LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jacob Abbott	Author	14-Nov-1803	31-Oct-1879	Franconia Stories
Hector Berlioz	Composer	11-Dec-1803	8-Mar-1869	French romantic composer
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton	Novelist	25-May-1803	18-Jan-1873	The Last Days of Pompeii
Nathan Clifford	Politician	18-Aug-1803	25-Jul-1881	Congressman, Attorney General, Supreme Court
Ferenc Deák	Politician	17-Oct-1803	28-Jan-1876	Architected Austria-Hungary union
Alexandre Decamps	Painter	3-Mar-1803	22-Aug-1860	French romanticist, painted monkeys
Christian Doppler	Physicist	29-Nov-1803	17-Mar-1853	Discovered the Doppler Effect
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essayist	25-May-1803	27-Apr-1882	Essayist, wrote Nature
John Ericsson	Inventor	31-Jul-1803	8-Mar-1889	Built the ironclad USS Monitor
James Gamble	Business	3-Apr-1803	29-Apr-1891	Co-Founder of Procter & Gamble
John Gorrie	Inventor	3-Oct-1803	29-Jun-1855	Invented air conditioning
Joseph Aloysius Hansom	Architect	26-Oct-1803	29-Jun-1882	Invented the Hansom Cab
Albert Sidney Johnston	Military	3-Feb-1803	6-Apr-1862	Confederate General felled at Shiloh
Justus Liebig	Chemist	12-May-1803	18-Apr-1873	Reformed pedagogy of chemistry
James Clarence Mangan	Poet	1-May-1803	20-Jun-1849	O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire
Prosper Mérimée	Author	28-Sep-1803	23-Sep-1870	Carmen
Sir James Outram	Military	29-Jan-1803	11-Mar-1863	Hero of the Indian Mutiny
Sarah Polk	First Lady	4-Sep-1803	14-Aug-1891	Wife of US President James K. Polk
Thomas J. Rusk	Politician	5-Dec-1803	29-Jul-1857	US Senator, committed suicide
Robert Stephenson	Engineer	16-Oct-1803	12-Oct-1859	Builder of railroad bridges
Charles François Sturm	Mathematician	29-Sep-1803	18-Dec-1855	Sturm's Theorem
Robert Smith Surtees	Novelist	17-May-1803	16-Mar-1864	Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities
John Augustus Sutter	Explorer	15-Feb-1803	18-Jun-1880	California gold rush
Fyodor Tyutchev	Poet	23-Nov-1803	15-Jul-1873	Russian Golden Age poet
Nikolai Yazykov	Poet	16-Mar-1803	26-Dec-1846	Russian Golden Age poet

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