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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William Allingham
Poet
19-Mar-1824 18-Nov-1889 Day and Night Songs
John Ball
Naturalist
20-Aug-1818 21-Oct-1889 Irish Alpinist
Giovanni Bottesini
Musician
22-Dec-1821 7-Jul-1889 Cristoforo Colombo
Laura Dewey Bridgman
Oddity
21-Dec-1829 24-May-1889 Blind deaf mute
Robert Browning
Poet
7-May-1812 12-Dec-1889 Prominent Victorian poet and playwright
John Cadbury
Business
12-Aug-1801 11-May-1889 Chocolatier
Simon Cameron
Politician
8-Mar-1799 26-Jun-1889 The Czar of Pennsylvania
John Archibald Campbell
Judge
24-Jun-1811 12-Mar-1889 US Supreme Court Justice, 1853-61
Michel-Eugène Chevreul
Chemist
31-Aug-1786 9-Apr-1889 Chemistry of fats, dyes
Wilkie Collins
Novelist
8-Jan-1824 23-Dec-1889 The Moonstone
Father Damien
Religion
3-Jan-1840 15-Apr-1889 Attended to lepers at Molokai
Jefferson Davis
Head of State
3-Jun-1808 6-Dec-1889 President of the Confederacy
Jules Dupré
Painter
5-Apr-1811 6-Oct-1889 Barbizon school
Mihai Eminescu
Poet
15-Jan-1850 15-Jun-1889 The greatest Romanian poet
John Ericsson
Inventor
31-Jul-1803 8-Mar-1889 Built the ironclad USS Monitor
Robert Hamerling
Poet
24-Mar-1830 13-Jul-1889 Ahasver in Rom
Lucy Hayes
First Lady
28-Aug-1831 25-Jun-1889 Wife of US President Rutherford B. Hayes
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poet
28-Jul-1844 8-Jun-1889 Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter
James Prescott Joule
Physicist
24-Dec-1818 11-Oct-1889 English physicist, Joule's Law
Stanley Matthews
Judge
21-Jul-1824 22-Mar-1889 US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-89
Maria Mitchell
Astronomer
1-Aug-1818 28-Jun-1889 First American female astronomer
Belle Starr
Criminal
5-Feb-1848 3-Feb-1889 Bandit Queen of the Old West
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
Head of State
25-Apr-1827 21-Apr-1889 President of Mexico, 1872-76
David S. Terry
Judge
8-Mar-1823 14-Aug-1889 California Chief Justice, 1857-59
Julia Gardiner Tyler
First Lady
23-Jul-1820 10-Jul-1889 Second wife of US President John Tyler


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