| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Mathew Brady |
Photographer |
15-Jan-1823 |
15-Jan-1896 |
Civil War photographer |
| Benjamin H. Bristow |
Government |
20-Jun-1832 |
22-Jun-1896 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1874-76 |
| Anton Bruckner |
Composer |
4-Sep-1824 |
11-Oct-1896 |
Mass in D Minor |
| João de Deus |
Poet |
8-Mar-1830 |
11-Jan-1896 |
Flores do Campo |
| John Langdon Down |
Doctor |
18-Nov-1828 |
7-Oct-1896 |
Down's syndrome |
| Ernst Engel |
Economist |
26-Mar-1821 |
8-Dec-1896 |
Engel's Law |
| George Ferris |
Engineer |
14-Feb-1859 |
22-Nov-1896 |
Ferris Wheel |
| John Gibbon |
Military |
20-Apr-1827 |
6-Feb-1896 |
Led the Civil War's Iron Bigade |
| Benjamin Apthorp Gould |
Astronomer |
27-Sep-1824 |
26-Nov-1896 |
American astronomer and star-catalogist |
| Horatio Hale |
Anthropologist |
3-May-1817 |
28-Dec-1896 |
Ethnologist studied polynesia |
| Michael D. Harter |
Politician |
6-Apr-1846 |
22-Feb-1896 |
Congressman, committed suicide |
| H. H. Holmes |
Criminal |
16-May-1860 |
7-May-1896 |
The Devil in the White City |
| Thomas Hughes |
Author |
20-Oct-1822 |
22-Mar-1896 |
Tom Brown's School Days |
| Friedrich August Kekulé |
Chemist |
7-Sep-1829 |
13-Jul-1896 |
Theory of chemical structure |
| Frederick Leighton |
Painter |
31-Dec-1830 |
25-Jan-1896 |
Classical Victorian English painter |
| George du Maurier |
Artist |
6-Mar-1834 |
6-Oct-1896 |
British caricaturist, Punch |
| John Everett Millais |
Painter |
8-Jun-1829 |
13-Aug-1896 |
British Pre-Raphaelite painter |
| William Morris |
Artist |
24-Mar-1834 |
3-Oct-1896 |
Arts and Crafts Movement |
| Alfred Nobel |
Inventor |
21-Oct-1833 |
10-Dec-1896 |
Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize |
| Bill Nye |
Columnist |
25-Aug-1850 |
22-Feb-1896 |
Bill Nye and Boomerang |
| Sir Henry Parkes |
Politician |
27-May-1815 |
27-Apr-1896 |
Father of Australian confederation |
| Coventry Patmore |
Poet |
23-Jul-1823 |
26-Nov-1896 |
The Unknown Eros |
| Henry B. Payne |
Politician |
30-Nov-1810 |
9-Sep-1896 |
US Senator from Ohio, 1885-91 |
| William A. Richardson |
Politician |
2-Nov-1821 |
19-Oct-1896 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1873-74 |
| José Rizal |
Activist |
19-Jun-1861 |
30-Dec-1896 |
Philippine national hero |
| Clara Schumann |
Pianist |
13-Sep-1819 |
20-May-1896 |
Romantic pianist and composer |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Novelist |
14-Jun-1811 |
1-Jul-1896 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Paul Verlaine |
Poet |
30-Mar-1844 |
8-Jan-1896 |
Leader of symbolist poetry movement |