LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Wallace Calvin Abbott	Doctor	12-Oct-1857	4-Jul-1921	Founder of Abbott Laboratories
Charles Alderton	Inventor	21-Jun-1857	29-May-1941	Invented Dr Pepper
Alfonso XII	Royalty	28-Nov-1857	25-Nov-1885	King of Spain, 1874-85
Gertrude Franklin Atherton	Author	30-Oct-1857	14-Jun-1948	Black Oxen
Joseph Babinski	Doctor	17-Nov-1857	29-Oct-1932	The Babinski sign
Robert Baden-Powell	Military	22-Feb-1857	8-Jan-1941	Founder of the Boy Scout movement
James A. Baker	Attorney	10-Jan-1857	2-Aug-1941	Baker Botts
Edward Barnard	Astronomer	16-Dec-1857	16-Feb-1923	Self-taught scientist
Alfred Binet	Psychologist	11-Jul-1857	8-Oct-1911	Binet-Simon intelligence test
Eugen Bleuler	Psychiatrist	30-Apr-1857	15-Jul-1939	Coined term schizophrenia
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward	Politician	19-Apr-1857	1-Oct-1910	Governor of Florida, 1905-09
John Hessin Clarke	Judge	18-Sep-1857	22-Mar-1945	US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-22
Joseph Conrad	Author	3-Dec-1857	3-Aug-1924	Heart of Darkness
Clarence Darrow	Attorney	18-Apr-1857	13-Mar-1938	Scopes Monkey Trial (monkey side)
George Draper Dayton	Business	6-Mar-1857	18-Feb-1938	Founder of what is now Target Stores
Margaret Deland	Author	23-Feb-1857	13-Jan-1945	Old Chester Tales
Paul Dresser	Songwriter	21-Apr-1857	30-Jan-1906	My Gal Sal
Edward Elgar	Composer	2-Jun-1857	23-Feb-1934	Pomp and Circumstance
George Gissing	Novelist	22-Nov-1857	28-Jan-1903	New Grub Street
Karl Gjellerup	Author	2-Jun-1857	11-Oct-1919	The Pilgrim Kamanita
Milton Hershey	Business	13-Sep-1857	13-Oct-1945	Founder of Hershey's
Heinrich Hertz	Physicist	22-Feb-1857	1-Jan-1894	Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
James E. Keeler	Astronomer	10-Sep-1857	12-Aug-1900	Composition of Saturn's rings
John B. Kendrick	Politician	6-Sep-1857	3-Nov-1933	Governor and Senator from Wyoming
Joseph Rucker Lamar	Judge	15-Oct-1857	2-Jan-1916	US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-16
Ruggero Leoncavallo	Composer	8-Mar-1857	9-Aug-1919	Pagliacci
Frederick L. Maytag	Business	14-Jul-1857	26-Mar-1937	Founder of Maytag Corporation
George P. McLean	Politician	7-Oct-1857	6-Jun-1932	Governor and Senator from Connecticut
Georg Michaelis	Head of State	8-Sep-1857	24-Jul-1936	German Chancellor 1917
Emmeline Pankhurst	Activist	14-Jul-1857	14-Jun-1928	Militant suffragette
Le Pétomane	Oddity	1-Jun-1857	1945	Legendary fartiste
Pope Pius XI	Religion	31-May-1857	10-Feb-1939	Signed Lateran Treaties with Mussolini
Henrik Pontoppidan	Author	24-Jul-1857	21-Aug-1943	Lucky Peter
Ronald Ross	Scientist	13-May-1857	16-Sep-1932	Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes
Charles Sherrington	Doctor	27-Nov-1857	4-Mar-1952	Neurons and synapses
Frank J. Sprague	Inventor	25-Jul-1857	25-Oct-1934	Streetcars and express elevators
William Howard Taft	Head of State	15-Sep-1857	8-Mar-1930	27th US President, 1909-13
Ida M. Tarbell	Journalist	5-Nov-1857	6-Jan-1944	History of the Standard Oil Company
Georges Gilles de la Tourette	Doctor	30-Oct-1857	26-May-1904	Tourette's syndrome
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky	Scientist	17-Sep-1857	19-Sep-1935	Astronautics and rocket dynamics pioneer
Thorstein Veblen	Economist	30-Jul-1857	3-Aug-1929	The Theory of the Leisure Class
Julius Wagner-Jauregg	Psychiatrist	7-Mar-1857	27-Sep-1940	Cured syphilis with malaria, pioneered shock therapy
Arthur Edward Waite	Paranormal	2-Oct-1857	19-May-1942	Created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck

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