LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Lord Acton	Historian	10-Jan-1834	19-Jun-1902	British historian
John Peter Altgeld	Politician	30-Dec-1847	12-Mar-1902	Governor of Illinois, 1893-97
Albert Bierstadt	Painter	8-Jan-1830	18-Feb-1902	Western landscape painter
Samuel Butler	Author	4-Dec-1835	18-Jun-1902	Erewheon
Alfred Cornu	Physicist	6-Mar-1841	11-Apr-1902	Optics and spectroscopy
George Douglas	Novelist	26-Jan-1869	28-Aug-1902	The House With the Green Shutters
Charles Dow	Journalist	5-Nov-1851	4-Dec-1902	Dow of Dow Jones
Edward Eggleston	Novelist	10-Dec-1837	4-Sep-1902	The Hoosier School-Master
Jessie Fremont	Relative	31-May-1824	27-Dec-1902	Wife of John C. Fremont
E. L. Godkin	Journalist	2-Oct-1831	21-May-1902	Co-Founder of The Nation
Julia Grant	First Lady	26-Jan-1826	14-Dec-1902	Wife of US President Ulysses Grant
Horace Gray	Judge	24-Mar-1828	15-Sep-1902	US Supreme Court Justice, 1882-1902
Wade Hampton	Politician	28-Mar-1818	11-Apr-1902	Governor of South Carolina, 1877-79
Bret Harte	Author	25-Aug-1836	5-May-1902	Master of the western short story
John L. Mason	Inventor	1832	26-Feb-1902	Invented the screw-neck jar
William McGonagall	Poet	1825	29-Sep-1902	The Tay Bridge Disaster
J. Sterling Morton	Government	22-Apr-1832	27-Apr-1902	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1893-97
Thomas Nast	Cartoonist	27-Sep-1840	7-Dec-1902	American political caricaturist
Frank Norris	Novelist	5-Mar-1870	25-Oct-1902	The Octopus
John Wesley Powell	Geologist	24-Mar-1834	23-Sep-1902	Exploration of the Colorado River
Francis A. Pratt	Business	15-Feb-1827	10-Feb-1902	Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney
Thomas B. Reed	Politician	18-Oct-1839	7-Dec-1902	Speaker of the House, 1889-91 and 1895-99
Walter Reed	Scientist	13-Sep-1851	22-Nov-1902	Proved mosquitos spread Yellow Fever
Cecil Rhodes	Business	5-Jul-1853	26-Mar-1902	De Beers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Activist	12-Nov-1815	26-Oct-1902	National Woman Suffrage Association
William Still	Activist	7-Oct-1819	14-Jul-1902	Father of the Underground Railroad
Levi Strauss	Business	26-Feb-1829	26-Sep-1902	Blue jeans
Frederick Temple	Religion	30-Nov-1821	23-Dec-1902	Archbishop of Canterbury, 1896-1902
Charles Lewis Tiffany	Business	15-Feb-1812	18-Feb-1902	Founder of Tiffany & Co.
Rudolf Virchow	Doctor	13-Oct-1821	5-Sep-1902	Pathology and progressive politics
Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky	Physicist	24-May-1844	22-Jan-1902	Yarkovsky effect
Émile Zola	Novelist	2-Apr-1840	29-Sep-1902	J'Accuse

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