LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bronson Alcott	Educator	29-Nov-1799	4-Mar-1888	Founder of Boston's Temple School
Mary Anning	Paleontologist	21-May-1799	9-Mar-1847	Self-taught paleontologist
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander	Astronomer	22-Mar-1799	17-Feb-1875	Durchmusterung
Honoré de Balzac	Novelist	20-May-1799	18-Aug-1850	Comédie Humaine
René Caillié	Explorer	19-Sep-1799	17-May-1838	First European to return from Timbuktu
Simon Cameron	Politician	8-Mar-1799	26-Jun-1889	The Czar of Pennsylvania
Rufus Choate	Attorney	1-Oct-1799	13-Jul-1859	Attorney and Senator from Massachusetts
João Batista de Almeida Garrett	Playwright	4-Feb-1799	9-Dec-1854	Frei Luís da Sousa
Fromental Halévy	Composer	27-May-1799	17-Mar-1862	La Juive
Thomas Hood	Poet	23-May-1799	3-May-1845	Odes and Addresses to Great People
George Payne Rainsford James	Novelist	9-Aug-1799	9-Jun-1860	Richelieu
William M. Meredith	Government	8-Jun-1799	17-Aug-1873	US Secretary of the Treasury, 1849-50
Oscar I	Royalty	4-Jul-1799	8-Jul-1859	King of Sweden and Norway
Aleksandr Pushkin	Poet	26-May-1799	10-Feb-1837	Russia's greatest poet
John A. Quitman	Politician	1-Sep-1799	17-Jul-1858	Twice Governor of Mississippi
Dred Scott	Victim	c. 1799	17-Sep-1858	Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court
James Syme	Doctor	7-Nov-1799	26-Jun-1870	Leading Scottish surgeon
Rodolphe Töpffer	Cartoonist	31-Jan-1799	8-Jun-1848	The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck
Jonathan Walker	Activist	22-Mar-1799	30-Apr-1878	The Man with the Branded Hand

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