LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Boyd Allison	Politician	2-Mar-1829	4-Aug-1908	US Senator from Iowa, 1873-1908
Henri Becquerel	Physicist	15-Dec-1852	25-Aug-1908	Discoverer of radioactivity
Sir Redvers Henry Buller	Military	7-Dec-1839	2-Jun-1908	Chief of Staff during Boer War
Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Head of State	7-Sep-1836	22-Apr-1908	UK Prime Minister, 1905-08
Butch Cassidy	Criminal	13-Apr-1866	c. 1908	Train and bank robber
Henry Chadwick	Journalist	5-Oct-1824	20-Apr-1908	Father of baseball
Grover Cleveland	Head of State	18-Mar-1837	24-Jun-1908	22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97
Randal Cremer	Politician	18-Mar-1828	22-Jul-1908	Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Pat Garrett	Government	5-Jun-1850	29-Feb-1908	Killed Billy the Kid
Ludovic Halévy	Author	1-Jan-1834	8-May-1908	French vaudevillain author
Joel Chandler Harris	Novelist	9-Dec-1848	3-Jul-1908	Uncle Remus
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer	Sculptor	9-Oct-1830	21-Feb-1908	19th c. American sculptor in Rome
Eppa Hunton	Politician	24-Sep-1822	11-Oct-1908	Representative and Senator from Virginia
George A. Jenks	Attorney	25-Mar-1836	10-Feb-1908	US Solicitor General, 1886-89
Samuel W. T. Lanham	Politician	4-Jul-1846	19-Jul-1908	Governor of Texas, 1903-07
Edward MacDowell	Composer	18-Dec-1860	23-Jan-1908	American piano composer
Machado de Assis	Novelist	21-Jun-1839	29-Sep-1908	Dom Casmurro
Thomas Mellon	Business	3-Feb-1813	3-Feb-1908	Patriarch of the Mellon dynasty
John Miller	Politician	29-Oct-1843	26-Oct-1908	Governor of North Dakota, 1889-91
Donald Grant Mitchell	Author	12-Apr-1822	15-Dec-1908	Reveries of a Bachelor
Charles Eliot Norton	Scholar	16-Nov-1827	21-Oct-1908	American man of letters
Ouida	Novelist	1-Jan-1839	25-Jan-1908	Under Two Flags
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Composer	6-Mar-1844	8-Jun-1908	The Flight of the Bumblebee
Victorien Sardou	Playwright	5-Sep-1831	8-Nov-1908	Les Pattes de Mouche
Eli C. D. Shortridge	Politician	29-Mar-1830	4-Feb-1908	Governor of North Dakota, 1893-99
Charles Emory Smith	Journalist	18-Feb-1842	19-Jan-1908	US Postmaster General, 1898-1902
Frederick Arthur Stanley	Government	15-Jan-1841	14-Jun-1908	Hockey's Stanley Cup
The Sundance Kid	Criminal	19-Apr-1868	c. 1908	Outlaw and sidekick
Paul Taffanel	Musician	16-Sep-1844	22-Nov-1908	Flautist, French Flute School
Georgy Voronoy	Mathematician	28-Apr-1868	20-Nov-1908	Voronoi diagram

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