Died in 1858

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Died in 1858

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Thomas Hart Benton Politician 14-Mar-1782 10-Apr-1858 US Senator from Missouri, 1821-51

Robert Brown Botanist 21-Dec-1773 10-Jun-1858 Brownian motion

George Combe Paranormal 21-Oct-1788 14-Aug-1858 Scottish phrenologist

Johann Baptist Cramer Pianist 24-Feb-1771 16-Apr-1858 Études

James Gadsden Military 15-May-1788 26-Dec-1858 Gadsden Purchase

Robert Hare Chemist 17-Jan-1781 15-May-1858 Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope

Hiroshige Artist 1797 12-Oct-1858 Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido

William Horsley Composer 15-Nov-1774 12-Jun-1858 English composer of glees

Anson Jones Politician 20-Jan-1798 9-Jan-1858 President of Texas, committed suicide

Felice Orsini Assassin 1819 13-Mar-1858 Attempted assassin of Napoleon III

Robert Owen Activist 14-May-1771 17-Nov-1858 Founder of the Cooperative Movement

George Peacock Mathematician 9-Apr-1791 8-Nov-1858 Treatise on Algebra

Matthew Perry Military 10-Apr-1794 4-Mar-1858 Opened Japan to the west

John A. Quitman Politician 1-Sep-1799 17-Jul-1858 Twice Governor of Mississippi

Dred Scott Victim c. 1799 17-Sep-1858 Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court

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