LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert Allston	Agriculturalist	21-Apr-1801	7-Apr-1864	Rice planter, Governor
Joseph G. Baldwin	Author	Jan-1815	30-Sep-1864	Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi
George Boole	Mathematician	2-Nov-1815	8-Dec-1864	Inventor of Boolean Algebra
John Clare	Poet	13-Jul-1793	20-May-1864	Northamptonshire Peasant Poet
George M. Dallas	Politician	10-Jul-1792	31-Dec-1864	Vice President under James Knox Polk
Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin	Religion	8-Feb-1796	1-Sep-1864	Saint-Simonist, cult leader
Stephen Collins Foster	Songwriter	4-Jul-1826	13-Jan-1864	My Old Kentucky Home
Louis-Christophe-François Hachette	Publisher	5-May-1800	31-Jul-1864	French textbook publisher
Anna Harrison	First Lady	25-Jul-1775	25-Feb-1864	Wife of US President William Henry Harrison
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Author	4-Jul-1804	19-May-1864	The House of the Seven Gables
Leonard Horner	Geologist	17-Jan-1785	5-Mar-1864	Scottish geologist, educator
Jacques Jasmin	Poet	6-Mar-1798	4-Oct-1864	Provençal poet
Thomas Starr King	Religion	17-Dec-1824	4-Mar-1864	Saved California to the Union
Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine	Head of State	4-Oct-1807	26-Feb-1864	Twice Co-Premier of Canada
Giacomo Meyerbeer	Composer	5-Sep-1791	2-May-1864	Robert le Diable
Leonidas Polk	Military	10-Apr-1806	14-Jun-1864	Confederate general
Josiah Quincy	Educator	4-Feb-1772	1-Jul-1864	President of Harvard, 1829-45
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve	Astronomer	15-Apr-1793	23-Nov-1864	Studied double stars
Jeb Stuart	Military	6-Feb-1833	12-May-1864	Confederate cavalry officer
Robert Smith Surtees	Novelist	17-May-1803	16-Mar-1864	Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities
Roger Brooke Taney	Judge	17-Mar-1777	12-Oct-1864	US Chief Justice, 1836-64

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