LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Abbott	Head of State	12-Mar-1821	30-Oct-1893	Prime Minister of Canada, 1891-93
Sir Samuel White Baker	Explorer	8-Jun-1821	30-Dec-1893	Travelled to the source of the Nile
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard	Military	28-May-1818	20-Feb-1893	Confederate General
James G. Blaine	Politician	31-Jan-1830	27-Jan-1893	Twice US Secretary of State
Samuel Blatchford	Judge	9-Mar-1820	7-Jul-1893	US Supreme Court Justice, 1882-93
Edwin Booth	Actor	13-Nov-1833	7-Jun-1893	Renowned 19th century American actor
W. B. Botts	Attorney	7-Sep-1835	7-Mar-1893	Baker Botts
Ford Madox Brown	Painter	16-Apr-1821	6-Oct-1893	English historical painter
Benjamin Franklin Butler	Attorney	5-Nov-1818	11-Jan-1893	Criminal lawyer, Civil War general
Jean-Martin Charcot	Doctor	29-Nov-1825	16-Aug-1893	Father of neurology
Abner Doubleday	Military	26-Jun-1819	26-Jan-1893	Didn't invent baseball
Moses Farmer	Inventor	9-Feb-1820	25-May-1893	Invented the fire alarm, electric trolley
Hamilton Fish	Politician	3-Aug-1808	7-Sep-1893	US Secretary of State, 1869-77
R. T. French	Business	15-Nov-1828	17-Jun-1893	Yellow mustard
Charles Gounod	Composer	17-Jun-1818	18-Oct-1893	Faust
Rutherford B. Hayes	Head of State	4-Oct-1822	17-Jan-1893	19th US President, 1877-81
Gerard Heineken	Business	1841	18-Mar-1893	Founder of Heineken NV
Benjamin Jowett	Scholar	15-Apr-1817	1-Oct-1893	Translator of Plato, etc.
Lucius Q. C. Lamar	Politician	17-Sep-1825	23-Jan-1893	Senator, Interior Secretary, Justice
Guy de Maupassant	Author	5-Aug-1850	6-Jul-1893	French short story writer
Albert Moore	Painter	4-Sep-1841	25-Sep-1893	English classicist painter
Francis Parkman	Historian	16-Sep-1823	8-Nov-1893	France and England in North America
Jeremiah M. Rusk	Politician	17-Jun-1830	21-Nov-1893	Governor of Wisconsin, 1882-89
Edmund Kirby Smith	Military	16-May-1824	28-Mar-1893	Last Confederate general to surrender
Edward Sorin	Religion	6-Feb-1814	31-Oct-1893	Founder, University of Notre Dame
Leland Stanford	Business	9-Mar-1824	21-Jun-1893	Founder of Stanford University
Lucy Stone	Activist	13-Aug-1818	18-Oct-1893	American Women's Suffrage Association
John Addington Symonds	Critic	5-Oct-1840	19-Apr-1893	Renaissance in Italy
Hippolyte Taine	Historian	21-Apr-1828	5-Mar-1893	Origines de la France Contemporaine
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Composer	7-May-1840	6-Nov-1893	Russia's best known composer

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