| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| John Abbott |
Head of State |
12-Mar-1821 |
30-Oct-1893 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1891-93 |
| Sir Samuel White Baker |
Explorer |
8-Jun-1821 |
30-Dec-1893 |
Travelled to the source of the Nile |
| Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard |
Military |
28-May-1818 |
20-Feb-1893 |
Confederate General |
| James G. Blaine |
Politician |
31-Jan-1830 |
27-Jan-1893 |
Twice US Secretary of State |
| Samuel Blatchford |
Judge |
9-Mar-1820 |
7-Jul-1893 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1882-93 |
| Edwin Booth |
Actor |
13-Nov-1833 |
7-Jun-1893 |
Renowned 19th century American actor |
| W. B. Botts |
Attorney |
7-Sep-1835 |
7-Mar-1893 |
Baker Botts |
| Ford Madox Brown |
Painter |
16-Apr-1821 |
6-Oct-1893 |
English historical painter |
| Benjamin Franklin Butler |
Attorney |
5-Nov-1818 |
11-Jan-1893 |
Criminal lawyer, Civil War general |
| Jean-Martin Charcot |
Doctor |
29-Nov-1825 |
16-Aug-1893 |
Father of neurology |
| Abner Doubleday |
Military |
26-Jun-1819 |
26-Jan-1893 |
Didn't invent baseball |
| Moses Farmer |
Inventor |
9-Feb-1820 |
25-May-1893 |
Invented the fire alarm, electric trolley |
| Hamilton Fish |
Politician |
3-Aug-1808 |
7-Sep-1893 |
US Secretary of State, 1869-77 |
| R. T. French |
Business |
15-Nov-1828 |
17-Jun-1893 |
Yellow mustard |
| Charles Gounod |
Composer |
17-Jun-1818 |
18-Oct-1893 |
Faust |
| Rutherford B. Hayes |
Head of State |
4-Oct-1822 |
17-Jan-1893 |
19th US President, 1877-81 |
| Gerard Heineken |
Business |
1841 |
18-Mar-1893 |
Founder of Heineken NV |
| Benjamin Jowett |
Scholar |
15-Apr-1817 |
1-Oct-1893 |
Translator of Plato, etc. |
| Lucius Q. C. Lamar |
Politician |
17-Sep-1825 |
23-Jan-1893 |
Senator, Interior Secretary, Justice |
| Guy de Maupassant |
Author |
5-Aug-1850 |
6-Jul-1893 |
French short story writer |
| Albert Moore |
Painter |
4-Sep-1841 |
25-Sep-1893 |
English classicist painter |
| Francis Parkman |
Historian |
16-Sep-1823 |
8-Nov-1893 |
France and England in North America |
| Jeremiah M. Rusk |
Politician |
17-Jun-1830 |
21-Nov-1893 |
Governor of Wisconsin, 1882-89 |
| Edmund Kirby Smith |
Military |
16-May-1824 |
28-Mar-1893 |
Last Confederate general to surrender |
| Edward Sorin |
Religion |
6-Feb-1814 |
31-Oct-1893 |
Founder, University of Notre Dame |
| Leland Stanford |
Business |
9-Mar-1824 |
21-Jun-1893 |
Founder of Stanford University |
| Lucy Stone |
Activist |
13-Aug-1818 |
18-Oct-1893 |
American Women's Suffrage Association |
| John Addington Symonds |
Critic |
5-Oct-1840 |
19-Apr-1893 |
Renaissance in Italy |
| Hippolyte Taine |
Historian |
21-Apr-1828 |
5-Mar-1893 |
Origines de la France Contemporaine |
| Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Composer |
7-May-1840 |
6-Nov-1893 |
Russia's best known composer |