LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Allingham	Poet	19-Mar-1824	18-Nov-1889	Day and Night Songs
Mackenzie Bowell	Head of State	27-Dec-1824	10-Dec-1917	Prime Minister of Canada, 1894-96
Anton Bruckner	Composer	4-Sep-1824	11-Oct-1896	Mass in D Minor
Ambrose Burnside	Military	23-May-1824	13-Sep-1881	Inspiration for term sideburns
Henry Chadwick	Journalist	5-Oct-1824	20-Apr-1908	Father of baseball
Wilkie Collins	Novelist	8-Jan-1824	23-Dec-1889	The Moonstone
Charles Diebold	Business	24-Oct-1824	5-Mar-1894	Founder of Diebold
Alexandre Dumas fils	Playwright	27-Jul-1824	27-Nov-1895	La dame aux camélias
Jessie Fremont	Relative	31-May-1824	27-Dec-1902	Wife of John C. Fremont
Jean-Leon Gerome	Painter	11-May-1824	10-Jan-1904	French Orientalist painter and sculptor
Benjamin Apthorp Gould	Astronomer	27-Sep-1824	26-Nov-1896	American astronomer and star-catalogist
Winfield Scott Hancock	Military	14-Feb-1824	9-Feb-1886	Union General, presidential candidate
Johann Hittorf	Physicist	27-Mar-1824	28-Nov-1914	Fluorescence in vacuum tubes
Wilhelm Hofmeister	Botanist	18-May-1824	12-Jan-1877	Alternation of generations in plants
William Huggins	Astronomer	7-Feb-1824	12-May-1910	Spectrographic astronomy pioneer
Jozef Israëls	Painter	27-Jan-1824	12-Aug-1911	Dutch scene painter
Stonewall Jackson	Military	21-Jan-1824	10-May-1863	Robert E. Lee's "right arm"
Pierre Janssen	Astronomer	22-Feb-1824	23-Dec-1907	Solar observer
Lord Kelvin	Physicist	26-Jun-1824	17-Dec-1907	Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Thomas Starr King	Religion	17-Dec-1824	4-Mar-1864	Saved California to the Union
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff	Physicist	12-Mar-1824	17-Oct-1887	Theory of spectrum analysis
Charles Godfrey Leland	Poet	15-Aug-1824	20-Mar-1903	Hans Breitmann's Ballads
George MacDonald	Author	10-Dec-1824	18-Sep-1905	At the Back of the North Wind
Stanley Matthews	Judge	21-Jul-1824	22-Mar-1889	US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-89
Levi P. Morton	Politician	16-May-1824	16-May-1920	Vice President under Benjamin Harrison
Francis Turner Palgrave	Critic	28-Sep-1824	24-Oct-1897	Golden Treasury
Charles Pfizer	Chemist	1824	19-Oct-1906	Founder of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
Samuel F. Phillips	Attorney	18-Feb-1824	18-Nov-1903	US Solicitor General, 1872-85
Bedrich Smetana	Composer	2-Mar-1824	12-May-1884	My Country
Edmund Kirby Smith	Military	16-May-1824	28-Mar-1893	Last Confederate general to surrender
Leland Stanford	Business	9-Mar-1824	21-Jun-1893	Founder of Stanford University
George Edmund Street	Architect	20-Jun-1824	18-Dec-1881	English Gothic revival architect
William Walker	Military	8-May-1824	12-Sep-1860	American "filibuster"
William Burnham Woods	Judge	3-Aug-1824	14-May-1887	US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-87

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