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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Leon Abbett
Politician
8-Oct-1836 4-Dec-1894 Twice Governor of New Jersey
Tsar Alexander III
Royalty
10-Mar-1845 1-Nov-1894 Tsar of Russia, 1881-94
Nathaniel P. Banks
Politician
30-Jan-1816 1-Sep-1894 House Speaker, Governor of Massachusetts
Thomas M. Bayne
Politician
14-Jun-1836 16-Jun-1894 Congressman, committed suicide
Theodor Billroth
Doctor
26-Apr-1829 6-Feb-1894 Viennese surgeon
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Activist
27-May-1818 30-Dec-1894 Bloomers
Joseph E. Brown
Politician
15-Apr-1821 30-Nov-1894 Governor of Georgia, 1857-65
Hans von Bülow
Conductor
8-Jan-1830 12-Feb-1894 German conductor, proponent of Wagner
Frances Buss
Educator
16-Aug-1827 24-Dec-1894 Girls' school reformer
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Novelist
26-Jun-1838 8-Apr-1894 Krishna Kanta's Will
George Ticknor Curtis
Historian
28-Nov-1812 28-Mar-1894 Constitutional History of the United States
Charles Diebold
Business
24-Oct-1824 5-Mar-1894 Founder of Diebold
Jubal Early
Military
3-Nov-1816 2-Mar-1894 Confederate General
David Dudley Field
Attorney
13-Feb-1805 13-Apr-1894 Spurred codification of US law
Edmond Frémy
Chemist
28-Feb-1814 3-Feb-1894 Discovered hydrogen fluoride
Domenico Ghirardelli
Business
21-Feb-1817 17-Jan-1894 Founder of Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Heinrich Hertz
Physicist
22-Feb-1857 1-Jan-1894 Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author
29-Aug-1809 7-Oct-1894 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
George Inness
Painter
1-May-1825 3-Aug-1894 American landscape painter
Joseph Kirkland
Novelist
7-Jan-1830 29-Apr-1894 Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Architect
19-Nov-1805 7-Dec-1894 Built the Suez Canal
Steele MacKaye
Playwright
6-Jun-1842 25-Feb-1894 Founder of New York's Lyceum Theatre
William Moon
Inventor
18-Dec-1818 9-Oct-1894 Moon Code (similar to Braille)
Charles Thomas Newton
Archaeologist
16-Sep-1816 28-Nov-1894 Discovered Halicarnassus mausoleum
Walter Pater
Critic
4-Aug-1839 30-Jul-1894 Marius the Epicurean
Christina Rossetti
Poet
5-Dec-1830 29-Dec-1894 Goblin Market and Other Poems
Anton Rubinstein
Pianist
16-Nov-1829 8-Nov-1894 The Tower of Babel
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author
13-Nov-1850 3-Dec-1894 Treasure Island
George Stoneman
Military
8-Aug-1822 5-Sep-1894 Civil War general, California governor
John Thompson
Head of State
10-Nov-1845 12-Dec-1894 Prime Minister of Canada, 1892-94
Francis Henry Underwood
Author
12-Jan-1825 7-Aug-1894 Quabbin: The Story of a Small Town
Zebulon Vance
Politician
13-May-1830 14-Apr-1894 Governor and Senator from N. Carolina
Hermann von Helmholtz
Physicist
31-Aug-1821 8-Sep-1894 Law of Conservation of Energy
Robert Charles Winthrop
Politician
12-May-1809 16-Nov-1894 Speaker of the 30th Congress


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