician	9-Apr-1791	8-Nov-1858	Treatise on Algebra
Matthew Perry	Military	10-Apr-1794	4-Mar-1858	Opened Japan to the west
John A. Quitman	Politician	1-Sep-1799	17-Jul-1858	Twice Governor of Mississippi
Dred Scott	Victim	c. 1799	17-Sep-1858	Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court

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