LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alfonso XII	Royalty	28-Nov-1857	25-Nov-1885	King of Spain, 1874-85
Josh Billings	Author	21-Apr-1818	14-Oct-1885	19th century American humorist
B. Gratz Brown	Politician	28-May-1826	13-Dec-1885	Governor and Senator from Missouri
Schuyler Colfax	Politician	23-Mar-1823	13-Jan-1885	US Vice President, 1869-73
Thomas Davidson	Paleontologist	17-May-1817	14-Oct-1885	British Fossil Brachiopoda
Martin R. Delany	Activist	6-May-1812	24-Jan-1885	Black nationalist
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen	Government	4-Aug-1817	20-May-1885	US Secretary of State, 1881-85
Ulysses S. Grant	Head of State	27-Apr-1822	23-Jul-1885	Eighteenth President of the United States
William M. Gwin	Politician	9-Oct-1805	3-Sep-1885	US Senator from California
Thomas Andrews Hendricks	Politician	7-Sep-1819	25-Nov-1885	Grover Cleveland's Vice President
Victor Hugo	Author	26-Feb-1802	23-May-1885	Les Miserables
Helen Hunt Jackson	Poet	15-Oct-1830	12-Aug-1885	Ramona
Jens Peter Jacobsen	Novelist	7-Apr-1847	30-Apr-1885	Niels Lyhne
James Marshall	Explorer	8-Oct-1810	10-Aug-1885	Discovered gold at Sutter's Mill
George B. McClellan	Military	3-Dec-1826	29-Oct-1885	Union Army General
Irvin McDowell	Military	15-Oct-1818	4-May-1885	Defeated at First Battle of Bull Run
Richard Monckton Milnes	Poet	19-Jun-1809	11-Aug-1885	Poetry for the People
William Henry Vanderbilt	Business	8-May-1821	8-Dec-1885	Wealthy son of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Iwasaki Yataro	Business	9-Jan-1835	7-Feb-1885	Founder of the Mitsubishi companies

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