| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ellen Arthur |
First Lady |
30-Aug-1837 |
12-Jan-1880 |
Wife of US President Chester A. Arthur |
| Fredrik Bajer |
Politician |
21-Apr-1837 |
22-Jan-1922 |
Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| George Bascom |
Military |
c. 1837 |
21-Feb-1862 |
Launched Cochise on the warpath |
| Georges Boulanger |
Military |
29-Apr-1837 |
30-Sep-1891 |
French general-turned-politician |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Novelist |
4-Oct-1837 |
4-Feb-1915 |
Lady Audley's Secret |
| David Josiah Brewer |
Judge |
20-Jan-1837 |
28-Mar-1910 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1890-1910 |
| John Burroughs |
Naturalist |
3-Apr-1837 |
29-Mar-1921 |
Birds and Poets |
| Abiram Chamberlain |
Politician |
7-Dec-1837 |
15-May-1911 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1903-05 |
| Grover Cleveland |
Head of State |
18-Mar-1837 |
24-Jun-1908 |
22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97 |
| George Dewey |
Military |
26-Dec-1837 |
16-Jan-1917 |
Sank the Spanish fleet at Manila |
| Henry Draper |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1837 |
20-Nov-1882 |
Early astrophotographer |
| Edward Eggleston |
Novelist |
10-Dec-1837 |
4-Sep-1902 |
The Hoosier School-Master |
| Marcus Alonzo Hanna |
Politician |
24-Sep-1837 |
15-Feb-1904 |
Senator from Ohio, kingmaker |
| Wild Bill Hickok |
Actor |
27-May-1837 |
2-Aug-1876 |
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show |
| Alois Hitler |
Relative |
7-Jun-1837 |
3-Jan-1903 |
Father of Adolf Hitler |
| Friedrich von Holstein |
Politician |
24-Apr-1837 |
8-May-1909 |
Ran the German foreign office |
| William Dean Howells |
Author |
1-Mar-1837 |
11-May-1920 |
The Rise of Silas Lapham |
| Taisuke Itagaki |
Politician |
17-Apr-1837 |
11-Jul-1919 |
Founder of Japan's Liberal party |
| Mother Jones |
Activist |
1-Aug-1837 |
30-Nov-1930 |
The grandmother of all agitators |
| Lyman Knapp |
Politician |
5-Nov-1837 |
9-Oct-1904 |
Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1889-93 |
| Franklin MacVeagh |
Government |
22-Nov-1837 |
6-Jul-1934 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1909-13 |
| Joaquin Miller |
Poet |
8-Sep-1837 |
17-Feb-1913 |
Songs of the Sierras |
| Dwight L. Moody |
Religion |
5-Feb-1837 |
22-Dec-1899 |
Revivalist, founder Northfield Mt. Hermon |
| J. Pierpont Morgan |
Business |
17-Apr-1837 |
31-Mar-1913 |
Railroad financier, J. P. Morgan & Co. |
| John Alexander Reina Newlands |
Chemist |
26-Nov-1837 |
29-Jul-1898 |
Periodic Law of Elements |
| P. B. S. Pinchback |
Government |
10-May-1837 |
21-Dec-1921 |
First African-American US Governor |
| Leonidas LaFayette Polk |
Agriculturalist |
24-Apr-1837 |
11-Jun-1892 |
Agrarian reformer |
| Horace Porter |
Diplomat |
15-Apr-1837 |
25-May-1921 |
US Ambassador to France, 1897-1905 |
| William Quantrill |
Criminal |
31-Jul-1837 |
6-Jun-1865 |
Quantrill's Raiders |
| James T. Rapier |
Politician |
13-Nov-1837 |
31-May-1883 |
Congressman from Alabama, 1873-75 |
| Whitelaw Reid |
Journalist |
27-Oct-1837 |
15-Dec-1912 |
Editor of the New York Tribune, 1872-1905 |
| Henry M. Robert |
Administrator |
2-May-1837 |
11-May-1923 |
Robert's Rules of Order |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne |
Poet |
5-Apr-1837 |
10-Apr-1909 |
Masochist Victorian poet |
| Johannes Diderik van der Waals |
Physicist |
23-Nov-1837 |
9-Mar-1923 |
Investigated states of matter |
