Born in 1796

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Born in 1796

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Jim Bowie Military 10-Apr-1796 6-Mar-1836 Knife fighter, Alamo combatant

Thomas Bulfinch Author 15-Jul-1796 27-May-1867 Bullfinch's Mythology

Sadi Carnot Physicist 1-Jun-1796 24-Aug-1832 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

George Catlin Painter 26-Jul-1796 23-Dec-1872 Portraitist painted Native Americans

John Middleton Clayton Politician 24-Jul-1796 9-Nov-1856 US Senator and Secretary of State

Camille Corot Painter 16-Jul-1796 22-Feb-1875 French landscape painter

Henry de la Beche Geologist 1796 13-Apr-1855 Created first Geologic Survey

Margaret O'Neill Eaton Relative 1796 8-Nov-1879 War Secy.'s wife caused cabinet shakeup

Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin Religion 8-Feb-1796 1-Sep-1864 Saint-Simonist, cult leader

Reverdy Johnson Politician 21-May-1796 10-Feb-1876 US Senator and Attorney General

James Lick Business 25-Aug-1796 1-Oct-1876 Lick Observatory

Carl Loewe Composer 30-Nov-1796 20-Apr-1869 German composer of ballads

Horace Mann Educator 4-May-1796 2-Aug-1859 Massachusetts education reformer

Tsar Nicholas I Royalty 25-Jun-1796 18-Feb-1855 Repressive Tsar of Russia, 1825-55

George Washington Owen Politician 20-Oct-1796 18-Aug-1837 Congressman from Alabama, 1823-29

Johann Christian Poggendorff Physicist 29-Dec-1796 24-Jan-1877 Annalen der Physik und Chemie

William H. Prescott Historian 4-May-1796 28-Jan-1859 The Conquest of Mexico

John Torrey Botanist 15-Aug-1796 10-Mar-1873 Flora of North America

Edward Gibbon Wakefield Government 20-Mar-1796 16-May-1862 Colonizer of Australia, New Zealand

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