LISTS

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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