LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tsar Alexander II	Royalty	17-Apr-1818	13-Mar-1881	Tsar of Russia, 1855-81
David Alter	Inventor	3-Dec-1807	18-Sep-1881	Almost discovered spectroscopy
Henri Frédéric Amiel	Critic	27-Sep-1821	11-May-1881	Journal Intime
Billy the Kid	Criminal	23-Nov-1859	14-Jul-1881	Frontier outlaw
Thomas François Burgers	Head of State	15-Apr-1834	9-Dec-1881	President of Transvaal Republic
Ambrose Burnside	Military	23-May-1824	13-Sep-1881	Inspiration for term sideburns
Thomas Carlyle	Historian	4-Dec-1795	5-Feb-1881	The French Revolution
Nathan Clifford	Politician	18-Aug-1803	25-Jul-1881	Congressman, Attorney General, Supreme Court
Henri-Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville	Chemist	11-Mar-1818	1-Jul-1881	Process for obtaining aluminum
Benjamin Disraeli	Head of State	21-Dec-1804	19-Apr-1881	UK Prime Minister, 1874-80
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Novelist	30-Oct-1821	28-Jan-1881	Crime and Punishment
William Fargo	Business	20-May-1818	3-Aug-1881	Co-Founder, American Express & Wells Fargo
James Thomas Fields	Editor	31-Dec-1817	24-Apr-1881	Editor of the Atlantic Monthly
James Garfield	Head of State	19-Nov-1831	19-Sep-1881	20th US President, 1881
Sidney Lanier	Poet	3-Feb-1842	7-Sep-1881	Important Southern lyrical poet
Frank McLaury	Criminal	3-Mar-1848	26-Oct-1881	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Tom McLaury	Criminal	30-Jun-1853	26-Oct-1881	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Lewis Henry Morgan	Anthropologist	21-Nov-1818	17-Dec-1881	Ancient Society
Modest Mussorgsky	Composer	9-Mar-1839	16-Mar-1881	Boris Godunov
Samuel Palmer	Painter	27-Jan-1805	24-May-1881	English landscape painter
Matthias Jakob Schleiden	Botanist	5-Apr-1804	23-Jun-1881	Principles of Scientific Botany
George Edmund Street	Architect	20-Jun-1824	18-Dec-1881	English Gothic revival architect
Henri Vieuxtemps	Violinist	17-Feb-1820	6-Jun-1881	Belgian violinist and composer

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