LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bahá'u'lláh	Religion	12-Nov-1817	29-May-1892	Founder of Baha'i
Mary Ann Bickerdyke	Activist	19-Jul-1817	8-Nov-1901	"Mother to the boys in Blue"
John Bigelow	Author	25-Nov-1817	19-Dec-1911	Ambassador to France, memoirist
Braxton Bragg	Military	22-Mar-1817	27-Sep-1876	Confederate Army General
Branwell Brontë	Poet	26-Jun-1817	24-Sep-1848	The Brontë sisters' brother
Joseph Campbell	Business	15-May-1817	19-Jan-1900	Founder of Campbell Soups
John Cassell	Publisher	23-Jan-1817	2-Apr-1865	Cassell's Magazine
George Henry Corliss	Inventor	2-Jun-1817	21-Feb-1888	Corliss valve and steam engines
Charles-François Daubigny	Painter	15-Feb-1817	19-Feb-1878	French painter of landscapes, ducks
Thomas Davidson	Paleontologist	17-May-1817	14-Oct-1885	British Fossil Brachiopoda
Henry Winter Davis	Politician	16-Aug-1817	30-Dec-1865	Congressman from Maryland, 1855-65
Frederick Douglass	Activist	Feb-1817	20-Feb-1895	Anti-slavery activist and autobiographer
James Thomas Fields	Editor	31-Dec-1817	24-Apr-1881	Editor of the Atlantic Monthly
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen	Government	4-Aug-1817	20-May-1885	US Secretary of State, 1881-85
Domenico Ghirardelli	Business	21-Feb-1817	17-Jan-1894	Founder of Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Horatio Hale	Anthropologist	3-May-1817	28-Dec-1896	Ethnologist studied polynesia
Joseph Dalton Hooker	Botanist	30-Jun-1817	10-Dec-1911	Genera Plantarum
John Callcott Horsley	Painter	29-Jan-1817	18-Oct-1903	Designed first Christmas card
Benjamin Jowett	Scholar	15-Apr-1817	1-Oct-1893	Translator of Plato, etc.
George Henry Lewes	Philosopher	18-Apr-1817	28-Nov-1878	The Problems of Life and Mind
Theodor Mommsen	Historian	30-Nov-1817	1-Nov-1903	Roman History
John Selden Roane	Politician	8-Jan-1817	8-Apr-1867	Governor of Arkansas, 1849-52
Theodor Storm	Poet	14-Sep-1817	4-Jul-1888	Schimmelreiter
Henry David Thoreau	Author	12-Jul-1817	6-May-1862	Walden

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