LISTS

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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