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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Spencer Fullerton Baird
Naturalist
3-Feb-1823 19-Aug-1887 History of North American Birds
Henry Ward Beecher
Religion
24-Jun-1813 8-Mar-1887 American Congregationalist preacher
Aleksandr Borodin
Composer
12-Nov-1833 27-Feb-1887 Prince Igor
Alvan Clark
Astronomer
8-Mar-1804 19-Aug-1887 Telescope maker
Agostino Depretis
Head of State
13-Jan-1813 29-Jul-1887 Three-time Prime Minister of Italy
Dorothea Dix
Activist
4-Apr-1802 17-Jul-1887 Activist for the insane
Doc Holliday
Doctor
14-Aug-1851 8-Nov-1887 Wyatt Earp's reliable friend
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
Physicist
12-Mar-1824 17-Oct-1887 Theory of spectrum analysis
Jules Laforgue
Poet
16-Aug-1860 20-Aug-1887 Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot
Emma Lazarus
Poet
22-Jul-1849 19-Nov-1887 The New Colossus
Jenny Lind
Singer
6-Oct-1820 2-Nov-1887 Soprano, The Swedish Nightingale
Daniel Manning
Government
16-May-1831 24-Dec-1887 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1885-87
Henry Mayhew
Journalist
1812 25-Jul-1887 Punch
Albert Parsons
Activist
20-Jun-1848 11-Nov-1887 Haymarket Martyr
Carlo Passaglia
Religion
2-May-1812 12-Mar-1887 Advocate of Italian unity
Samuel Lowell Price
Business
12-Jan-1821 19-May-1887 The Price of Price Waterhouse Coopers
Joseph Rainey
Politician
21-Jun-1832 1-Aug-1887 Congressman from South Carolina, 1870-79
Thomas Caute Reynolds
Politician
11-Oct-1821 30-Mar-1887 Missouri governor, committed suicide
Lysander Spooner
Activist
19-Jan-1808 14-May-1887 No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
Balfour Stewart
Physicist
1-Nov-1828 19-Dec-1887 Studied magnetism, radiant heat
Elihu Benjamin Washburne
Politician
23-Sep-1816 22-Oct-1887 Congressman and Ambassador to France
William A. Wheeler
Politician
30-Jun-1819 4-Jun-1887 Vice President under Hayes
William Burnham Woods
Judge
3-Aug-1824 14-May-1887 US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-87


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