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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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




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