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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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