| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Andrés Bello |
Poet |
29-Nov-1781 |
15-Oct-1865 |
South American intellectual, poet |
| George Phillips Bond |
Astronomer |
20-May-1825 |
17-Feb-1865 |
Father of astrophotography |
| John Wilkes Booth |
Assassin |
10-May-1838 |
26-Apr-1865 |
Abraham Lincoln's assassin |
| John Cassell |
Publisher |
23-Jan-1817 |
2-Apr-1865 |
Cassell's Magazine |
| John Catron |
Judge |
7-Jan-1786 |
30-May-1865 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1837-65 |
| Thomas Corwin |
Politician |
29-Jul-1794 |
18-Dec-1865 |
Ohio Governor, Senator, Treasury Secretary |
| Sir Samuel Cunard |
Business |
21-Nov-1787 |
28-Apr-1865 |
Founder, Cunard Lines |
| John Moncure Daniel |
Editor |
24-Oct-1825 |
30-Mar-1865 |
Richmond Examiner |
| Henry Winter Davis |
Politician |
16-Aug-1817 |
30-Dec-1865 |
Congressman from Maryland, 1855-65 |
| William J. Duane |
Attorney |
9-May-1780 |
27-Sep-1865 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1833 |
| Johann Franz Encke |
Astronomer |
23-Sep-1791 |
26-Aug-1865 |
Investigated comets and asteroids |
| Edward Everett |
Politician |
11-Apr-1794 |
15-Jan-1865 |
Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40 |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Author |
29-Sep-1810 |
12-Nov-1865 |
Cranford |
| James M. Gilliss |
Astronomer |
6-Sep-1811 |
9-Feb-1865 |
Founder, US Naval Observatory |
| Sir William Rowan Hamilton |
Mathematician |
3-Aug-1805 |
2-Sep-1865 |
Inventor of Quaternions |
| A. P. Hill |
Military |
9-Nov-1825 |
2-Apr-1865 |
Confederate General |
| William Jackson Hooker |
Botanist |
6-Jul-1785 |
12-Aug-1865 |
British Jungermanniae |
| Preston King |
Politician |
14-Oct-1806 |
12-Nov-1865 |
US Senator, committed suicide |
| Fitz Hugh Lane |
Painter |
19-Dec-1804 |
14-Aug-1865 |
American marine painter, luminist |
| Leopold I |
Royalty |
16-Dec-1790 |
10-Dec-1865 |
First King of the Belgians |
| Abraham Lincoln |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1809 |
15-Apr-1865 |
16th US President, 1861-65 |
| Otto Ludwig |
Playwright |
11-Feb-1813 |
25-Feb-1865 |
Der Erbförster |
| John Milton |
Politician |
20-Apr-1807 |
1-Apr-1865 |
Florida governor, committed suicide |
| Lord Palmerston |
Head of State |
20-Oct-1784 |
18-Oct-1865 |
Twice Prime Minister of UK |
| Giuditta Pasta |
Singer |
26-Oct-1797 |
1-Apr-1865 |
Operatic soprano |
| William Quantrill |
Criminal |
31-Jul-1837 |
6-Jun-1865 |
Quantrill's Raiders |
| Ignaz Semmelweis |
Doctor |
1-Jul-1818 |
13-Aug-1865 |
Pioneer of antiseptics |
